Alignment Assessment
FrameworkAlignment Assessment is a diagnostic framework that reveals the gap between what people say is most important to them and how they actually spend their time and energy. It involves creating two columns - one listing your five most important life priorities and another honestly documenting the five activities you actually spend the most time doing, including non-productive activities like worrying.
About Alignment Assessment
Alignment Assessment is a diagnostic framework that reveals the gap between what people say is most important to them and how they actually spend their time and energy. It involves creating two columns - one listing your five most important life priorities and another honestly documenting the five activities you actually spend the most time doing, including non-productive activities like worrying.
The assessment consistently reveals massive gaps between stated priorities and actual time allocation, helping people identify where inner friction and misalignment are creating energy drain similar to a car with wheels out of alignment.
“Inner friction and conflicts create energy drain similar to a car with misaligned wheels”
— Eben Paganon Explaining how misalignment between priorities and actions affects personal energy and effectiveness
Perspective
“Self-assessment should focus on productive activities and positive behaviors”
Honest assessment must include time spent on activities like worrying and working hard, not just productive tasks
Evidence 8
To take control of your life, identify the three most important areas where you feel most out of control and create conditions to regain control
Eben suggests specific areas like money, relationships, health, living situation, or mental patterns like self-criticism
From: 3 Steps To Get Control Of Your Life & Be Successfulat 0:32A condition is a higher-order decision that makes many future decisions automatically - one decision that affects years or decades of your life
Eben's 'no junk food in the house' rule became a condition that affected years of his life and helped him lose 30 pounds
From: 3 Steps To Get Control Of Your Life & Be Successfulat 4:08Validate customers, products, and business models before spending big money on production, marketing, and distribution
Eben references Stephen Blank's customer validation methodology from Silicon Valley, emphasizing testing before major in
From: 7 Keys To A Virtual Businessat 10:45Use free and low-cost online tools to research, survey, and test your market assumptions before major investment
Eben describes using social networking groups, forums, blogs, free PDF downloads, webinars, and opt-in pages to test mar
From: 7 Keys To A Virtual Businessat 12:18Inner friction and conflicts create energy drain similar to a car with misaligned wheels
Eben explains that a car wheel out of alignment by half an inch causes tires to wear 2-3 times faster, reduces control,
From: Get Alignment In Life - 5 Minute Proven ExerciseGetting into alignment creates feelings of freedom, flow, and things working as they need to work
Eben describes the specific sensations people experience when aligned: freedom, flow, and natural functionality, contras
From: Get Alignment In Life - 5 Minute Proven Exerciseat 1:03The two-column assessment reveals massive gaps between priorities and actual time allocation
Exercise requires writing 5 most important life priorities in left column and 5 activities you spend most time doing in
From: Get Alignment In Life - 5 Minute Proven Exerciseat 1:35Honest assessment of time allocation includes activities like worrying and working hard, not just productive tasks
Eben specifically mentions that the five activities people spend most time doing may include worrying, working hard, or
From: Get Alignment In Life - 5 Minute Proven Exerciseat 2:07Evidence
The assessment consistently reveals massive gaps between stated priorities and actual time allocation, helping people identify where inner friction and misalignment are creating energy drain similar to a car with wheels out of alignment.
Source Content 3
3 Steps To Get Control Of Your Life & Be Successful
Get Alignment In Life - 5 Minute Proven Exercise
7 Keys To A Virtual Business