A lifeview is your ideas about the world and how it works. It answers the following questions:

• Why are we here?
• What is the meaning or purpose of life?
• What gives life meaning?
• What makes your life worthwhile or valuable?
• What is the relationship between the individual and others?
• Where do family, country, and the rest of the world fit in?
• How does your life relate to others in your family, your community, and the world?
• What do money, fame, and personal accomplishment have to do with a satisfying life?
• How important are experience, growth, and fulfillment in your life?
• What is good, and what is evil?
• Is there a higher power, God, or something transcendent, and if so, what impact does this have on your life?
• What is the role of joy, sorrow, justice, injustice, love, peace, and strife in life?

According to Designing Your Life by Burnett and Evans, a lifeview is a necessary complement to a workview in creating one's life compass. When writing one for the first time, shoot for 250 words in about 30 minutes of writing.

A well-designed life has a bias towards coherence between your lifeview and your workview. To find this coherence, ask the following questions:

• Where do your views on work and life complement one another?
• Where do they clash?
• Does one drive the other? How?

Let these questions lead to revisions in your workview, lifeview, or both. Strive to revise to make them coherent.

Here is my lifeview.

References

Burnett, B., & Evans, D. (2016). Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life. Alfred A. Knopf.