true wheel tuesday! week 1: assessment

 

the true wheel

well it’s a great day when you discover that marcel duchamp took the trouble to create a prototype logo for your once and future group program a full 96 years earlier, and so god is in hir heaven and all is right with the world!

that said, today is going to kick-off a series of weekly looks at the process of truing your wheel, creating a life with your self at the center, in which all of the necessary components of health and happiness are well balanced, allowing you to move through life with the least amount of friction, and the greatest amount of ease and grace.

big promises i know, and what they heck…over two and a half million people make that “for better or worse” promise every year in the united states alone, so…

basic concept

you’ve got a life. it’s full. it’s complex. it takes a lot of energy and enthusiasm, clarity of thought, fortitude. you don’t have as much of those things as you would like. some things work well, other things don’t. sometimes you are in the zone, other times you are in the ditch.

the true wheel, aside from the references both intentional and synchronistic, is designed to help you live your life to the fullest by discovering how everything in your life is connected to everything else: when one thing is flagging then everything else suffers, and when one thing is rocking out everything else shines a little brighter as well. 

let’s get out of conceptual hell now, and dive right into it.

the bare wheel

1. take out a sheet of paper and draw a circle 7-8 inches in diameter or larger. this is your wheel. 
2. draw a smaller circle at the center of your wheel, an inch in diameter. this is your hub. 
3. draw a line from the top edge of your hub to the top of your wheel. 
4. draw a line from the bottom edge of your hub to the bottom of your wheel. 
5. repeat from left to left and then from right to right. these are your first 4 spokes. 
6. being as balanced as possible, add two more spokes between each of these initial four, finishing with 12 all told.

this is your bare wheel. now let’s add the labels. 

the spokes

beginning with the first spoke, from the hub to the top of the wheel, and then moving clockwise, write the following words along the spokes.

1. spirituality
2. joy
3. social life
4. relationships
5. home environment
6. health
7. physical activity
8. home cooking
9. education
10. career
11. finances
12. creativity

these are your spokes. now we are ready to take a look at the ride our wheel is giving us.

assessment

now here is the fun part, the scary part, the revealing part; your chance to get playful and astonish yourself. take a good look at your wheel for a moment, so round and so true. imagine the smooth ride you could get if you were riding through your life on a wheel such as this. now let’s take a look at what your ride really looks like.

place a little dot at the point on each spoke that represents your satisfaction with this part of your life. for example if you are very satisfied with your spirituality you could draw a little dot on that spoke near the rim of the wheel. and if you are pretty dissatisfied with your finances you could draw a little dot near the hub of that spoke. it’s all up to you. this is our own assessment. it’s how you feel about your own life.

don’t take too long with this part of the assessment. just go with your initial gut feeling. this is just a snap shot of how you feel right where you are sitting now.

the not so true wheel

now draw a line from one dot to the next all the way around the wheel. take a good look, noticing where your wheel looks full and round and where it looks empty and flat. then imagine yourself riding about on this sort of transportation. this is your life out of balance.

notice that no matter how great you are rocking out in one area of your life, a few weak spots make the entire ride bumpy and rough. this is your life out of balance. this is your wheel untrue.

what to do?

so take a good look at those spokes and ask yourself a few questions.

• where am i rocking out?
• where am i looking flat?
• what will be a challenge to improve?
• what will be easy, given some attention?
• where will i get the most bang for my buck?

and there you go.

• your assessment. 
• your answers. 
• your wheel. 
• your life. 

where do we go from here? you can share what you discovered. and you can tune in next week, when we’ll look at some ways to approach the truing of your wheel, the healing of your life. until then you might check out the motivators, my own process of bringing balance to my own life, and of sharing whatever may be helpful in that process with whoever finds hirself in that particular node of the web.

until next time…

Tags: balance, create, creativity, happiness, motivator, the true wheel

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