When was the last time your work felt like it was actually yours?
Are you good at things that leave you cold?
Do you love something that will never pay the rent — or get paid for something you could take or leave?
Have you ever had all four — love, skill, purpose, and income — in the same week, and not even noticed?
Most people can answer two or three of those. Almost no one has looked at all four together — and fewer still have checked whether their actual work reflects any of it.
Two minutes to answer. What you find might take longer to unsee.
How this works.
Four steps, in order. Each one builds on the last.
1. Assessment — who you are
Twelve quick questions across four areas: what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, what you can be paid for. This is about your natural disposition — independent of any job you currently hold. You'll get a synthesis of where those four things overlap (Passion, Mission, Profession, Vocation), plus an optional round of sharper follow-up questions to refine the read.
2. Your Current Positions — where you actually stand
Name up to three things you're currently working on — jobs, tasks, projects. For each one, four quick questions ask how much it actually draws on your Passion, Mission, Profession, and Vocation as identified in your Assessment. You'll get two numbers per project:
- Overall fit — the average across all four, a generous read.
- Bottleneck — the single weakest one, named plainly. The thing quietly capping everything else.
Real work has shades of grey. Some projects sit near the Sweet Spot, some sit right in it, most sit somewhere in between with real trade-offs. This isn't a pass/fail test.
3. Strategies — what to do about it
For each project, this is a structured way to think through the gap: what the data shows, an honest self-evaluation only you can make, and a few named strategic directions — each with its trade-off stated plainly — that you can pick from and refine in conversation. Nothing here hands you a plan; it helps you build your own.
A note on how the scoring works
Passion and Vocation are diagonal opposites in the model, as are Mission and Profession. Living strongly in one without its opposite produces a specific, recognizable strain — that's the "tension" language you'll see throughout. There's no persistence between sessions right now, so try to finish what you start in one sitting.
Your natural disposition, independent of any job.
Twelve quick taps — no essays — and a synthesis of where love, skill, the world's need, and pay overlap for you specifically.
Where your answers meet.
This is a mirror, not a verdict. Read it, argue with it, keep what's true.
Synthesis
Where each thing you're doing actually lands.
Not black and white — real work has shades of grey and trade-offs. Some of this is near your Sweet Spot. Some of it may be right in it.