Life Direction
Purpose, goals and relationships — thought through out loud first, then turned into a real plan with evidence of small, real progress.
What could that time become?
UK adults aged 18–24 spend over 6 hours a day online; the wider adult average is around 4h47m. Drag the slider to your own rough daily phone time and see what that adds up to — from things people put off, to things some people have to fight to get back.
is roughly what that becomes over the next 30 days.
to read an average book, cover to cover
to complete the NHS Couch to 5K programme, start to finish
to learn the basics of a genuinely new skill — Josh Kaufman's "First 20 Hours" research
the average hours of physical, occupational and speech therapy a stroke survivor does in a typical inpatient stay — relearning to walk and manage daily life again
to reach real conversational fluency in a new language — the language you keep meaning to start (FSI Category I estimate)
the flight hours a pilot needs to log before they can hold an Airline Transport Pilot licence
to reach the widely popularised "10,000 hours" mark often cited for elite mastery
This isn't a guilt trip — MIKE isn't anti-phone. It's a reminder that time is the one resource a plan actually has to work with, and that "relearning" isn't only about hobbies — for some people it's the work of getting a basic ability back. Sources: Ofcom Adults' Media Use and Attitudes Report 2025; NHS Couch to 5K; Josh Kaufman, The First 20 Hours (2013); average inpatient stroke-rehabilitation therapy hours, peer-reviewed rehabilitation outcomes research (PMC); FSI language-hours data, halved from "professional working proficiency" to an approximate conversational-fluency estimate; UK CAA / FAA 1,500-hour Airline Transport Pilot requirement; the "10,000 hours" figure is a popularised rule of thumb (Gladwell, via Ericsson et al.), not a precise scientific threshold.
What MIKE does for life direction
Talk. Be heard. Be understood.
Talk through what is unclear about direction, purpose or next steps, and think it through out loud.
- Conversational support around direction and purpose
- General signposting to appropriate support
- Permission-based profile covering goals and preferences
Understanding becomes action.
MIKE+ turns approved reflection into a real plan — and the 1% Better Journey shows the evidence of small, real progress.
- Personal plans covering purpose, goals and relationships
- Recovery, confidence and life-direction planning
- 1% Better Journey progress analytics
- Diary entries linked to goals and preferences
What this looks like in practice.
Someone feels stuck on direction after a big change — a new job, a break-up, finishing education. MIKE helps them think it through; MIKE+ turns that into a concrete plan with goals and check-ins.
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