Life Design - Product Documentation¶
Turn your archetype blueprint into an actionable life plan.
Version 4.2 · Last updated May 2026 (Foundation redesigned: 7 sub-sections + What Drives You motivational quiz; path status strip → LifeSimulatorPage standalone; 6-dot alignment system per pillar; check-ikigai-alignment endpoint added; Life Wheel & Blueprint merged into Step 3) Route: /life-design - Page: DesignMyLifePage.tsx Gate: requires Discovery Assessment + Mind & Body + Money Plan completed + paid plan Unlocks: Growth Loop
1. What Is Life Design?¶
Life Design is Stage 3: Direction of the MindMeditate Personality System.
The Personality Test tells you who you are. Life Design asks the harder question:
Given who you are - what life do you want to build, and what would it take to get there?
It is a 3-tab studio where you translate your archetype blueprint into: - An identity anchor (I am) and a chosen 5-year trajectory - An Ikigai statement that names your reason for being - A Life Blueprint with vision, mission, SMART goals, and a capability gap
2. How It Fits the Journey¶
Personality Test > Mind & Body > Money Plan > Life Design > Growth Loop > People Blueprint (Who) (Foundation) (Foundation) (Direction) (Execution) (Relationships)
Stage Output Personality Test Archetype + Force + Secondary Self Mastery Coach-style reflection on your profile Life Design Your blueprint: identity, path, Ikigai, Life Wheel, vision, goals, capability gap Growth Loop Execute your blueprint through goals, weekly reflection, and tracking
3. The Three Tabs¶
Work through the 3 tabs in order - each one builds on the last.
Tab Purpose¶
1 Foundation Identity anchor + 5-year path 2 Guided Ikigai Your reason for being - the 4-circle Ikigai 3 Life Wheel and Blueprint Rate your life areas, write 12-month statements, and draft your Life Blueprint (Vision + Mission + SMART goals + Capability Gap)
Tab 1: Foundation¶
Purpose. Fill 7 self-portrait sections before your identity statement unlocks. Each section is an accordion card with a readiness state.
What Drives You (required first)¶
A 6-option motivational driver quiz must be answered before the rest of Foundation is accessible. Options: - Stability, Variety, Recognition, Connection, Mastery, Impact
Stored as user.motivationalDriver: { driver, savedAt }. The selected driver shapes the tone of all subsequent AI drafts in the Plan Assembly Engine.
The 7 Foundation Sub-Sections¶
- Self Snapshot — Read-only recap of your archetype, energy force, wellness dosha, and financial profile
- Life Path — Your committed path badge (Acceleration / Mastery / Contribution). Path selection and exploration happen in the dedicated Life Simulator page (
/life-simulator); this card shows status only with a “View in Life Simulator →” link. If no path is set, a prompt appears instead. - Joy Audit — 3-part card: time disappears, people come to you, free energy
- Ideal Day — Long-form (min 80 chars)
- Origin Signal — Inner child + productive anger
- Ambition — Career goal + hobbies array
- Synthesized Identity — “I am…” statement textarea + AI synthesis button (limited to 3 calls/day, requires sections 3–6 filled)
Archetypal starters — 6 “I am…” prompts per archetype seeded into the textarea.
AI Synthesis (SynthesizeFoundationCard) — Drafts an identity statement from all four filled cards (Joy Audit, Ideal Day, Origin Signal, Ambition). 3 calls/day limit.
Path-drift detection — Compares goal + ideal day text against selected path; flags misalignment with an amber banner.
You need both identity (section 7) and path (section 2, set via Life Simulator) before you can continue.
Output:
- foundation.synthesizedIdentity — Your identity sentence
- foundation.pathChoice — Your chosen path
- motivationalDriver: { driver, savedAt } — Motivational driver from What Drives You quiz
- selectedPath — Mirrored for back-compat
Tab 2: Guided Ikigai¶
Purpose. Find the centre of four life dimensions - what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can contribute. Then anchor those answers in a Vision (5-year future) and Mission (daily commitment).
