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The Misfit Tax Ledger

What is keeping everything running actually costing?

Effort can exist.

Skill can exist.

Output can exist.

 

Cost can exist alongside all three.

The Ledger makes that cost visible.
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What This Is

A free 25–30 minute self-assessment.

Not a diagnosis. Not a label. Not a ranking system.

It measures cost.

It maps where the account is being spent.

If a question does not apply, answer accordingly.

There is no expected profile.

What It Looks At

What it looks at:
It then identifies where the taking is coming from.

Daily output — where the account is being spent across a typical day

Recovery load — whether rest actually restores what was taken

Override frequency — how often you push past body signals

Masking cost — what it costs to appear steady

Environmental fit — whether your current conditions support or drain you

Cumulative strain — whether load is increasing over time

Collapse patterns — what shutdown looks like and what precedes it

  • Personal.

  • Interactional.

  • Structural.

Not everything that feels personal originates there.

What You Receive.

A clear picture of where the taking is coming from.

The primary driver identified:

personal, interactional, or structural.

 

Where to act first.

The first step is not the highest cost area.

It is where leverage actually exists.

 

Not "try harder." Direction.

What Happens Next

Once the driver is clear:

Reduce what is taking unnecessarily.

Protect what is still working.

Restore internal access to what was always there.

Add what the conditions were missing.

 

If the taking is personal, the work shifts there.

If relational, it shifts there.

If structural, effort alone will not fix it, and that matters.

 

Some limits are structural ceilings, not personal deficits.

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The Books

Each book works on a different part of what has been taking from you.
 
The Ledger tells you where to begin.

UNMASKED — Recognition UNTANGLED — Clarity UNBURDENED — Safety

UNBOUND — Sovereignty

UNHIDDEN — Connection UNCONTAINED — Alignment UNLEASHED — Integration

UNVEILED — Applied Story

International Award Winning

International award-winning work, including Global Stevie Awards (2024, 2025)

and International Women Changing the World recognition (2025).

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What This Is Not

Not optimisation. Not productivity enhancement. Not a growth mandate.

 

It restores access.

 

What you do with restored access remains yours.

 

When unnecessary 'taking' reduces, you get to what matters in your life. Consistently. Without collapse afterwards.

Tanya Hicks acknowledges the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which this work is created on the Sunshine Coast. I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

I recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded. These always were, and always will be, Aboriginal lands.

 

I honour the enduring strength, knowledge, and cultural practices of First Nations peoples, and acknowledge that this work exists on Country that has held wisdom, connection, and community care for tens of thousands of years.

© Tanya Hicks 2019.                                                   Inc. No: IA4786828.                                                       ABN: 43 318 321 173

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