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A reflection in eight dimensions
Bearings
Eight domains of a life. Where you actually are, and where you intend to take it.
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This is a reflection, not a questionnaire — closer to a GPS than a form. In each of the eight areas you'll do three things: think it through in your own words, then rate your honest position and set the bearing you want, and finally plot the route to get there. The questions are open on purpose — the work is in the writing, not the reading.
The frame — eight dimensions of wellness
It's organised around the eight dimensions of wellness — a whole-person model developed by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick and adopted by SAMHSA. The premise is simple: a life doesn't run on one axis. Each dimension can be strong while another quietly fails, and each pulls on the others. Most self-assessments over-weight one or two; this one makes you look at all eight, in your own words.
Inner lifeemotion — the range you allow, and how you meet it.
Relationshipsthe social fabric; who you're known by.
Mindthe intellect — attention, curiosity, growth.
Meaningthe spiritual axis — what makes a day matter.
Workvocation — where capability meets care.
Environmentthe spaces you live and move through.
Moneythe material ground — security, freedom, fear.
How to use it. There's no clock on this — give it the time it asks for; an unhurried afternoon, a slow weekend, or a little at a time. Depth matters more than finishing: answer fewer questions well rather than all of them fast. In each area, write where the questions land and skip what doesn't; then, at the end, rate where you are and where you'd like to be, and name a goal. Every answer should be true — some are uncomfortable on purpose; that's usually where the signal is. Prefer talking to typing? Every writing box has a speak button that turns your voice into text using your browser's dictation.
Doing this with someone? Do it separately — each your own copy, your own honest answers — then come together and compare. The two sets, side by side, are the real conversation.
Before the eight — a note on temperament
How you answer everything below is shaped by how you're wired. The most evidence-based map of personality is the Big Five — not a label, but a lens on your own patterns. (MBTI is more fun than reliable; the Big Five is the one the research trusts. The VIA Character Strengths survey is a good optional companion if you want a strengths-based view.) Take the 50-item test just below for your five traits; for the complete 30-facet profile, use the longer IPIP-NEO-120 (e.g. bigfive-test.com). Then read your traits against the questions.
Openness — appetite for the new, the abstract, the aesthetic. Where does yours pull you toward growth, and where toward restlessness?
Conscientiousness — order, discipline, follow-through. Does yours serve your aims, or has it become its own master?
Extraversion — where you draw and spend energy. Are you arranging your life around how you actually recharge?
Agreeableness — warmth, deference, the pull to keep the peace. Where does it make you kind, and where merely compliant?
Emotional stability — your baseline reactivity. What reliably knocks you off centre, and how quickly do you return?
Temperament — the Big Five (50 items)
Fifty statements, about ten minutes. Rate how accurately each describes you as you generally are — not as you'd like to be — on a scale of 1 (very inaccurate), 2 (moderately inaccurate), 3 (neither), 4 (moderately accurate), 5 (very accurate), then read your five traits. This is the public-domain IPIP-50 (Goldberg's Big-Five markers), a proper factor-level measure that scores itself on screen. For the complete profile — the five factors broken into thirty finer facets — take the longer IPIP-NEO-120.
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Part one — the self
Body · 01
What is your body asking of you that you keep postponing?
The body keeps the ledger the mind prefers to avoid — sleep, movement, appetite, the tension you've stopped noticing.
Baseline & energy
How does your body feel on an ordinary day, honestly described?
Where does your energy actually go — and where does your body pay the cost of how you live?
Sleep & recovery
How well do you sleep and recover, really?
What would genuine rest look like — and when did you last have it?
Movement
How does your body move through a week — a lot, a little, stuck?
What kind of movement would you actually sustain, not just intend?
Food & appetite
What is your relationship with food right now — fuel, comfort, control, pleasure?
What does your body actually need, versus what it craves?
Care vs. neglect
Which single physical habit, kept for a season, would change the most?
What do you consistently postpone — sleep, movement, a check-up, rest?
Living in it
When did your body last feel like an ally rather than an obligation?
Do you inhabit your body, or mostly manage it from the neck up?
The move — one bodily commitment you would actually keep.
Inner life · 02
Which feelings do you manage, and which do you let yourself actually have?
Not a mood audit — the texture of your inner weather, and how honestly you meet it.
Range
What emotion do you most reliably talk yourself out of, and at what cost?
Which feelings get full access, and which get quietly filtered?
The inner voice
How do you speak to yourself when no one is listening?
Would you accept that voice from anyone else in your life?
Regulation
When a hard feeling arrives, do you sit with it, fix it, or numb it?
What's your default escape — and what does it cost you?
Joy
What reliably lifts you, and how often do you arrange for it?
When did you last feel genuinely delighted, not merely fine?
The difficult ones
Which feeling is hardest for you to carry?
What actually helps when it comes — a person, a place, an act?
Honesty
Where are you performing an emotion you don't feel?
What would change if you treated feelings as information rather than interruption?
The move — one feeling you'll stop editing.
A pause between the parts. Let the circle set the pace, in as it grows, out as it shrinks, until you feel ready to go on.
breathe
Part two — the world you move through
Relationships · 03
Who gets the best of you, and who gets what's left?
