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Design Your Life
Two audits and one hard decision. 3 guides, 80 pages between them, 70 citations.
The Design Your Life shelf
All 3 guides, as a set. Sold separately they come to $57.
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The Life Goal Audit
A self-guided workbook - reflect, track, discover, design
You're busy, you're functional, and you cannot say what you're aiming at. This audits a life the way an accountant audits a balance sheet - score eight domains, count the progress you've already made, excavate the goal hiding underneath the goals, then cut it into the next 90 days.
Written for: People who are functional and busy but cannot name what they are aiming at - and who suspect the goal is already there, unstated
- 4 parts
- Wheel of Life
- deep-dive scorecard
- energy audit
- wins inventory
- progress tracker
- momentum map
- values excavation
- ikigai overlap
- 80th birthday letter
- North Star & 5 Whys
- 90-day breakdown
- monthly re-audit
- commitment contract
- graded source list p26-27
$14 · 27 pages · 10 citations · Workbook (print-and-write, full-page templates) · on the Design Your Life shelf
Inside the book — 2 pages. Tap one to read it.
The Regret-Proof Decision
Choice overload, prediction errors about future feelings, and how to outsmart both
The job, the move, the relationship - you keep researching and cannot close. Two quiet failures are doing it: too many options, and a broken forecast of how you'll feel later. Seven audits attack both, across 185 fillable fields you complete in the file.
Written for: Overthinkers and maximizers stuck on a real decision - job, move, relationship - who keep researching and cannot close
- 8 chapters in 3 parts
- 7 fill-in audits (maximizer test, forecast log, regret autopsy, criteria card, pre-mortem, one-page decision audit, decision journal)
- tear-out cheat sheet
- sources p33-34
$29 · 35 pages · 54 citations · Interactive workbook (fillable) · on the Design Your Life shelf
Inside the book — 3 pages. Tap one to read it.
The Quarterly Life Audit Workbook
Eight life pillars. Ninety days. One honest instrument check.
Your life looks fine on paper and has quietly drifted anyway. Drift is measurable: the gap between the life you'd choose and the one you get by default. Score eight pillars against last quarter's numbers instead of against a feeling - every 90 days, for good.
Written for: People whose life looks fine on paper and has quietly drifted anyway - and who want a repeating instrument rather than one more burst of reflection
- 8 pillars, each with 2-and-10 anchors, 3 questions, a 1-10 score, last-Q / this-Q / drift delta, working-vs-draining columns and one keystone move
- 5-move method page
- 90-day warm-up reflection
- drift gauge radar with last-vs-now table
- priority matrix (fix first / invest / easy wins / defer)
- 3 focus commitments with metrics and recovery plans
- signed contract
- annual four-quarter tracker
$14 · 18 pages · 6 citations · Workbook (print-and-write, score-and-plot) · on the Design Your Life shelf
Inside the book — 2 pages. Tap one to read it.