Methodology
The frameworks and tools — how the Wheel of Life and its cousins actually work.
Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is a self-assessment tool that breaks life into separate areas — typically eight — and asks you to rate each one from…
Life Balance
Life balance is not splitting your time evenly across every area of life.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a structured conversation between a trained coach and a client, focused on present goals and forward action.
WOOP Method
WOOP stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan.
SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis is a four-quadrant framework that maps Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
Lifebook
Lifebook is a personal-development methodology created by Jon and Missy Butcher that organizes life into twelve categories and asks you…
Balance Wheel
Balance wheel is an alternative name for the Wheel of Life, used in parts of the coaching world to emphasize the visual diagnostic — the…
Satisfaction Rating
A satisfaction rating is a 1 to 10 self-score of how content you feel with a specific area of life at a specific moment in time.
Spheres
What "areas of life" means and how different traditions slice it up.
Life Sphere
A life sphere is one defined area of life — Health, Career, Money, Relationships, Personal Growth, and so on.
Sphere Imbalance
Sphere imbalance is when one or more areas of life consistently underperform the others on a self-assessment, dragging down overall…
Holistic Development
Holistic development is a psychology and education term for growing the whole person — physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and…
8 Areas of Life
The 8 areas of life is the canonical Wheel of Life template, used by most coaches and self-assessment tools as the default starting point.
Wellness Dimensions
Wellness dimensions are academic models that map overall health and wellbeing into a fixed number of components — typically six, eight,…
Behavior Change
The science of how habits form, why they stick, and what makes one habit change everything.
Habit Stacking
Habit stacking is the practice of anchoring a new behavior to an existing one — "after I pour my morning coffee, I will write one…
Keystone Habit
A keystone habit is a single behavior that, once established, sets off a cascade of other positive habits without you having to install…
Habit Streak
A habit streak is the consecutive run of days you've completed a target behavior — three days, twelve days, sixty days.
Atomic Habit
An atomic habit is a small, daily behavior that seems insignificant in the moment but compounds over months and years into significant…
Implementation Intention
An implementation intention is an if-then plan that specifies the exact when, where, and how of a behavior: "if it is Tuesday at 7am,…
Behavior Activation
Behavior activation is a clinical psychology technique developed for treating depression.
Self-Efficacy
Self-efficacy is your belief in your own ability to do a specific thing — not generic confidence, but the focused expectation that, in…
Intrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic motivation is doing something because the activity itself is rewarding — the work feels meaningful, the practice feels alive —…
Measurement
Validated and informal ways to put a number on how your life is going.
WHO-5 Wellbeing Index
The WHO-5 Wellbeing Index is a five-question self-report measure of subjective wellbeing, developed by the World Health Organization's…
Quality of Life Assessment
Quality of life assessment is the broad category of instruments — both clinical and self-report — that measure overall life satisfaction…
Subjective Wellbeing
Subjective wellbeing is the academic term for how a person evaluates their own life.
Life Satisfaction Score
A life satisfaction score is a single-number summary of how content a person feels with their life as a whole.
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