The ObservatoryProfessional identity and future
The experience of career direction, opportunities and faith in the future.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How clear does your professional direction feel?
- 2Where do you want to be in three years, if you could choose freely?
- 3What in your current role builds toward that, and what doesn't?
- 4Which next step both scares and attracts you?
- 5What could you do this month to try the direction out?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
Career planning
Paint where you want to be professionally in three years, see the gap to today, and break it down into three steps you can start on now.
30 min · Rationality
Exercise
Best possible self
Write a future you in which things have gone as well as realistically possible, after hard work, not luck.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
The next small step
Adjust the direction of your life, not with a grand goal, but with a small next step you actually take.
9 min · Discipline
Exercise
Skills map
List your skills, rate how strong you are in each and how in demand they are, and see where development gives the most.
20 min · Rationality