Most people waste their time trying to change parts of their life without ever understanding how the whole picture fits togather. The Wheel of Life is a tool that is used map out where you are now in life and also where you want to be.

The Wheel of Life identifies eight areas of your life and maps them onto a wheel. You than plot how satisfied you are with each area of your life from a scale of zero to ten as points on the graph. With zero being the lowest and ten being the highest. Then you connect your points and together which usually creates an irregular circle. Then take do the same exercise again on the same graph in a different colored pen and rate the importance of each area to you personally. Then compare where there are gaps and these are the areas you need to work on.

Here is some help explaining the eight areas depicted on the chart.