Your life, your choices.
You don't need a dramatic plan or a perfect week. You need one small, honest question and the willingness to answer it. SAMIC is here when you are.
The fact that you're here is already significant. Many of us feel overwhelmed or powerless to change — but opening SAMIC is itself a conscious choice. That's how real change begins: not with a dramatic overhaul, but with one small, deliberate step. SAMIC won't promise you a better life overnight. What it will do is help you understand where your feelings are coming from, and support you in taking small steps towards meeting your needs more fully.
SAMIC is rooted in Choice Theory — a psychology framework that says the only person whose behaviour we can control is our own.
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Take a moment to reflect on how you've been feeling this week in relation to each need below. Don't overthink it — just move the slider to the position that feels right. There are no correct answers, only honest ones.
A good commitment is Simple, Attainable, Measurable, Immediate, and Controlled by you. Unlike outcome-based goals, SAMIC focuses entirely on your own behaviour — the one thing you can always control.
Learn about Choice Theory →It might be something like: a new job or career direction. A healthier relationship with food, alcohol or your body. More time doing the things that matter to you. Freedom from a relationship or situation that's draining you. To feel less anxious, less stuck, or less like you're just going through the motions. To be a better parent, partner or friend — or simply to feel more like yourself.
There are no wrong answers here. Write whatever feels most true, even if it's uncomfortable or vague. You don't need to have it all figured out — just start honestly.
It's okay if the honest answer is "not much" or "nothing yet." That's useful information, not a judgement. Some people are very busy doing things that don't actually get them closer to what they want. Others know exactly what they need to do but keep putting it off.
This question is simply about getting clear on where you are right now, so that your plan can be grounded in reality.
Ask yourself: what's getting in the way of having the life you want? Are there difficult decisions you've been avoiding? Changes you know you need to make but keep delaying? Patterns you keep repeating even though they're not serving you?
Sometimes the obstacle is practical. Often it's emotional — fear, habit, or the weight of other people's expectations. Either way, naming it clearly is the first step towards doing something about it.
Ask yourself: Is it simple enough to actually do? The clearer and more straightforward it is, the more likely you are to follow through. Is it genuinely possible for you right now? A plan that stretches you slightly is good — one that sets you up to fail isn't.
Will you know when you've done it? A good commitment has a clear moment of completion — something you can look back on and say "yes, I did that." Can you start as soon as possible? The closer to now, the better. Plans that start "someday" rarely happen.
And most importantly: does it depend only on you? If following through requires someone else to cooperate, change, or show up — adjust it until it doesn't. Your commitment belongs to you alone.
Use the SAMIC checklist in the next step to sense-check your plan before confirming it.
Before confirming, make sure this commitment will actually work for you.
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SimpleClear and easy to understand.
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AttainableRealistic for your current situation.
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MeasurableYou'll know whether you followed through.
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ImmediateYou could start today if needed.
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Controlled by youDepends only on your own behaviour.
Even a small commitment can satisfy multiple needs at once. Select any that could apply — there are no wrong answers.
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What is a Quality World?
In Choice Theory, Dr Glasser described the Quality World as a personal picture album we each carry in our minds — a collection of everything we want most in life. The people we love, the places that feel like home, the things that bring us genuine pleasure, the beliefs and values that guide how we live. Everything in our Quality World is there because, at some level, it relates to one or more of our five basic needs.
But the Quality World isn't a tidy, curated collection. There could be thousands of pictures in there — some vivid and central to your life right now, others faded and half-forgotten from years ago. A childhood teddy bear. A teacher who believed in you. A place you visited once and never returned to. A version of yourself you used to be. All of these, at some point, were meeting your needs — and so into the album they went.
Here's the part that makes the Quality World genuinely fascinating — and occasionally inconvenient: removing something from it is much harder than adding it. You'll notice that in SAMIC, you can delete a picture with a single tap. In real life, it's considerably less straightforward.
Think about a difficult break-up. Even when you know it was the right decision, the picture doesn't simply disappear. It fades, slowly, to the back of the album — and tends to stay there until something replaces it. This is why rebounds happen. And why finding a new passion after giving one up is so much easier than simply stopping cold.
For people in recovery from addiction, this is not abstract theory — it is daily reality. The substance is still in the Quality World. It met real needs, powerfully and reliably, for a long time. Recovery is not about pretending that picture was never there. It is about gradually, deliberately building other pictures that meet those same needs more sustainably. This is why people in recovery are always in recovery — not recovered.
And then there is grief. One of the reasons losing someone to death is so uniquely painful is precisely this: the picture of that person remains vivid and central in your Quality World, still generating a felt need — but they cannot be replaced. The need persists. The picture remains. And the world no longer contains the thing the picture points to. That gap is grief.
Use this space to explore some of the things in your Quality World — and to reflect on which needs they relate to. You don't need to be comprehensive. Start with what feels most alive right now. There is no right or wrong. This is simply your life, seen through your own eyes.
What is a needs profile?
Dr William Glasser observed that while every person has the same five basic needs, their relative strength varies enormously from one person to the next. Someone with a high need for freedom will find obligation and routine more draining than most. Someone with a high need for love and belonging will be more affected by conflict in relationships. Someone with a strong power need will feel most alive when they are achieving something meaningful.
Understanding your own profile isn't about labelling yourself — it's about understanding what genuinely drives you, and why certain situations feel so much more difficult or rewarding than you'd expect.
This assessment contains 30 statements. For each one, rate how strongly it reflects your experience on a scale of 1 to 5. There are no right or wrong answers. The questions are intentionally varied — try not to overthink them, and go with your first instinct.
Choice Theory is the psychology at the heart of SAMIC. Understanding it more deeply can help you get more from your weekly practice — and from your life. Work through the chapters at your own pace. Each one takes about three minutes to read.
Test your understanding of Choice Theory — 20 questions covering everything in the chapters.
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SAMIC does not sell your data, share it with third parties, or use it for advertising. Your reflections, needs scores, and commitments exist to help you — no one else ever sees them.
Where your data is stored depends on whether you have a SAMIC account.
Everything stays on your device, in your browser's local storage — the same place a website might remember your preferences. Nothing is sent to a server. Nobody at SAMIC can see it.
This also means that if you clear your browser's cookies or local storage, your data will be lost — and it won't follow you to a different device or browser. If you'd like your data to be safe and portable, creating a free account solves this.
Your needs scores, commitments, and display name are stored securely on SAMIC's servers, hosted in the EU by IONOS. This means your data is safe even if you clear your browser, and accessible across multiple devices when you log in.
Your password is never stored — only a secure one-way hash. Your data is never shared with third parties and is never used for advertising or profiling.
You can delete your account and all associated data at any time by contacting us at hello@samic.me.
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Honest reflection requires privacy. If you're going to think clearly about what you really want, what's getting in the way, and what you're willing to change — you need to know those thoughts are completely safe. That principle is the foundation SAMIC is built on, and it won't change.
If you have any questions about how your data is stored or used, or would like to request its deletion, please contact us at hello@samic.me. We will always respond promptly and plainly.
What does a Reality Therapy conversation feel like?
This is a simulated conversation rooted in Choice Theory and the WDEP model — the same framework that underpins SAMIC. It's not therapy, and it's not a human. But it may surprise you.