Values, Vision, and the Life Balance Wheel

What You Will Learn

• Help a client name her core values
• Guide a client in writing a simple vision statement
• Use a life balance wheel to choose a focus area
• Connect values and vision to faith without imposing your own

Lesson Notes

Values: What Matters Most

Values are the things a person cares about most: faith, family, honesty, freedom, health, learning, service. When goals match values, motivation lasts. When they clash, people feel stuck.

Coaching questions: “What matters most to you?” “When were you proudest of yourself, and what value were you living out?” “What would you never want to give up?”

Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21).

Vision: A Picture of the Future

A vision is a short picture of the life a client hopes for, often one to three years ahead. Habakkuk was told to write the vision plainly. A coach helps the client describe it in her own words:

• “Imagine it is two years from now and things have gone well. What do you see?”
• “Who is with you? What are you doing each day?”
• “How is God part of that picture?”

Keep visions hopeful and realistic. Avoid promising outcomes no one controls.

The Life Balance Wheel

A life balance wheel is a circle divided into slices for areas of life. This course uses eight: Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Rest, Work & Career, Money, Learning, Home & Housing, Service & Fun. The client rates her satisfaction in each from 1 (low) to 10 (high) and shades the slices.

The wheel is not a test or a diagnosis. It simply helps a client see where she wants to focus. Ask: “What do you notice?” “Which one area, if it improved, would help the others?”

Your Values Are Not Hers

Christian coaches share their faith openly, but they do not use coaching to pressure. Let the client's priorities lead. If a client's choice concerns you because it may be unsafe, you may share your concern honestly, and if safety is at risk, follow your referral steps.

Key Terms

In-Class Activities

Values Sort

From the list of 30 values your instructor provides, circle ten, then narrow to your top five, then your top three. Write one sentence about why each of the three matters to you.

Wheel and Vision

Complete the paper life balance wheel for yourself. Then write a three-sentence vision statement for one area you want to grow in. Share only what you are comfortable sharing.

Assignment: Coaching the Wheel

Using a composite client or a classmate on a low-risk topic:

• Walk her through the life balance wheel and record her ratings (initials only).
• Ask at least five questions about what she notices.
• Help her choose one focus area and write a vision sentence for it in her own words.
• Write a half-page reflection on what worked and what you would do differently.

Graded with the Module Assignment Rubric.

Reflection Journal

Habakkuk 2:2 says to write the vision and make it plain. What vision has God placed in your heart for the next season? Which of your values will help you hold on to it?

Prayer focus: Ask God to make His vision plain to you and to help you honor what matters most.

Where Your Treasure Is

Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” What we value shapes where our energy goes. When a woman's goals line up with what she truly values, she finds strength to keep going.

Habakkuk was told, “Write the vision, and make it plain.” A vision does not need to be grand. It can be as simple as: “In two years, I am working steadily, living in a safe place, and seeing my children every week.” Written down, a vision becomes something to walk toward.

The life balance wheel helps a client see her life at a glance: faith, relationships, health, work, money, learning, home, and service. It is not a grade. It is a mirror. The most helpful question afterward is often, “Which one area, if it improved, would help the others?”

As a Christian coach, you will share your faith freely, but you will not push your values onto someone else's goals. Your role is to help her seek God and decide. That respect is part of what makes coaching safe.

Think About It

1. What are your top three values? ______________________
2. What is your vision for the next two years? ______________________
3. Which area of your wheel would help the others most if it grew? ______________________

Daily Devotions for Week 4

Where Your Treasure Is

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.— Matthew 6:21 (KJV)

Our values reveal our hearts and shape our steps.

Reflect: What does your daily life say you treasure?

Pray: Lord, be my greatest treasure.

Do: List three things you value most and one way you'll honor each this week.

Make It Plain

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.— Habakkuk 2:2 (KJV)

A written vision helps us run toward it.

Reflect: What vision has God placed in your heart?

Pray: Lord, make Your vision plain to me.

Do: Write a three-sentence vision for your next season.

Without Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.— Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

Vision rooted in God's Word gives life direction and hope.

Reflect: Where do you need fresh vision?

Pray: Lord, give me vision rooted in Your Word.

Do: Read your vision aloud and pray over it.

What the Lord Requires

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?— Micah 6:8 (KJV)

God's values are clear: justice, mercy, humility. They can anchor every goal.

Reflect: Which of these three do you want to grow in?

Pray: Lord, help me do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.

Do: Do one merciful act today.

Me and My House

But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.— Joshua 24:15 (KJV)

Joshua's vision began with a decision about whom he would serve.

Reflect: What decision anchors your vision?

Pray: Lord, I choose to serve You.

Do: Write one sentence about whom you will serve.