You might be getting through each working week, but feeling increasingly stretched, lacking control or wondering whether things could be different.
Answer 10 quick questions about work pressure, control and what makes change difficult.
You'll receive a personalised result showing whether your reported pressure falls into the Lower, Moderate or Higher range, along with an explanation of what that could mean for you.
How often work leaves you mentally drained, struggling to switch off, dealing with unreasonable demands or feeling detached from what you do.
How much influence you have over your working day, your workload and your ability to do your job properly without unnecessary obstacles.
Whether financial concerns, responsibilities or difficulty seeing realistic alternatives are making it harder to consider a different way of working.
This is a self-assessment, not a diagnostic tool.
It helps you recognise the pressures and constraints you're experiencing in your working life.
It won't tell you what's causing them or whether you need to make a change.
But it may give you a useful starting point for deciding what deserves a closer look..
Think about your working life over the past four weeks.
Choose the answer that best reflects how often each statement has been true for you. There are no right or wrong answers.
Your answers will give you an indication of whether your reported pressure falls into the Lower, Moderate or Higher range.
10 questions. Approximately 3 minutes.
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Minimum Viable Income is a simple question: what is the smallest, honest amount of money that would allow you to live a life that feels workable and non‑anxious, for the season you’re in now?
Not a forever number. Not a social‑media number. Just a calm, present‑tense figure that covers your real costs and a bit of breathing room.
When you have this number, a few things often shift:
If you’d like to look at your own Minimum Viable Income, the Clarity session is one place to do that slowly and without performance pressure.
A lot of productive, kind people live with a constant background hum of "I should be doing more." This is noise, not guidance.
Clarity, in contrast, is usually quieter and less dramatic. It often sounds like: "This is enough for now." or "That would be nice, but it doesn’t need to happen this year."
One useful question is: if this thought became permanently true, would my life feel more spacious or more cramped?
In Clarity sessions we’re not trying to silence every anxious thought. We’re just trying to tell the difference between useful signals and old, automated noise so your choices can be a little kinder and more deliberate.
Time Drift is what happens when your calendar slowly fills with things you never consciously chose, until your days no longer look like the life you say you want.
No single meeting, obligation, or favour is the problem. It’s the slow tilt. A few degrees off, sustained over months and years.
A gentle way to notice drift is to compare two calendars:
In Clarity sessions we often map these two weeks side by side and look for the smallest, kindest adjustments that would start to close the gap without pretending your constraints don’t exist.