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An hour of reflection.
Most advice about direction starts with the same instruction: decide what you want. Picture the life, name the outcome, get specific about the destination.
The problem is that it often can't be done. Ask someone what they want and they'll say something vague, not because they haven't thought about it, but because there are dozens of futures that would be good and no way to tell from here which one they'd actually want to be inside. The question doesn't resolve.
So when a real decision arrives — this job or that one, stay or leave, say yes or no — there's nothing solid to check it against. You weigh it up, you can see the upside and downside of everything, and when the deadline comes you pick on a feeling.
There's a question you can answer, though. Not what you want, but who you want to become.
And that one is useful in a way the other isn't, because you can hold a decision up against it. Is this the kind of thing that person does? That's answerable in about four seconds, and it works whether the decision is about a job, a person, or how you spend a Tuesday evening.
This hour is how you get that answer written down.
How it goes
You write an ordinary day ten years from now, in a life you wouldn't want. Then the person living it — what they value, what they believe, what they pay attention to, what they do.
Then you go down that list and write what you'd rather. You're not starting from a blank page, so it comes out more specific than it otherwise would.
Then you look at the life that opens up for a person like that — not as a goal, but to find the feeling of it. From that feeling you write one scene you can go back to.
What you end up with
An Identity Compass. Who you are, what you value, what you believe, what you do, what you pay attention to, what you refuse to tolerate. In your own words, present tense. It doesn't tell you where you'll end up. It tells you who to be today.
An Anchor. A scene you can step into, plus a sound that takes you back to it. Somewhere to go when you're stressed or wound up.
Both live on their own page in Notion, ready to put on your phone's home screen.
The Compass and Anchor are yours to keep. After that, you'll keep coming across things that remind you of the person you just described — a line in a book, a photograph, a song. The Identity Feed is where you collect them.
Free, no card. Duplicates into your Notion in one click.
