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Follow one of the links below to download a full, printable copy of the Wheel of Life. Take a few minutes to fill in your wheel, and then ask yourself, "How well is my wheel rolling?" Download a printable PDF version of the Wheel of Life Download a printable MSWord version of The Wheel of Life Assessing your level of happiness or satisfaction with each area of your life is only the first step. To get your wheel moving forward, you need to look into it, and into yourself, a little more deeply. The Wheel of Life not only helps you to figure out which areas of your life need work. It can help you connect with your gratitude for what you have now, it can help you look honestly at your own values and your own choices. Use the Wheel as a tool to connect with your own feelings and attitudes toward the abundance in your own life now, and your potential for future happiness. Use the wheel to work through each ot the following five phases of assessment. Take your time. Some of these questions will be easy, some answers will elude you, some may only come to you over time. There is a value in sitting with the questions. Come back to the Wheel every day for a while, and see what more you have discovered. 1. Follow the directions below for filling out the Wheel of Life. Ask yourself how satisfied and happy, on a scale from 0 to 8, you feel with each area of your own life, so that you can see in front of you the areas where there is the most potential for change and growth. 2. Focus first on the areas you have colored in. Even if one of the spaces is only a 2, there is something there of value. What do you have to be grateful for in this area? What is really working well, what are you feeling pretty good about? What’s good about this part of your life that you don’t necessarily notice or value day by day? As you work your way around the circle, if you feel that any of these areas warrants a higher score, make a not of that by filling in the next layer in a different color. 3. Here’s where you work on being in touch with your own deepest feelings and desires. Try to distinguish between what you truly want out of your life, and the advice that you’ve gotten from others. In each of the eight sections, ask yourself the following questions: “What truly would be most satisfying to me? What does my “8” look like?” Take the time to listen inside for the answer, even if it means sitting with these questions for a few days before you move on. For example, you might be working hard at a middle-management job that you rated a 4. It might at first seem like making more money, or getting a raise would make it into an 8. But what if money and achievement aren’t what make you happy? Maybe you want to quit your job and start your own business. Maybe you want to work fewer hours so that you can be with your family. Maybe your current job really is an 8 to you, but others don’t understand why you’re not more ambitions, so you tend to deny the way you feel. 4. Look for the ways in which choices you have made have contributed to your current situation. If you are truly unhappy with your life, you have to take steps to change it. Ask yourself the following questions
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If you have difficulty sorting out how you really feel about an area of your life, or if you feel that you’re having difficulty making changes even though you want to, that’s where a coach can be of tremendous help. Don’t be afraid to get help with understanding your own hesitation, and learning how to make better choices. 5. Ask yourself if you’re ready to ask for more out of life. What do you feel you deserve from each area? Can you let yourself ask for and accept the best, most satisfying life? Think of your best life, as you imagined it up in #3. Close your eyes and put yourself into that life. Can you imagine what it would feel like to be happier and more fulfilled? Can you imagine what it would be like to get up every morning looking forward to your work, your family, your friends, your life? Stay with that image, and keep coming back to it until you can own that life, until you can feel that it’s within your grasp, and a most certain part of your future. Coaching can help you clarify your values and desires, and focus your dreams. Call or email Lynn to set up a free introductory coaching session, and see how coaching can help you learn from where you've been, embrace where you are, and move confidently down the path to a phenomal future.
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Getting the Most out of the Wheel of Life 
