When things are not so great
Life as a web
Sometimes I visualise my life as a web.
It’s a popular coaching exercise, where you start with a wheel that is segmented into various categories that compose a life—work, health, recreation, money, home, friends and family, learning, spirituality, and so on.
A score is placed within the wheel to represent your level of satisfaction with that part of your life. Zero satisfaction is at the centre, moving in increments towards full satisfaction—10/10—at the parameter of the wheel. Once you’ve marked your score for each segment, you join the dots forming a web, like so.
Some areas may spike, while others hug the middle. It’s the point of the exercise—to give you a tangible reflection of where things might be off-balance.
But every now and then, when I visualise my life as a web, all I see is a blob at the centre.
On a scale of one to ten, things are consistently not so great.
It’s hard to admit that it doesn’t feel like any one segment of your life is flourishing.
Because it’s hard to admit, p…