Balance Wheel
Retrieved from: https://annemarie.brambleberry.com/blog/2017/9/6/life-balance-wheel
Process:
1. What do you associate with the word mental hygiene?
- What other areas in your life have a direct impact on your mental and physical health?
- Choose 8 areas (maybe more) to match with each piece of the wheel
Basic categories: example in the wheel above OR
- Relationships
- Sleep
- Diet
- Physical activity
- Work
2. Scale each category according to how you feel about it (1= not satisfied at all, 10= everything is absolutely fine)
How satisfied do you feel in the last (month/year) ½ year in each area? Colour
3. How does your balance wheel affect you? Intuitively, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? (Wheel – sharing)
4. Choose one area that you perceive as a problem, long term, that you would like to work on. Look at the value you have assigned to it. From 4 to 5: Try a specific, tangible goal/change e.g. Movement – I’ll go to yoga on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- How ready am I to make this change? If less than 8, we need to reduce/adjust the goal
- How confident am I that I will make the change? If it is again less than 8, we need to reformulate
5. Sharing goals : What did you realize during the balance wheel?