Count up the number in your inner circle and try to limit your inner circle to twelve or less for this illustration. Take a piece of paper and write their names in circles around you in the center like lollipops attached to the hub of a wheel, each circle would represent a person and the stick which connects you to them represents your relationship with that person. In the area outside that, write the names of people in your outer circle if you wish. These names would be those people you don't make contact with that often but who are important to you anyway. Now when you do this exercise what you'll have is a page with lots of names on it.
Some people come up with only five in their inner circle.
Others will have a full twelve, and sometimes people choose to create one with more than twelve, but that makes the model a little harder to work with. Just try to identify your inner few. Later you can make changes. Look over both your inner and outer circles. These are pretty significant questions, because we're talking about the essence of being alive.