Why Ikigai comes before the Life Wheel. Clarifying your why first makes the 12-month area statements much sharper.
The 4 circles:
| Circle | Question |
|---|---|
| Passion | What do you love doing? |
| Profession | What are you good at? |
| Mission | What does the world need that you care about? |
| Vocation | What can you get paid for or build value from? |
Each card shows your archetype suggestion. Click Use this as my starting point or write your own.
Watch the 6/6 counter (4 Ikigai circles + Vision + Mission) — aim to fill all six before moving to Life Wheel.
Click Build Statement from 4 Circles to auto-generate your Ikigai Statement, then personalise it.
One-click AI Draft — Ikigai + Vision + Mission¶
A single "✨ Draft my Ikigai, Vision + Mission" button appears at the top of the step whenever any of the 6 fields are empty. One click makes two sequential AI calls:
scope=ikigai— drafts all 4 quadrants from your Foundation, Life Wheel, Profile, and interestsscope=vision-mission— drafts Vision + Mission grounded in those Ikigai answers
Only empty fields are filled — nothing is overwritten. A counter badge shows how many fields were drafted. After drafting, use the per-field tune menu (chevron on any filled field) to Regenerate, make More Specific, More Ambitious, More Realistic, or Shorter.
The card auto-hides once all 6 fields are filled.
Design decision. Earlier versions had two separate draft buttons — one for Ikigai and one for Vision + Mission. These have been merged into a single action because Vision and Mission are meaningless without Ikigai being drafted first. The merged flow reduces AI calls per session and removes the decision fatigue of choosing which button to press.
Deterministic helpers (no AI, free): - Build Vision from Ikigai — assembles a first-draft Vision from your 4 Ikigai quadrant answers. Zero API calls. - Derive Mission from Vision — constructs a daily-commitment sentence from your Vision. Zero API calls.
Use these when you want a quick starting point without consuming your AI quota.
Alignment check — Click “Check alignment” after filling all 6 fields to call POST /api/ai/check-ikigai-alignment. Gemini returns:
- verdict: 'coherent' | 'gaps' | 'scattered'
- critique — specific coherence issues found
- suggestion — optional one-line fix hint
Shares the 10/hr Plan Assembly Engine rate bucket.
Output:
- ikigai: { passion, profession, mission, vocation, statement }
- vision — Your 5-year life vision
- mission — Your daily commitment
Tab 3: Life Wheel and Blueprint¶
Purpose. Score your life, write your 12-month statements, then draft your full Life Blueprint inline.
This tab has two phases:
Phase 1: Life Wheel¶
Score 6 life areas 1-10 (Faith, Health, Family, Career, Finances, Growth). Then write a 12-month statement for each area (minimum 30 characters).
Pillar Definition Faith and Purpose Meaning, spiritual foundation, inner peace Health and Vitality Physical energy, sleep, stress Family and Relationships Love, presence, connection at home Career and Impact Work fulfillment, growth, significance Financial Freedom Money, security, freedom of choice Growth and Mindset Learning, self-development, mindset
Watch the live radar chart update as you score - see your life balance at a glance.
All 6 area statements must be at least 30 characters before the Blueprint phase unlocks.
Phase 2: Life Blueprint (inline inside each pillar tab)¶
Draft Vision, Mission, and SMART goal cards directly inside each pillar tab.
Vision and Mission are drafted in Guided Ikigai (Tab 2) alongside the Ikigai quadrants. By the time you reach Life Blueprint, Vision and Mission should already be filled — the Blueprint phase focuses entirely on pillar goal cards.
SMART GOAL CARDS:
- Health goals live in your Wellness Profile (user.wellnessProfile.goals) — read-only bridge
- Finances goals live in your Money Plan (user.financialPlan.goals) — read-only bridge
- Faith, Family, Career, Growth own their editable goal cards here
- Focus Zone pillars get a fire badge
6-dot alignment system per pillar — green/amber/red traffic lights computed per pillar, shown on hover with exact percentages: 1. Life Wheel statement overlap 2. Reality fit (area statement vs current reality) 3. Identity alignment (goal vs synthesized identity) 4. Vision alignment (goal vs vision) 5. Ikigai connection (goal vs ikigai statement) 6. SMART quality (goal specificity/measurability check)
(Previously a 4-dot system; Reality fit + Identity alignment added May 2026.)
