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, ongoing research that asks everyone the same two things: what would your ideal world look like, and where do you stand now? In how you live, how you work, how you feel and how you contribute.
The gap between the life we want and the life we’re living shows what matters, and what to change first.
how I ask it
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
six ways into the Compass
Choose the way in that fits you. Each one asks the same two questions: what would the ideal look like, and where does it stand today? Answer both, and get your canvas back.
on your own
as a group
Life doesn’t stop at the front door, or at the office door. So each of the six angles looks at the same seventeen areas of life: home, money, work, health, people, place, time, safety, and nine more. Those are the 17 Living Goals.
(y)our ideal world
Most of us carry a picture of the life we’d like. We rarely say it out loud, let alone write it down. Write yours, and it counts twice: once for you, and once for all of us.
Put enough of those pictures together and you get a different measure of progress, what we’re actually trying to create rather than what we’re counting. From there, we can make different decisions.
what we’re finding so far
What the study is turning up at the moment, and what our publications are showing.
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.