The ObservatoryHome and living environment
Order, safety, comfort and how your home supports your well-being.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How well does your home support how you feel?
- 2Where in the home do you feel best, and why there?
- 3What in your home disturbs or stresses you most?
- 4What have you put off for a long time that would make a difference?
- 5What could you change in an hour that you would notice every day?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift 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