Growth Loop linkage hint. After any AI-drafted pillar goal lands, a green banner appears for ~7 seconds confirming the goals are live in Growth Loop with a direct link to /growth-loop. This surfaces the automatic connection: every pillar goal written in Life Blueprint flows straight into the Goals Kanban (GoalsKanbanTab reads from profile.lifeDesign.pillars.goals). No import or manual sync needed.
Add a Capability Gap at the bottom - the one skill that gates your vision. If you spent the next 90 days building one skill, which one would move the most areas at once?
4. Data Model¶
interface LifeDesignData { vision: string; mission: string; selectedPath: acceleration | mastery | contribution | null; ikigai: { passion, profession, mission, vocation, statement }; pillars: { faith, health, career, finances, family, growth, // goal strings anchors: { ...same keys... }, // measurable anchor timeBound: { ...same keys... }, // deadline whyMatters: { ...same keys... }, // optional motivation goals: { faith, family, career, growth }: PillarGoal[] // editable goal cards }; lifeWheel: { scores: { id: string; score: number }[]; important: string[]; improve: string[]; focusZones: string[]; areaStatements: { faith, health, family, career, finances, growth }; currentReality: { ...same keys... }; }; capabilityGap: string; // the one skill that unlocks foundation: FoundationData; // identity + path + ambition }
// Profile-level fields motivationalDriver?: { driver: 'Stability'|'Variety'|'Recognition'|'Connection'|'Mastery'|'Impact'; savedAt: string }
Profile flags set on completion: - profile.lifeDesignCompleted = true - profile.lifeDesignCompletedAt = timestamp
5. AI Coach (floating chat)¶
The violet AI Coach button at the bottom-right has read your identity, vision, mission, Ikigai, Future Path, capability gap, and daily rituals as you fill them in. It is trained to challenge - not compliment - when your answers are vague, safe, or contradict each other.
Open it whenever you are stuck or suspect you are writing the version of yourself you think you should be, not the one you actually are.
The chain that matters: Identity and Future Path - Ikigai Statement - Life Wheel 12-month statements + Focus Zones - Vision - Mission - SMART Goals - Capability Gap
Then execute in Growth Loop - Goals.
6. Design Principles¶
- Never start from a blank page. Every field has an archetype starter or prior-step auto-derivation.
- Consistent pillars. The same 6 pillars run through Life Wheel and Life Blueprint so goal language anchors to area-statement language.
- Non-destructive edits. Revisit any tab without wiping later work.
- Challenge, dont compliment. The AI Coach names drift and contradictions, not validates.
- Execute in Growth Loop. Goals and habits flow from Life Design into Growth Loop - no duplication.
- Identity first, then direction. Foundation tab must be completed before moving to Ikigai or Life Wheel.
- Ikigai before Wheel. Clarifying your why first makes the 12-month area statements much sharper.
7. The 6 Pillars (Life Areas)¶
Each pillar represents a distinct life domain. All 6 are rated in the Life Wheel and all 6 have goals in the Life Blueprint.
| Pillar | Definition | Editable Goals? | Goal Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith and Purpose | Meaning, spiritual foundation, inner peace | Yes | Life Design pillars.goals.faith |
| Health and Vitality | Physical energy, sleep, stress | Read-only | Wellness Profile goals |
| Family and Relationships | Love, presence, connection at home | Yes | Life Design pillars.goals.family |
| Career and Impact | Work fulfillment, growth, significance | Yes | Life Design pillars.goals.career |
| Financial Freedom | Money, security, freedom of choice | Read-only | Financial Plan goals |
| Growth and Mindset | Learning, self-development, mindset | Yes | Life Design pillars.goals.growth |
8. The 3 Future Paths¶
Every Life Design is anchored to one of three trajectories. The path shapes how your Ikigai and goals will be framed.
