Build Your Life Map

A practical first map

Where are your choices placing you?

Choose the dimensions that materially affect your life now. Locate where repeated behaviour places you, then where you genuinely want to stand over the next year.

01Choose 8–12 dimensions

02Locate Current and Wanted

03Focus on 2–3 important gaps

04Test one assumed trade-off

05Compare before a shared decision

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STEP 01

Choose what matters now

This is a library of examples, not a universal definition of life. Choose enough dimensions to reveal a pattern without trying to inventory everything. Each dimension you select will automatically appear as a workable axis in Step 2.

0 of 8–12 selected

Choose at least 8 dimensions.

STEP 02

Locate Current and Wanted

Use repeated behaviour from the last three months for Current—not intention or self-image. Use the next twelve months for Wanted. The numbers are coordinates, not grades.

Select dimensions above to build your map.

STEP 03

Choose the gaps that deserve attention

A large numerical gap is not automatically important. Select no more than three differences that materially affect the life you want.

Your selected dimensions will appear here after you locate Current and Wanted.

Do not add the gaps into one life score. A few meaningful differences matter more than arithmetic.

STEP 04

Question an assumed trade-off

Use this step only when you want to improve two outcomes but believe progress on one would prevent progress on the other.

01 · First outcome What do you want to move toward?

01 · Second outcome What else do you also want to move toward?

02 · Name the constraint Why does improving both seem difficult?

03 · Gather evidence What small, reversible test could challenge that belief?

Choose two different dimensions from your map.

STEP 05

Compare before a shared decision

Each spouse should complete the relevant part independently. Do not average automatically; first understand what each person wants to protect and whether a different arrangement could respect both maps.

The same words can hide different lives

“More stability,” “more freedom” and “enough money” may refer to different dimensions or very different Wanted positions.

Do we describe Current in the same way?
Which Wanted positions differ?
Which dimension matters deeply to one person but barely appears on the other’s map?
What does each person want to protect, and what cost is each willing to bear?
Are we assuming a trade-off that another arrangement could avoid?

Use what the map reveals

A map is useful only when it changes the question

Print or save your map as a PDF. Then use one material gap—not your entire life—as the starting point for a conversation or experiment.

Your first-map summary

Select dimensions and focus gaps to create your summary.

Examine one gap with the Agent