Energy Lights demo. The questions below are the real ones. The three maps underneath are built from fictional people so you can see every shape the module produces. A real map is built from a person's own answers and stays private to them and their practitioner.
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Energy Lights.

Three to six minutes · Taken on a phone · Husband and wife take it separately
"Some things take energy out of you. Some things put it back. Most people have never once been asked which is which."
How it works

Three lights. That is the whole instrument.

A person goes through the ordinary parts of a week, one at a time, and marks each one. There is no scale from one to ten and nothing to score. There is only what it does to them.

Red. Takes energy out of me.
Yellow. Neither. It is just flat.
Green. Puts energy back in me.
How long it takes

It is not one length. It is three.

Forty eight items exist. Nobody answers all of them unless they own a business with their husband or wife, because the module only asks what applies to the life a person actually has.

On your own

34 items · 3 to 4 minutes

The spouse question and the children question never appear. Marcus, on this page, answered 34.

As a couple

36 items each · 3 to 4 minutes each

Separately, in different rooms. The couple map appears when the second person finishes, not before. Daniel and Rachel answered 36 each.

Business owners, together

48 items each · 4 to 6 minutes each

The same 36, plus the twelve business items. Tyler and Bianca answered 48 each. About eleven minutes between the two of them.

Timed at the same pace as the main assessment, which runs about an hour across its 517 items. The Energy items are shorter than those, so this is the slow end of the estimate rather than the fast one.

Try it yourself

Six real questions, right here.

These are taken word for word from the module. Nothing you tap is saved or sent anywhere. Watch what the card does when you answer.

Question 1 of 6
Map one · One person on their own

Marcus, 44. Money is the leak.

Marcus is single and runs his own company. He answered thirty four items; the spouse question and the children question never appeared, because the module only asks what applies to the life a person actually has.

11 red12 yellow11 green34 items answered

Red lights

11

These take energy out. Every one is real work that costs him something.

Cleaning the houseHome and the daily loadLaundryHome and the daily loadExtended familyPeopleMeetings and callsWorkThe inboxWorkPaying billsMoney and paperworkBudgetingMoney and paperworkTaxes and formsMoney and paperworkAdmin phone callsMoney and paperworkGetting to bedBody and rhythmYour morningsBody and rhythm

Yellow lights

12

Neutral. They neither drain him nor fill him. They are simply flat.

Cooking and mealsHome and the daily loadGroceries and errandsHome and the daily loadThe family calendarHome and the daily loadHosting peoplePeopleDeadlinesWorkLeading peopleWorkBig money callsMoney and paperworkBig purchasesMoney and paperworkEating wellBody and rhythmYour eveningsBody and rhythmReading and studyFaith and meaningLeading at homeFaith and meaning

Green lights

11

These put energy back. This is the refill list, and it is free.

Yard and repairsHome and the daily loadA night outPeopleQuiet and solitudePeopleYour main workWorkLearning new thingsWorkMoving your bodyBody and rhythmAn empty dayBody and rhythmPrayer and quiet timeFaith and meaningChurchFaith and meaningServing othersFaith and meaningWorshipFaith and meaning
The pattern

Every money item is red.

Bills, budgeting, taxes, the insurance phone calls. Five of his eleven red lights sit in one area. That is not a discipline problem. That is one drawer of his life draining the whole week, and it is the first thing his coach will hand off.

The refill

Faith and quiet fill him back up.

Prayer, church, serving, worship, a long stretch of quiet, an empty day. His green list costs nothing and needs no permission. Most people cannot name theirs until they see it written down.

The move

One swap, this week.

Hand the bookkeeping to somebody else and put the two hours it returns against the greens he already named. That is the whole first conversation, and it comes out of his own answers rather than anybody's advice.

Map two · A married couple

Daniel & Rachel. They are already trading.

Married, two children, no business together. They took it separately, in different rooms, and neither one saw the other's answers until the map was built. Nineteen items came back where one of them is red and the other is green.

Daniel
41 · 36 items
13 red · 11 yellow · 12 green
Rachel
39 · 36 items
12 red · 5 yellow · 19 green
One is red, the other is green. A trade. Both red. Nobody wants it. Both green. Protect it.

