The ObservatoryProgram7 days2–30 min per dayOccupationalCompassion
Sustainable at work
Seven days on really feeling well at work, beyond pay and title. You meet the inner voice, learn to get back up after a miss, set a boundary without a guilty conscience, map what gives and what drains you, and break down the path to work you can sustain into three steps. Not a course in performing more. A week in lasting longer.
How it works
One exercise, session or article per day for 7 days. You go at your own pace — the app remembers where you are, and you can pause and restart whenever you want.
Day by day
- 12 minArticleWhat occupational well-being actually measuresPay and title are the easiest things to measure, and seldom what decides how you feel at work. Here is what research points to instead.
- 212 minExerciseThe inner bossMeet the voice that talks to you at work — and teach it a kinder tone.
- 311 minExerciseAfter the slipA small recovery ritual for the minutes right after something has gone wrong at work, before you have time to turn it all inward.
- 412 minExerciseThe kind boundarySaying no, leaving on time or putting the phone away in the evening, without being harsh with yourself or apologizing for being human.
- 515 minExerciseThe energy auditMap what in your job gives energy and what drains it, and reshape a little of it.
- 630 minExerciseCareer planningPaint 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.
- 73 minStoryThe day Erik left his phone aloneA small boundary that changed more than it seemed to.
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