A personal compass provides insight through comparison.

This should be reviewed yearly and before any major change. Work and life views should be assessed for complementing and clashing viewpoints, and whether one view is driving the other. The review should produce insight through contrast as to whether the views have evolved and whether choices are well-aligned with these points of view.rB5



  1. William Burnett and David J. Evans, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, First edition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). (See notes.)