20 Area Life Balance Wheel: A Transformative Life Path Management Tool

Enhancing Your Life Path with the Life Balance Wheel

It’s a universal truth that no perfect life balance fits everyone. Every person has unique goals and missions to achieve, which implies that they need a personalized approach to life balance.

This perspective implies that the concept of universal life balance, preached by the seven areas of life and the wheel of balance, can be scrapped. Instead, each person should identify their diverse priorities and strive to achieve the life balance that aligns with their objectives.

Thus, finding an ideal balance for everyone is not the primary goal. More critical is the approach toward a person’s target balance, which involves two main aspects:

1. To what extent do the 20 areas of life support the individual’s strategic goals?
2. Are these areas balanced in terms of implementing the personal strategy?

We know that individuals and their social status constantly evolve. That is why the vector and dynamics of their transformation toward strategic goals become more critical.

However, undertaking such a comprehensive evaluation of oneself without practical tools can be challenging. That’s why we offer tools from the personal strategic planning course to assist in this process.

You may peruse the description of the template that we will employ. While it is not challenging to craft a similar tool by yourself, it may require considerable time and effort.

We have customized strategic analysis tools to aid in personal long-term planning. Previously, we introduced a novel concept for managing life balance that encompasses 20 areas. This concept forms an integral part of our framework, which enhances the speed and quality of personal strategic growth.

If you have taken the assessment, you know your present status in various areas. However, there may be issues that need to address, making it an ideal time to focus on balancing your life path.

A Life Balance Monitoring Tool with Visualisation

When it comes to achieving personal goals, it is essential to have a clear and comprehensive understanding of the current position and an efficient tool for tracking progress.

In this regard, we utilize the 20 areas of life concept to visualize your growth. These areas represent the fundamental and interconnected aspects of personality crucial for achieving your mission. Of course, we can make adjustments if necessary.

This article is part of our course, where we guide you through assessing each area of your life and developing ideas for improvement. You may identify areas for immediate attention, while others may require more time and effort. These planned efforts will form the basis of your strategic projects.

We may also introduce the concept of weight for each area to help you prioritize specific issues in your strategy. However, this level of fine-tuning may not always be necessary. Regardless, our tool provides a simple and effective way to monitor and visualize your life balance data, helping you stay on track toward achieving your goals.

360° Strategic Analysis: Strategium Life Balance Wheel for Mission Alignment

It is critical to assess our current situation and understand the relevance of our lifestyle to our mission. In this article, we will use Advanced Life Balance Wheel to evaluate each area of our lives and determine its alignment with our mission.

Using a pie chart, we will assess the relevance of our mission to each of the 20 areas of our lives. This exercise will help us understand how each area contributes to our strategy. We can also use the radar chart to track our progress.

To begin evaluating our life areas, we need to answer two key questions: 

1. How relevant is our lifestyle to our mission? 
2. How much does each area help us implement our strategy? 

By assessing the state of each area of our lives, we can identify imbalances and correct problems. While the weight of each area of life is the same, fine-tuning the weighting of each in our strategy is also an option, but it may not be necessary. 

The focus should be on aligning each area with our mission and ensuring that they support our overall strategic goals. Using Strategium Life Balance Wheel, we can visualize our understanding of our current situation and make informed decisions about our desired life balance.

A Simple Scoring System for Evaluating 20 Life Areas

We use a five-point scale to assess each of the 20 areas of life. This scale helps us determine how well each area aligns with our mission and strategic goals. If an area entirely aligns with your mission and strategic objectives, assign it a score of 5. On the other hand, if there is no compatibility, we give it a score of 1. We choose not to designate a zero score, as this would not be reflected well on a radar diagram.  

The scale is as follows:

1. Not consistent (a critical gap between the requirements and the actual state of the area).
2. Somewhat does not match (a significant gap).
3. Hardly fitting.
4. Relatively inline.
5. Fully consistent.

Compared to the Wheel of Life, which evaluates eight or seven critical areas of a person’s life on a ten-point scale, the five-point scale is much simpler. Evaluating each area on a detailed scale can be challenging, and the scale needs specific qualitative and quantitative values unique to each person.

Our system only requires understanding one’s mission and strategic goals, making it more straightforward to use and apply.

Achieving Life Balance through Strategic Goal Setting

When striving for a balanced life path, it’s essential to assess the current state of each of the 20 areas of our life. This initial assessment allows us to identify strategic gaps between our present and desired circumstances. These gaps will help us determine what we need to change to implement our strategy.

By identifying these gaps, we can generate a logical framework for our strategic goals, which in turn helps us create a coherent strategic map. This map is an essential tool for achieving our life balance goals, as it helps us keep track of our progress and focus on our objectives.

