Belief Leap

You know what to do. You’re not doing it.

You’ve done the thinking, the reading, the talking. You can describe the answer in a sentence. The not-doing isn’t a strategy problem. It’s a belief problem. The Belief Map identifies the 19 beliefs that determine whether you actually take the path you can see.

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About 15 minutes. No credit card.

Built on belief frameworks from Kegan, Dweck, Brown, Bandura, and Seligman. 19 belief constructs measured. Synthesis in your own language.

If any of these is you

The Map is built for the pattern, not the person.

Five common shapes of belief-driven stuckness. You may recognize one of these as exactly your situation, or several.

You know what to do. You don't do it.

Every assessment, every coach, every book has confirmed the answer. The not-doing isn't a strategy gap. It's something underneath.

You've done the work. The pattern is still here.

Therapy, coaching, journaling, retreats. The shape changes. The center doesn't. You're starting to wonder if there's a layer you haven't reached yet.

You can describe the wall in detail. You can't move past it.

You've read the books. You can use the language. You can explain exactly why you're stuck. The explanation hasn't moved you.

You're succeeding outwardly. Stuck inwardly.

The titles, the credentials, the income, the relationships are working. The version of you behind all of it isn't who you want to be. No one would believe you if you said it.

You decide. Then you re-decide. Then you re-decide.

Every six months you're back at the same decision, with the same arguments, ending in the same nothing. The deciding itself has become the protection.

What's actually going on

It's not a willpower problem.

You've spent years assuming you just need to try harder. Push through. Care more. Want it more. None of it worked. And the worse it got, the more you assumed the issue was in you.

Effort runs on top of belief. If the belief running underneath is “people like me don’t get to want this,” no amount of motivation moves you past it. You’ll keep ending up exactly where you are, blaming yourself for not trying hard enough at the wrong thing.

Beliefs are not character traits. They’re sentences your nervous system installed at some point, often without your knowing. They can be named. They can be examined. They can be replaced. The Map is the diagnostic that shows you which sentence is doing the work.

What's measured

19 beliefs. One full picture.

The Belief Map covers the 19 beliefs research has shown actually move people through meaningful change. Some you'll recognize immediately; others will be the ones quietly running underneath your decisions. A few you'll see below.

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How it works

Diagnose → name → install.

Step 1 / Diagnose

Take the assessment.

Mix of forced-choice, scale, and open-text questions. Designed to scatter, so you can't game it because the same belief is measured from multiple angles. Free to take. You see your top belief gap headline immediately.

Step 2 / Name

Get your Belief Map.

The Report ($29) unlocks the hidden commitment your top belief gap is protecting, target reframes for every belief, evidence from your own answers, and the belief your future self holds that you don't fully hold yet.

Step 3 / Install

Work the program.

The Roadmap ($79) gives you a 4-week guided installation program focused on closing your top belief gap, plus 30 days of unlimited AI Belief Coach access. The Coach has your full Map and quotes your own language back at you. The Live tier ($497) adds a 1:1 60-min session with Jon to pressure-test your competing commitment in person.

What you actually get

Inside the Belief Map Roadmap.

Three connected surfaces. One running the synthesis, one running the four-week installation, one running the ongoing accountability. All built from your assessment.

Roadmap tab

The synthesis you'll actually re-read.

Your archetype, top belief gap, competing commitment, and the self-stories you've been telling yourself. Specific to you, in language that matches how you talk.

Belief Roadmap synthesis tab showing a 'Stories You've Told Yourself' section with four named self-stories rendered as quoted italic phrases, each paired with a coach-style reframe question

4-Week Program

A structured installation, not a reading list.

Four weeks of specific exercises designed around your top belief gap. Each exercise is sized to fit a real life, with a coach prompt to bring it deeper.

Belief Roadmap 4-Week Program tab showing Week 3 'Run the Experiment, Break the Rule' with an exercise titled 'The Website Ships This Week' that includes specific daily breakdown and a 'bring to coach' prompt

Actions tab

The work the program leaves behind.

Your action items, your Victory Wall, and your coach-generated next moves. Updated as you go, in conversation with the coach that has your full Map.

Belief Roadmap Actions tab personalized for Annie, showing a Victory Wall card, a 0-of-18-completed action plan progress bar, a 'from your coach' section, and a 'your first move' action with a specific website-related task

What the Map actually surfaces

This is what one sentence looks like.

The most distinctive thing the Belief Map does is name the competing commitment behind your top belief gap. Not a generic finding. A specific sentence about what your belief is protecting you from, in language that matches how you actually talk.

You hold the belief that you need more credentials before you can pivot. Because if you pivot now and it doesn’t work, you can’t blame the lack of credentials. The pivot is protecting you from a specific kind of public failure you watched someone close to you go through, and the credentialing chase lets you stay on the path without ever testing whether you actually want it.

Sample competing commitment, anonymized

That’s the work. Once you can read your own competing commitment in your own language, you can decide what to do with it. You couldn’t before because it was running underneath your awareness.

Pricing

Free to take. Pay when you want depth.

