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Life goals

Write what you want your life to hold, and by when. Changing a goal keeps its history.

Colors of this month

Why these colors

The buckets come from where research on wellbeing agrees. Five well-studied models each name the parts of a full life a little differently, but they keep landing on the same areas: meaning, close relationships, growth, absorbing work, security, and health.

Bucket	Holds	Grounded in
Soul	Meaning, faith, reflection	Purpose in life (Ryff); Meaning (PERMA); meaning and purpose (VanderWeele); dīn in the maqāṣid
People	Family, friends, community	Relatedness (self-determination theory); positive relations (Ryff); the Harvard Study's strongest finding; social wellbeing (Gallup); nasl in the maqāṣid
Mind	Learning, research, thinking	Personal growth (Ryff); competence (SDT); ʿaql in the maqāṣid
Art	Making things: music, food	Engagement and flow (PERMA, Csikszentmihalyi)
Work	Craft and contribution	Accomplishment (PERMA); autonomy and competence (SDT); career wellbeing (Gallup)
Wealth	Money, home, security	Financial wellbeing (Gallup); financial and material stability (VanderWeele); māl in the maqāṣid
Body	Strength and movement	Physical health (VanderWeele, Gallup)
Longevity	Sleep, care, maintenance	Mental and physical health (VanderWeele); nafs, the preservation of life, in the maqāṣid
Stay away from	Things you are cutting back	Cuts across all buckets; logged as slips, never as failures

Three design rules follow from the research:

People get their own color. In the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which has followed its participants since 1938, the warmth of close relationships predicted health and happiness in old age better than cholesterol, income or fame.
Goals are written, not assigned. In a controlled study, students who wrote out and elaborated their own personal goals improved their grades compared with a control group (Morisano, Hirsh, Peterson and colleagues). That is why the Overview is an authoring page.
Balance means every color shows up, not equal time. None of these models asks for an equal split. The bars show whether each part of life is present this month, not whether it hit a quota.

The daily journal follows the day reconstruction method (Kahneman and colleagues): a short look back at the day, written the same evening, gives a more accurate record than trying to sum up a whole week later. The “Wheel of Life” used by coaches is the popular ancestor of a color wheel like this one, but it is a coaching tool rather than a research finding.

Ryff, C. D. (1989). Happiness is everything, or is it? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57(6).
Ryan, R. M. & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55(1).
Seligman, M. (2011). Flourish. Free Press. (PERMA)
VanderWeele, T. J. (2017). On the promotion of human flourishing. PNAS, 114(31).
Rath, T. & Harter, J. (2010). Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements. Gallup Press.
Waldinger, R. & Schulz, M. (2023). The Good Life. Simon & Schuster. (Harvard Study of Adult Development)
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow. Harper & Row.
Morisano, D., Hirsh, J. B., Peterson, J. B., Pihl, R. O. & Shore, B. M. (2010). Setting, elaborating, and reflecting on personal goals improves academic performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2).
Kahneman, D. et al. (2004). A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: the day reconstruction method. Science, 306.
al-Shāṭibī, al-Muwāfaqāt (14th c.): the five aims of preservation, of faith, life, intellect, lineage and wealth.

You

Name

Birth date

Years on the life grid

Starting set

Switching sets changes your trackers. Every log, journal line and goal stays.

What you track

Changes are kept as history, so past days still show what you were tracking then. Private trackers never leave in a shared template.

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Bucket

Kind

Daily minimum

Unit

Who may ever read this

Your life file is private by default. This rule is written on the outside of the sealed file, so a future network can honour it without reading what is inside.

Only me, alwaysNobody else can open it, ever. The people I name, after I passOpened once your passing is confirmed. The people I name, after a number of yearsOpened automatically when the time comes. Anyone, after I passBecomes a public record of a life.

Years after sealing

People who receive it, one per line

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The file format

A life is a header and one append-only log. Current trackers and goals are not stored; they are replayed from the log, so every change keeps its history. Edits within ten minutes count as the same entry.

{ "format": "lauh/2",
  "person":  { "name", "born", "horizon" },
  "release": { "mode", "years", "heirs" },
  "log": [
    { "kind": "def",     "ref": "walk", "set": { "name": "Walk", "bucket": "longevity",
                                                 "type": "dose", "min": 20, "unit": "min" } },
    { "kind": "log",     "d": "2026-10-08", "ref": "walk", "v": 35, "src": "auto", "by": "garmin" },
    { "kind": "journal", "d": "2026-10-08", "text": "…", "src": "human" },
    { "kind": "goal",    "gid": "house", "set": { "byAge": 50 }, "why": "…", "src": "human" },
    { "kind": "summary", "from": "2024-03-01", "to": "2024-05-31", "text": "…",
                         "src": "inferred", "conf": 0.6, "basis": "…" } ] }

Every entry also has "id" and "t" (when it was written).
src: human · manual · auto · import · inferred

Sealed:  { "format": "lauh/2+sealed", "release": { "mode", "years" },
           "kdf": PBKDF2-SHA256, "cipher": AES-256-GCM, "data": "…" }

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Who may ever read this

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