“Divide potential team members into two personality types: creatives who generate ideas and change things last-minute, and organizers who make plans and schedules. Creatives should hire organizers to handle administration and keep them on track.”
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.
Misconception
“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
Relevant Clips46
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Creatives Generate Ideas — Hire Organizers to Keep You on Track
Divide potential team members into two personality types: creatives who generate ideas and change things last-minute, and organizers who make plans and schedules. Creatives should hire organizers to handle administration and keep them on track.
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Why How You Make Money Matters More Than How Much
Get a blank paper and draw a line down the middle. Left side: write 5 things most important to you in life. Right side: write 5 activities you spend most time doing. Be honest about time allocation and compare the lists.
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Pattern Frameworks for Recognizing Aligned Opportunities
Look for observable patterns in opportunity recognition that connect with your personal values and desired lifestyle. There are specific frameworks and patterns that can be learned and applied systematically.
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Two-Column Life Alignment Exercise in Five Minutes
Draw a line down the middle of a paper. On the left, write 5 things most important to you in life. On the right, write the 5 activities you spend the most time doing. Compare the lists to see misalignment.
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How Inner Friction Drains Energy and Reduces Effectiveness
Inner friction and conflicts act like misaligned car wheels, draining energy and reducing effectiveness. Being out of alignment robs you of energy, while alignment creates freedom and flow.
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Approach Communication Scientifically — Check Test Measure Refine
Approaching communication scientifically by aligning definitions with reality through checking, testing, finding weak points, and measuring results increases consciousness
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Virtual Teams Force a Focus on Results Not Activity
Virtual team members force you to focus only on results rather than activity, eliminating creative avoidance behaviors that look productive but don't create outcomes.
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Personal Message Filter That Screens Out 70% of Bad Candidates
Ask candidates to write personal messages answering specific questions instead of submitting resumes, which immediately disqualifies 50-70% of unqualified applicants.
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Re-Engaging Quiet Quitters Through Personality Discovery
For managers, re-engaging quiet quitters requires helping them discover their unique gifts through personality assessment rather than imposing standard solutions
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Budget Three Months for Meaningful Hire Onboarding
Accept training investment risk for significant hires - budget for 3 months of onboarding costs because meaningful players can't be productive in just a few days
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Dating Multiple Women to Discover Real Preferences
Dating multiple women simultaneously helps you discover what you actually want versus what you think you want - preferences often change through real experience
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Company Culture Reflects the Leader's Behavior Directly
Company culture is simply a reflection of the leader's behavior - if you're stuffy and play power games, you'll attract stuffy people who play political games
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Win-Win-Win Transparency That Generates Team Loyalty
Win-win-win transparency where you openly tell your team you want them to have great personal lives so the business succeeds together creates magical results
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Write Job Ads in a Candid Personal Tone Not a Skills List
Write job ads in a friendly, candid, personal tone explaining exactly what you want and don't want, rather than listing formal skills and qualifications.
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Finding the Overlap Zone Between Customer, Business, and Self
Leaders must balance conflicting needs between customers, business, and themselves, finding the overlap zones where everyone's needs can be met
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Value Is Completely Subjective — Same Production Cost, Different Price
High performers who miss daily updates can be coached or given assistant support, but non-performers who also miss updates should be terminated
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Train Team Members to Reflect Back Current Commitments Before Adding More
Train team members to be individuals who guard organizational priorities by reflecting back current commitments before accepting new projects
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Opposite Personality Types Build Powerful Teams
Opposite personality types can create powerful teams when they understand and leverage each other's strengths rather than fighting them
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Redirect Price Objections to the Transformation Vision
When clients object to price or time, redirect them to what's more important in their life than achieving their transformation vision
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Structurists and free spirits need each other - structurists create organization while free spirits provide creativity and ideas
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Use Holistic Actualization Points to Evaluate Opportunities Across Life
Use 'holistic actualization points' (HAPS) to evaluate opportunities across different life domains using a universal currency
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Email Exchanges to Evaluate Candidate Thinking Style
Use email exchanges and advice requests during the relationship building phase to evaluate how candidates think and respond
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Recognizing Value-Aligned Opportunities Follows Learnable Patterns
Recognizing opportunities that align with personal values and lifestyle follows observable patterns that can be learned
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Balancing Customer Business and Personal Needs
Successful entrepreneurs must balance three distinct sets of needs: customer needs, business needs, and personal needs
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Validate Customers and Products Before Heavy Spending
Validate customers, products, and business models before spending big money on production, marketing, and distribution
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Use Serial Interviews to Find Candidates Who Finish Projects
Use serial in-depth interviews to discover if candidates have a proven track record of driving projects to completion
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Test Candidates with Live Work Tasks Not Just Interviews
Test prospective team members by having them do actual work tasks live to reveal their real performance capabilities
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Honest Time Audits Include Worry Not Just Work
Honest assessment of time allocation includes activities like worrying and working hard, not just productive tasks
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Identify What Clients Want to Create Before Giving Advice
Always help clients identify what they want to create, achieve, and avoid before offering any advice or teaching
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Why You Cannot See Your Own Potential
You need master external feedback because you can't see yourself or your potential from inside your comfort zone
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Hiring for Passion and Completed Project Track Record
Look for passion and a successful track record of driving projects to completion when hiring top performers
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Cross-Department Interview Teams for Comprehensive Evaluation
Use multiple team members from different departments to interview candidates for comprehensive evaluation
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Values Change Over Time — Free Time Now Beats Money
Values change over time—Eben valued money most 10 years ago but now values free time with family most
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Superstars Work for Impact, Not for Money
Superstars work for impact rather than money and want to see the world change because of what they do
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Investigate Weird Signals With New Team Members Immediately
Investigate immediately when sensing anything weird with new team members to prevent major problems
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One in 31 People Are Under Legal Supervision
One in 31 people are under legal system supervision, requiring vigilance in business relationships
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Alignment Creates Freedom Flow and Natural Momentum
Getting into alignment creates feelings of freedom, flow, and things working as they need to work
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Assign Specific Accountability for Each Function as You Grow
Assign specific accountability for each business function to different team members as you grow
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Two-Column Assessment Reveals Priority-Time Misalignment
The two-column assessment reveals massive gaps between priorities and actual time allocation
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Inner Conflicts Drain Energy Like Misaligned Wheels
Inner friction and conflicts create energy drain similar to a car with misaligned wheels
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Visualizing Success for Customer and Presenter Before a Sale
Take time to visualize success for both your customer and yourself. Imagine them buying your product, their life improving, and them being happy. Also imagine the presentation going smoothly and you getting paid and feeling good about it.
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Get Prospects to Imagine Using Your Product and Receiving the Benefits
Get prospects to imagine purchasing your product, using it, and receiving the benefits. You can directly say 'imagine what your life is going to be like when you've achieved the outcome and how differently you're going to feel.'
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Being Out of Alignment Robs You of Energy and Flow
As a person, being out of alignment really robs you of a lot of energy. And when you get yourself into alignment, you start to feel this feeling of freedom of flow of things just working the way that they need to work.
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Two Lists From Two Different People — That's Misalignment
In a lot of cases, when you look at your list, you'll see that it's almost as if these two lists came from two completely different people because they're that far out of alignment.
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Humans Overestimate Their Ability to Change Behavior From Insight
We humans, we like to imagine ourselves as much better able to hear something or see it and then translate it into reality and change our behavior than we really are.
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You Can Broadcast Things With No Bearing on Reality
you can broadcast things that you say you do things that you say you are that have no bearing on on reality