Every tier includes 14-day money-back guarantee. Already a Career, Freedom, or Money Leap customer? Belief data automatically enriches your existing coach + brief.

Belief Map Report

$29

The full Belief Map. All 19 beliefs unpacked with evidence from your answers, target reframes, and the competing commitment running underneath.

  • Full competing-commitment analysis
  • All 19 belief reframes
  • Evidence + gap notes per belief
  • Future-self belief revealed
  • Instant, delivered to your inbox
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Belief Map Roadmap

$79

Everything in the Report, plus a 4-week guided installation program and 30 days of unlimited AI Belief Coach access.

  • Everything in the Report
  • 4-week installation program
  • 30-day unlimited AI Belief Coach
  • Weekly check-ins on belief shift
  • Worksheets + counter-evidence drills
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+ Live Strategy Session

$497$697

Everything in the Roadmap, plus a 1:1 60-min session with Jon Miksis to pressure-test your competing commitment and finalize your installation plan together.

  • Everything in the Roadmap
  • 1:1 60-min strategy session with Jon
  • Custom belief installation plan
  • 60-day follow-up
  • Priority scheduling within 48 hours
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You pay only after taking the free assessment and seeing your top belief gap.

Why $79

What this costs vs what it replaces.

A good therapist takes six to twelve sessions to identify your core competing commitment. At $150 to $300 per session, that’s $1,200 to $3,600 spread over three to six months of weekly hours.

The Belief Map names the same thing in 15 minutes. The Report ($29) hands you the language. The Roadmap ($79) is a 30-day installation program with an AI coach trained on your exact pattern.

This isn’t a replacement for a human therapist. A therapist holds your nervous system through the work in ways a tool cannot. But if you’ve done therapy and the pattern is still here, this is the layer underneath what you were already talking about.

What this feels like.

Early responses

Probably taken 15 of these things over the years and they all kind of blend together honestly. This one stuck because the AI kept calling me on stuff I usually get away with in coaching conversations. Which is annoying in a good way I guess.

Daniel, PM

I've gone back to the report like 6 or 7 times in the last week. Not to remember what it said, more to check it against whatever just happened that day. It's becoming a mirror I didn't know I needed.

Lena, SEO agency founder

I have ADHD so the program length scared me but it's structured for that better than I expected. I missed week 2 because of a deadline and the program just let me pick it back up without guilting me. Small thing that mattered to me.

Tom, Life Coach
Jon Miksis, founder of Make The Leap

Built by Jon

Career changer. 73 countries. 9 years building businesses. The Belief Map is the tool he wishes he'd had at 2am, staring at the ceiling, knowing what to do and not doing it. Belief work is the layer underneath every shift he's coached people through.

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Questions

What people ask.

How long does the assessment take?

About 15 minutes. Most are forced-choice or 1-5 scale, with a handful of short open-text questions scattered throughout that capture how you actually talk about your situation. Those open-text answers are what the AI uses to make the synthesis sound like you.

What's the difference between Belief Leap and the other Leaps?

Career Leap, Money Leap, and the others diagnose where you are in a specific life domain and recommend paths forward. Belief Leap is the foundational layer underneath all of them. It maps the beliefs about yourself, work, change, and worth that determine whether you actually take any of those paths. If you've ever finished a career assessment knowing exactly what to do and still not done it, that's a belief problem, not a strategy problem.

Is this just another personality test?

No. Personality tests describe what you're like. The Belief Map identifies the specific beliefs that are blocking the change you want to make, and what the unconscious commitment behind each belief is protecting. That's the leverage point.

What's the Belief Coach actually like?

It's a chat interface trained on your full Belief Map. When you bring up something specific (a hard conversation coming up, a decision you're wrestling with, a resistance you can't shake), the Coach names which belief is showing up and walks you through it. It quotes your own answers back at you. It won't pivot to surface advice when the work is underneath. Available with the Roadmap and Live tiers.

What's the 4-week Roadmap?

A guided program focused on the single belief that's costing you the most. Week 1 is observation (catch the belief in action). Week 2 is naming the hidden commitment underneath it. Week 3 is small experiments with counter-evidence. Week 4 is integration. Each week has 2-3 specific exercises and 2-3 reflection prompts, plus a coach-invite block that gives you a specific reason to open the Coach that week.

What happens on the 1:1 Strategy Session?

Sixty minutes with Jon Miksis (founder of Make The Leap). The session opens at your competing commitment, the unconscious commitment your top belief gap is protecting. By the end of the call you have a personalized installation plan plus 60 days of follow-up. Sessions are priority-scheduled within 48 hours of purchase.

Already a Career Leap (or Freedom / Money / First Leap) customer?

Your Belief Map will automatically enrich your existing Career Coach and Career Brief (for new generations). When your Career Coach knows the belief underneath your career resistance, the conversation gets sharper. Same for the AI Belief Coach knowing your Career path context.

What's the refund policy?

14-day money-back guarantee on all tiers. If the Belief Map doesn't feel sharp enough about you specifically, email us and we'll refund.

The strategy is fine. The belief is the work.

The Belief Map is free to take. You only pay when you want the depth.

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