Score eight areas of your life from 1 to 10 by dragging each slice of the wheel or tapping the numbers below. The wheel shows your lowest area and one small habit to start with, taken from a published study. Rename any area, then print a blank or filled worksheet, or save your wheel as an image.
Free, with no signup. The exercise is commonly credited to Paul J. Meyer in the 1960s; the method note says how sure anyone can be of that.
Drag a slice outwards to raise its score, inwards to lower it.
Score all eight areas
Once every slice has a number, this panel names your lowest area and one small habit for it.
The lowest score is a place to look first, not an order. If another area matters more to you right now, start there.
How satisfied are you with each area right now? 1 is as far from where you want it as it could be; 10 is exactly where you want it. Tap a name to rename it.
Scores and names are saved in this browser.
A 1080 × 1350 picture of your wheel, sized for a phone screen or a post.
Each suggestion is taken from an article on this site and carries that article's evidence. They are small on purpose: one habit you keep does more than a plan for all eight.
Walk a little more each day, working up towards about 8,000 steps.
In a ten-year study of 4,840 US adults, 8,000 steps a day was linked with about half the risk of death of 4,000 steps. A link, not proof, and the gain was biggest at the low end.
At the end of each workday, write one line about progress you made on work that matters to you.
In 11,637 diary entries from 238 professionals, progress on meaningful work was the event behind most of their best days (Amabile and Kramer).
From: The progress principle
Set aside one small, fixed amount on a set day, every week, before you spend.
Plain arithmetic, not a study: small amounts add up in a straight line when they happen on most days. 5 a day is 1,825 by the end of the year, in any currency.
From: 1% better every day
Have one real conversation a day: a call, or time in the same room, not a scroll through their posts.
In a study of about 3,000 older US adults, feeling isolated was linked with more anxiety later on, and the link ran both ways. Observational, so a link, not proof.
From: Daily habits for anxiety
Each evening, write down one specific thing your partner did today.
"Made the coffee without being asked" means something when you read it back; "my partner" does not. The evidence on gratitude writing is mixed, and the article says so.
Write one if-then plan: "When [a moment in your day], I will [one small action]."
Across 94 tests, people who made if-then plans reached their goals more often than people who only set the goal, by a medium-to-large margin (Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006).
Give something you enjoy a fixed place in the week: keep one audiobook, show or podcast for a walk or a job you put off.
In a gym study, people who could only hear their audiobooks at the gym went 51% more often at first, though the effect faded after a holiday break (Milkman and colleagues, 2014).
From: Temptation bundling
Put the thing you want to use where you will see it: the book on the pillow, the running shoes by the door.
When a hospital cafeteria put water where people could see and reach it, water sales rose by 25.8% with nobody told to drink more (Thorndike and colleagues, 2012).
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Each area gets a whole number from 1 to 10 and nothing else. The slice is shaded from the centre out to that number, so a 5 reaches halfway to the rim and a 10 reaches the rim, which is how the paper worksheet has always been drawn. Because the slice widens as it goes out, a 10 covers four times the area of a 5: read the length of each slice, not how much colour it holds. The average is the eight scores added up and divided by eight, rounded to one decimal.
The lowest area is the smallest score once all eight are scored. When two or three areas share it, the page names all of them and gives a habit for each; when four or more share it, the page asks you to choose rather than choosing for you. Nothing is weighted, and no area counts for more than another.
The eight starting areas and their names are ours. The wheel has no official list, and published versions use between six and ten areas under different names. Rename any area and its habit changes to a general one: pick the smallest step that would move that area by one point and write it as an if-then plan.
Each habit suggestion is taken from an article on this site and carries that article's evidence, cited below: steps and health from a ten-year study of 4,840 adults (Saint-Maurice and colleagues, 2020), progress at work from 11,637 workday diary entries (Amabile and Kramer, 2011), if-then plans from a review of 94 tests (Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006), a kept-for-later treat from a gym trial (Milkman and colleagues, 2014), what is in sight from a hospital cafeteria (Thorndike and colleagues, 2012), and conversation from a study of about 3,000 older adults (Santini and colleagues, 2020). The step, isolation and cafeteria studies show links, not proof. The money line is plain arithmetic: 5 a day for 365 days is 1,825. The gratitude line rests on evidence the source itself calls mixed.
The origin of the wheel is commonly credited to Paul J. Meyer, founder of the Success Motivation Institute, in the 1960s. The two references cited for it below say so without citing a primary source, and we found none, so the page states it as the usual account. Your scores and names are saved in this browser, and a kept reading is saved there too so the next visit can draw it under the new one.
Nothing on this site is medically reviewed. Every figure above was read out of the code that runs on this page, and where a number is our own judgement rather than a published one, the note says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 28 September 2026.
The Wheel of Life is a picture of how satisfied you are with each part of your life, drawn so the uneven parts are obvious. Eight slices, a score from 1 to 10 on each, shaded from the centre out. A wheel with every slice at 7 is round. A wheel with a 9 for career and a 3 for health is lopsided, and the lopsided part is the point: you can see in one look what a list of eight numbers makes you work out.
The exercise is usually credited to Paul J. Meyer, the founder of the Success Motivation Institute, and dated to the 1960s. The coaching references that say so do not cite a source, so we repeat it as the usual account and no more. What is not in doubt is how widely coaches use it, and the reason is simple: it turns a vague "things are not right" into a named area.
Three things make the exercise more useful than it looks. First, score how things are now, not how they were last year or how you hope they will be. Second, read the shape before the numbers: the slice that surprises you is often more useful than the lowest one. Third, change one thing. The wheel names your lowest area and gives one small habit for it, taken from an article on this site with its study linked, because a single habit you keep is worth more than eight you plan.
Most of those habits are about how to start rather than what to achieve. Implementation intentions turn "sort out my money" into a plan with a time and a place, and tiny habits shrink the first step until it is hard to skip. If you want to see how long a new habit usually takes to feel automatic, the habit formation calculator draws the published ranges. The wider case for small, steady change is in the self-improvement guide, and the numbers behind it are in small habits that change your life.
See the published range for how long a habit takes to form: medians of 59 to 66 days, a tail to 335. Pick the habit and time of day. Not a prediction.
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Pick the one small habit, add it to Aura, and check it off in a tap each day. The streak and the completion grid show whether the slice is actually getting attention.
