How To Do a Life Audit with the Wellness Wheel
The wellness wheel is a fantastic way to work on your personal development goals because it covers ALL aspects of your life.
What does a wellness wheel do? It helps you to better your general wellbeing by assessing different aspects of your life and creating strategies to do more for yourself.
Not only is it a fun activity to do, but it requires you to reflect on your life and find ways to better yourself and achieve balance in life.
If you feel disorganised all the time, confused and anxious and feel like you haven’t improved in life despite setting goals ages ago, you should do this activity! Trust me!!
How does the wellness wheel work?
Think about the different aspects of your life – family, friends, finances, career etc. And create a list or wheel with them as the subheadings.
Below, I will give you examples of different things you can include in your wheel.
I really like the wellness wheel by Mona Kattan linked in the description section of her video. It was from her video that I learnt about wellness wheels for the first time and ever since then I’ve been obsessed!
Once you’ve created your wheel, think about how you’re doing in each field and rate each one out of 10.
Once you’ve rated each of them, pick the three lowest scoring areas and list down three bullet points under each of these sections with things you want to improve.
An example could be:
Self care (3/10)
- Having a morning and evening routine
- Drink more water
- Journal more
For the next 3-6 months, you will focus on bettering these three areas of your life through the mini plan/ breakdown you have created. After the 3-6 months are over, re-do the wellness wheel activity and see if you feel like you have improved.
Then, repeat the process with the new ‘lowest’ aspects of your life.
Remember, not every field needs to be a 10. If you’re comfortable with consistently getting 8’s across the different areas, that’s fine. It’s better to have balance across all aspects rather than being really happy and great at one and really poor at another.
Also, don’t neglect your high rated aspects whilst working on the lower rated aspects of your life. You want to achieve wellness across all aspects of your life in general.
Subheadings you can use in your wellness wheel
These are only a few examples of things you can include in your wellness wheel but if you think of others make sure you put them in there too!
I have also included questions you can ask yourself to help you rate each section.
Spiritual Wellness
- Relationship with God
- How often are you engaging with your faith?
- What can you do to be better in your religion?
- Are you studying enough about it and implementing it into your life?
- How consistent are you?
Personal Wellness
- Your relationship with yourself – self-love, confidence, personal development
- Dreams, ambitions, goals
- Mental health and stress
- Personal growth – do you feel you’ve grown as a person in the last year/ five years?
- Passions & Hobbies
- Self-care
Physical Wellness
- Diet and physical activity
- Nutrition
- Sleep
- Staying up to date with health concerns (booking appointments on time, taking medication etc.)
Social Wellness
- How often do you spend time with your family, spouse, friends?
- Networking opportunities and social events with colleagues
- How often are you trying out new things or pushing yourself to do the things you want to do?
Environment wellness
- Home/ living space
- Community/ Environment
- Charity
- Stepping away from electronic devices regularly and enjoying nature
- Walks/ Hikes
Intellectual Wellness
- Education/ pursuing hobbies and other interests
- Bettering skills
- Staying curious
- Research, reading, visiting museums/ galleries
Financial Wellness
- Daily spending
- Savings
- Investments & Projects
- Managing paid subscriptions
- Shopping habits
Career/ Professional Life
- How do you feel about your current workplace?
- Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years time?
- Do you like your job?
- Do you feel your job is adding to your life or making your life better in some way?
- Does your job stimulate you?
- What are your interests? Is this something you’d like to pursue or are you okay with what you are doing now?
- How are your interactions with your colleagues like?
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