Connection is where stated values meet the real allocation of attention. The two rarely match.
Allocation
Who gets the best of you, and who gets what's left?
Which relationships are you coasting on, and which quietly starving?
Depth & risk
Where do you perform intimacy instead of risking it?
Where are you genuinely known, and where merely liked?
Support
Who would you call in a real crisis — and does that list surprise you?
Are you as reachable to others as you'd want them to be to you?
Boundaries
Where do you say yes when you mean no?
Which relationship costs you more than it gives?
Repair
What conversation are you avoiding?
Who do you owe a truth, or an apology?
Belonging
Where do you feel you truly belong?
What kind of relationship are you missing, and not admitting?
The move — one relationship to invest in, or to release.
Mind · 04
Is your attention going where your curiosity actually is?
The intellect wants feeding; most of us feed it noise and call it interest.
Attention
Where does your attention actually go, versus where you'd want it?
What do you consume that leaves you emptier — and why do you return?
Curiosity
What are you genuinely curious about that you never make time for?
What would you learn if no outcome were attached to it?
Growth vs. defence
Are you still changing your mind about things, or mostly defending it?
When did you last think something genuinely new?
Depth vs. noise
What deserves your slow attention but only gets your fast attention?
What would you read or study if you protected the hours?
Thinking as craft
How clearly do you think on paper, versus in your head?
Where do you outsource your thinking — to a take, a habit, other people?
Stillness
Can you be unstimulated without reaching for something?
What surfaces in your mind when nothing is filling it?
The move — one thing to think about on purpose.
Meaning · 05
What are you building that will outlast your interest in it?
You make meaning more than you find it, and usually only see it clearly looking back.
What counts
What gives you the sense that a day mattered, and how often do you arrange for it?
What would you keep doing even if it were never seen or rewarded?
Values in practice
What do you say matters most — and does your calendar agree?
Where do your actions quietly betray a value you claim?
The larger frame
When did you last feel genuinely small in a good way?
Is there something you serve that is bigger than your own comfort?
Awe & the sacred
Where do you meet something larger — nature, art, love, silence?
How starved of that are you, honestly?
Continuity
What are you building or tending that you'd want to outlive you?
What would you want to have been true of your life, looking back?
Mortality
If your time were shorter than you assume, what would you stop tolerating?
What would you finally begin?
The move — one practice that points beyond yourself.
Another pause. Let the circle set the pace, in as it grows, out as it shrinks, until you feel ready to go on.
breathe
Part three — the ground under it
Work · 06
Are you spending your best hours on your real work?
Vocation is where your capability and your care overlap — often not the same as your job title.
Best hours
When is your mind sharpest — and what actually gets those hours?
Are your best hours going to your real work, or to everyone else's?
Overlap
Where do your capability and your care overlap, and are you working there?
What are you uniquely positioned to do that you keep deferring?
Ambition
Where does your ambition serve you, and where does it merely drive you?
Whose approval are you still, quietly, working for?
Craft & mastery
What are you genuinely trying to get good at?
Where are you settling for "competent" when you could go deeper?
The trade
Where do you trade meaning for security — and is that trade honest?
What would you do differently if money were already handled?
The off-switch
Can you actually stop?
What does your relationship to work let you avoid looking at elsewhere?
The move — one shift toward the work that's actually yours.
Environment · 07
Does the space you live in reflect the person you're becoming?
We shape our rooms, then they shape us — quietly, daily.
Daily friction
What in your immediate environment drains you every day without your noticing?
What single change would compound quietly over a year?
Belonging in space
Where do you feel most like yourself, and what precisely makes that place work?
Does your home reflect who you're becoming, or who you used to be?
Order & clutter
What does the state of your space say about your inner state right now?
What would you clear, if you decided to?
Inputs
What in your surroundings — noise, light, screens, people — sets the tone of your days?
What would you protect your attention from?
Nature & beauty
How much beauty and nature is in your daily field of view?
What would you add, and why haven't you?
Place
Are you living where you actually want to live?
What about your location serves you, and what constrains you?
The move — one change to where you live or work.
Money · 08
What is your relationship with money protecting you from feeling?
Money is rarely about money — it's security, freedom, status, and fear, in a ratio only you can name.
Revealed values
What does your spending reveal that your stated values don't?
Where does money map to fear, and where to genuine freedom?
Enough
What would "enough" actually look like — in numbers?
Do you know your real figures, or do you avoid knowing them?
Control & anxiety
Where does money buy you freedom, and where just more to manage?
What feeling does managing money let you avoid?
Earning
Is the way you earn aligned with who you are?
What would you change about it if you were braver?
Generosity
What is your relationship to giving — easy, fraught, absent?
Where does holding on cost you more than letting go?
The future
What are you building toward financially — your goal, or an inherited one?
What security do you actually need, versus perform?
The move — one honest adjustment to how you hold money.
Your bearings
Once you've been through the eight domains, draw it all together: a read-back of what you wrote, your life's current shape, your goals, and the routes to reach them.
Bearings · eight dimensions · take your time · one honest look