Know where you stand
Assessments are mirrors, never verdicts. A score is a signal for exploration: what made it a 6 rather than a 4 or an 8 matters more than the number itself.
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Take it here: the Flourishing Scale
Eight statements, developed by Ed Diener and colleagues (2010), measuring the psychological resources of a life: meaning, relationships, engagement, competence, optimism. It is one of the most widely validated well-being measures in psychology, and short enough to retake monthly.
1 means strongly disagree, 7 means strongly agree. Answer from the last few weeks, honestly rather than aspirationally.
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Retake it monthly and watch the direction, never the number. If one statement scored noticeably lower than the rest, that statement names this week's session.
Flourishing Scale © Ed Diener et al., free to use with attribution: Diener et al. (2010), Social Indicators Research 97, 143-156.
Four exercises worth an evening
Stephen Covey built these into The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and they remain some of the best role-discovery work ever written. No scores here. You generate everything, which is exactly why they work.
Roles and goals
Brainstorm every role you currently fill, then filter and combine until five to seven remain that genuinely define this phase of your life. Give each one goal.
The roles you land on are the ones your weekly practice is built to keep in balance.
The eulogy visualization
Imagine your own funeral, and what your family, a friend, a colleague, and someone from your community would honestly say about you. Write what you would want them to say. The gap between the two versions is your real to-do list.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy uses the same exercise: values become visible at the end in mind.
A personal mission statement
Write a short personal constitution: the values and principles you refuse to trade. Keep it where you plan your weeks and measure your daily responsibilities against it.
The time matrix
List everything you did this week and sort it into four quadrants: urgent and important, important without urgency, urgent without importance, neither. Most misaligned weeks live in quadrant three, urgent things that never mattered.
Where did the hours actually go, and which role paid for it?
The co-welfare audit
Six steps in fifteen minutes: score your five role spirals, find the waterline and the lever, name the erosions, then ask someone who knows you, "what do you see in me that I am not seeing?" The full audit lives on the Flourish page.
The well-known tests, ranked honestly
Popularity and scientific weight are different things. Take any of these you enjoy, and hold the results with matching confidence.
The model psychologists actually use: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. This version is free and open source. If you take one formal personality test, take this one.
Enjoyable, well written, and wildly popular. Treat the four letters as shared vocabulary rather than measurement; the science underneath is thin, and results often change on retake. The same caution goes for DISC, which circulates in corporate trainings.
Helen Fisher's temperament test
A relationships lens from a real anthropologist: explorer, builder, director, negotiator. Popular science, and a good conversation starter with a partner.
FranklinCovey's own assessment of how you apply the habits at work: responsibility, vision, priorities, renewal. Professionally oriented.
Already running here: the Valued Living method
Your weekly sliders, how much a role matters against how consistently you lived it, are the working core of the Valued Living Questionnaire (Wilson et al., 2010), the standard instrument for values-action alignment. Your alignment chart is that instrument, applied weekly.
Whatever any instrument tells you, it is material for reflection, never a verdict about who you are. Bring one insight from this page into this week's session.
Begin your practice