YOUR FREE STARTING POINT
The Life I Want
Choose what success should make possible for you. Then give one part of that life a place in your week.
Begin with How to Figure Out What You Really Want in Life. The essay explores ambition, money, relationships, faith and service. Use the worksheet alongside it to put your own answers into words.
Read your first free essay ↗Start with what matters to you.
You do not need a complete answer today. Begin with the part of life you most want to change or develop. Write what you would like to be able to do, feel or share.
The worksheet gives your ambitions room alongside your health, relationships, values and contribution. Add short phrases where you have an answer. Keep the unanswered questions.
Download The Life I Want worksheet (PDF) ↗
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See how the parts connect.
Here is an illustrative example. This person wants their growing business to support a life they can enjoy with their family.
A life worth building
- Body
- Have the strength and stamina for long walks and active holidays with my children.
- Mind
- Keep learning and make time to think about the direction of my business.
- Relationships
- Be fully present at dinner and enjoy an evening with my partner each week.
- Faith, values and purpose
- Give prayer and service a regular place in my life.
- Wealth
- Build a financial reserve and a business that gives me more choice over my time.
- Contribution
- Use what I learn to help younger people develop their own work.
Why it matters: I want my family to share in the life I am working to build.
Time and money: I can protect two evenings now. I still need to calculate the reserve that would let me reduce my working hours.
Question to research: Which recurring commitments could I change without weakening the business?
Choose one move for this week.
Look at what you wrote. Which change would make a meaningful difference now? Consider what it would require, whom it would affect, and whether it would support another part of the life you want.
In the example: protecting one evening from routine work would make room for time together. The first step is to review that evening’s commitments with their partner, choose a date and decide which work can move.
Write your own first step and when you will take it. Keep it specific enough to do. Afterwards, ask what it changed and what you want to adjust.
Keep building from here.
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Based on Andreas Tsiartas, “How to Figure Out What You Really Want in Life” (17 September 2026) and its existing worksheet. The worked example and first-step guidance help you put the essay into practice.