---
id: np_wings_S
name: "S — Sustain the person, purpose, and future"
version: 1.0.0
powers: [capacity_recovery_and_whole_life_shield, financial_optionality_mission_and_legacy_map]
review_date: 2026-10-14
---

# S — Sustain the person, purpose, and future

This system protects the person carrying advanced responsibility and helps the NP build freedom, relationships, meaning, and a future beyond perpetual clinical output.

## Power 14 — Capacity, Recovery & Whole-Life Shield

**User promise:** Build plans that respond to the NP's actual capacity and protect a life commitment before work consumes the remaining space.

**Pain addressed:** call, inbox, documentation, teaching, leadership, emotional labor, caregiving, entrepreneurship, sleep disruption, identity strain, and chronic overcommitment.

**Launcher:** Protect My Runway  
**Base binding:** `role_load_and_capacity_review`, `minimum_and_recovery_mode`, `whole_day_orientation`, `role_load`, `whole_life_decision`  
**Default risk:** Green; Orange when sensitive health, family, employment, or financial information appears  
**Automation ceiling:** AI-assisted / Preview

### Flight modes

- **Takeoff:** entering a new role, program, venture, or life season; use smaller commitments and more support.
- **Climb:** building competence, visibility, or impact; protect buffer and prevent uncontrolled role expansion.
- **Cruise:** sustaining mature work; reduce friction and maintain recovery.
- **Crosswind:** conflict, overload, family demand, illness, or unexpected disruption; simplify and preserve essentials.
- **Holding:** waiting on authority, resources, timing, or another person; avoid false urgency and maintain readiness.
- **Landing / Transition:** leave, reduced clinical load, specialty change, retirement, succession, or ending a project; close deliberately.
- **Recovery / Grounded:** capacity is depleted or safety requires a pause; no new projects, no shame, and clear human-support routes.

### Workflow

1. Name the current flight and capacity modes: Open, Balanced, Tight, or Recovery.
2. Map visible and invisible roles, fixed work, call, inbox, caregiving, travel, health, relationships, administration, growth, and recovery.
3. Choose Full, Standard, Minimum, or Re-entry planning.
4. Identify one essential professional action and one protected-life action.
5. Move, shorten, share, delegate, decline, defer, or release work that exceeds capacity.
6. Add buffer, transition ritual, quiet hours, recovery anchor, and a stop boundary.
7. Identify human support, organizational support, or urgent pathways when needed.
8. Set a gentle re-entry point; do not create an artificial catch-up sprint.

### Never

Diagnose burnout, depression, impairment, or fitness; shame reduced capacity; convert wellbeing data into employer analytics; optimize away sleep, meals, relationships, medical care, or unproductive joy; or suggest that AI replaces professional support.

## Power 15 — Financial Optionality, Mission & Legacy Map

**User promise:** Help the NP design a future with more choice—without turning the personal OS into a financial adviser or treating legacy as another productivity contest.

**Pain addressed:** educational debt, financial dependence on an unsustainable role, family obligations, retirement uncertainty, portfolio-career questions, identity after clinical work, and a body of expertise that may disappear without a plan.

**Launcher:** Build My Freedom Path  
**Base binding:** `financial_life_organization`, `whole_life_decision`, `career_and_portfolio_pathway`, `goal`  
**New record:** `np_wings_legacy_and_transition_map`  
**Default risk:** Orange  
**Automation ceiling:** Preview / general organization only

### Workflow

1. Define what freedom, enough, contribution, and a meaningful future mean to the NP.
2. Create qualitative scenarios: maintain current practice, reduce clinical load, add teaching or advisory work, build an enterprise, relocate, take leave, retire, mentor, or serve the community.
3. Use only minimum personal data; keep sensitive numbers session-only unless the NP explicitly approves otherwise.
4. Map time, energy, income dependence, benefits, debt, caregiving, geography, identity, relationships, health, purpose, and risk.
5. Separate verified facts, assumptions, ranges, unknowns, and adviser questions.
6. Identify mentors, sponsors, collaborators, successors, legal, tax, insurance, benefits, estate, and financial professionals as appropriate.
7. Choose a small reversible experiment and a protected-life condition.
8. Build a mentoring, succession, archive, teaching, creative, service, or legacy project owned by the NP.

### Output

Mission and enough statement; option map; qualitative runway; dependencies; adviser questions; network and succession map; reversible experiment; 90-day step; protected-life outcome.

### Never

Provide individualized investment, tax, legal, insurance, benefits, debt, retirement, or estate advice; predict returns; execute transactions; store secrets; or imply that financial optimization outranks health and relationships.

## Starter commands

- “My capacity is Tight. Protect my runway with one essential professional action, one protected-life action, explicit deferrals, and a re-entry point.”
- “Map the visible and invisible roles I carry. Help me decide what to keep, change, share, decline, or release.”
- “Build three possible future paths if I reduce clinical hours, add another role, or create a portfolio career. Keep financial content general and prepare questions for qualified advisers.”
- “Help me define the expertise, people, values, and contribution I want to carry forward as a mentoring, succession, service, or legacy project.”

## System success measures

- plans fit actual capacity;
- at least one protected-life commitment is honored;
- Minimum and Recovery modes reduce shame and overload;
- re-entry does not become a catch-up sprint;
- the NP sees more than one possible future;
- financial and transition decisions remain with the NP and qualified advisers;
- meaningful expertise and relationships gain a deliberate continuity plan.

