May this be
the year of living with intention.
LifeMap is the life design system that helps you design your year with intention, measure it honestly, and evolve it year after year. A designed year is worth more than a whole improvised life.
Today, all of LifeMap is free.
The official Wheel · 10 axes · 4 categories · 1 designed life
Design Your Life
LifeMap is the free life design system created by Modesto Gutiérrez Losada: the Wheel of the 10 Axes and four paths to design your year, measure it honestly, and evolve it year after year — Just the Wheel (20–30 min), Express Path (30–45 min, recommended to start), Core Path (60–90 min, 6 steps) and Advanced Path (3–4 hours, 10 steps). At the end you receive your LifeMap: the book you wrote about your own life.
The 10 Axes: Health & Vitality · Mind & Emotions · Spirituality & Values · Partner & Love · Family & Close Relationships · Friends & Community · Purpose & Contribution · Work & Vocation · Finances & Wealth · Time & Lifestyle.
"Life is dreamed, planned, designed,
built... and then lived and enjoyed."
Definition
What is LifeMap?
LifeMap is a bilingual (Spanish and English) life-design system that helps you design your year with intention, measure it honestly, and evolve it year after year. It is not a course, a journal, or a simple planner: it is a structured 6-part protocol that integrates reflection, diagnosis, decision-making, and planning into a single coherent system.
The core of the system is the Wheel of 10 Axes — a visual diagnosis of the 10 dimensions of life grouped into 4 categories: Foundations, Relationships, Purpose, and Resources. From that diagnosis, the system guides the user through the 3 Decisions (Release, Keep, Create), the definition of their Transformation #1, and the detailed year design with the Phoenix Protocol for resets.
01 · The diagnosis
Why do good intentions
never make it past March?
It's not a lack of motivation. It's a lack of system. Most people live reactively, without a clear map of where they're going or why.
02 · The paradigm shift
It's not about doing more.
It's about designing better.
The difference between a lived life and a designed life isn't talent or luck. It's clarity. LifeMap gives you the structure to move from reacting to creating.
Without LifeMap
- January energy, March forgotten
- Vague goals without metrics
- Reactivity disguised as busyness
- Every year starts from scratch
With LifeMap
- Intentional design of the full year
- 10 measurable axes with TODAY and GOAL
- Phoenix Protocol for resets
- Multi-year record of your evolution
03 · The system
Six parts. One year.
One designed life.
LifeMap is not a goals notebook. It's a six-part system that takes you from closing the previous year to designing the next — with honesty, intention, and structure.
Year Closing
Gratitude, highlights, shadows, learnings
You close cycles honestly: you keep what strengthens you and release what has served its purpose.
Present Snapshot
You rate each of the 10 Axes from 1 to 10, TODAY and GOAL. For the first time you see your whole life in a single image.
Release · Keep · Create
Three conscious decisions that define the year. No more, no less. That's how the essential gets filtered.
Year Design
Year Theme, Identity, Transformation #1, Focus Axes, and the 4 Treasures
The heart of the system: you choose who to be, what to transform, and where to invest.
Control Map
The dashboard you return to all year: habits, Big Rock, scheduled check-ins, and the Phoenix Protocol for when you drift off.
Evolution [Year] → [Year+1]
The multi-year record. Your Theme, your Transformation #1, and your ten Axes, year after year. Here you watch your life evolve.
Just the Wheel
EXPLORE20–30 min · 2 steps
Where are you today? An honest snapshot of your life across the 10 Axes. The starting point for everything.
Start with the WheelExpress Path
RECOMMENDED TO START30–45 min · all 10 steps, minimal version
The whole system, at its most compact. The same full journey as the Advanced Path, with one answer where the deep system asks for three. Ideal for your first time — and nothing you write is lost if you move up later.
Start Express PathCore Path
COMPLETE60–90 min · 6 steps
The essentials, in depth. You close the previous year, make the 3 Decisions, and design the one ahead — without the optional layers.
Start Core PathAdvanced Path
COMPLETE3–4 hours · 10 steps
The whole system, in depth. Includes Glass & Rubber Balls, My Future Self, Vision Board, the 4 Treasures, and the full Control Map.
Start Advanced Path04 · The 10 Axes
A complete life
in ten dimensions.
Most productivity systems ignore that life is multidimensional. LifeMap measures and designs the 10 axes that make up a full life — leaving none out.
Personal Foundations
The foundation of everything. Without solid foundations, any structure collapses.
Health & Vitality
The vehicle that carries you to all your dreams. Energy, rest, longevity, well-being.
Mind & Emotions
The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life. Clarity, regulation, inner peace.
Spirituality & Values
Your identity, your personal code, and the non-negotiable principles that guide your decisions.
Relationships & Community
The context where we experience the deepest emotions and leave our mark.
Partner & Love
Your primary intimate relationship. Communication, intimacy, mutual growth, shared life.
Family & Close Relationships
The bonds we didn't choose but that shape us. Parents, children, siblings, legacy.
Friends & Community
Your chosen tribe. We are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.
Purpose & Value Creation
Where your talents meet the needs of the world.
Purpose & Contribution
Your reason for being beyond yourself. What cause moves you? What legacy do you want to leave?
Work & Vocation
Where your unique talents create value for others. Your zone of genius and professional mastery.
Resources & Life Design
The resources that enable everything else. Tools, not ends.
Finances & Wealth
Money as a tool for freedom, not as an end. Income, savings, investment, abundance.
Time & Lifestyle
Your most valuable and the only non-renewable resource. Does your calendar reflect your priorities?
05 · The key concept
Crystal balls
vs. rubber balls.
Crystal balls
Some things bounce when you drop them. Others break and leave a crack.
