Ideas for creating a more balanced Wheel of Life

Here are some ideas to help you create your Wheel of Life: 

Career and work

• Review what you want to do with your career and what steps you need to take
• Meet with your line manager and discuss ways to increase your skills, development and responsibility in your job
• Take on a new project or area in school that increases your skills
• Get a mentor
• Go on relevant training

Family, partner and love

• Work flexibly; speakSpeak to your manager about working a day from home or less days a week
• Spend more time together on shared interests or pursuits. Plan date nights
• Take children to school or pick up once a week
• Read to children before they go to bed
• Have video and popcorn nights with kids/family or find programmes you all enjoy
• Call your parents once a week
• Schedule in family holidays

Growth and learning, recreation and friends

• Learn something new
• Read a book a month
• Read the papers once a week
• Listen to a TED talk once a week
• Join a group (book group, amateur dramatics etc.).
• Go on a holiday focusing on an interest e.g. cycling holiday
• Learn to play an instrument
• Arrange enjoyable activities to do with friends
• Put dates in diaries with friends
• Volunteer
• Become a school governor
• Join a park group
• Organise a street party

Money and finances

• Speak to a personal financial consultant
• Audit your expenses and incomings and work out how to spend less
• Work out how much you want to earn and what you need to do to get that
• Reduce debt on credit cards
• Find cheaper ways to buy what you need e.g. change grocer or utility provider
• Save money each month by putting a percentage of your salary into a savings account

Spirituality

• Volunteer
• Become more involved in religious, community or spiritual groups
• Go to religious or spiritual classes or lessons
• Meditate or do mindfulness exercises
• Give to charity

Health and welfare

• Start therapy
• Go to the gym
• Run once a week
• Play tennis. Walk to work once a week
• Cycle rather than drive
• Go for a long walk once a week
• Go to yoga
• Meditate
• Get a dog
• Have walking meetings
• Journal
• Take one night off a week and leave school early
• Keep a list of all tasks, prioritise and schedule time to do these

Environment

• Work out the environment that you prefer to live and work in, see what is possible
• Plan times in environments that work for you e.g. being out in nature, or working in a library
• Review your working and home environment, see what improvements you can make

What can you do? 

• Creating a Wheel of Life  
• Call our helpline for emotional support: 08000 562561