How to Fill Out a Wheel of Life Template: Step-by-Step Example
Learn how to fill out a Wheel of Life template honestly: score each area, mark target scores, read the shape, and turn the result into one practical next step.
A blank Wheel of Life template is just a circle with twelve slices. It does nothing until you fill it in — and how you fill it in decides whether you get a real insight or a tidy, useless chart. This is the part most guides skip.
Here's how to fill out a Wheel of Life template properly, with a worked example, so the picture actually tells you something.
Quick answer: score every area for today, mark a realistic target, connect the dots, then look for clusters and gaps. Litak helps by asking clear prompts first, then gives you the result, PDF downloads and a free AI read so the wheel leads somewhere.
What you need first
A blank template and five quiet minutes. In Litak, the cleanest path is to take the free interactive Wheel of Life first. It asks a clear question for each area, shows your basic result, then lets you download a blank template, your completed wheel PDF, or both. You can also start a free AI read from the same result screen. That keeps the template connected to the insight instead of becoming another file you never use.
The template has twelve slices, one per life area: health, career, finances, family, friends, growth, fun, home, spirit, creativity, impact and mindset. The centre of the wheel is 0; the rim is 10.
Step 1 — Score each area as it is today
Go area by area and ask one question: how satisfied am I with this, right now? Mark a dot in each slice — close to the centre for a low score, near the rim for a high one.
Two rules make this honest:
- Score today, not your potential. Not where you plan to be, or think you should be. Where you actually are this week.
- Use the whole scale. If every area lands between 6 and 8, you're being polite to yourself. Let the low ones be genuinely low — that's where the signal is.
Step 2 — Mark your target for each area
Go around a second time and mark a second dot: where you'd want that area to be in a few months. Not a fantasy 10 everywhere — a realistic target. A good Wheel of Life template gives you room for both numbers, because the gap between them is the most useful thing on the page.
Step 3 — Connect the dots and read the pattern
Join your "today" dots into a shape. A balanced life draws a round wheel. A lopsided life draws something that would clatter if you tried to roll it.
A worked example. Say your wheel comes out: health 4, career 8, finances 5, family 7, friends 3, growth 6, fun 3, home 6, spirit 5, creativity 6, impact 4, mindset 5. The eye jumps to career (8) — but the story is in the lows: friends (3), fun (3), health (4). Three quiet areas, all connected, all about energy and recovery. That cluster, not the single lowest number, is what the wheel is showing you.
The mistake almost everyone makes
People fill in the template, find their lowest score, and attack it head-on. Health is a 4, so they buy a gym membership and a meal plan. Two weeks later it collapses — because a low score is usually a symptom. Low health is often low energy, which is often poor sleep, which is often stress leaking in from friends or fun being at 3.
Look for the pattern across areas instead. Which low area, lifted a little, would pull two or three others up with it? Start there.
From a filled template to one next step
A filled-in wheel is a diagnosis, not a plan. Don't try to fix six areas. Pick one, and turn it into one weekly action and one daily habit — "walk 20 minutes after lunch" beats "improve health." (There's a full method in how to turn your Wheel of Life results into a weekly plan.)
A blank template has two blind spots, though. It can't remember — no last-month shape beside this one, no link from a weak area to the habit you started for it. And it leaves the hardest part to you: knowing how to score each area with nothing to go on. The interactive wheel closes both — it asks you a clear question for each of the twelve areas so a score is a decision, not a guess; scores the wheel; and an AI coach turns your weakest area into a weekly plan.
Best path: take the interactive wheel, reach the result screen, then download the blank template or completed PDF from there. That way the PDF stays tied to an actual score, history and a free AI read instead of sitting apart from the insight.
FAQ
What's the best way to fill in a Wheel of Life template?
Go area by area and score each one for how it feels today, from 1 at the centre to 10 at the rim. Use the full scale, mark a second dot for your target, then connect the dots into a shape. The contrast between areas — not any single number — is the insight.
Should I score where I am now or where I want to be?
Both, in two passes. First mark your honest current state for every area, then go around again and mark a realistic target. The distance between the two is what tells you where to focus.
Do I colour the slice in or just mark a dot?
Either works. A dot per area is faster and makes the shape easier to read once you connect them; colouring each slice up to its score is more visual. The number is what matters, not the style.
What do I do once the template is filled in?
Pick one area — usually a low score that would lift others with it — and turn it into a single weekly action and daily habit. Re-take the wheel in about a month to see the shape change.