Master Your Focus: The Spheres of Influence Assessment

This assessment is a powerful tool for mental clarity and professional effectiveness. Based on Rosa Harvey’s ‘Instrument of Control’, it helps you map exactly where you are directing your emotional and mental energy.

We often experience stress and burnout because we try to ‘control’ factors that are, in reality, only within our ‘influence’—or worse, completely outside of our reach. By using this framework, you can identify where you are over-functioning and begin to redirect your efforts towards the areas where you can have the most significant impact.

The Three Spheres

Your results will categorise your focus into three distinct areas:

The Sphere of Control: Your internal world—your thoughts, actions, and reactions.

The Sphere of Influence: Areas you can affect through collaboration and communication.

The Sphere of Concern: External factors you may care about, but have no power to change.

Instructions

This assessment consists of a series of statements regarding your daily habits, stressors, and decision-making processes.

For each statement, please select the option that best represents your current outlook on a 6-point scale, ranging from Disagree Strongly to Agree Strongly.

To get the most accurate ‘map’ of your current focus, try to answer based on your actual behaviour over the last month, rather than how you would like to behave in an ideal world.

Your Results

Upon completion, your scores will be presented as a percentage for each sphere. It is important to note that a high numerical score represents where your mental and emotional energy is currently anchored.

A high score in Control or Influence suggests a proactive, internal sense of agency.

A high score in Concern indicates a predilection to believing that events are dictated by external forces, leaving you feeling that things are happening ‘to’ you rather than ‘by’ you.

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Take approximately 10 minutes to audit your focus and reclaim your influence.