However, it’s important to note that we can solve some problems easily, while other issues may require full-fledged strategic projects that involve separate planning and resource allocation. In such cases, we must set appropriate goals and develop specific plans for achieving them. We should include these complex goals in our strategic map to guide us toward achieving our desired life path.

In summary, assessing the state of our lives and identifying strategic gaps is a crucial first step toward achieving life balance. By setting appropriate goals and creating a strategic map, we can focus on our objectives and make meaningful progress toward a balanced and fulfilling life.

A Tool to Assess, Visualize, and Balance Your Life Path

You need a reliable tool to assess and balance the different areas of your life. We provide such a tool for participants in the personal strategic planning course. However, if you are not enrolled, you can easily create the tool using Excel or download the template below.

With this tool, you can assess the current state of each of the 20 areas of your life and identify any gaps to address to achieve your goals. This step creates a logical framework for your strategic goals and helps to generate a coherent strategic map. We will show you how to develop this map in one of the lessons.

Whether you are a course participant or using the tool independently, the following instructions will guide you through assessing and balancing the different areas of your life. Start your journey towards a more balanced and fulfilling life today.

A Guide to Using the Strategium Life Balance Assessment Excel Workbook

Instructions to evaluate the 20 areas of life:

1. Download the Strategium Advanced Life Balance Assessment.xlsx file to your computer using the link provided after purchase.
2. Open the file and, if necessary, correct the assessment years, perspectives and life area names if they differ from the standard values in the template.
3. Read the example diagrams for analysis given in the template.
4. Erase the example life area assessment (filled with numbers in first columns).
5. Then carefully assess the state of each area of your life and indicate in the column for the respective year a score from 1 to 5, depending on the degree of compliance with the mission statement and goals (see the scale in the second article).
6. Analyse the results based on the following three sources:

   • Identify the most problematic perspectives with the lowest score based on the imbalance chart (bottom right).
   • Understand the most challenging areas of life whose condition prevents you from achieving your mission and implementing your strategy based on the color scale in the assessment column.
   • Evaluate the radar chart, automatically generated from your data, and identify the areas of life with the lowest scores.

7. Analyze all areas of life to determine how much and what type of improvement is needed.
8. Formulate objectives to bridge the gaps between the desired and actual state of the areas and plan dates for their completion.

Following the steps above, you will see how well your lifestyle aligns with your mission statement. You can find an example of what you should achieve in the figure above.

Achieving Life Balance: A Step-by-Step Guide

After the assessment, you need to improve the situation, focusing on points 7 and 8 mentioned earlier. To understand these stages and learn about specific tasks and examples, refer to the following sections of this lesson.

If you do not have access to this content, consider enrolling in the course to gain access to valuable resources. Taking action to achieve balance in our lives can help us align our daily activities with our goals and mission, leading to greater fulfillment and satisfaction.

Strategies for Enhancing Life Balance and Managing Your Life Path

Once you have evaluated your life balance using the Strategium Life Balance Assessment.xlsx file, the next step is improving your life path. This work involves identifying and implementing improvement tasks for each of the 20 areas of life using the decomposition method.

To begin with, we will demonstrate how to apply the decomposition method to one example. Afterward, you can spread the same logic to each of the 20 areas of life.

When choosing an improvement task, it is crucial to check its consistency with the overall vertical structure: mission > perspective > life area. Try to align the objectives with this logic to be effective.

It is crucial to prioritize the improvement tasks and follow the principle of expediency. The objective should be necessary for fulfilling your mission, and the benefits of achieving the goal should outweigh the resources spent on it.

Once you have identified the improvement tasks, you can create a slide with undertakings for each life area. However, you don’t have to include all of them within the areas of life. Instead, focus on those tasks that are necessary for the foreseeable future.

For a more detailed description of the improvement stages and examples of tasks, refer to the relevant section of the course. By implementing these strategies, you can attain a balanced life path that aligns with your mission statement.

The Strategium Balance Wheel as a Life Path Management Tool for Implementing a Personal Strategy

By carefully analyzing our lifestyle and identifying areas for improvement, we gain a comprehensive understanding of the changes we need to make to achieve our goals. This advanced analysis should be revisited periodically, with the most significant and complex tasks included in our strategy as projects. We should schedule simpler, urgent tasks as soon as possible.

The Strategium Life Path Management Tool helps us to visualize how our lifestyle aligns with our mission and strategic goals. By tracking progress and adjusting the 20 areas of our lives, we can stay on track to achieving our objectives.

Regularly assessing the 20 areas against our strategic goals, ideally once a year or more frequently, allows us to track progress on the corresponding diagram. This data will help us to adjust our strategy.

I encourage you to develop a high-quality personal strategy and implement it successfully using a powerful 20 Areas Balance Wheel as a powerful life path management tool.