This assessment helps you look at eight areas of your life at once and notice where you'd like to grow. It takes about 25–35 minutes. Your answers save automatically, so you can stop and come back.
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What this is, and how to use it
What is a Wheel of Life?
The Wheel of Life is one of the most widely used tools in professional coaching. It was developed in the 1960s by Paul J. Meyer, and some version of it now sits in almost every coach's toolkit.
The idea is simple. Your life is not one thing — it is many things at once. Your prayer, your marriage, your work, your body, your friendships, your money. Most of us pay close attention to two or three of these and let the rest run on autopilot. We usually don't notice until something aches.
The wheel makes all of it visible at the same time.
The shape matters more than the score
Picture this as an actual wheel on an actual cart. If every area scores a 4, the wheel is small — but it's round, and a round wheel rolls. If seven areas score 8 and one scores 2, the wheel is big but it has a flat spot, and every rotation drops you into it.
This is not about getting high numbers. It's about noticing where the ride is bumpy.
How I've adapted it for Catholic life
The standard wheel has a hole in the middle of it. It asks about your career and your finances and your fitness, and it treats your relationship with God — if it mentions it at all — as one slice called “spirituality,” sitting politely beside “fun and leisure.”
That is not how Catholic life works. Your faith is not a slice of your life. It is what your whole life is made of.
There is a Christian version of this tool already, but it goes to the opposite extreme — it throws out the ordinary categories and rates you on spiritual practices alone. That's not quite right either. It suggests your work and your body and your bank account are somehow not where holiness happens.
Catholic tradition says something better than both: grace doesn't replace ordinary life, it works through it. Your body is a temple. Your work is a vocation. Your money is a spiritual matter. Your friendships are a school of love.
So this wheel keeps all eight ordinary areas of a human life — and reads every one of them as a place where God is already at work.
Where this fits. Vision is where you're going. This wheel is where you are. Goals are the bridge between them, and habits are how you walk across it. Today you're doing the second part: an honest look at where you actually stand.
What this is not
This is not a test of whether you're a good Catholic. It is not an examination of conscience, and it is not confession. There's no passing score and no one is grading you.
Coaching is not spiritual direction, confession, or therapy. A spiritual director helps you discern God's movement in your soul. A confessor absolves sin. A therapist treats wounds and disorders. A coach helps you move from where you are toward where God is calling you. These are different gifts, and you may need more than one. If something surfaces here that belongs in another room, I'll tell you.
How to take it
Pray first. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you what he wants you to see.
Answer honestly, not carefully. Go with your gut. First instinct is usually the true one.
Rate your satisfaction, not your performance. The question is never “am I doing well enough?” It's “how do I feel about this right now, and would I like it to grow?”
Write when something comes up. Most reflection boxes are optional. One per area is required — a single sentence is plenty.
Don't rush the end. The last few questions are where the real work is.
Pray at the close, and bring what you find to your coaching session.
The 1–8 scale
1–2I'd really like this to grow — it needs attention
3–4It's there, but I'd like it to go deeper
5–6Generally healthy and steady
7–8Thriving — this is going well
Before you rate anything: none of these numbers measure your worth. You are a beloved child of God at a 2 exactly as much as at an 8. This measures where you'd like to grow — nothing more.
If this is a hard season. If you're carrying grief, illness, burnout, or a stretch where prayer has gone dry, your wheel may come out small. That is not a verdict on you. Some of the holiest seasons of a life look like this on paper. Bring it to your coach as information, not as a grade.
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Your wheel
Remember: a small round wheel rolls further than a large lopsided one. What you're looking for is the flat spot, not the height.
Going deeper
You've seen your wheel. These last questions are where it turns into something useful. Take your time — what you write here is what you and your coach will work from.
Thank you
Your wheel and reflections have been sent to your email and to your coach.
You've done something most people never do — you looked at the whole of your life at once and told the truth about it. That takes more courage than it sounds like.
Save that email. In about ninety days, take this again. Comparing the two will tell you more than either one alone.
What comes next is turning what you found into something concrete: a goal, a prayer, and a habit small enough to actually keep. That's the work we do together.
