The ObservatoryPart of your everyday wellbeing
Everyday mastery and control
The experience of being able to handle practical demands and keep a reasonable sense of control when everyday life changes.
How it's measured
3 statements in the wellbeing assessment, scored from "doesn't apply at all" to "applies completely".
- I feel that I have reasonable control over my daily life.
- I manage to handle the practical demands that daily life makes.
- When my daily life changes, I can usually adjust it so that it works again.
Where you work with it
The life areas in this section — assess yourself, answer the questions, and track them over time.
Getting started
Exercise
The home that supports you
Lower the friction on one surface at a time, so your home starts working for you instead of against you
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
A place for everything
Give your most-searched everyday objects a fixed place, so your brain doesn't have to make the same small decision every day
8 min · Rationality
Tool
The friction log
Map what stands in the way of a habit, and find what lowers the threshold the most
9 min · Discipline
Exercise
One minute: clear one surface
A table, a bench, a corner. One minute is enough to make a single surface completely clear
1 min · Rationality
Exercise
The two-minute rule
Shrink something you have been putting off to a start that takes under two minutes, and do only that.
8 min · Discipline
Exercise
Temptation bundling
Pair a pleasure you love with a chore you keep putting off, so that one pulls the other along.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
The week's restart
Ten minutes on a fixed day to look back and choose the few important things for next week.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
The Sunday dread
Practical handling of the worry that creeps in on Sunday evening, long before the week has even started
9 min · Discipline
How's your everyday mastery and control?
The wellbeing assessment gives you a profile across all six dimensions, and you see it change over time. Free account, no payment.