The ObservatorySecurity and stability
Job security, financial security and predictability.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How secure do you feel about your livelihood?
- 2What worries you most about the future of your job?
- 3How much of the worry is grounded, and how much is feeling?
- 4What would make you less vulnerable: a buffer, skills, a network?
- 5Which of these can you start building on now?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
The grip of uncertainty
Separate what you can influence from what you cannot, and carry the rest a little more lightly
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
The boss and the power
Prepare the hard conversation upward, with a factual focus on what you actually control
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
The gentle return
A careful way back after sick leave, at your own pace, not everything at once
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
Money and worry
An exercise about handling the feeling money stirs up, not about what to do with it.
11 min · Rationality
Exercise
Think the thought through
Worry always bails out at the worst part and leaves you there. This time you follow the thought all the way, until it loses its force.
10 min · Rationality
Tool
The worry log
A standing tool: catch the worry when it comes, sort out what you can influence, and park the rest for a set time instead of ruminating all day.
8 min · Rationality
Exercise
More than your job
When your whole self-image lives at work, every setback there becomes a threat to all of you. Give the other parts of you their place.
10 min · Compassion
Story
Petra and the second week
Returning to work at your own pace, not at the old one.
5 min · Compassion
Session
Just before
A few minutes of calm and self-compassion to gather yourself right before something difficult, a presentation, an exam, a conversation
4 min · Compassion