The Drift Assessment
Are you getting closer, or drifting?
Is your life, your business, your practice as good as it can possibly be?
Drift happens slowly, one small decision at a time. A small compromise. The easy way out. Suddenly, you look up and realize you’re not where you thought you would be. This is the Drift.
Five reflection questions, about fifteen minutes, show you where you are and explore where you want to go. This is for you alone: no one is judging, and your answers stay with you.
You can’t close the gap until you recognize that you’ve drifted.
Reading your own answers
Now read your own words.
Four readings, in order. Each one puts your words next to each other so the pattern can show itself.
The outside versus the inside, side by side.
If the outside and the inside describe the same life, you are aligned, and these pages have told you something worth knowing. If they describe two different lives, the drift away from your life is what you have been carrying. That distance has a name: the gap.
On the outside
On the inside
Do these describe the same life?
Your values and your calendar.
Go item by item and count the hours that went into each one. Your calendar is the most honest document you own, because it records what you chose rather than what you intended. A value with no hours against it is a value you have stopped protecting.
Today and five years from now.
The gap between where you are and where you want to be in five years is the work. The size of it tells you how much is ahead. The shape of it tells you where to start.
Today, on the outside
Five years from now
What you’re most tired of.
Whatever you are most tired of is usually the thing your life or work is built to produce. Exhaustion in one specific place points at a structure, rather than at a character flaw in you.
What you are most tired of
Drift happens one small decision at a time. So does getting closer.
With every choice, ask: Does it get me closer?
Progress over perfection.
These answers are a starting point rather than a verdict.
I spent fifteen years building a business in a nontraditional way because I truly believed in the vision. It was successful because I was disciplined to the vision and able to make every decision bring me closer to that vision.
If you want a second set of eyes on your answers, send them to me. I read every one personally and I write back. From there, if an hour on the phone would help, we will find one. You will get value from that conversation whether we work together afterwards or not.
Brett
Keep your answers.
This is a starting point. Sit with what you wrote, come back to it, and go deeper.
Your answers also stay saved in this browser, so you can return to this page and pick up where you left off.
Want a second set of eyes?
Send your answers to Brett. He reads every one personally.
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