Life Direction Worksheet

Life Direction Worksheet

One reliable way to clarify what you actually want is to remove the assumption that you have unlimited time to figure it out. This exercise uses a version of that approach - not to be morbid, but to create the kind of perspective that daily priorities tend to obscure.

When you imagine your life as already lived, something shifts. The question stops being "what do I want to do this year?" and becomes "what would I need to have done to feel that my life was worthwhile?" The gap between those two framings is where most of the useful information lives.

The four questions move from assessment (satisfied or not?) to direction (where am I heading now?) to adjustment (what would make it better?) to legacy (what do I want to be remembered for?). Taken together, they tend to surface what's missing more directly than forward-looking planning questions do.

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