Practice tool · 15 minutes
The navigation check
Walk one part of your life through the whole loop — understand, choose, decide, plan, act, observe, reflect, adapt, continue.
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Walk one part of your life through the whole loop — understand, choose, decide, plan, act, observe, reflect, adapt, continue.
Pick one area — work, health, a relationship, study, money, where you live. Answer each step in a line or two.
The questions
- Which part of your life is this about?
- Understand — where are you now, honestly?
- Choose — what matters here, and which direction do you want?
- Decide — what decision does that ask of you, and what will it cost?
- Plan — what is the next concrete action?
- Act — when will you take it?
- Observe — how will you notice what actually happens?
- Reflect — when will you look back at it?
- Adapt — what would make you change course?
- Continue — what will keep you going after the first step?
Afterwards
Turn your answer into one next step, and take it to My Goals.
Lessons behind this tool
- Navigating a life, not fixing it — A life is not a problem to solve once. It is something you steer, again and again. (7 min)
- Understand: where you are now — Before choosing a direction, get an honest picture of yourself and your situation. (7 min)
- Plan, act, observe — Turn a direction into a next step, take it, and notice what actually happens. (8 min)
- Reflect, adapt, continue — Learn from what happened, change the plan when reality changes, and keep going. (8 min)