Three Buckets

Most apps like this clap for you. This one interrupts you. Three Buckets scores your life in three parts — Personal, Career, Investments — and enforces the order they go in. Personal is the foundation: your body, your head, the people around you. Career is the bridge. Investments are what the bridge pays for. Get them out of order and the whole thing leaks. TWENTY-THREE QUESTIONS. FOUR MINUTES. Rate three areas of your life one to ten. Get three scores out of 100, broken down by mental health, physical health and relationships, so you can see exactly which part is dragging the rest down. THEN THE PART NOBODY ELSE DOES. If your Career or Investments score ever outruns your Personal score, the app throws a full-screen alarm and locks both of them. Greyed out. Padlocked. You don't get back in until you answer three Personal questions and commit to one thing you'll actually do today. Yes,…