Life Dashboard

Most people quietly optimise one domain — usually work — while everything else drifts. Health erodes, relationships fade, finances get sloppy, learning stops. The Life Dashboard doesn't ask you to spend more time; it asks you to spend more awareness. Six domains tracked in one view make imbalance visible before it cracks into crisis.

The default six are Health & Energy, Finances, Career, Relationships, Learning & Growth, Fun & Adventure — but the framework works with 4-8, and you can swap in Spirituality, Creativity, Community, or anything else that matters to you. Each domain gets three things: a status (Red declining or in crisis / Yellow functioning but not where you want / Green actively maintained), one key metric (not a vague feeling — something observable like "exercising 3+ times a week" or "when did I last have a real conversation with [partner]"), and one current action (a small specific thing you're doing right now). Tracking ten metrics per domain creates dashboard fatigue and the dashboard stops getting updated. One metric, honestly answered.

Four rules keep the dashboard useful. One active focus at a time — trying to improve every domain simultaneously improves none. Trends beat snapshots — a Yellow domain trending up is better than a Green domain trending down. Green doesn't mean ignore — maintained domains need minimum viable effort. And the 30-Day Red Rule: no domain stays Red for more than 30 days without concrete action. If a domain is Red and nothing's been started after a month, either it's not really Red (downgrade) or avoidance is the actual problem. The rule kills "comfortable Red," the state where awareness substitutes for action.

The skill is also explicit that seasons exist. A new parent's Fun domain will be Yellow for months — that's a season, not a failure. A founder's Health might be Yellow during a launch. The dashboard's job is to make these trade-offs conscious so you chose them rather than drifted into them. Reviews are monthly for status updates, quarterly for deeper audits where the structure itself gets questioned (are these still the right domains? the right metrics?). A stale dashboard is worse than no dashboard — if you stop updating, simplify until maintenance is near zero. The whole tool is descriptive, not prescriptive: Red is information, not a verdict.