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 ask what we’re really chasing. That’s the Quality of Life Study: 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 answers reveal the gap between the life that matters and the life you’re living today.
10 minutes. Free. You get a canvas back: where you stand, 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
six ways into the Compass
A better life starts with knowing what “better” means to you. Choose your angle, answer the questions, and see what matters, where you stand today, and what could change.
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 things that shape a good life: home, money, work, health, people, place, time, nature, safety, and eight 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. The Compass asks you to.
Put enough of those pictures together and you get a different measure of progress. You see what people are trying to create and where life falls short. From there, we choose where to go next.
what we’re finding so far
What the study is turning up at the moment, and what our publications are showing.
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.