Hate Your Life, Change Your Life - Epicly (Obsidian Template)

Scheduling private, uninterrupted time is hard—until a short personal retreat makes it possible. The core takeaway is that a structured “Wheel of Life” audit can turn that scarce time into clarity: where someone is now, how they got there, and what they want next. The method matters because it replaces vague self-reflection with a repeatable process that surfaces patterns across multiple life domains, then compresses thousands of words into a small set of scores, reasons, and actionable next steps.

The walkthrough centers on an Epic Wheel of Life template built for Obsidian, designed to function as a self-assessment “life audit.” The audit takes about two hours (with a recommended 2–3 hour block), but it can be split into shorter sessions—either three chunks aligned to the Wheel’s major sections or even smaller time blocks. Two prerequisites are emphasized: a private place and a thinking space (the template is meant to be used inside Obsidian). The template itself is structured so headings and bullets start collapsed, letting users expand only the parts they’re working on.

At the heart of the workflow is a bottom-up approach. Instead of starting with scores, participants begin with free writing or free talking (“freew writing” / dictation) to capture lived experience in raw form. Technology is treated as a practical enabler: dictation lets someone pace, speak in chunks, and avoid the fatigue of producing a single massive text dump. After generating content for a subsection—such as hobbies, travel, leisure, or consuming habits—users assign a quick “current” rating (typically on a 1–10 scale) and then roll the text up into a concise summary.

The Wheel is organized into major categories that are then broken into subsections. In “Lived Experience,” the template includes Recreation (with subsections like hobbies, travel/leisure, consuming, and experiences), Environment (physical surroundings plus sensory experience), and Body (sleep, nutrition, movement, and exercise). Users then repeat the same pattern: expand a subsection, generate reflections, score it, and roll it up.

The audit continues through Relationships and Work. Relationships includes soul/purpose, spirituality, partnership, romance, fun/lightness, family connection and family health, plus friends—split into close friends, old friends, community/social connections, and “protoy” (first among equals). Work is divided into work/career trajectory and health, protoy relationships within work, creation/production (outputs), and contribution (whether work feels fulfilling). Finances are assessed through net worth, cash flow, and confidence/control, while Mind is handled last via learning, sense-making, and personal growth.

After rolling everything up, users write final reflections and an overall score. A key emotional instruction appears in the template: be kind to yourself by staying honest, because the number is not the point—the clarity and confidence that emerge from the process are. The session ends with an example next action: adopting a “lifestyle with movement and vitality,” using floor-based movement to counter a sedentary pattern. The template claims 32 subsections total, and encourages revisiting the audit months later to track change over time.