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§ The household check · 3 min · no account

The Temperature

Ten statements about the room you actually live in. Answer for the last seven days, not for the man you intend to be. Nothing is sent anywhere — this is between you and the screen.

01 · Warmth

In the last week, I said something kind to her that I was not asked for.

02 · Warmth

There is physical affection in our home that is not a prelude to anything.

03 · Repair

When we fight, it ends properly — not by one of us going quiet.

04 · Repair

I can apologise without a 'but' attached to the end of it.

05 · Attention

My phone is out of my hands for a real stretch of every evening.

06 · Attention

I know what is currently hard for her, in her own words.

07 · Presence

My children have had my undivided attention in the last two days.

08 · Presence

I would be missed in this house for who I am, not what I pay for.

09 · Ritual

There is a fixed weekly thing we do that nothing is allowed to cancel.

10 · Ritual

Our home has a rhythm — meals, bedtimes, a shared start or close to the day.

Temperature of the room

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Answered

Answer all ten and the reading appears here.

A number is not a change. The change is what you do tomorrow morning.

The Compass scores all eight pillars in six minutes and hands you the one to start with. Then six hundred and seventy-two mornings, each with one reading and one act.