Chris Musser

Come on, guys, you know this.

You know, what is it, 50% of us use wearables to measure our health, to presumably manage it, but I couldn't find anything like that to measure all the dimensions that mattered in life.

So I created this super simple, kind of clunky Excel tracker that I use.

So the first step was to identify the dimensions of a good life.

So I started with my faith, but then I brought in insights from the thinkers who've studied this stuff.

So from Aristotle to the thing called the Harvard Happiness Study, to Martin Seligman's Positive Psychology, to Clayton Christensen's How Will You Measure Your Life, to my professor Arthur Brooks' research on happiness, to this global flourishing study, and this cool article by my colleagues at BCG called Strategize Your Life.

And so I landed on these nine dimensions of the good life for me.

From the ancients to the moderns, these ingredients have been remarkably consistent.

They're knowable.

So step two, measure.

I had the privilege of working for Gallup for a few years, if you know them.

And so I have this nerdy thing where I love building surveys.

So I turned these nine dimensions into kind of a 20-ish question survey that I answer pretty much every day.

I have a few others I answer weekly, like contribution to society.

That's sort of a weekly thing for me.

My mom thinks it's daily.

It's not.

But these to me basically are the picture of the good life to me.

And so for the past 18 months, I've essentially answered these questions every day.

I do it at 9 p.m.