The ObservatoryPart of your existential wellbeing
Future direction and hope
The experience of direction, possibilities and realistic hope for the future.
How it's measured
3 statements in the wellbeing assessment, scored from "doesn't apply at all" to "applies completely".
- I have a direction in which I want my life to develop.
- I can see realistic possibilities ahead.
- I feel hopeful about my future.
Where you work with it
The life areas in this section — assess yourself, answer the questions, and track them over time.
Getting started
Tool
The big crossroads
A recurring tool for the big crossroads — the job, the move, the relationship — which weighs the options against your own criteria rather than the mood of the day
10 min · Rationality
Self-assessment
Are you holding the wheel?
Do you steer your life, or does it happen to you? Four scales on perceived control, and where it does the most good.
4 min · Rationality
Exercise
The ikigai map
Map where what you love, what you are good at and what someone needs overlap. Not to find a magic answer, but to see where it is worth digging.
15 min · Rationality
Exercise
The next small step
Adjust the direction of your life, not with a grand goal, but with a small next step you actually take.
9 min · Discipline
Exercise
An action that counts
Turn a value you carry into a concrete step this week.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
Best possible self
Write a future you in which things have gone as well as realistically possible, after hard work, not luck.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
One minute: one value into the next hour
Choose one thing to care about in the coming hour, and carry it with you
1 min · Discipline
Exercise
Two minutes: more than one way
When you're stuck: find three ways to get closer to something you want, not just one
2 min · Rationality
How's your future direction and hope?
The wellbeing assessment gives you a profile across all six dimensions, and you see it change over time. Free account, no payment.