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Monthly life-review

Trajectory

Direction, not destinations. Four areas of life, each with an ideal you wrote yourself, revisited once a month. No score — the gap is the whole point. For the specific things you want to have done, use your bucket list.

Health

Strong enough to carry my own bags up four flights, at sixty.

The gap to your ideal is the score.

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Runs per month
  • Jul 2026
    Runs per month 10

    Back to three a week. Sleep is the weak link, not effort.

  • Jun 2026
    Runs per month 7

    Missed two weeks to a cold. It cost less than I feared.

  • May 2026
    Runs per month 12

    Started the long runs. Slow, and slow is fine.

Finance

Twelve months of runway, so a bad year is inconvenient and not a crisis.

The gap to your ideal is the score.

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Months of runway
  • Jul 2026
    Months of runway 5

    Spent more than I meant to. Wrote down why rather than pretending.

  • Jun 2026
    Months of runway 6

    Boring transfers are doing the work. Runway up two months.

  • May 2026
    Months of runway 4

    Set the standing transfer up so it stops needing willpower.

Knowledge

Able to read a paper in my field without reaching for a glossary.

The gap to your ideal is the score.

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Hours studied
  • Jul 2026
    Hours studied 20

    Finished the second textbook. The glossary trips me less.

  • Jun 2026
    Hours studied 11

    Read less this month. Reading about reading is not reading.

  • May 2026
    Hours studied 14

    Picked the field properly instead of sampling five.

Relationships

The people I love hear from me before they need something.

The gap to your ideal is the score.

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People reached out to
  • Jul 2026
    People reached out to 5

    Called my sister without a reason. That was the whole point.

  • Jun 2026
    People reached out to 2

    Let two weeks go quiet. Noticing it is the fix.

  • May 2026
    People reached out to 6

    Wrote the list of people I actually want to keep.