The ObservatoryEveryday competence
The ability to handle cleaning, shopping, cooking, bookings and contact with public authorities.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How well does the practical machinery of everyday life work: cleaning, shopping, paperwork?
- 2What tends to fall behind?
- 3Which everyday chores do you avoid most, and what does that cost you?
- 4What tricks of your own have you found that actually work?
- 5Which chore could you simplify, schedule or drop altogether?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
Put it off or begin
Four decision moments where procrastination creeps in, and what actually breaks the pattern
11 min · Discipline
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
Examine the excuse
Between what you say you want and what you did yesterday sits an excuse. Examine it like an auditor: kindly, but without mercy.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
The if-then plan
Turn an intention into an if-then plan that links a concrete cue to an action.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
Procrastination is a feeling
Procrastination is not laziness but escape from a feeling. Naming the feeling often loosens the task.
10 min · Rationality
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