The ObservatoryPart of your occupational wellbeing
Sustainable demands and boundaries
The balance between demands, resources and the opportunity to recover from the occupation.
How it's measured
3 statements in the wellbeing assessment, scored from "doesn't apply at all" to "applies completely".
- The demands of my main occupation are usually manageable.
- I have enough resources to meet the demands of my main occupation.
- My main occupation leaves enough room for recovery outside of it.
Where you work with it
The life areas in this section — assess yourself, answer the questions, and track them over time.
Getting started
Article
Burnout is a system failure, not a weakness
Three signs, an uncomfortable truth about the causes, and why recovery takes more than a holiday.
2 min · Rationality
Exercise
Say no with respect
See what makes no hard, practice a short and friendly no without an apology, and have the wording ready before you need it.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
The energy audit
Map what in your job gives energy and what drains it, and reshape a little of it.
15 min · Rationality
Exercise
One track at a time
Map your attention thieves and build a single focus block with one task and notification hygiene.
10 min · Discipline
Self-assessment
How are you doing at work?
Six scales over the core of working wellbeing: influence, competence, belonging, demands, meaning and the boundary against the rest of life.
4 min · Rationality
Exercise
The breathing room between meetings
Two minutes in the gap before the next meeting swallows you
2 min · Discipline
Exercise
The plate is full
Everything you feel you should fit in, thinned down to what actually has room
6 min · Discipline
Exercise
One minute: a micro-break between tasks
Sixty seconds away from the screen before the next task swallows you whole
1 min · Rationality
How's your sustainable demands and boundaries?
The wellbeing assessment gives you a profile across all six dimensions, and you see it change over time. Free account, no payment.