Wheel of Life Goals

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Domain
Life Coaching
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Discovery Goal Setting
Details
30 min Opener Monthly
Topics
Values Identity Accountability

Coaching tools for personal clarity and intentional living.

When to Use This Tool
Client's goals are heavily concentrated in career and finances with other domains largely unexamined
Client wants to see their priorities across all life areas before deciding where to focus
Coach wants to use the Wheel of Life framework to prompt goal-setting across eight domains simultaneously
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There's a worksheet that uses the eight Wheel of Life domains to prompt goal-set...

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For the Coaching Practitioner

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Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 The client whose goals cluster in two or three areas while the rest are blank or sparse
Context

Client has no difficulty setting goals in career, business, and finances. When working through all eight areas, the remaining five — relationships, family and friends, recreation, growth, and spirituality — stay sparse or blank. The client is not neglecting those areas because they are unimportant. They have simply never built the habit of setting goals there. The eight-area structure makes this asymmetry visible in a way that a general goal-setting conversation does not: when all eight boxes are on the page, the empty ones are harder to overlook.

How to Introduce

Frame the eight areas as a complete map with some areas drawn in detail and others left blank. 'You've got clear goals i...

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Values vs. Actions Audit

Client states their values with confidence but has not examined whether their behavior matches

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