---
name: Leverage Audit
category: business
works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini]
difficulty: plug-and-play
version: 1.0
source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten)
tested: no
---

# Leverage Audit

## What it does
Audits your current strategy against your income goal — highest-leverage moves, real bottlenecks, and the uncomfortable decisions you're avoiding, ranked by expected return.

## When to use it
- Working hard, income flat
- Quarterly strategy check
- You suspect you're busy with the wrong things (you usually are)

## The skill
```
My income goal for the next 12 months: [SPECIFIC NUMBER]
Current income and where it comes from: [BREAKDOWN]
What I currently spend my working time on: [HONEST LIST WITH ROUGH
HOURS]
What I've been meaning to do but haven't: [LIST — BE HONEST]

Audit me:
1. THE GAP — Is the goal realistic from here? Show the math. If
   not, give me the number that IS and what the original would
   require.
2. LEVERAGE — Rank my possible moves by expected return on effort.
   Which 20% of possible actions drive most of the gap?
3. BOTTLENECK — The single constraint that, unfixed, caps
   everything else regardless of effort elsewhere.
4. AVOIDANCE — Look at my "meaning to do" list. What am I avoiding,
   and what is the avoidance costing per month?
5. THE CUT — What should I STOP doing entirely. Time freed is the
   cheapest leverage there is.

Rules: no motivation, no "you've got this". If the goal is fantasy,
say so before optimizing toward it.
```

## Example output
[TO FILL AFTER TESTING]

## Tweaks
- Rerun quarterly with actual numbers — the audit compounds
- The AVOIDANCE section is the product; don't skip filling in that input honestly