Your state
Why it matters.
Busy-ness is not business. Until you know what a job earns after real costs, every quote is a guess — and guesses don't pay rent.
What success looks like.
- Per-unit cost computed for one real offering, with every cost listed.
- Margin and break-even number you can state from memory.
- One price or cost change modelled before/after.
The component skills.
Typical mistakes.
- — Forgetting your own time as a cost.
- — Using optimistic material costs instead of invoiced ones.
- — Confusing revenue with profit — margin is the number.
Practise — activities that produce artifacts.
List every cost of one offering ~40 min
Pick the thing you actually sell (or want to) and list every cost per unit: materials, transport, fees, your time at a fair hourly rate. Nothing is free.
Artifact: The complete cost list
Break-even calculation ~30 min
With your cost list, compute the per-unit margin at your current price, then the number of sales that covers your fixed costs for a month.
Artifact: Margin + break-even number, worked
Missions — do it for real.
Mentors for this capability.
Matched from real, opted-in DISHA members through the Mentor Intelligence Network — with their trust states shown as stored. Source-listed is not the same as verified.
No opted-in mentors match this capability yet — none are invented. See the Mentors view or the full directory.
How assessment works.
Every submission gets a transparent first-pass against the mission's rubric — what was looked for and what was observed. Verified state requires a real review; the system never upgrades self-reported evidence on its own.
accuracy
Concrete numbers, units and exact values instead of vague amounts
completeness
All parts of the task covered — nothing skipped or assumed away
evidence_quality
An observable artifact: worksheet, receipt, photo reference, recording note
follow_through
What happened afterwards — the result and what changed
self_awareness
Honest signals: what you noticed, what was hard, what you'd change
Accepted evidence: mission_submission, mentor_review, observed_application, work_sample.
Stated plainly — what this doesn't do
- — Submissions are private, self-reported evidence — they never become verified without a real review.
- — Mentor review for capabilities arrives in a later phase of this module.
Source: DISHA MY LIFE SKILLS Module Master Specification v1.0 §4 · v1 · last checked 2026-10-24 · your data rights