Christie JungeA Plus Solutions Inc. · CEO | Profit First Professional

Is Your Life in Balance? Try This Exercise!

31 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short self‑help segment, the speaker introduces the "Wheel of Life" exercise, a visual self‑assessment tool that divides life into several key domains (e.g., physical health, family, finances, friendships). The participant rates their current feeling in each slice, identifies the areas that are under‑served, and then focuses energy on those imbalanced sections so the wheel can "spin"—a metaphor for a balanced, successful life. The speaker also challenges conventional notions of success, using fashion entrepreneur Kate Spade as an example: while many equate financial metrics ($2.4 billion) with success, true success may require personal balance, which the speaker suggests may have been lacking for Spade. The overall message encourages viewers to use the wheel to diagnose life balance and to redefine success beyond external achievements.

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There's an exercise I do in some groups I'm in called the Wheel of Life. Have you ever heard of this? I think we did it here for a bit of time. Yeah, I think so. Basically, it's a wheel, a circle, and in the center point, or emanating from the center point, is like these little pizza slices. And so maybe there's 8 slices, and I don't remember what they all were, but one is physical health. Next one is family. Next one, maybe finances, and so forth. Then what you do is you go through each category and you identify where do you feel you are? Because at the end of the day, it's all feeling and interpretation, and then wherever your wheel is short, maybe in friendships, which was one of the categories, then what the wheel teaches us, we gotta start focusing our energy there. The idea of this wheel is that it can only spin when it's balanced. Ah, maybe that is a good definition of success. I think there is this perversion in the way we think about entrepreneurship that Kate Spade was successful and we will say, well, $2.4 billion can't be more successful than that. And the reality is, I don't know if she was successful. She has to define that and maybe it was out of balance.