what are we
ACTUALLY TRYING TO CREATE HERE?
The numbers keep moving: salary, growth, square metres. Somewhere along the way, we started chasing the numbers instead of the life.
So I set up the Quality of Life Study. A ongoing research into how we live, how we work, how we feel and how we contribute.
See the gap between the life you want and the life you’ve got, and you know what to change first. In your life, your business, your city.
your answer counts
Over a coffee or online. Either way, it goes into the Quality of Life study.
in person
On the Quality of Life Tour, I visit cities for coffee talks with the people who live and work there. Open conversation, plenty of listening. It shows what life there is actually like, day to day.→ the tour
online
The Compass asks you what your ideal world looks like, and where you are today. Everyone gets the same questions, so the answers add up. Yours joins the study, anonymously.→ the compass
→ how the study works, in full
your way in
Choose the Compass version that fits you. Each covers your ideal, and where it stands today. Do both, and you see the gap and the direction you can take.
on your own
as a group
Life doesn’t stop at the front door, or at the office door. That’s why all six Compasses look at the whole spectrum of life.
The Compass covers seventeen areas that shape how life feels and works: home, money, work, health, people, place, time, safety, and nine more. Together these are the 17 Living Goals.
the life you’d choose
Most of us carry a picture of the life we’d like. We rarely say it out loud, let alone write it down. Shape yours in a few clicks in the Compass, and it counts twice: once for yourself, and once towards the collective study.
Gather enough of them, and you begin to see what people really want from life. That gives us something we rarely have: a clearer picture of what we’re actually trying to create. A better starting point for making decisions about life, business, and the places we live.
you’re not the only one
Some of what people have told me so far.
These came from people’s answers.
Yours is missing:
10 minutes. Free. No sign-up.
Anonymous. Open to anyone, anywhere.
Question the goal.
Redefine progress.
Make different decisions.
Hans van de Rakt
Founder, Business Hippie Club.