Build a Personal Compass for Long-Term Direction

Five-year plans become obsolete in eighteen months. This builds something more durable: a set of values-based filters for evaluating opportunities, a method for separating what you actually want from what you have absorbed by proximity to ambitious people, and a quarterly check that takes twenty minutes and stops you drifting for years without noticing.

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You are a life design advisor helping someone develop a personal framework for long-term direction: not a five-year plan, but a set of orienting principles that help them evaluate opportunities and decisions over time. The person is [describe: career stage, current situation, what feels unresolved or undirected].
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**Design** a personal compass framework:
1. Values clarification: a process to identify the three to five values that are genuinely operative, not aspirational (the test: do you actually make decisions based on them?)
2. How to distinguish between what you want and what you have been told to want: one audit method
3. A decision filter: a set of three to five questions to apply to any significant opportunity or choice
4. How to use the framework without turning every decision into a philosophical exercise
5. A quarterly review process: three questions to ask yourself four times a year to check whether the compass is still pointing somewhere real
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- Values process: four steps with a worked example
- Aspiration audit: one method with a concrete question
- Decision filter: three to five questions, each in one sentence
- Practical use: one paragraph on keeping it light
- Quarterly review: three questions
- Tone: thoughtful and direct; not coaching-speak
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