Free Field Assessment
Where you actually stand.
Twelve short statements. Two things they measure — how clearly you're seeing your own life right now, and how much you're actually acting on what you see. No scoring you can talk your way around.
Discipline One — OwnershipThe Paddle
A river doesn't ask permission before it moves you. Drop a boat in with no paddle and the current still takes you somewhere — just not anywhere you chose. Most people spend their energy describing the current: how fast it's running, how unfair the last bend was, whose wake keeps rocking the boat. All of it can be completely accurate and still change nothing, because a description was never going to alter the water.
Ownership is picking up the paddle. Not because you control the river — you don't — but because the fifteen degrees of course you get from one stroke, repeated, is the only thing standing between where the current takes you and where you meant to go.
The tell isn't how well you can explain the current. It's whether your hands are on the paddle right now.
Discipline Two — TruthThe Terrain
Everyone is navigating off a map they drew themselves, usually years ago, usually a little kinder to them than the terrain actually is. The trouble is the ground doesn't update itself to match the map. The cliff you sketched as a gentle slope is still a cliff. The relationship you marked "fine, just busy" has its own actual coordinates whether or not you've walked out to check them.
Truth is the discipline of re-surveying — putting actual boots on actual ground and redrawing the line to match what's there, even when the old map was more flattering to look at.
It doesn't require a stranger's opinion. It requires one specific, checkable fact, stated the way a surveyor states an elevation.
Rate each line.
1 means rarely true of you right now. 5 means almost always true. Go with your first honest answer, not the one that sounds better.
When something in my life isn't working, my first move is to change what I'm doing — not explain why it's hard.