Precise Pursuits
We make workbooks grounded in real psychology — not buzzwords — so you can understand your life before you try to change it.
Every product starts with published research and ends with a printable tool you can use with a pen, a quiet hour, and honest self-reflection.
About
Most self-improvement tools ask you to rate your life on a scale, set goals, and journal about your feelings. Then they stop. They skip the part that actually matters: understanding why your scores look the way they do, how your life domains influence each other, and where one focused change creates the widest ripple.
Precise Pursuits builds tools that fill that gap. We draw on published research — systems science, values psychology, behavioral economics, narrative identity theory — and translate it into structured exercises you can do with a pen and a quiet afternoon.
Every cartographer begins the same way:
standing still long enough to look.
54 pages · 5 phases · 12 academic citations
A printable workbook that goes three phases deeper than standard life assessment. Audit eight life areas, map the hidden connections between them, trace dissatisfaction to its root cause, and identify the single change most likely to improve everything else.
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Values & identity
Chart
8-area deep dive
Navigate
Systems mapping
Design
Vision & goals
Trek
90-day action
The Research
Systems Thinking
Donella Meadows' framework for finding leverage points — where small shifts create outsized results — applied to your personal ecosystem.
Values Psychology
Schwartz's cross-cultural research (82 countries) on how values exist in tension — and why pursuing one often undermines another.
Root Cause Analysis
The Five Whys technique from the Toyota Production System, adapted to trace personal dissatisfaction past symptoms to structural causes.
Narrative Identity
McAdams' research at Northwestern showing that people who can articulate their life story show measurably higher wellbeing.
Most Workbooks
…and that's it.
Life Cartography
Goes 3 phases deeper.
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