How we know
Every number ME+A shows is built from four moves, standing on published research — and we grade that research honestly. No clinical validation is claimed: research-grounded components, plus a validation program that gets sharper as we learn you.
The four moves
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Shares
How your time divided.
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Weights
Not all time counts equally.
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Pivots
Above the line, or below.
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Curves
A raw amount → how it's felt.
Graded, honestly
Validated
Your habit streaks pause, they never reset.
A single missed day doesn't break automaticity. Lally et al., 2010.
Validated
A concrete when/where plan makes you follow through.
Implementation intentions. Gollwitzer, 1999.
Validated
Rest is scored as a win, and depletion is caught early.
Recovery research; burnout constructs. Sonnentag & Fritz, 2007; Maslach & Jackson, 1981.
Validated
Poor sleep protects the day instead of penalizing it.
Sleep loss impairs executive function. Killgore, 2010.
Supported
Energy is scored where your real is, not where you think it is.
Chronotype synchrony effect. May & Hasher, 1998.
Supported
Capping your plan protects you from over-committing.
The planning fallacy — a hard cap debiases. Kahneman & Tversky, 1979.
Supported
MEQ moves in equal felt steps, and eases the same way it climbs.
Weber–Fechner magnitude perception; loss aversion. Fechner, 1860; Kahneman & Tversky, 1979.
Heuristic
The eight life domains you're balanced against.
The coaching Wheel of Life — a useful tool, with no validated instrument. Labeled honestly, not dressed as science.
Three grades, never blurred. Validated means peer-reviewed evidence applied close to its established use; Supported means an established theory in a form that’s ours and still being tuned; Heuristic means design judgment or a coaching tradition — never dressed as science.
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