Life Management

twelve folders

Each folder has a different job

Each folder establishes a different record and gives the agent a different job. The folders do not run in a required sequence.

StandardsSTARTING

DefinitionRules or minimum conditions a person chooses to maintain.

In Universe CityYour agent helps identify rules you return to when you want to function consistently. A possible standard is added only after you confirm it.

What you buildA dated set of confirmed standards. Each standard records its intention, the value behind it, and the impact you expect when you maintain it.

Survival

DefinitionStaying safe and functional through danger, breakdown or emergency.

In Universe CityWhat you do when something goes wrong. Money, documents, who to call, and where to go. Plus the practical skills nobody teaches until the moment you need them.

What you buildAn emergency plan holding what you have, who to call, and how long you last if your income stops.

Perception

DefinitionThe meaning a person assigns to what happens to them.

In Universe CityNot the thing itself but what you take it to mean. One person reads being interrupted as disrespect and another reads it as enthusiasm. This folder fills from the work you do everywhere else, and your agent proposes what it noticed for you to confirm.

What you buildA record of how you see yourself and the world, and where each reading came from.

Instinct

DefinitionA response that occurs without conscious reasoning.

In Universe CityWhat you reliably do before you have thought about it. Your agent spots the repeat across everything on file, names it, and asks whether that is what you do.

What you buildA record of your patterns, noticed across the record and confirmed by you.

Identity

DefinitionThe qualities, values and beliefs that make a person who they are.

In Universe CityHow you describe yourself, on paper and to yourself, and whether the description still fits.

What you buildA written self description, checked against where your hours and money actually go.

Ethics

DefinitionWhat a person believes is right and wrong.

In Universe CityYour own code and where each part of it came from. People state their morals constantly as opinions about other people, so your agent catches the judgement and asks where it came from.

What you buildA record of what you believe is right and wrong, and who gave you each belief.

Equilibrium

DefinitionA state of balance between competing forces.

In Universe CityWhether your attention matches what you said matters. You named an order in Prioritization. This folder reads across every other folder and shows where your time and money actually went.

What you buildA read across all your folders showing where your life is out of balance and what you have been neglecting.

Boundary

DefinitionA line that marks a limit.

In Universe CityStating a limit, to whom, and what happens after somebody crosses it.

What you buildA boundary protocol recording what you said, who you said it to, and whether it held.

Discernment

DefinitionDeciding well.

In Universe CityThe decisions you make too fast. You set a rule for what you will not decide on the spot, money over an amount, anything that adds hours, anyone asking to borrow. Your agent runs the check with you early and teaches you to run it yourself.

What you buildYour rule for what needs a pause, and a record of what you decided and what it cost.

Prioritization

DefinitionDeciding the order in which things get done.

In Universe CityWhat actually matters to you, in order, when everything is urgent and most of it is somebody else's urgency.

What you buildAn ordered list of what comes first, and the reason for the order.

Systems

DefinitionA set of parts working together as a method.

In Universe CityEvery system the other folders left behind, and whether each one is still running.

What you buildA register of what you have built, what is running, and what has fallen over.

Socializing

DefinitionSpending time in the company of other people.

In Universe CityYour social life as it is and as you want it. Who is in your inner circle, where you like to go, who you owe a reply to, and what you want that you do not have yet.

What you buildA record of who is actually in your life, and what you are doing about the life you want.

Each folder has a different job

Standards is the starting folder here