📡 Life Dashboard Deep Retreat | Study Template

for the one ready to stop guessing and map all four dials honestly

Goal

Spend a day auditing all four life dials, tracing trajectories, and redesigning the lowest one.

Audit health, work, play, and love on a dashboard so you can see which dial is flat and why. : from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.

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8:00-8:30 AM
Settle in. Coffee, no devices. Today is for the four dials.
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8:30-9:30 AM
Rate each dial 0–10 right now. Health / work / play / love. First number.
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9:30-10:30 AM
Trace each dial's trajectory over the last 90 days. Up, flat, down.
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10:30-11:30 AM
For the lowest dial: list what's been feeding it. All of it.
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11:30 AM-12:00 PM
Break. Walk, water.
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12:00-1:00 PM
Lunch + walk. Let the lowest dial sit.
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1:00-2:30 PM
Redesign the lowest dial. What would move it up one point in 30 days?
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2:30-3:30 PM
Pick three micro-actions for that dial. Tiny. Doable.
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3:30-4:30 PM
Block the three actions on the calendar. Real dates.
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4:30-5:00 PM
Define a 30-day exit signal. How will you know it moved?
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7:00-7:30 PM
Read the redesign aloud. One sentence. Close the day.