| Path | Description | Framing Tone |
|---|---|---|
| Acceleration | Push hard and fast toward a defined destination | Ambitious, goal-focused |
| Mastery | Deepen expertise and skills over time | Excellence, depth-focused |
| Contribution | Build toward serving others and community | Purpose, impact-focused |
9. Glossary¶
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Foundation | The first tab of Life Design — identity anchor (I am) + future path selection |
| Ikigai | Japanese concept meaning "reason for being" — the intersection of what you love, are good at, the world needs, and can be paid for |
| Life Wheel | Visual radar chart showing scores across all 6 life areas (1-10 scale) |
| Life Blueprint | The full output: Vision + Mission + SMART Goals across 6 pillars + Capability Gap |
| Focus Zones | The 1-3 life areas scored lowest — prioritized for improvement |
| Capability Gap | The one skill that, if developed, moves the most areas at once |
| Strategic Habits | Auto-seeded habits derived from measurable anchor statements |
| SMART Goals | Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound goal cards per pillar |
10. FAQ¶
Q: Do I have to complete all 3 tabs in one sitting? No. Progress is auto-saved. You can return to any tab and continue where you left off.
Q: Can I change my Foundation choices after completing Step 1?
Yes. Your Identity is stored in foundation.synthesizedIdentity and can be edited by revisiting the Foundation tab. Your Future Path is committed in the Life Simulator (/life-simulator) — click "View in Life Simulator" from Foundation Section 7, or navigate directly.
Q: Why does Section 7 of Foundation no longer show the full Life Path Simulator?
The embedded 3-card path picker was duplicating the dedicated Life Simulator page, causing users to re-select their path confusingly. Section 7 now shows your committed path as a read-only status badge. Path exploration and selection live exclusively in Life Simulator (/life-simulator).
Q: What is the relationship between Ikigai and Vision? Your Ikigai statement is the foundation for your Vision. The Vision is essentially your Ikigai made personal and vivid — describing the 5-year future you're building toward. In Guided Ikigai, use Build Vision from Ikigai (free, no AI) for a quick first draft, or the ✨ Draft my Ikigai, Vision + Mission button (AI) to fill all 6 fields at once.
Q: How do pillar goals get into Growth Loop? Automatically. Any goal drafted or written in Life Blueprint (Faith, Family, Career, Growth pillars) immediately appears in the Goals Kanban in Growth Loop — no import or sync needed. Health goals come from Wellness Profile; Finance goals come from Money Plan. After drafting a pillar goal with AI, a green banner confirms they are live in Growth Loop.
Q: How are Focus Zones determined? Focus Zones are the life areas with the lowest scores (1-3) on the Life Wheel. They are highlighted with a fire badge in the Blueprint phase to signal where your attention is most needed.
Q: Where do goals for each pillar live? - Faith, Family, Career, Growth: editable goal cards inside each pillar's Blueprint tab - Health: Wellness Profile goals (read-only in Life Design) - Finances: Financial Plan goals (read-only in Life Design)
Q: What is the Capability Gap and why does it matter? The Capability Gap is the one skill that gates your vision. If you spent 90 days building one skill that would move the most areas at once — what would it be? This is surfaced as a Skill goal card in Growth Loop.
Q: How does the AI Coach in Life Design work? The violet AI Coach reads your identity, vision, mission, Ikigai, Future Path, capability gap, and daily rituals as you fill them in. It is trained to challenge — not compliment — when your answers are vague, safe, or contradict each other.
📝 Content Backlog (documentation edits only)¶
- [ ] Add screenshots of each tab
- [ ] Translate to Bahasa Malaysia
🛠️ Product Roadmap (features to build)¶
- [ ] AI-generated quarterly check-in that reviews progress against the Life Blueprint
- [ ] Integration with Self Mastery — surfacing relevant inquiry prompts based on Life Design choices