The ObservatorySatisfaction with the present
How you experience your current life situation.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How satisfied are you with your life situation in this period?
- 2What in the present is actually good, including what you take for granted?
- 3What in the present wears you out the most?
- 4Is this a phase, or a situation that has become stuck?
- 5What in the present can you influence 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
Do it half well
Perfectionism promises that everything will fall into place if it is perfect. Test the opposite, on purpose, and see what actually happens.
12 min · Discipline
Exercise
The good-enough day
For the days when not everything got done, and the chafing stays anyway.
9 min · Compassion
Exercise
The art of savoring
Good moments often pass unnoticed. Here you learn to stay with them a little longer.
8 min · Compassion
Exercise
The compass of envy
Envy is uncomfortable information, not a character flaw. Read what your envy points toward.
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
Contentment that isn't resignation
Two everyday situations that look the same from outside but feel completely different from inside: grateful acceptance, or having stopped caring
8 min · Compassion
Session
Stay with the good
A savoring exercise that lets you stay with and deepen a good feeling or a good memory, instead of hurrying past it
6 min · Compassion
Exercise
Two minutes: imagine the good thing away
Imagine that something you are glad about never happened, and notice what happens when it is still there
2 min · Rationality