There are many techniques for analyzing and improving the quality of your life. One of these techniques is drawing a "circle of happiness" (another name for the technique is "wheel of life", "wheel of life balance").
How to draw
In order to make a "circle of happiness", you need to prepare a piece of paper, colored pencils or crayons and compasses. You can perform the technique in different ways, adjusting it for yourself.
First you need to draw a large circle with a radius of 10 cm (as much as possible). Then the entire circle must be divided into 8 equal sectors, putting off the rays from the center of the circle. The rays should be scaled from 1 to 10 (or from 1 to 5). Each sector will mean one of the spheres of life, so their number can vary, most often there are 8 of them: family, health, relationships, career, finance, spirituality, personal growth, recreation. Some trainings or courses consider 6 sectors and spheres: family, personal life, profession, health and sports, spiritual development, charity.
In general, you can independently come up with those areas that are considered important in the life of a particular person: for example, "career" can be replaced by "creativity", and "family" can be divided into "relationship with a spouse" and "relationship with children." For convenience, you can draw several circles with one center inside the largest, changing the radius by one scale division.
Then you can move on to the most important thing - an objective assessment of specific areas of your life according to the proposed scale. For each area, you need to answer the question "How much have I realized in my career / family life / healthy lifestyle, etc.?" on a scale from 1 to 10 (where 10 means "fully realized") or from 1 to 5, mark this value and color the selected sector with a certain color.
How to analyze
After all sectors of a larger or smaller radius are painted in some colors, you can start analyzing the “circle of happiness”. Better and more harmonious is the life of the person whose sectors are painted with approximately equal values. It is not for nothing that some call this technique the "wheel of life", because a perfectly round object rolls better than a figure with uneven edges.
In real life, it usually happens the other way around: a successful career, but health leaves much to be desired, or a person realized in family relationships, but does not develop spiritually at all. There can be many examples of such.
For some people, the circle turns out, albeit almost even, but of a very small diameter. Most likely, this speaks of low self-esteem, since there are few people who do not have a higher or at least average level of development in any area.
A perfectly even circle of large diameter, rather, is also not a reflection of reality. Perhaps the person answered questions and did not evaluate himself in the most honest way, although, probably, he really was able to realize himself in absolutely everything. Such lucky and hard workers can only be praised.
How to use
If the circle turns out to be uneven and the "wheel" obviously does not roll, you need to change something in life or in relation to it. Usually it is proposed to draw up a plan in which to indicate how you can work on a particular area of life. Moreover, the plan for the most unfulfilled and unsuccessful areas of life must be written down on a sheet of paper along with the "circle of happiness" or in a separate notebook. It is believed that written down on paper is more effective than just thought out and stored in memory.
Periodically (every three months or every six months) you can rethink your life and draw new "circles of happiness." This will allow you to see your own dynamics of development, as well as outline a further plan of action.
