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When life calls for change (taking on bigger roles, pivoting or just had enough), we often feel both the urgency to act and the uncertainty of where to begin.
As I reflected on my own journey, the times I’ve stepped forward with courage, the times I’ve stumbled, and the lessons I’ve seen in my clients’ paths, I began to notice patterns. Certain stages helped me reset when I needed clarity, energy, or direction. Certain principles gave me steadiness when I began to wobble.
Out of that reflection emerged what I now call the Reset Wheel, a framework for personal and professional renewal.
Think of a wheel:
One without the other is incomplete. Spokes without a rim collapse under pressure. A rim without spokes cannot move forward. Together, they create a wheel that carries us steadily through change, season after season.
At its heart, the Reset Wheel is a whole-person framework. You are the hub, the still center from which everything radiates. It represents you; your values, identity, and inner presence. The spokes (Resets) connect your inner self to outward action and movement.
And the rim (Principles) binds everything together and keeps the wheel steady as it turns.
When hub, spokes, and rim work in harmony, the journey of change becomes both possible and sustainable.
🌱 Awareness: The beginning of any reset. Nothing changes until you see clearly. Awareness is the light that makes shadows visible and surfaces what is real.
🌱 Direction: Awareness without movement leads to stagnation. Direction is about choosing a path, however small, and allowing that choice to create momentum.
🌱 Purpose: Direction gains energy when tied to meaning. Purpose provides fuel for perseverance and makes the journey worthwhile, even when the path is difficult.
🌱 Courage: Purpose demands bravery. Courage is what carries us into uncertainty, helps us face discomfort, and gives us the strength to keep showing up.
🌱 State of Mind: Courage without steadiness can lead to burnout. A reset of state helps us remain resourceful, grounded, and clear-headed under pressure.
🌱 Action: Reset is not just an idea; it is made real through doing. Small, imperfect steps compound into progress and create evidence of change.
🌱 Leadership: Action matures into influence. Leadership is not defined by title but by presence — by how we inspire, guide, and serve others.
🌱 Self-Nourishment: The sustaining reset. Renewal is not indulgence but discipline. Without it, energy runs dry and the wheel falters.
🌿 Rest: The rhythm of renewal. Rest is infrastructure, not indulgence. It restores capacity and allows resilience to take root.
🌿 Acceptance: The grounding in truth. Denial keeps us stuck; acceptance dissolves it. From truth, we find the courage to move forward.
🌿 Gratitude: The amplifier of good. Gratitude reframes challenges into lessons, builds perspective, and expands our sense of abundance.
🌿 Generosity: The outward flow. Growth is not just for the self; it ripples into others. Generosity anchors us in service and deepens connection.
🌿 Consistency: The quiet force of progress. Transformation rarely comes from bursts of effort; it comes from small steps sustained over time.
🌿 Integrity: The alignment of values, words, and actions. Integrity builds credibility and ensures the inner journey is visible in the outer world.
🌿 Curiosity — The engine of growth. Curiosity keeps us open and adaptable, turning setbacks into experiments and fear into fascination.
🌿 Presence — The crown principle. Presence brings us back to the moment, steadying us in uncertainty and allowing us to engage fully with life and leadership.
The Reset Wheel is both map and compass. The inner Resets move us forward. The outer Principles keep us steady. Together, they form a cycle of renewal that helps us navigate both personal and professional change.
Unlike a physical wheel that depends on an external axle or engine, the Reset Wheel is powered from within. With you at the hub, your own intention and life force are the engine. Your alignment with values is the axle. This results in self-generated energy that sets the hub in motion and when the hub turns, the Resets and Principles carry you forward.
This framework grew not just from ideas, but from lived experience; mine and my clients’. When the wheel is whole, it carries us with steadiness and clarity. When parts are missing, the journey wobbles.
Here is an overview video about The Reset Wheel.
This blog offers the full synthesis of the Reset Journey; You (the anchor), 8 Resets, 8 Principles, one Reset Wheel. It is a framework for navigating change, renewal, and growth.
👉 In my next reflection, I’ll share how this Reset Wheel has shown up in my own evolution from audit leader to coach and how living (and sometimes failing to live) these stages and principles has shaped my path.
Because frameworks guide us, but it is lived experience that gives them meaning.
The Reset Wheel is not just a tool, but a way of life. It is about living change with courage, steadiness, and grace – living life the evolving way.
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