- Health & Vitality
- Mind & Emotions
- Spirituality & Values
- Partner & Love
- Family & Close Relationships
- Time & Lifestyle
This is LifeMap's recommendation, not your answer. Inside the system, every Axis arrives with its suggested classification and the reason behind it — and you can change all ten. The reason is there so you can disagree with grounds: if your business is on the edge, Finances may be Glass this year.
Rubber balls
Some things bounce when you drop them. Others break and leave a crack.
- Friends & Community
- Purpose & Contribution
- Work & Vocation
- Finances & Wealth
This is LifeMap's recommendation, not your answer. Inside the system, every Axis arrives with its suggested classification and the reason behind it — and you can change all ten. The reason is there so you can disagree with grounds: if your business is on the edge, Finances may be Glass this year.
"LifeMap helps you identify which are your crystal balls this year — and protect them before they fall."
06 · The principles
Five principles that
sustain the system.
LifeMap is not a collection of techniques. It's built on proven principles, distilled from the best life design thinkers.
Compounding
— Bloom · Sharma
Small repeated actions beat large occasional plans. Consistency outperforms intensity.
Leverage
— Naval Ravikant
Seek leverage: systems, technology, team, communication. Work with multipliers.
Standards > Goals
— Tony Robbins
Daily minimum standards save you in hard weeks. Habits are more powerful than goals.
Rhythm + Energy First
— Matthew Kelly
Protect your energy — sleep, movement, nutrition, calm. Without energy, there is no execution.
Truth + Adjust
— Ray Dalio
Review honestly. Adjust every quarter. No drama, no ego. Just data and course correction.
"Consistency is not never failing. It's starting over as many times as necessary."
07 · The differentiator
Phoenix Protocol:
the guilt-free reset.
All productivity systems tell you what to do. None tell you what to do when you stop doing it. The Phoenix Protocol is LifeMap's answer to that question.
It's not a second chance. It's the recognition that life is not linear — and that starting over is part of the system, not a failure of the system.
"The LifeMap system doesn't break when you leave it. It only breaks if you decide not to come back."
5-minute reset
- 1.What day is today (the only thing that matters)
- 2.My year theme remains / I adjust it to
- 3.My Transformation #1 (still relevant?)
- 4.One habit I resume today
- 5.One concrete action this week
- 6.Next check-in (to the calendar now)
08 · What sets us apart
LifeMap is not a planner.
It's a life map.
Other planners end in December. LifeMap starts there. Part VI: Evolution records your Theme, your Main Transformation, and your scores across the 10 axes — year after year, for 7 or more years.
In that table, for the first time, you see your life evolve. You see which axes you've grown in, which you've neglected, which themes repeat.
"Consistency, discipline, and progress — not perfection — that is the goal."
PART VI · EVOLUTION [YEAR] → [YEAR+1]
My progress through the years
| Year | Theme | A | B | C | D | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Foundations | 5.0 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.8 |
| 2020 | Recalibration | 6.0 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | Deepen | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | Build | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | Expansion | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.2 |
| 2024 | Mastery | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.8 |
| 2025 | Fullness | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.2 |
Illustrative data · Your own table is built one year at a time.
09 · On the shoulders of giants
Distilled from the best
life design thinkers.
You don’t need to read twelve books. You need a system that has already integrated them for you.
The wisdom to design a meaningful life is no secret — but it’s scattered across the great minds of purpose, habit, wealth and meaning, buried in thousands of pages almost no one has the time (or energy) to read, let alone connect.
LifeMap is the result of studying twelve of those thinkers, distilling the principles that actually move the needle, and weaving them into a single coherent, clear and — above all — applicable method. It’s not a collection of borrowed ideas or someone else’s summary: it’s an original architecture, created by Modesto Gutiérrez Losada, that stands on the best of each to take you from reflection to action. No excess theory. No assembling the puzzle yourself. A system, not twelve books.
Naval Ravikant
Leverage, specific knowledge, compounding, health-wealth-calm compass
Sahil Bloom
5 types of wealth, complete life design, the year of transformation
Matthew Kelly
Weekly rhythm, consistency, small daily acts, the best version of yourself
Rumi
Annual mantra, practical spirituality, the inner journey as foundation
Stanford Life Design
3 Odyssey scenarios, quarterly prototypes, being-centered design
YearCompass
Emotional close/open with powerful questions, structured reflection
Mel Robbins
Weekly action, simple accountability, the 5-second rule
Ray Dalio
Year principles, truth → learning → adjustment cycle, idea meritocracy
Jon Butcher (LifeBook)
12 life categories, vision, standards, integrated goals
Bob Proctor
Personal Picture, identity, repetition, mental programming for success
Jay Shetty
Monk wisdom for modern life: identity rooted in values, purpose (dharma), and the let go–grow–serve cycle
Enrique Fedez
The 11 Dimensions: you descend with a vision and ascend with a conduct; when both align, a path emerges
The authors and frameworks cited are mentioned solely as intellectual influences and for attribution purposes. Their mention does not imply affiliation, co-authorship or endorsement. LifeMap is an original, independent work by Modesto Gutiérrez Losada.
10 · Free Starter Kit
Design Your Life
like it matters.
Prefer to fill it out directly here, without downloading anything?
Or fill it out digitallyIf this were the last year
you have to live exactly as you want...
would you change anything about what you just designed?
Would you be braver? Ask for more? Risk more?
11 · The story
Created from experience,
not from theory.
LifeMap was born from personal frustration: every year started with clear intentions that faded before March. After years studying the best — Covey, Robbins, Dalio, Naval, Butcher, Bloom — and testing each framework in my own life, I built LifeMap as the synthesis I was missing.
Today I share it because I believe no one should reach the end of a year wondering where it went.
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