The ObservatoryTime and priorities
How time is spent and whether important areas get enough room.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How well does your time reflect what matters most to you?
- 2What gets too much of your time?
- 3What gets too little?
- 4Which time thieves do you say yes to out of old habit?
- 5What would you move an hour a week to, and from where?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
What matters most?
Put this week's tasks in priority order and give the most important ones a place in your time.
9 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
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 time you have
An average life is roughly four thousand weeks. Counting your time sounds grim, but done right it is the opposite: a sharp filter for what deserves your weeks.
12 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
Tool
The weekly contract
A small, concrete commitment for the week, and what makes it easy to keep
8 min · Discipline
Exercise
What weighs most this month
Six to eight things competing for space, arranged in the order that actually matters
7 min · Discipline
Session
The week in review
Seven minutes to see the week as it actually turned out: what happened with what you planned, what explains the difference, and a single adjustment for next week.
7 min · Rationality