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Action prompts for this week

Give yourself something to work on this week. Find a practical step to try and make room for it in your own way.

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Pick one boundary you've been soft on this week and hold it firmly the next time it comes up.

Action
Self worth
Confidence
This week

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Pick one expectation about how you're supposed to act or feel that came from your culture and ask yourself whether you actually agree with it.

Action
Cultural
Identity
Authenticity
This week

Take your full lunch break away from your desk one day this week.

Action
Work
Needs
This week

Pick one meeting you attend every week and write down in one sentence what it actually gives you.

Action
Work
Awareness
This week
Work

Pick one thing you've bought because you kept seeing it in your feed and ask yourself if you'd have wanted it without the algorithm pushing it.

Action
Money
Digital
Awareness
2026
This week

Pass along one thing you've kept out of guilt to someone who'd actually use it.

Action
Closure
This week

Go somewhere this week that makes you feel small in a good way whether that's somewhere in nature or somewhere vast and quiet.

Action
Spiritual
This week

Notice the next time you feel ashamed of a reaction you had and write down one honest reason that reaction made sense.

Action
Metaemotions
Emotions
This week

Write down one cultural expectation about how you're supposed to feel or behave around work and decide whether it was ever actually yours.

Action
Cultural
Work
Identity
Agency
This week

The next time you feel annoyed at yourself for being scared notice whether that second layer of feeling makes things better or worse.

Action
Metaemotions
This week

Notice the next time you feel happy and then immediately feel like something is about to go wrong and write down what that thought is.

Action
Metaemotions
Patterns
This week

Spot one moment this week when you felt something and immediately tried to logic your way out of it and write down what the feeling was.

Action
Metaemotions
Emotions
This week

Find out the exact due dates for every recurring bill you pay and write them in one place this week.

Action
Money
This week

Spend ten minutes this week somewhere that makes you feel calm.

Action
This week
Spiritual
Mindfulness

Notice the next time you feel embarrassed about an emotion this week and write one sentence about whether you'd feel that way if a friend had it.

Action
Metaemotions
Compassion
This week

Notice the next time you tell yourself you shouldn't feel a certain way and write down why.

Action
Metaemotions
Emotions
This week

Notice the next time you feel annoyed at yourself for being sad and write one sentence about whether that annoyance is doing you any good.

Action
Metaemotions
Compassion
This week

Notice the next time you feel bad about feeling good and write one sentence about whether that second feeling is actually doing anything useful.

Action
Metaemotions
Emotions
This week

Write down three things bigger than yourself that you care about.

Action
This week
Spiritual
Alignment

The next time you feel embarrassed about feeling scared write down one sentence about what the fear is actually pointing at.

Action
Metaemotions
Emotions
This week

Write down one feeling you judge yourself for having on a good day and ask whether that judgment is doing anything useful.

Action
Metaemotions
Emotions
This week

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