How Balanced Is Your Wheel? Part 1

Many of us feel as though our life is out of balance at times. The constant tug of career, finances, relationships and other areas of our lives take priority, at certain times, over others such as recreation, family, health and fitness. There are seasons in life where these "should" take precedent over other areas, but only for a short time. Take, for example, the student in law school. Their focus for that time will be on learning, and also work, while their health, and certainly finances and recreation will take a back seat.
This is completely understandable and expected, but again this is only healthy for a season. Far too often the law student who suddenly gets a job at a major firm continues this work habit in these areas of their life never getting back into balance. We see this also in the medical profession and many other intensive educational experiences, where family, friends, social relationships, even spirituality suffer at the expense of a career or a driven mentality.

So where are you compared to your ideal balance of your life?

If you look just to the right of this blog you will see a link labeled "Interactive Wheel of Life"
Click on that link and then push the button in the middle labeled "Draw Your Own Wheel". A pop up survey will appear, so go ahead and rank the ten areas of your life on a scale of 1 - 10; with 10 being that you are completely satisfied and fulfilled with that area of your life.
Once you (honestly) fill in the survey then print out your wheel of life.
Notice the overall shape of your wheel. If it were on a car would you be in trouble? Is your wheel shaped more like an egg? Does one set of responsibilities take a backseat to others?
What are you sacrificing now that enables you to have a higher score on something else?
The flat spots on the wheel are those areas that you need to take time to nurture. Are you sacrificing Family for Career or money? How are you spiritually?

As I stated before there are times that some of these items will naturally be out of balance, but for the most part we must continually check and recheck to make sure one of the areas isn't sneaking up to an unhealthy level of falling out of relevance.

to be continued......