Wheel of Life Template for Coaches: Free PDF, Questions and Session Flow

A practical Wheel of Life template for coaches: free printable PDF, session questions, current-vs-target scoring, and a follow-up flow clients can keep.

The Wheel of Life is one of the oldest tools in coaching for a reason: in five minutes it gives a client a picture of their whole life and a place to start. The template is simple. Running it well — so the session leads somewhere — is the skill.

Here's how to use a Wheel of Life template with clients, from the blank sheet to a follow-up that holds.

Quick answer: give the client a blank wheel, ask for current and desired scores, discuss the widest gaps and connected areas, then turn one area into one weekly action. In Litak, clients can complete the wheel for free, download the PDF, and bring an AI-read pattern into the session so the conversation starts deeper.

Start with the template, not the theory

You don't need to explain the model for fifteen minutes. Send the client into the free Wheel of Life assessment — twelve areas, a 1–10 scale — and let the picture do the talking. After they complete the wheel, the result screen gives them more than a worksheet: basic scores, useful downloads, a blank template, their completed wheel PDF, and the option to start a free AI read. For remote sessions and follow-up work, that is stronger than a loose PDF because the result is already connected to history and analysis.

Twelve areas suit most clients, but the right number is the one that maps to their life. Let them rename or merge areas. A client who doesn't separate "friends" and "family" shouldn't be forced to.

The two scores that matter

Ask the client to score each area twice:

1. Current state — how satisfied are you here, today, 1 to 10?
2. Desired state — where would you want this to be in a few months?

The gap between the two is where coaching lives. A 7 they want at 9 can deserve more attention than a 3 they've quietly made peace with. A single ring of "current" scores tells you how they feel; two rings tell you where to move.

The questions that open the session up

Once the wheel is filled in, the chart is just the prompt. The work is in what you ask next:

• "Which area surprised you?"
• "If one area improved, which others would rise with it?"
• "Which low score are you actually okay with — and which one bothers you?"
• "Where's the widest gap between where you are and where you want to be?"

That last one usually finds the leverage area faster than the lowest number does. Low scores are often symptoms — low energy showing up as low health, stress from one area dragging three others down. The pattern across areas matters more than any single slice.

But here's the important distinction: the Wheel of Life isn't just a satisfaction chart — it's a structured coaching conversation around balance, gaps, leverage and follow-through.

Turn the session into something the client keeps

A wheel drawn once and photographed is a screenshot, not change. The value is in the loop: pick one area, translate it into one weekly action and one daily habit, and re-take the wheel in 30 days to watch the shape move.

This is where a paper template quietly fails between sessions. The client's wheel lives in a photo, their goals in a notebook, their habits nowhere — so the link between "this area is low" and "this is the habit for it" never gets made, and month two looks like month one.

A connected tool for coaches and clients

Litak builds the Wheel of Life into exactly that loop. Instead of handing a client a blank sheet and explaining the scale, the interactive wheel asks them a clear question for each of the twelve areas — so their scores come out structured and honest, not vague, and the session goes to the conversation, not the setup. They can download the result as a PDF, get a free AI read of the pattern, and then turn the weakest area into a weekly plan and a habit, with last month's shape always beside this one. You keep the printable for in-room sessions; the system holds the progress between them.

If you coach clients, start by trying the free Wheel of Life assessment yourself. Reach the result screen, download the blank template or completed wheel, and read the free AI interpretation. Then bring clients into a flow that remembers what they decided. The chart is easy; what makes coaching stick is everything that happens after it.