Silver
£19.99 / month
Or £199 annually
Reality Checks, Small Trials, Conversation Preparation, My Next Steps, paid explorations and workshops, and the twelve Living Editions.
Living · Martin Rothery
You can spend years being busy and still wonder how much of your life you chose.
Work. Relationships. Money. The people depending on you. Living is somewhere to examine what is happening, decide what you can realistically do and keep a record you can return to.
No email, account or payment needed to begin.
An ordinary moment. A decision that isn't.What brings people here
Perhaps the answer is obvious. The consequences usually aren't.
You could hand in your notice tomorrow. You could have that difficult conversation tonight. You could decide that next year will be different.
Then there are the bills. The children. Your health. A promise you made. Or the uncomfortable possibility that you are looking at the wrong problem entirely.
Those complications belong in the conversation. Living gives you somewhere private to put them, look at the facts, test an idea and reconsider later, with the earlier thinking still there.
Sometimes you need to work out what is possible before deciding what is desirable.
Begin without paying
Start with a Stock Take of your life.
Seventeen areas, from your health and relationships to work, money and the ordinary business of getting through a week. You choose what to examine. The point is to leave with something useful, even if you never make an account.
Start the free Stock TakeNo score for how well you are living. No email required.
It can begin with one honest question.
Work
Does this job have to take so much of my week?
Relationships
What have I stopped saying because it is easier not to?
Time
How much of my time is still mine to arrange?
You decide which area deserves your attention.
Want to keep going? Your free account has room for that too.
Save your Stock Take, work through the separate self-guided 17-area Life Audit, make private notes, print your own work and return when you are ready. A registered free account also includes one lifetime introductory consultation with the Life Council. Your Living account
Inside Living
Write it down. Do something manageable. Come back and see.
Living starts to become particularly useful when a decision takes longer than a single afternoon. Your saved concern stays in My Life Work, with the original and each later entry kept in order.
Illustrative member concernPrivate history
I'm thinking about leaving work.
First thought
I'm worn out, but losing this income could make things much worse at home.
Reality Check
Check actual hours, pay and options before treating resignation as the only choice.
My Next Step
Ask for the flexible working policy. Keep this to one conversation for now.
On returning
Record what I was told, what changed and what I now want to do.
Silver members can examine assumptions, prepare conversations and try small, safe actions. Gold adds decision comparisons, obstacles and wider consequences. Platinum adds longer-term direction and quarterly review. Each working session belongs to the concern you choose.
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THE LIVING
EDITIONS One each month. A year of substantial work.
EDITIONS One each month. A year of substantial work.
Part of every paid membership
Something worth coming back to.
The twelve Living Editions bring original monthly writing, questions and substantial exercises into the membership year, alongside explorations and workshops.
The practical tools are available according to your membership from the start. You needn't wait for the next Edition to do something useful with a concern today.
A membership for continuing work
Stay with the things that deserve more time.
Free Living gives you a genuine place to begin and keep your own notes. The paid levels add structured working sessions and a growing body of original work.
Gold
£29.99 / month
Or £299 annually
Everything in Silver, plus Decision Table, Obstacles and Fallbacks, Wider Consequences and more involved investigations.
Platinum
£39.99 / month
Or £399 annually
Everything in Gold, plus 90-Day Direction, Quarterly Review and deeper personal record and writing tools.
Your own saved records remain reviewable when you downgrade or cancel. The Life Council has separate consultation credits, and Martin's personal A Reckoning assessments are separate purchases.
See Living in your accountFor a fuller examination
A Reckoning is personal work, undertaken by Martin.
You can commission a focused assessment of one area of your life or a complete 17-area assessment. I read your case, examine what you have chosen to share and write the report myself.
It is separate from the self-guided Life Audit and separate from membership. Your private Living records are never automatically passed into an assessment. You choose what, if anything, to share.
Explore A Reckoning in Living
The Life Council
Sometimes you want another perspective before you make up your mind. The Council lets you bring a question for consideration. Your free registered account includes one introductory consultation for life. Further consultations are handled separately, without touching existing purchased credits.
Enter through LivingThe books
Fiction and nonfiction, including ideas about being human and the world we've made.
Browse the books ↗Nine Realms Institute
Structured learning, Sanomentology and practitioner education on a separate site.
Visit Nine Realms ↗The Continuance
An open, evolving philosophy. Entirely optional and separate from private Living work.
Explore The Continuance ↗There is probably one thing you've been meaning to look at properly.
You can begin with that. It costs nothing to start, and nobody needs to know what you write.
Begin a free Stock Take