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Career Development Life Design Tool
Life and Career Design Canvas
A big-picture life design tool drawing on Stanford's Life Design Lab methodology. Not a planning document — a thinking document. The goal is to get a clear, honest picture of where you are and where you want to go.
Life design is not goal-setting. Goal-setting assumes you know what you want. Life design helps you figure out what you want by combining honest reflection with structured experimentation. Treat the answers here as hypotheses, not commitments.
Step 1 — Life Areas: Honest Ratings
Rate each area of your life right now from 1 (very unsatisfied) to 10 (fully satisfied). Be honest — this is for you, not anyone else.
Life area
Rating (1–10)
What's driving this rating?
Work & Career
Relationships & Family
Health & Physical Wellbeing
Fun & Recreation
Purpose & Contribution
Money & Financial Security
Step 2 — What's Working and What Needs to Change
What is genuinely working well in my life right now
What most needs to change for my life to feel right
The area I most want to focus on over the next 12 months and why
Step 3 — Your One-Year Vision
Describe what you want your life to look and feel like in 12 months. Be concrete about what has changed and what has stayed the same. Write it in the present tense as if it is already true.
In 12 months, my life looks like this...
In my work / career
In my relationships and personal life
Step 4 — Your Values
Values are not aspirations — they are the principles that already drive your decisions when you are at your best. What are your five non-negotiables?
Value 1
Value 2
Value 3
Value 4
Value 5
Where my current life or career is most and least aligned with these values
Step 5 — Three Experiments to Run
A life design experiment is a small, low-risk action you take to test a hypothesis about what you want. Not a big plan — a small, specific thing you will do in the next 30 days to gather information about what works for you.
Experiment 1
The hypothesis I am testing (what I think I want or need)
The specific action I will take to test it
What I will have learned by
Experiment 2
The hypothesis I am testing
The specific action I will take to test it
What I will have learned by
Experiment 3
The hypothesis I am testing
The specific action I will take to test it
What I will have learned by
Revisit this canvas quarterly. Life design is not a one-time event. Your answers will change as you learn. The value comes from honest reflection at regular intervals, not from having the perfect answers today.