Current Leverage Assessment

Most people use less leverage than they realize. Or they use it in one area while leaving enormous potential untapped in others. The gap between where you are and where you could be is usually wider than you think.

Today you find out exactly where you stand.

The Assessment

This isn’t about judgment. It’s about clarity. You can’t close a gap you can’t see. Rate yourself honestly on each type of leverage, one through ten.

One means you’re not using this type at all. Ten means you’ve maximized it and can’t extract more from it. Most people land somewhere between two and five on most types. That’s normal. It’s also where the opportunity lives.

Your Own Time (Baseline)

How effectively are you using your own hours? Not just how many hours you work, but how well those hours translate to output.

Questions to consider:

• Are you spending time on your highest-value activities?
• How much time goes to things anyone could do?
• How much time is lost to context-switching, interruptions, and administrative overhead?
• If you tracked every hour this week, how much would be genuinely high-impact?

Rate yourself: 1-10 for effective use of your own time.

Capital Leverage

Is money working for you while you sleep? This includes investments, but also reinvesting revenue into growth, hiring, tools, and assets.

Questions to consider:

• Do you have investments generating passive returns?
• Are you reinvesting in your business or operation strategically?
• Are you spending money to save time where the ROI makes sense?
• Could capital solve problems you’re currently solving with effort?

Rate yourself: 1-10 for capital leverage.

People Leverage

Is anyone else contributing meaningfully to your work, your projects, your vision?

Questions to consider:

• Do you have employees, contractors, or partners working with you?
• How many hours per week do others contribute to your goals?
• Are you delegating effectively or just assigning tasks?
• Could you get more from the people already involved?

Rate yourself: 1-10 for people leverage.

Technology Leverage

Is automation handling repetitive work? Are systems running without your involvement?

Questions to consider:

• What repetitive tasks are still done manually?
• Do you have automated systems for any part of your operation?
• Are you using tools to their full capability or just scratching the surface?
• What processes could a machine handle that you’re still doing by hand?

Rate yourself: 1-10 for technology leverage.

Media Leverage

Is content reaching people at scale without your direct involvement?

Questions to consider:

• Do you have content that brings in new people without ongoing effort?
• Is anything you’ve created still working for you months or years later?
• Could you create something once that keeps producing results?
• Are you using distribution channels effectively?

Rate yourself: 1-10 for media leverage.

Reading the Results

Look at your five scores. The pattern tells a story.

If everything is low, you’re operating almost entirely on personal effort. That’s the ceiling you hit in Lesson 1. The good news: opportunity is everywhere.

If one area is high and others are low, you’ve found your default leverage type. You probably gravitate to what you understand. The opportunity is in the areas you’ve been ignoring.

The biggest gap — the lowest score relative to its potential impact — is where to focus first. Not all gaps are equal. A low score in an area that would transform your situation matters more than a low score in an area with marginal impact.

Today’s Practice

Complete the full leverage audit.

1. Rate each type: Time (1-10), Capital (1-10), People (1-10), Technology (1-10), Media (1-10).
2. Write a sentence or two about why you gave each score.
3. Identify your biggest gap: the lowest score in the area with the highest potential impact.
4. Write down what closing that gap would change for you.

This audit becomes the foundation for your leverage strategy in the next lesson. Be thorough. Be honest. The quality of your strategy depends on the accuracy of your assessment.