This interactive guide is based on Dan Koe's framework from his article 'How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day'. Read the original article here.

How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day (Dan Koe)

Audit your identity, define your vision, and build a 1-year mission.

Pillar 1: The Anti-Vision

Set aside 15-30 minutes (the length of one YouTube video... you can do it) to think about and answer these questions.

What is the dull dissatisfaction you've learned to tolerate?

List 3 things you complain about repeatedly but never change.

Based on your behavior (not words), what would an observer conclude you actually want?

What truth about your current life is unbearable to admit to someone you respect?

If absolutely nothing changes for the next five years, describe an average Tuesday. Where do you wake up? What does your body feel like? What’s the first thing you think about? Who’s around you? What do you do between 9am and 6pm? How do you feel at 10pm?

The 10-Year Tuesday: Who gave up on you? What did you miss? What do people say about you when you’re not in the room?

You’re at the end of your life. You lived the safe version. You never broke the pattern. What was the cost? What did you never let yourself feel, try, or become?

Who in your life is already living the future you just described? Someone five, ten, twenty years ahead on the same trajectory? What do you feel when you think about becoming them?

What identity would you have to give up to actually change? (”I am the type of person who...”) What would it cost you socially to no longer be that person?

What is the most embarrassing reason you haven’t changed? The one that makes you sound weak, scared, or lazy rather than reasonable?

If your current behavior is a form of self-protection, what exactly are you protecting? And what is that protection costing you?

Pillar 2: Minimum Viable Vision

create a minimum viable vision, because your vision is like a product. It starts out unclear, but with time and experience, it grows stronger and more potent.

The 3-Year Finger Snap: Describe an average Tuesday in your ideal life.

Identity Statement: Write 'I am the type of person who...' for that new life.

What is one thing you would do this week if you were already that person?

Pillar 3: Synthesis & Mission

Compress your insights into a seasonal strategy.

The Real Enemy: What internal pattern or belief is actually keeping you stuck?

What is the actual enemy? Name it clearly. Not circumstances. Not other people. The internal pattern or belief that has been running the show.

Write a single sentence that captures what you refuse to let your life become. This is your anti-vision compressed. It should make you feel something when you read it.

Write a single sentence that captures what you’re building toward, knowing it will evolve. This is your vision MVP.

One-year lens: What would have to be true in one year for you to know you’ve broken the old pattern? One concrete thing.

One-month lens: What would have to be true in one month for the one-year lens to remain possible?

Daily lens: What are 2-3 actions you can timeblock tomorrow that the person you’re becoming would simply do?

Daily Pattern Interrupts

Add these questions as daily recurring reminders to break your autopilot.

Select Start Date:

Download the file and import it into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.

11:00am:
What am I avoiding right now by doing what I’m doing?

1:30pm:
If someone filmed the last two hours, what would they conclude I want from my life?

3:15pm:
Am I moving toward the life I hate or the life I want?

5:00pm:
What’s the most important thing I’m pretending isn’t important?

7:30pm:
What did I do today out of identity protection rather than genuine desire?

9:00pm:
When did I feel most alive today? When did I feel most dead?

Extra Fuel for Contemplation

Contemplate these during transition times (commuting, walking, etc.) to further break your identity patterns.

What would change if I stopped needing people to see me as the person I described earlier?

Where in my life am I trading aliveness for safety?

What’s the smallest version of the person I want to become that I could be tomorrow?

Draft Saved