How Satisfied Are You With Your Life — Really?
How satisfied are you really — and which areas are holding you back most?
Life satisfaction is not a single feeling — it's a composite of how you feel about eight distinct domains that together define your quality of life. You can feel financially secure but professionally unfulfilled. You can have excellent relationships but poor physical health that colors everything else. The Life Satisfaction Index makes this multidimensional reality visible by scoring each domain separately, then combining them into an overall index. The calculator asks you to rate eight areas of your life: career and professional satisfaction, relationships and social connection, physical health and energy, financial security and progress, sense of purpose and meaning, personal growth and learning, leisure and enjoyment, and living environment. Each area is rated on a 1–10 scale. The result is a weighted composite score, a radar chart showing the full profile of your satisfaction across all domains, and an analysis identifying your highest and lowest scoring areas — the places where attention would most improve overall life satisfaction. This is not a clinical assessment. It's a structured snapshot that most people have never taken — a forcing function for honest self-reflection on areas that often go unexamined. Most people who complete it identify at least one or two areas they've been avoiding thinking about, and one or two strengths they've been taking for granted.
- ·Composite score uses weighted average: Career 15%, Relationships 15%, Health 15%, Finances 10%, Purpose 20%, Growth 10%, Leisure 10%, Environment 5%
- ·Scores entered on 1–10 scale, converted to 0–100 composite
- ·Domain weights based on research on wellbeing predictors (Diener et al., self-determination theory)
- →You want an honest, structured assessment of where you are across all major life domains
- →You're evaluating a major life decision and want to understand your current baseline before changing direction
- →You feel generally dissatisfied but can't pinpoint which areas are the primary drivers
- →You want to track your life satisfaction over time and measure whether changes you're making are working
- →You're entering a new life phase (new job, relationship change, relocation) and want to benchmark where you stand
- →You want to identify which area — if improved — would have the most positive effect on your overall quality of life
Daniel, 34, feels a low-grade dissatisfaction he can't explain. He earns well and has a good relationship, but something feels off. He completes the Life Satisfaction Index: Career 5/10 (meaningful but no growth path), Relationships 8/10, Health 6/10 (sedentary job, poor sleep), Finances 7/10, Purpose 4/10 (doesn't feel his work connects to anything that matters), Growth 4/10 (no new skills in two years), Leisure 6/10, Environment 7/10. His index: 58/100. Primary bottleneck: Purpose (4) and Growth (4). These two areas at 40% satisfaction are dragging a life that's otherwise solid. His action plan: one learning investment and one purpose-aligned project.
🌟 Rate each domain 1–10
1 = very dissatisfied · 10 = couldn't be better
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