The SELFIE Framework
A different way to measure an extraordinary life.
Six letters. Six ideas. One very different way of looking at an extraordinary life.
Six dimensions
Six things worth keeping score of.
The SELFIE Framework™ is a six part lens designed to help you examine whether the life you’re building actually reflects what matters to you or whether parts of it are still being shaped by someone else’s definition of success.
- 01
Resilience
What the hard seasons build in you.
The difficult chapters are rarely interruptions to the story. More often they are the part of the story that shapes everything after it.
- 02
Relationships and Expansion
How large the world you live in actually is.
A larger world produces a larger sense of what your life could be. Small rooms tend to produce small scoreboards.
- 03
Meaning and Fulfillment
Whether the life you are building is one you want to live.
The scoreboard most of us inherited measures income, title and optics. A better one measures whether any of it feels like yours.
- 04
Personal Investment
What you are pouring into yourself and into other people.
What you put into your own growth compounds quietly. What you put into other people tends to outlive you.
- 05
Growth and Curiosity
Whether you are still becoming something.
Curiosity works like a compass. It points toward the next version of you long before you can see the whole path.
- 06
Courage and Direction
Whether you can move before the picture is complete.
Courage is not the absence of uncertainty. It is the willingness to take the next step while the full picture is still unfinished.
The assessment
Where is your extraordinary already taking shape?
Take the SELFIE Assessment and see where your life already feels extraordinary and where something may deserve more attention. It walks through all six dimensions, takes a few minutes, and nothing is being sold to you at the end of it.
After the assessment
This isn’t a grade. It’s a snapshot.
Your results show where life currently feels aligned and where something may deserve more attention.
Want to understand what SELFIE really means?
The full meaning behind the SELFIE Framework™ is revealed in Paul Milakeve’s forthcoming book, Beyond the Selfie.
Keep going
Two ways to keep going.
Continue Finding Your Extraordinary on YouTube
Stories and ideas about success, reinvention, faith and the life behind the highlight reel.
Go Behind the Selfie on Substack
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