LifeSketch Career Plan
Design the life. Build the career around it.
The hub. One page that holds your direction, your reasons, your roles, your operating system, your route, and your next move — so your tired brain doesn't have to carry any of it. Everything else you build this week pours into here, and this is the page you reopen when life changes and the coordinates move.
Every panel has words in it — sketch quality counts — and one action is written in the orange box that you can start today. If you finish only one thing, finish the Needs column of the filter: it's what every decision from here runs through. Then print the filter card and fold it into your pocket.
The Vision
Where you're pointed. Design the life first — the career is a strand in that rope, not the whole rope. Write it vividly enough that you'd recognize it if you walked into it.
Stuck? Don't reach for a job title. Reach for the feeling you're missing.
The Purpose
Why this chapter matters. Vision is the destination; purpose is the fuel that gets you there on the days the vision feels far away.
Future Self
You don't live your life as one title — you live it in roles, woven together like strands in a rope. For each one: why it matters, and what "great" looks like. Career is one strand, and it's here on purpose.
Roles change, and that's the point — a new role showing up on this list is exactly when this page gets reopened.
Your Operating System
Values, passions, and priorities are the system running underneath every career decision you make. Name them and you can use them deliberately. Leave them unnamed and they run you anyway.
Values need updating the same way old software does. What was true five years ago may not be the system you're running now.
Working Backwards
Start at the far end and walk it back. A big vision is motivating; a big vision with no 30-day step is just a gap — and gaps fill with avoidance. Fill these right to left.
The far horizon isn't a promise — it's a direction. The near one is where the work happens.
Wants & Needs List
Your price tag, and the one section of this plan you'll use every single week. Needs are non-negotiable — they rule opportunities out. Wants are preferences — they rank whatever survives. Fill it, print it, and put it in your back pocket: the moment you step into the market, the search stops being about you and starts being about your customer. It comes back out when they've fallen in love with your offer.
Not a plan. Not a list. The single literal next thing — small enough to start in the next ten minutes, concrete enough that you'd know you'd done it.
Fill this in as you work through your workbook — one section at a time, not one sitting. Reopen it whenever the coordinates change: a new role, a new priority, a plan that stopped fitting. Plans are worthless; planning is everything. Your entries save automatically on this device.
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