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Life Wheel: assess the 8 areas of your life
The Life Wheel is a simple yet powerful self-knowledge tool: on a single chart it shows how satisfied you are with the different areas of your life. It doesn't judge — it just makes visible where there's balance and where you're tipping.
What is the Life Wheel?
You divide a circle into 6–8 slices, each a life area: e.g. health, relationships, career, finances, personal growth, rest, community, environment. You score each area 0–10 by how satisfied you are right now. Joining the points draws the shape of the "wheel" — and if it dents somewhere, you see it instantly.
In short
- One chart shows where there's balance and where there isn't.
- High scores aren't the goal — the conscious choice of where to put energy is.
- Re-scoring over time shows how you're evolving.
How to fill it in
- Choose the areas. 6–8 is enough. Make them ones that matter to you, not a generic list.
- Score honestly. 0–10, by your current satisfaction — not where you feel you "should" be.
- Look at the shape. Where does it dent? Which area drags the others down?
- Pick a single area. Don't try to fix them all at once. One area, one small step this week.
What to do with the result
The Life Wheel isn't a goal but a map. A dented area isn't a failure — it's information. Often it's not the lowest score worth starting with, but the one that affects the most others (e.g. improving sleep can lift your energy, mood and work all at once). Pick one, and set a concrete, small step for it.
Come back to it
The real value is in repetition. Re-scoring monthly or quarterly shows which way you're moving — and whether your small steps really change the shape of the wheel.
Fill in your Life Wheel in Mirrify
With Mirrify's Life Wheel tool you assess your areas in minutes, it saves the result, and connects it to your goals — so the insight becomes a step.
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