The ObservatoryContributing to others
The chance to help, support and matter to other people.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How often do you feel you make a difference for someone else?
- 2Who or what do you contribute to today?
- 3How does it feel inside you when you help someone?
- 4Where would your abilities do the most good?
- 5How could you contribute in a small way already this week?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
Seven minutes: a contribution that becomes yours
Find a small way to do good for someone, one you choose yourself, that fits your energy and where you get to see that it arrived
7 min · Compassion
Exercise
Meaning through giving
When your own life feels empty, staring harder at it rarely helps. The way out often runs through someone else, in smaller form than you think.
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
Helping without taking over
Someone you care about is struggling. The art is to support them in a way that grows their own strength, not yours.
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
The gratitude letter
Write a real thank-you to someone who mattered to you, and who has never heard it said.
12 min · Compassion
Exercise
The eulogy
There are two kinds of merit: those that fit on a CV and those that are mentioned in a eulogy. A gentle exercise in hearing the difference, and letting it adjust the week.
15 min · Compassion
Exercise
Caring without going under
When someone you love is struggling, the line between helping and disappearing into it is razor-thin. Find it.
12 min · Compassion