Click here to take the Wheel of Life Assessment if you haven’t done so. Come back to this page when you have your result.
Now that you know what your wheel of life looks like, what should you do with it so that you can start to live your life with intentionality?
Identify and Celebrate Your Wins
In what areas of your life did you score above, say, 7?
It is crucial that you recognize those areas and celebrate the effort you’re putting in to keep them really good.
Choose one thing you’ll be doing to celebrate this win. It can be as little as giving yourself a little treat, like a solo spa or ice cream date.
The next thing you want to do is to take note of the actual effort you are putting into those areas.
- What habits did you build in those areas?
- Did anyone support you on your journey to improving those areas of your life?
- What steps are you taking differently in those areas that resulted in that win?
When you understand your journey in those winning areas in your wheel of life, you will be able to replicate that victory in the other areas of your life.
Identify the Gaps
Of course, you’d have already figured out the areas where you aren’t really doing so well. But don’t be hard on yourself, the aim of the wheel of life assessment is not to make you feel bad about those areas.
Instead, what you need to do is to improve on them so that your wheel will be as smooth as a regular wheel.
You can start your improvement journey by asking and answering questions like:
- Why did I perform terribly in these areas?
- Is this poor performance a result of something beyond my control? Think about illnesses affecting your health score.
- Is there any habit, accountability, or support system I can import from my winning areas to make things better in these areas?
- What would a 10 in these areas look like in my life?
- What can I start to do differently in these areas?
Choose One or Two Areas to Improve
I know you’re already thinking of how you’d punch improvements into all the areas where you scored below 7 at once. But don’t.
Attempting to work on all those areas at once – especially if there are more than 2 – can easily become too overwhelming to be successful.
Instead, you want to pick one or two areas at a time. Work on improving those areas for about a month, then come back and retake this assessment.
Another way to utilize this Wheel of Life assessment to promote intentional living is to focus on an area of life that impacts multiple other areas. This way, the improvements in this area will have a ripple effect on other areas that are lacking.
As an example, working on your spirituality and finances can positively impact other areas like your health and relationships. Do the one that best suits your situation.
Set Specific Goals
When you finally decide on the one or two areas you want to work on at the moment, it is not enough to set goals like ‘Get healthy’ or ‘Improve my spiritual life.’ That would be ambiguous and does not speak to any actionable step.
Instead, you want to set specific goals like, ‘Read my Bible for 20 minutes every evening.’ or ‘I will walk for 30 minutes every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday morning.’
Well, if you’ve followed this blog long enough, you’d know that I don’t believe setting goals alone is enough. You need to turn your goals into actionable routines so you can be consistent and purposeful with them.
You also want to make sure that the goals and routines you set are aligned with your life’s purpose, values, and seasons.
Now, go ahead and set super-specific goals in those areas of your life that are lacking. Then, fix those goals into regular slots in your day-to-day activities.
Check-In Monthly
The Wheel of Life Assessment isn’t something you use once. It is an accountability and progress tracker for intentional living.
This means that you should set a monthly or bi-monthly reminder to return here and complete this assessment.
Then repeat the above with whatever result you get each time until your wheel is smooth and ready to roll on its own.
Even when you eventually get a big, smooth wheel, you still need to keep up with the monthly check-ins so you don’t slack off on intentional living.
