BIKE OF LIFE
The ‘Bike of Life’ tool is designed to help you understand the connection between your ‘personal’ life balance and your ‘education’ life balance. It helps you consider each area of your life in turn and assess what’s off balance. It helps you identify areas that need more attention.
Imagine you are riding your ‘Bike of Life’ and the spokes in the front wheel represent issues at school and the back wheel represents your personal life balance issues. Ask yourself the question that only you can answer "How well will the bike perform if the back tyre gets a puncture?" Consider this question in reverse, “How well will the bike perform if the front tyre gets a puncture?” The answer is that your performance would be weakened to varying degrees. Using the handout in your workbook, shade how satisfied you are in each of the areas assigned to the wheels (the more you shade, the more satisfied you are). Feel free to rename the wheel segments. The resulting shape is your ‘bike of Life’. What do your wheels look like? Are they balanced? Are they a complete circle? If so, your wheels will turn. Are they a semicircle or simply dented? Your problem will be that it will complete half a turn and then stop. Which areas do you need to work on? What activities do you need to undertake to improve your score?
Imagine you are riding your ‘Bike of Life’ and the spokes in the front wheel represent issues at school and the back wheel represents your personal life balance issues. Ask yourself the question that only you can answer "How well will the bike perform if the back tyre gets a puncture?" Consider this question in reverse, “How well will the bike perform if the front tyre gets a puncture?” The answer is that your performance would be weakened to varying degrees. Using the handout in your workbook, shade how satisfied you are in each of the areas assigned to the wheels (the more you shade, the more satisfied you are). Feel free to rename the wheel segments. The resulting shape is your ‘bike of Life’. What do your wheels look like? Are they balanced? Are they a complete circle? If so, your wheels will turn. Are they a semicircle or simply dented? Your problem will be that it will complete half a turn and then stop. Which areas do you need to work on? What activities do you need to undertake to improve your score?