Them: How are your #2021 #heathgoals & #healthyresolutions coming? Me: Sips my beet juice. Chile, I have transcended health goals and resolutions. My wellness wheel is epic!
The New Year is a great moment to stop pushing for a moment, stop, breathe and reflect on what you have accomplished and also take a holistic look at your wellness. One of my favorite exercises to do to assess the current state of my life is the Wellness Wheel Exercise. If you’ve never done it it requires us to create a circle (as pictured) with various areas of well-being as slices of the pie or spokes on the wheel. These areas can include: finances, relationships/social, health, work, and spiritual well-being. We can score these areas from 1-10 and place a dot in each section (with zero at the center and 10 at the outside of the wheel). Then we connect the dots and see how close or far away from a circle our wheel is.
What’s amazing about this exercise is that it gives us a snapshot of the current state of our lives. We may be crushing it at work, but our relationship department is horrible. Or our health could be poor, and that could be lowering our work score because we don’t have the energy to perform at our peak. When we learn to measure our success by how full our wheel is, we not only remind ourselves to move beyond the superficial, but we are loving ourselves enough to want wholeness in every aspect of our lives.
If you have never made a wellness wheel I challenge you to make one today. Check out this link to download it. Once you assess each area of your life, start brainstorming on daily actions you can take to improve in the categories that fell short. As seasons change some categories will always fall below the goal, and that is okay. The aim should not be for perfection, but reflection that leads to real action that can help us live the lives of our dreams. -XO