A Wheel of Life exercise helps you rate life areas. Six Roots offers a written identity report.
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A Wheel of Life exercise is a reflection tool that asks you to rate different areas of life, often as a visual wheel. It can make broad imbalances easy to notice and gives you a flexible way to choose your own categories. Rooted's Six Roots self-assessment takes a different approach: it produces a written report across six dimensions, with a personal view of strengths and areas to focus. One is useful when you want a quick visual prompt you can adapt. The other suits you when you want a structured written reflection that brings several parts of life together. Neither can make decisions for you.
How they compare
- Rates life areas you choose, often in a visual wheel
- Offers a quick snapshot for personal reflection
- Flexible categories can fit your own priorities
- Useful when you want to identify broad areas to explore
- Uses six consistent dimensions of life
- Takes 15 minutes and returns a written report
- Shows strengths and areas you may want to focus on
- Useful when you want a guided, connected reflection
See which of your six roots needs attention. Take the free self-assessment in the Rooted app.
The honest answer
Use a Wheel of Life when you want a flexible visual exercise and prefer to choose the areas yourself. Use Six Roots when you want a structured self-assessment and a written report across six dimensions. Both are reflection tools, so choose the format that helps you think clearly.
“Showing a report card of where you actually stand, and where to focus more, it gives a sense of caution to self.”
From the Rooted founding cohort
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15 minutes. A personal identity report written in your own words: your strengths, your gaps, and the one thing holding you back most.
See which of your six roots needs attention. Take the free self-assessment in the Rooted app.