The Wheel of Life

The Wheel of Life Exercise, sometimes known as the Coaching Wheel or Life Balance Wheel is a phenomenal Coaching Tool. It’s simple and easy to use – and extremely flexible.

WHAT IS THE WHEEL OF LIFE IN COACHING, AND WHAT DOES IT DO?

Wheel of Life Definition 
The Wheel of Life is a popular visual tool or worksheet used in coaching to help quickly understand how balanced or fulfilled life is in this moment.
It usually consists of 8-10 categories or areas considered important for a whole or balanced life. Go ahead and rate your level of satisfaction with each area, then map this onto an image of a wheel. This gives you an immediate overview of your current “life balance”. Crucially, the life wheel scoring system also allows you to see right away which areas of your life might need improvement.

Some Personal Thoughts on the Life Balance Wheel

I love the Life Balance Wheel – 🆗🆒
Not only does the wheel help clients quickly assess their current levels of life balance, you can also use it to clarify priorities for goal-setting and know too, you can also use it for a regular (eg. quarterly) life check-in.

What are the Key Categories on the Wheel of Life?

The Coaching Wheel usually has 8 categories for life balance, although sometimes it has as many as 10.
These categories can be changed or the wording customised as needed. In addition, sometimes categories are split into two.

Here is a list of categories and their common alternatives:
1 Family and Friends: I usually split “Family and Friends” into “Family” and “Friends”. I do this both for myself, and offer it as an option to my clients.
2 Significant Other: Other category name ideas include “Dating” or “Life Partner”.
3 Career: “Motherhood”, “Work” or “Volunteering” are alternative labels you could use.
4 Finances: Other label name ideas include “Money” or “Financial Security”.
5 Health: The category name could be split into “Emotional” and “Physical”.
6 Home Environment: This category can change to “Work Environment” for career or business clients.
7 Fun & Leisure: The category name could change to “Recreation”.
8 Personal Growth: The category name could be “Learning” or “Self-Development”.

How to Fill Out The Life Balance Wheel

You can print out this exercise and fill it in with a pen or simply complete an online version.

Overview

When we score our satisfaction levels against each of the wheel categories, this gives us a great helicopter view of what is – and isn’t – working for us in life.
You can rate your satisfaction with each category on the wheel by simply drawing a line. Then by rating the different segments for satisfaction, you will clearly see which areas of their life need attention.
Once completed the wheel will likely look ‘bumpy’.

If you’ve been feeling like your breakthrough is just out of reach…
If you’re suffering from self-doubt or lacking self-love…
If you have emotional or mental roadblocks that are keeping you “stuck”…
…then you have a choice to make💡💡

Feeling the resistance

We may choose to set goals or create an action plan around the areas of life where satisfaction is low.
We can Use this tool regularly to check in and we will both clearly see how you’re progresses during the coaching relationship. As you your life becoming more balanced, you feel more self esteem and self confidence.

Instructions💫🌟

1 Review the 8 categories on your Life Balance Wheel. If necessary you can split or rename category segments to add in something that is missing, or make it more meaningful for you.
2 Rank your level of satisfaction with each area of their life by drawing a curved line across each segment (see image for example). Scoring is between 1 (very dissatisfied) and 10 (fully satisfied). 💫TOP TIP: You may have to do this a couple of times, if your thoughts and feelings are new to sitting back and really thinking about ask these areas of your life.
3 The perimeter of the circle represents your “Wheel of Life”. Now look at your completed wheel and ask, “If this was your Wheel of Life, would it be a bumpy ride?”
4 Now we are ready to coach around your learnings from your Coaching Wheel.
5 We will Identify at least one action for you to work on to improve your score in one area of the wheel – and thus improve self esteem

You can print out this exercise and fill it in with a pen or simply complete an online version.

Overview

When we score our satisfaction levels against each of the wheel categories, this gives us a great helicopter view of what is – and isn’t – working for us in life.
You can rate your satisfaction with each category on the wheel by simply drawing a line. Then by rating the different segments for satisfaction, you will clearly see which areas of their life need attention.
Once completed the wheel will likely look ‘bumpy’.

If you’ve been feeling like your breakthrough is just out of reach…
If you’re suffering from self-doubt or lacking self-love…
If you have emotional or mental roadblocks that are keeping you “stuck”…
…then you have a choice to make💡💡

Feeling the resistance

We may choose to set goals or create an action plan around the areas of life where satisfaction is low.
We can Use this tool regularly to check in and we will both clearly see how you’re progresses during the coaching relationship. As you your life becoming more balanced, you feel more self esteem and self confidence.

Instructions💫🌟

1 Review the 8 categories on your Life Balance Wheel. If necessary you can split or rename category segments to add in something that is missing, or make it more meaningful for you.
2 Rank your level of satisfaction with each area of their life by drawing a curved line across each segment (see image for example). Scoring is between 1 (very dissatisfied) and 10 (fully satisfied). 💫TOP TIP: You may have to do this a couple of times, if your thoughts and feelings are new to sitting back and really thinking about ask these areas of your life.
3 The perimeter of the circle represents your “Wheel of Life”. Now look at your completed wheel and ask, “If this was your Wheel of Life, would it be a bumpy ride?”
4 Now we are ready to coach around your learnings from your Coaching Wheel.
5 We will Identify at least one action for you to work on to improve your score in one area of the wheel – and thus improve self esteem

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