Lifestyle Decision Template
A structured approach to major lifestyle decisions including relocation, health changes, and other significant life transitions. Plan your next chapter with clarity.
Lifestyle decisions—like moving to a new city, making a significant health change, or adopting a new way of living—are deeply personal and have ripple effects across your entire life. This template is designed to help you think through these choices holistically, balancing the excitement of a new chapter with the practical realities of implementation. It helps you clarify your "why" and map out the "how" for any major life transition.
What's Inside This Template
This template provides a 360-degree view of a major lifestyle change, with prompts covering:
- Quality of Life Audit: A guided exercise to define what a "good life" looks like for you right now, creating a scorecard to measure your options against.
- Impact Mapping: A tool to brainstorm the second-order effects of your decision on your career, finances, relationships, and well-being.
- Risk & Reversibility Analysis: Questions that challenge you to think about what could go wrong and how easily you could "undo" the decision if it doesn't work out.
- Support & Resource Planning: Prompts to identify the people, tools, and resources you will need to make a successful transition.
How to Use This Template
- Start with a Vision: Before you get into the details, write a short paragraph describing the ideal outcome you are hoping for. What does success look like one year after making this change?
- Be Radically Honest: Use the prompts to explore both the exciting possibilities and the potential downsides. The goal is to see the full picture, not just the highlight reel.
- Run a Small-Scale Test: Before committing fully, is there a way to "pilot" your decision? For example, before moving to a new city, could you spend a month working remotely from there? Use the template to structure this test.
- Create an Action Plan: A decision without a plan is just a dream. Use the final section to outline the concrete first steps you need to take.
When to Use It
- When deciding whether to relocate to a new city, state, or country.
- When considering a significant change to your health and wellness routine (e.g., a new diet, a major fitness goal).
- When evaluating a substantial shift in your way of life, such as becoming a digital nomad, embracing minimalism, or going back to school.
- When planning for a major life transition like a sabbatical, extended travel, or early retirement.