Lifevise

Lifevise is a personal growth site for individual learners, built around free email courses. It calls itself "The Platform for Personal Growth and Self-Improvement", and its course page sums up the format: "Bite-sized lessons created by top personal development experts, delivered straight to your inbox." The promise on the home page is to "Learn new life & work skills in just 10 minutes a day!"

Around the courses, Lifevise offers a small set of self-help tools such as an audio program and an eBook, a coaching and mentoring match service, two newsletters, a referral program and a shop. The footer says the site is made by personal development experts all over the world.

How the courses work

The model is simple. A learner picks a course, enters a name and an email address, and clicks "Join Course". Every course form carries the same line: "Join this course and receive the first lesson tomorrow morning." The lessons then arrive by email, so there is nothing to install and no schedule to keep, and each lesson is meant to fit into the ten minutes a day the site promises. The Finding Your Purpose course, for example, runs to 10 lessons.

All of the courses on the course page are presented as free; the call to action is "Explore Free Courses". A login, including a Facebook login, is available for those who create an account.

The course catalog

The sign-up forms cover the courses below, and the course archive gives a one-line description for most of them.

Mental health and emotions. Anxiety Management promises to "Learn proven strategies and practical tools to reduce anxiety." Overcoming Social Anxiety sits alongside it. Relationship and Depression is about how to "deal with depression while in a relationship." The Science of Happiness is "The guide that helps you cultivate a happier life, as revealed through the psychological science."

Relationships and communication. The Science of Friendship teaches learners to "improve your social skills by understanding social psychology." Active Listening and The Confidence Advantage round out this group, along with Introversion as a Superpower, which offers "Information, tips, and hacks to turn introversion into a superpower."

Purpose, money and health. Finding Your Purpose is the 10-lesson course mentioned above, aimed at discovering why you are here. How To Improve Your Relationship With Money covers "the simple tools and techniques you can use to improve your relationship with money." A weight loss course and Setting and Achieving Fitness Goals deal with health and fitness.

Parenting, work and writing. Developing a Growth Mindset is aimed partly at parents: its description reads "Apply the power of a growth mindset and motivate your kids to become lifelong learners." Memorable Customer Service is for people at work, under the line "How To Win Business with Memorable Customer Service." Writing Around the World offers "Lessons for writers set against the backdrop of the world's great cities."

The course archive also shows when its courses were written. Of the dated ones, the oldest, Writing Around the World and Anxiety Management, were first published in August 2016, and the newest, How To Improve Your Relationship With Money, in May 2018. Every dated course was updated in November or December 2021.

Tools and resources

Beyond the courses, Lifevise has a "Free Tools & Resources" section, described as a "growing collection of eBooks, guides and Audio articles" to "Improve your thinking and create better habits." Three tools are featured on the home page:

• Mood Booster, described as "Your companion through good times and bad times, boosting your confidence and mood, one email at a time."
• Your Best Mind Ever, an audio program in which "Dr. Maisel teaches you how to employ a powerful metaphor that captures the essence of how your mind works."
• Surviving Family Life, an eBook in which "you'll learn to maintain inner peace in the midst of family chaos and even create a better life for your whole family."

A shop sits in the main menu next to the courses, tools, blog and about pages, and the site also publishes articles.

Coaching and mentoring

For learners who want a person rather than an email course, Lifevise offers coaching. The home page says Lifevise has handpicked caring coaches and mentors, and adds that its "expert match service will help you find the right expert for your needs and situation." A "Find Your Coach" button leads into that service, and Coaching is listed among the site's resources.

The same matching works in the other direction. Under "Are You an Expert?", the site says "We are looking for outstanding experts in the field of personal growth and mental health" and invites them to "Grow your business by teaching and advising online." A "Join as Expert" link in the footer leads there.

Newsletters, community and referrals

Lifevise describes itself as "a growing community of entrepreneurs, lifelong learners, and others on a path to better mental and physical health." Two newsletters keep in touch with that community: one sends "a new growth idea every two weeks", and the other invites readers to "Join over 4,000 lifelong learners getting one actionable personal growth tip every week." A separate sign-up form reads "Sign up and receive the first month for free!"

The referral program turns readers into ambassadors. The page says "Refer friends, reach milestones, and get free tools and discounts!", and a rewards area lets members track their progress toward each milestone.

Who it suits

Lifevise suits busy people who want to work on one area of their personal life in short daily steps without paying or installing anything: someone trying to manage anxiety, an introvert who wants to see the trait differently, a parent hoping to encourage a growth mindset in their children, or a writer looking for a lighter creative prompt. The email format makes it easy to start, since the first lesson arrives the next morning, and the coaching match is there for anyone who wants more personal help. Customer-facing staff can use the customer service course as a short refresher.

The courses are short self-help lessons by design, so they are a lighter option for learners who want depth, a certificate or live teaching, and readers facing serious depression or anxiety should treat them as a complement to professional care rather than a replacement.