Basic Skills and Habits

Welcome to your second assessment — Basic Skills and Habits. This assessment finds gaps in your basic skills and habits.

Be open and honest. Your answers help me see the full picture of where you are right now.

A gap is the distance between your current level of skills and habits and the level you want them at for your goals. Maybe you never learned the skill or the habit. Maybe you learned the skill and the habit, but you don't do them the way you want to get the result that you want. Either way, that distance is a gap, and the training for that skill or habit will close it.

Be accurate about exactly where you're at. This isn't a judgment, it doesn't mean you're lazy, and it's nothing against you. You're just taking a picture of where you are right now, and a picture shows exactly what's there.

For each skill and habit, read the five levels and pick the one that matches where you're at right now. The five levels of competency go from novice to expert:

1. Novice: I'm not aware of this skill. It's low.
2. Advanced Beginner: Now I see it. I notice others do it well, and mine is low next to theirs. This isn't about comparing, it's you being able to see, "Well, I don't have that."
3. Competent: I can do it, but it still takes real effort and focus.
4. Proficient: My level is strong now. It takes little effort.
5. Expert: I've mastered this level, and people ask me to teach them.