Awhile ago, I asked myself “Is that how I want to be spending my life?” Well, truth be told, I was told by my life coach to ask myself that. Okay. Wait. Let me back up here.

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Have you ever evaluated your life on the life wheel idea?

It’s pretty cool. What my life coach did was to have me divide up my life into 8 – 11 different categories (my choice), and then evaluate how I was doing in each category. I then was told to make a circle and put those categories into different sections in the circle.

So I chose health, family, spirituality, business, recreation, finance, friends, & personal growth. (In reflecting now, I would add a few more, but that is beside the point.)

I then rated each category as to how I was doing with 1 being “needs lots of improvement” and 10 being “totally fantastic.” Yes, it was quite eye-opening – especially the realization that my home business was just a small part of the pie!

My business coach told me that for the next month I should keep track of my activities, noting the category it represented. Then she told me to ask the killer question.

Looking right in my eyes, she said, “Now at the end of the month, I want you to look at how you spent your time and ask yourself . . .

“Is that how I want to spend my life?”

Let’s do that in slow motion: “Is. that. how. I. want. to. spend. my. life?”

I didn’t even have to do the exercise for the month. I went right home and called my local adult daughter to plan a lunch date with her. I didn’t want another month to go by when I didn’t make time to sit over lunch with her, look into her eyes, and feel her heartbeat. I knew that if I didn’t schedule it, it wouldn’t happen. And not having personal time with my daughters is NOT how I want to spend my life!

After all, we never know when it will be our last chance to show love to someone. Something could happen to me or to them to cut our time together short. Check out just such a story here.

How are you spending your days?

How you are spending your days is how you are spending your life.

Take time right now to stop, evaluate, and take some deliberate actions to schedule in the things that are most important to you. Use the life wheel idea to help you set your priorities.

When you go to bed tonight, think about your day. Did you read to your little one? Did you kiss your spouse good-bye this morning? Did you compliment the cashier waiting on you? Did you have meaningful conversation over lunch with someone you love?

Empower yourself to be able to say “I love the way I am spending my life!”

Proverbs 27:1 says “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” Invest in each day as if there is no tomorrow and you will have no regrets.

First Published: Nov. 2011

Updated: Jan. 2019