Life Auditing with the Wellness Wheel

Auditing my life as it stands now, implementing ways to get better

When I think of my life on a macro level, all things considered all at once, it gets super overwhelming.

So when I came across the Wellness Wheel, I was like “Okay sweet, I can just think of my life as spokes on a wheel and focus on one at a time to get a better idea of how I feel about a specific area of life.”

So I decided use it as a tool to conduct a life audit!

The different areas or spokes on the Wellness Wheel are:

• Occupational (satisfaction with work)

• Physical (eating well, exercising, quality sleep)

• Financial (budgeting, saving money)

• Recreational (hobbies, fun, downtime)

• Social (feeling connected in relationships)

• Mental (having a positive mindset)

• Spiritual (nourishing your soul, seeking understanding)

• Environmental (safe and comfortable home life)

and you can give yourself a score from 1-10 on the one I found.

I scored pretty poorly in a few areas

• Occupational - 5

• Physical - 6

• Financial - 3

• Recreational - 4

• Social - 8

• Mental - 6

• Spiritual - 5

• Environmental - 7
  

The average score I gave myself above is 5.5 points. I’d really, really love to get that up to at least a 7.

Now that I feel like I know where I stand in these different areas of life, I feel like I can feel better about picking certain areas that I know I need to work on first. Like finances and recreational time.

Some of these areas kind of involve each other. For example, I love to dance and go to the gym. I’d consider those to be hobbies and they also both involve being physical, so I’m getting two birds with one stone there.

Now what?

From my point of view, the first thing I should do to bring some of these numbers up is to develop routines.

I know that sometimes the idea of having a routine can seem monotonous and boring, and the last thing you want to do if you consider yourself a free spirit who just goes with the flow.

But even a flow is repetitive. Waves come in and they go back out. Over and over again.

Humans are routine driven creatures. There’s a rhythm to our lives (circadian rhythm, amirite?) and I believe having an underlying rhythm or routine is important because it provides a support for the other activities in your life.

Instead of having to think about every single little thing you do in a day, some things can be daily things that you don’t have to think about.

Decision fatigue is such a real thing, and that’s something I’ll be tackling first and covering in the next newsletter.

Stay groovy!