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A workday that holds

For a workday you can sustain over time: read how you feel, find what drains you, set boundaries and teach the body to switch off when the day is over.

  1. 1 · Self-assessment
    How are you doing at work?
    Six scales over the core of working wellbeing: influence, competence, belonging, demands, meaning and the boundary against the rest of life.
    4 min · Occupational · Rationality
  2. 2 · Article
    Burnout is a system failure, not a weakness
    Three signs, an uncomfortable truth about the causes, and why recovery takes more than a holiday.
    2 min läsning · Occupational · Rationality
  3. 3 · Exercise
    The energy audit
    Map what in your job gives energy and what drains it, and reshape a little of it.
    15 min · Occupational · Rationality
  4. 4 · Exercise
    One minute: a micro-break between tasks
    Sixty seconds away from the screen before the next task swallows you whole
    1 min · Occupational · Rationality
  5. 5 · Exercise
    The breathing room between meetings
    Two minutes in the gap before the next meeting swallows you
    2 min · Occupational · Discipline
  6. 6 · Exercise
    The kind boundary
    Saying no, leaving on time or putting the phone away in the evening, without being harsh with yourself or apologizing for being human.
    12 min · Occupational · Compassion
  7. 7 · Exercise
    Closed for today
    Build a concrete ending to the workday so that work stops following you home
    10 min · Occupational · Discipline
  8. 8 · Session
    A clear end to the workday
    A short transition ritual that helps you switch out of work mode before the rest of the evening begins
    6 min · Occupational · Compassion

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