The ObservatoryPerceived quality of life
Your subjective assessment of how well life is working.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How well is your life working in practice right now?
- 2Where in everyday life does it grate the most?
- 3What works so well that you hardly think about it?
- 4If you could improve one thing in how life works, which would it be?
- 5What is the first step toward it?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
What works and what chafes
Go through a few areas of your life and see how they work in everyday life, without anything having to be a shortcoming. Then choose one thing that can become a little easier.
9 min · Compassion
Tool
The energy map
Map what in your week gives and takes energy — and make one (1) deliberate change. Come back each month; the map changes when life does.
10 min · Rationality
Exercise
The art of savoring
Good moments often pass unnoticed. Here you learn to stay with them a little longer.
8 min · Compassion
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 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
The map of what fills you up
List what gives you energy, rate it honestly, and see what actually stands out
8 min · Compassion
Exercise
Two minutes: a small something to look forward to
Put a small, nearby occasion in your calendar that you can look forward to a little
2 min · Discipline