What score would you rate your relationship with your children and/or parents?.What score would you give the quality and quantity of your time and communication with your closest family members?.How would you rate your romance, intimacy and quality time with your spouse/partner/significant other?.Family/Relationship/Romance/Significant other You could rate each one on a 0 to 10 scale and then take an average to get your overall score for each section: 1. To help delve deeper into how you are doing at each spoke of the wheel or in each segment you can consider the following questions. You can follow the same steps, as used for roles in the previous section but replacing the roles with the 8 key areas using the words that resonate most with you. Life Planning/Management/Financial Security/Money.
At the end of the set time period revisit the wheel and re-score yourself to measure progress.Īnother way to use the Wheel of Life is to think about aspects rather than roles in life. Set time-bound goals to improve in that area. Score each one and reflect on which areas you need to work on most. Start with a blank wheel and then add in your most important roles. Steps for using roles in the Wheel of Life: This list is not exhaustive and it is important to pick the roles that are most relevant and important to you. Steward of Finance/Environment/Resources. One way of using the Wheel of Life is to examine the most important roles that you play in life and measure your performance or contentment in each one. The biggest gaps in scores indicate the greatest discontent and prompt the question: how can I increase my score in that area of life? By answering that question one can set goals to improve that aspect of life. This gives focus and helps to prioritise where a change is going to have the greatest positive impact. Once you have scored each section you can quickly see where you believe you are falling short of your own ideal situation. Reaching the outer edge of the circle or wheel represents being completely content in that zone. In each segment, you score yourself 0-10, with 0 being at the centre of the wheel and 10 being at the outside of the circle. The ‘wheel’ is a circle, usually broken down into eight segments (but can be up to 12), where each segment or spoke represents an aspect of life. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Dolly Parton How do you fill out the Wheel of Life? The latter represents the cycle of reincarnation birth, death and rebirth. It is worth noting that the coaching application of the Wheel of Life can include a spiritual application but is different from the Buddhist Wheel of Life. In other words, if we let our friendships or health deteriorate it is likely to have a negative impact on our work performance or our relationship with our significant other. If we feel we are failing in one section of our lives, then it will have an adverse effect on our overall wellbeing and happiness. 
Therefore it is not so much ‘work-life balance’ but recognising work as being an integral part of life, and therefore having a more holistic approach to how we attain contentment. The philosophy behind the process is that life is connected and we should aspire to have balance across all the areas of our existence.
It is particularly helpful for people concerned about achieving a work-life balance. It is a great way to get an overall feel for how content we are and identify key areas for growth. The Wheel of Life is a useful coaching tool that is used to examine how balanced we are across different spheres or roles in life. How to Use The Wheel of Life Coaching Tool What is the Wheel of Life in coaching and what does it do?
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