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A reflective assessment, long guides, a weekly essay and a measure of how well you are living. Each one turns something you already sense into something you can name.
A reflective assessment of about seven minutes. It names the old strategy most likely still writing your life, the ghostwriter, and what it once protected. No diagnosis and no score.
Long guides on the questions accomplished people bring to the second half of life, each traced to its sources and ending in one practice you can start this week.
Every Sunday, one idea about what shapes a capable life, traced to its source with an honest read of the evidence. On Monday, the Conversation, where readers bring their own lives to it. On Wednesday, the Recalibration: what has the week revealed, and what changes now?
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Fourteen questions on emotional, psychological and social well-being, from the Mental Health Continuum Short Form developed by Corey Keyes. Take it at the start of a year, and again at the end.
First Light in the morning, two minutes. The Account in the evening, three. Seven Days of First Light walks you through your first week, one short note each morning, with nothing to buy.
When reading is not enough
A change in intention moves behavior about half as far (a 2006 meta-analysis of experimental studies). Progress checks help more when someone else sees them (a 2016 meta-analysis). That is why the work comes in two further forms: a year on your own, and a coached year in the Council.
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