A structured wellbeing audit inspired by the cognitive-evaluative model of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985) and the multi-domain architecture of the World Health Organization Quality of Life framework (WHOQOL Group, 1998). It maps eight load-bearing domains — Career, Health, Relationships, Finances, Growth, Recreation, Environment, and Purpose — through concrete behaviors and lived internal moments rather than vague self-impressions. Instead of asking whether you are "satisfied," it asks what you actually do on an ordinary Tuesday, what you quietly avoid, and what you feel at 2 a.m. Every domain carries reverse-keyed items to catch reflexive agreement, so the resulting profile shows not just how good your life feels in summary but precisely which domains are carrying you and which are quietly draining the others. Educational and reflective, not a clinical or diagnostic instrument.
Your result is broken down across 8 distinct dimensions rather than collapsing everything into a single number. Each dimension is scored from its own set of items, so you can see which specific pattern is driving your overall result.
Scores fall into one of 5 interpretive bands. Here is what each one means, what tends to sit underneath it, and what usually helps.
Running on Empty
Across most of the eight domains, life right now is taking more than it gives back. Career, health, connection, money, and meaning are likely reading low at the same time, which produces a flat, depleted exhaustion that's hard to trace to any single cause because it isn't coming from one. This is a snapshot of a season where the structures meant to hold a life up have worn thin all at once — not a verdict on who you are.
What it suggests
When several domains bottom out together they start feeding each other: low energy hollows out relationships, money stress wrecks sleep, and a missing sense of purpose makes effort anywhere feel pointless before you begin. The cruelest part of this pattern is the instinct it produces — to fix everything — which reliably results in fixing nothing. Your reverse-keyed answers likely clustered toward 'this is me,' which tends to mean the draining items aren't isolated incidents but a steady background condition.
What helps
Resist the urge to overhaul. Pick the single domain whose improvement would most relieve the others — for most people that's sleep, one health issue, or one real connection — and make one concrete, finishable change there this week, deliberately ignoring the rest. If hopelessness, chronic dread, or numbness is part of the picture, treat that as a genuine health matter deserving professional support, not a willpower problem. Borrow structure where yours has frayed: one standing weekly commitment with one person can break the isolation loop faster than any solo plan.
Strained but Standing
Some domains are holding you upright while others are quietly dragging behind you. You're functioning — often impressively so — but a few areas have become load-bearing weak points you've learned to route around rather than repair. There's a real and widening gap between the parts of your life that work and the parts you've quietly stopped expecting much from.
What it suggests
This profile usually hides one or two identifiable culprits: a relationship where you do all the absorbing, a health thing you keep postponing, a job you've outgrown, or a money hum that colors everything even when nothing is wrong. Because your strong domains keep compensating, the weak ones can stay broken for years without ever forcing a reckoning — that's exactly what makes them dangerous. Your domain breakdown is the most useful thing here: it puts a name on what you've been tolerating instead of changing.
What helps
Look at your two lowest domains and ask the honest question — which one have you been avoiding rather than genuinely unable to change? Point that domain at one specific action you could actually finish, not a vague resolve to 'do better.' And protect the domains already working; they're the platform that makes repair elsewhere possible, so don't burn them down trying to fix everything in one heroic push.
Solid Footing
Most of your life is genuinely working. You have real strength across several domains, a livable relationship with your health, your money, and the people around you, and at least a rough sense of why you're doing what you do. There are soft spots, but nothing here is in crisis, and your overall satisfaction rests on a stable base rather than a lucky streak.
What it suggests
At this level the threat isn't collapse — it's drift. The temptation is to coast on the domains that come easily to you while one or two others slip onto autopilot because the urgent things were already handled. The gap between 'solid' and 'thriving' is almost always a single neglected domain, usually growth, recreation, or purpose, that you let go quiet because it never screamed. Comfort is very good at hiding a slow erosion you won't notice until it's well underway.
What helps
Find your single lowest domain and adopt it as your growth edge for the next season rather than a problem to keep ignoring. Put the easily-skipped things on the calendar — rest, learning, and close relationships rarely survive on intention alone once life gets busy. Re-run this audit in a few months; a solid life stays solid through maintenance, not momentum, and the check itself is what catches the drift early.
Thriving
Your life is firing across most domains at once — work that engages you, a body and mind you tend to, relationships with genuine depth, money that mostly behaves, ongoing growth, and a sense that your days connect to something that matters. This is rarer than people assume, and it almost never comes from luck alone; it reflects choices you've made and practices you've kept.
What it suggests
People here routinely underestimate how much of this is built and maintainable rather than circumstantial — which matters, because it means it can be protected. The characteristic vulnerability at this level is over-extension: saying yes to so much good that the very practices which created the thriving start getting quietly squeezed out. Watch your lowest domain even if it's only relatively low; thriving lives tend to come apart from the one corner that gets neglected precisely because everything else is fine.
What helps
Name the specific things you're actually doing that work, and defend them as non-negotiables rather than nice-to-haves — most people can't name them, which is how they lose them. Spend your surplus on purpose: this is the season to invest in long-horizon things — deep relationships, hard skills, meaning — that are nearly impossible to build from scarcity. And keep auditing honestly; thriving is easiest to lose in exactly the moment you decide you no longer need to check.
Fully Aligned
Nearly every domain of your life is strong and — more tellingly — they reinforce one another. Your work, health, relationships, resources, growth, leisure, environment, and sense of purpose are pulling in the same direction, which is the signature of a life that feels coherent rather than merely successful. This is the upper edge of the wellbeing spectrum, and it tends to feel less like winning and more like quiet integration.
What it suggests
Two honest cautions live up here. First, a profile this uniformly high can sometimes reflect a generous self-view as much as reality — the real test is whether the people closest to you would score your domains the way you just did. Second, alignment this complete is still subject to change; the very interconnection that makes it feel solid means a shock to one domain can ripple through the others. The strength of your position is also exactly where its sensitivity lives.
What helps
Build slack into the domains you'd least expect to fail — health and finances especially — so a single setback can't cascade through a system that's tightly coupled. Consider pointing some of your abundance outward; people with deeply aligned lives are unusually well-placed to strengthen someone else's weak domain, and doing so tends to deepen your own sense of purpose rather than drain it. And keep auditing with the same honesty that got you here, rather than treating alignment as a permanent state you've graduated into.
Life Audit contains 44 items and takes about 11 minutes. Responses are combined using a sum method across the dimensions listed above, then mapped to the interpretive bands above. Your percentile is an interim estimate that sharpens as more people take the test, and is labelled as provisional in your result.
This assessment also includes hidden validity items that detect inattentive or socially-desirable answering. When they trigger, your result carries a lowered confidence rating and we tell you — rather than presenting a skewed score as fact.
The test ships in 10 parallel forms that rotate between takes, so repeat visitors do not simply memorise the same items.
This is an educational, self-reflective assessment — not a diagnosis. A questionnaire can describe a pattern and point you toward language for it, but it cannot account for your history, context, or circumstances, and it is not a substitute for evaluation by a qualified professional. If a result concerns you, treat it as a reason to talk to someone rather than as a verdict.
Your answers are scored on your device. Taking this test requires no account, no email address, and no payment, and your full result — every band, every dimension — is shown to you immediately and in full.