“I’ve measured everything that mattered in my career. I’ve never measured my own life.”
Does your life fit what you want next? Picture the chapter you want two years from now, and The Life Fit Assessment scores the life you’re living against it across five areas: Meaning, Time, Freedom, Vitality and Connection. You answer from the last thirty days, not from what you hope is true.
About thirty minutes, on your own. Your results show where your life already supports what you want next, where the time and energy it needs are going instead, and where to look first, with one next step based on your answers. They also show what any change would have to work with right now: how much say you have over your days, your energy, and the support around you.
You build the next chapter out of the life you’re living now.
Start with what an ordinary week looks like.
An ordinary week is the truest record of a life. It shows what actually decides how you live:
Left alone, the next chapter inherits that week as it stands. The assessment looks at that week one area at a time, so you choose what you carry forward instead of inheriting all of it.
Knowing what you want is the start of a plan. Seeing which parts of your week support it, and which are taking the time and energy it needs, is the rest of it.
In my late twenties, I passed an older couple while climbing toward an overlook in Greece. The man couldn’t go any further, and his wife looked heartbroken. I didn’t know how long they had hoped to make that trip. I knew I wanted to travel while I had the health and energy to enjoy it.
I decided then that I wouldn’t wait until I could afford the trip, only to find myself no longer able to climb the mountain.
Not a personality quiz. Not another reset. A score for the life you’re living, built from your own answers.
A general sense that life is going well, or that it isn't, hides the useful detail. Work can be going well while the rest of the week gets what’s left. Health and friendships can be solid while you still haven’t named what you want to build next. Scoring five areas separately shows those differences, with your own answers behind every number. It’s a number you gave yourself, which makes it hard to argue with.
You score from evidence, not aspiration.
Your answers produce two scores. The Fit Score measures how well the life you’re living fits what you want next. The Capacity Score brings together your ratings for Freedom, Vitality and Connection: what your answers show about how much say you have over your days, your energy, and the support around you.
Read the area scores alongside the totals: a high total can include one lower area.
You’ll rate 25 statements across the Five Domains, mainly using what you’ve experienced in the past thirty days:
A well-built life can still be running on the last chapter’s plan. The Five Domains show where.
Four things, all included.
All of it is yours to keep. Your access doesn’t expire, and you can retake the assessment whenever you want. Each new result appears on screen and arrives in your inbox.
Set aside about thirty minutes. Rate the 25 statements from your recent experience.
Your Fit Score, your Capacity Score, scores for all five areas, and an explanation of where to look first.
Read the three guided readings in your welcome packet at your own pace. They explain how to read your answers alongside the scores.
Use the suggested step, or one of your own, to decide what gets your attention first, then give it a place in your week. Your lowest score is a place to look more closely, not an instruction to make a major change.
Evidence before action.
For men who trust a measurement over a mood.
You wouldn’t make a serious decision at work without the numbers. Here, the numbers are about your own life.
Some are exploring what comes next. Some are already making plans. Some enjoy the life they’ve built and want to know what’s worth protecting. All three start in the same place: a structured look at the life they have.
This is a self-directed assessment with written guidance. It doesn’t include therapy or coaching, and it isn’t designed for crisis care or urgent clinical support.
Sound decisions rarely begin with inspiration. They begin with evidence.
During nearly 25 years as a U.S. Army and Air Force officer and helicopter pilot, I learned to trust the instruments over my assumptions. What was actually happening came first. What to do about it came second.
Your life deserves the same discipline. Your calendar, your energy and your relationships are the instruments. I built this assessment to read them, so your next decision starts from what’s true rather than what’s assumed.
Immediate access to the interactive assessment, your results on screen and by email when you finish, the welcome packet with its three guided readings, and your fillable assessment workbook.
All sales are final once access is delivered. If anything doesn’t open, we’ll restore access. (See Refund Policy.)
Where your life stands is the first question. Which core values should lead your decisions is the next.
Of everything that matters to you, which should lead the decisions in front of you? Authority Foundations is where you choose the core values that get the final say over your next two years, and start making decisions by them. With a fillable workbook and three video sessions with James, you name your five core values and put them to work on a decision you’re facing. It’s a separate program, done at your own pace.
Each is complete on its own, and you can begin with either. If you already have Foundations, bring what you notice here into that work.
Every time, you make a decision and take the first step.
Before more time slips away.
Start by seeing what’s true.
Neither. It’s an assessment you complete yourself, with written guidance to help you understand your results.
About thirty minutes for the assessment. The three guided readings in your welcome packet are yours to read whenever you’re ready.
Both. Your results explain your scores and suggest one next step. The welcome packet’s three guided readings help you understand the results in more depth.
The online assessment, your results on screen and by email, three guided readings to help you understand and use your results, and a separate workbook you can fill in and score yourself. All four are included in the $67.
“Aligned” is the name for a Fit Score from 80 to 100. It means your life largely fits what you want next, so the work is refinement, not redesign: start with what you want to protect or improve. Check the five areas individually, too, because a strong total can include one area you’d like to give more attention to.
Yes, whenever you want, including when your situation changes. Each new result appears on screen and arrives in your inbox.
No. The assessment is complete in itself.