Here’s a Notion template for anyone who wants to do the extensive and powerful review created by Jonathan Fields, author of Sparked and host behind The Good Life Project.

Jonathan also created this one-pager and you can listen to the full accompanying podcast here (which I would highly recommend). This is merely for people who use Notion and want to reflect on their year to come. I listened to the podcast 🎙️ first and then created this as I listened.

I also enjoyed doing Jonathan’s Spaketype quiz and will be reading his book shortly. Since I’m particularly interested in the Contribution bucket (more on that to come), I found that his book to be particularly interesting and you can find it here. I have no affiliation with Jonathan or the product. I just really enjoyed this episode and acknowledge it was created to pair with his book so want to do him justice by mentioning that here as this framework is not mine at all. Hope you find it helpful!

🌈 The Good Life Buckets

These are the areas of life that Jonathan considered the key contributors to being happy, healthy, and fulfilled.

Five Clarifying Questions

For each bucket, there are several elements that “fill it up.” The topics below are the ones that Jonathan recommended. But he suggests considering anything that “fills” the bucket you’re looking at.

Once you have your elements or topics, go through each of these clarifying questions to dig deeper. If you would like an example of how to do it, I’d recommend listening to his podcast as he uses his own reflection as a template.

Here are the questions:

  1. What is the level at now? (Scale of 1-10)
  2. Where has it been over the last year (an average or the journey)? (Scale of 1-10)
  3. What have been the main contributors to this level (both within and beyond my control)?
  4. Am I content with the average for the year and right now?
  5. What might I think about changing as I prepare for the year to come?