Home and the daily load

DanRach
Cooking and meals
Cleaning the house
Laundry
Yard and repairs
Groceries and errands
The family calendar

People

DanRach
Time with your spouse
Time with your kids
Extended family
Hosting people
A night out
Quiet and solitude

Work

DanRach
Your main work
Meetings and calls
Deadlines
Leading people
Learning new things
The inbox

Money and paperwork

DanRach
Paying bills
Budgeting
Taxes and forms
Big money calls
Admin phone calls
Big purchases

Body and rhythm

DanRach
Moving your body
Eating well
Getting to bed
Your mornings
Your evenings
An empty day

Faith and meaning

DanRach
Prayer and quiet time
Church
Serving others
Reading and study
Leading at home
Worship
Nineteen trades

The chores are backwards.

She is green on cooking, groceries and the calendar; he is red on all three. He is green on the yard, the deadlines, the bills and the big money calls; she is red on all four. They have been splitting the week down the middle and both of them have been carrying the wrong half.

Both red · one item

Laundry.

Out of seventy two answers there is exactly one thing neither of them wants to touch. That is not a conversation about fairness. That is a hundred and twenty dollars a month at a wash and fold, and it is the cheapest thing either of them will ever buy.

Both green · one item

Time alone together.

The only item they both marked green is time alone with each other. It is also the first thing that disappeared. The map does not tell them to date more. It shows them that the one thing they agree on is the one thing they stopped defending.

Map three · The business owners add on

Tyler & Bianca. They run it together.

Same module, plus twelve more items that only appear when a couple owns a company together. They answered those separately too. The home map runs first, then the business one, and the second is usually the one that ends the argument.

Tyler
37 · 36 home · 12 business
12 red · 15 yellow · 9 green
Bianca
35 · 36 home · 12 business
9 red · 9 yellow · 18 green

At home their shape looks like Daniel and Rachel's: one shared red light, laundry, and two shared green ones, time alone together and worship. The twelve business items are where it gets useful.

One is red, the other is green. Hand it over. Both red. Hire it out. Both green. Do it together.

The business

TyBia
Selling
The books
Hiring and managing
Marketing
Operations
Unhappy customers
Planning and vision
Paperwork and rules
Pricing
Vendors
Customer service
The schedule
His side

Selling, marketing, vision.

Three items where Tyler is green and Bianca is red. He is the front of the company. Every hour he spends off the front of it costs them twice, once in what he is bad at and once in what nobody is doing.

  • SellingGreen for him, red for her
  • MarketingGreen for him, red for her
  • Planning and visionGreen for him, red for her
Her side

The books, the people, the paperwork.

Six items where Bianca is green and Tyler is red or flat. She has been asking him to look at the books for two years. The map says he should never look at the books again.

  • The booksGreen for her, red for him
  • Hiring and managingGreen for her, flat for him
  • OperationsGreen for her, flat for him
  • Paperwork and rulesGreen for her, red for him
  • PricingGreen for her, flat for him
  • The scheduleGreen for her, red for him
Both red · the first hire

Customer service.

Front line customer service is the only business item they both marked red, and unhappy customers is red for him and flat for her. Neither of them should be answering that phone. That is the next person they hire, and they did not need a consultant to find it. They needed twelve questions and six minutes each.

What the coach does with it

The practitioner decides what the client sees.

Energy Lights is an add on. A certified practitioner turns it on for a client, sends the link by email or text, and the client takes it on their phone with nothing to install and nothing to log into.

Send it in one tap

Copy the link, email it or text it from the practitioner console. Husband and wife each get their own link so neither one answers in front of the other.

The coach sees it first

The map lands in the console the moment the second person finishes. The practitioner reads it, decides whether the timing is right, and then releases it.

A switch per client

One control: let them see their own map. Off by default. Some couples should hear it in the room before they read it alone at eleven at night.

Nothing is scored at them

The client never sees a number, a rank or a label. They see their own red, yellow and green lights, in their own words, and what to do about the first one.

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Energy Lights is one module inside Stronghold. Certified practitioners send it, read it, and decide when the client sees it.

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