Does a whole life fit on one page?

Where the page comes from

The five videos this course comes from were recorded between April 2017 and September 2019. I was 21 when the first one appeared and 23 at the last. Back then I was close to the coaching world around Tony Robbins, I went to his events, and I took several exercises from there, the visualisation of your own funeral for example. That belongs in the telling, otherwise it looks as if I invented all of it myself.

My view of that world today is split. The books and audiobooks were valuable, because they explain dense thoughts calmly. The large live events were to a considerable degree selling, at the end of each block there was a next product. And part of the reasoning I worked with back then does not survive scrutiny. I used brain regions and a supposedly filtering net in the brainstem as proof, where in truth I had an observation. The exercises hold anyway, even without the hypnosis framing. Get quiet, visualise, put two images side by side, write. That is enough.

One field is missing from the old model entirely: values. The page asks who you are, what life is about for you, where you want to go, and what you do next. Nowhere does it ask where your line is and what you leave undone even when it would pay off. In 2019 that was survivable. Today it is the most important gap, because tools now have a say and unclear values get shaped from outside. That is why values come first in the speech Three Keys. If you write the page today, add a values field of your own.

this page couldn't be like the whole plan it had to be a reminder of an experience you had

Clarity: Your one page life plan that grows with you

The complete live walkthrough from 2019, in English, two hours and 25 minutes. The only public one of the five videos, and the version all the field names here follow.

Round one: who you are

The first three fields describe you without naming a result. They come slowly. Back then I introduced each one with a guided exercise, breath, silence, an image. You can have it plainer: sit down, breathe calmly for five minutes, then write the first words that arrive. The third field is the north star, called mission at the time. It is a goal so large that you will hardly reach it in your lifetime, and which for exactly that reason aligns every decision. Mine is education, rethought from first principles.

The typical mistake in this round is perfectionism. People sit in front of the purpose field, find no wording that does the thing justice, and leave it empty. Your first three words beat the perfect word that never comes, and you rewrite the page next month anyway.

• Core Self: who are you when every judgment about you is switched off for a moment?
• Purpose: what is life all about for you at its core, in one sentence?
• Mission (North Star): what world would you want to build that is so big you will never fully reach it?

Round two: where to

The fourth field is the core of the whole page, and it is the one most people set up differently from how it is meant. What is asked for is a day, not a state. No house, no car, no number in an account, but a lived through day from waking up to falling asleep. When do you get up, who do you eat with, what are you working on in the first half of the day, what makes this day magic. Onto the paper goes a rough summary plus the magic moments. Later you may take a week instead, because a single day rarely covers every area of a life.

Two mistakes show up here again and again. The first is a vision built from ownership, two cars and a beautiful home, and then the day stands still. The second is a day you would not actually survive a second time. The word average sits in the question on purpose. What you are looking for is a day you want to live three hundred times a year.

Life is not a location you arrive at. Life is your day, and days turn into weeks.

• Vision, Ideal Average Day: what does a day without financial or location limits look like, one you could still live again every single day?

Round three: the four goals

Now the ideal day gets split into four areas, and each one gets two images and three steps. Image one shows where you stand today, image two where you want to be, and between them lie three steps you can name. Wealth adds a calculation: what does your ideal average day cost per month, housing, food, travel, mobility, insurance, investing, giving. Add it all up and double it, so that taxes and surprises come along. The number that falls out is yours, and it is right.

The most common mistake in this round is a goal phrased as an absence. A health goal made of a state you want to avoid points your attention exactly there. Write down the body and the energy level you want, and a value someone from outside could check. Relationships work the same way, one checkable sentence per area. And fulfillment tends to stay empty, because it is hard to measure. A rough indicator you use every day beats a clean measurement that does not exist.

• Goal, Wealth: how much do you need to earn each month for your ideal day to be fully covered?
• Goal, Health: what do your body and energy level look like on your ideal day, and how would someone else recognise it?
• Goal, Relationships: how would someone else recognise that you are where you want to be in family, friendship, partnership, and with your kids?
• Goal, Fulfillment: how many magic moments do you want in a typical period, and how do you measure that?

Round four: the next step

The last five fields turn the picture into an action. One single result that only you control, with a date, usually about a month out. One habit that makes that result close to unavoidable. A deliberate connection between habit and purpose, through music, a place, a group, or an inner stance. A mechanism that holds you when the appetite is gone. And two numbers at the end of the day. How I look for the one stone that tips a row stands in Which domino falls first?

The mistake here is the plural. Two focus projects at once are no focus, your attention splits, and both get slow. The second mistake is the empty accountability field, because you consider yourself disciplined enough. If you have promised a habit three times already, the fourth time needs a person who asks, or an announcement people will hold you to. Why starting comes easier than finishing stands in Why do you start bridges and never finish them?

• The One Next Indicator: what is the one controllable, measurable result you focus on next?
• The One Habit: what single daily or weekly habit makes the next step practically unavoidable?
• Making the Habit Purpose-Driven: how do you shape the habit so it genuinely carries your purpose?
• Accountability: what makes sure you follow through even when you do not feel like it?
• Daily Tracking: how connected did you feel today, and how far are you on your habit?

The sequence and the rhythm

The first complete page took me around two and a half hours. The monthly rewrite takes about half an hour, because the early fields stay put and usually only the last five change.

Write your page here, it stays in your browser.

• Prepare one page, switch off distractions, block two and a half hours, music optional.
• Write core self, purpose and mission, each after a few quiet minutes rather than straight out of your head.
• Walk through the ideal average day from waking up to falling asleep and note the rough summary plus the magic moments.
• For each of the four goal categories hold two images, now and target, and three steps between them, and for wealth also add up the monthly cost and double it.
• Set the one next indicator with a date, translate it into one habit, bind that habit to your purpose, and make it accountable.
• Bring it all onto one page, print it, hang it where you see it daily.
• Read it briefly morning and evening, log the connection value and the habit number, and rewrite the whole page about once a month.

What I still use today

Three things stayed. The north star, which in the speech Three Keys is the same thought under a different name. The one next indicator with a date, which I still run that way, because it makes decisions inside a month fast. And the daily reading, which works in tiny corrections, the way kaizen describes it: one page, twice a day, each time a small adjustment.

Three things I do differently. I add values as a field of their own. I leave out the big explanations of what supposedly happens in the brain, and say instead that the exercise worked for me. And I treat an uncomfortable feeling while reading the page as information, as described in What is an uncomfortable feeling trying to tell you? When a whole month tips over, the order from What do you do in the first five minutes when everything falls apart? comes first.

The same construction sits in the school in another form. The maturity stages describe where a child currently stands, and a milestone is the sign that a conversation about the next stage is worth having, without pressure. The date on your page does the same for you: it makes visible where you stand, and it passes no judgment. Which point to touch first when time is short is what the lever is for.

The page is an invitation. It works if you write it, hang it up, and read it without ceremony. It is no promise that everything works out afterwards. If after a month you notice that three fields were wrong, you got exactly what it was built for.

The one-page life plan

Thirteen fields in four rounds, with room to write and a tracking table for one month. PDF · A4, 1 pages, , as of 3 September 2026.

Sources and links

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2026-09-03: Planted from five of my own life plan videos, 2017 to 2019.