The Self Awareness Questionnaire

Would you like to know what your positive/negative balance is?

Fill in the following questions, presented in 6 Profiles, and get your personal reports instantly - for each Profile
and for the whole Questionnaire. The questionnaire should take about 10 minutes to complete all 72 Items.
The Self Awareness Questionnaire is a personal attitude survey that can help you isolate the very factors that
may have been holding you back from achieving your untapped potential.
How to do the Questionnaire
Please state your position with respect to the Negative Views on the left and the Positive Views on the right -
do this by clicking on the button that you feel is where you stand: a clear Negative, a tendency toward
Negative, a tendency toward Positive, or a clear Positive.
When you click on the Score button, you will see that your scores are automatically added up below
(provided you have JavaScript and cookies switched on for your browser) giving you an overall score
for this first Profile, Self-Image. You will also see a personal analysis of your scores. The final page of the
Questionnaire will also indicate your cumulative score for all six Profiles.
Please answer all of the questions.

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1. This is your Self Image Questionnaire

NEGATIVE VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 POSITIVE VIEW
I am not satisfied with my I am satisfied with my general
general behavior behavior

I feel I am not reaching my I feel I am reaching my

potential potential

My family is not happy with me My family is happy with me

I do not get on well with other I get on well with other people
people

I am not doing things I really I am doing things I really want

want to to

I am limited by a poor self- I am helped by a good self-

image image

I am not self confident I am self confident

I feel that my general behavior I feel that my general behavior

is not well balanced is well balanced

I do not think of myself as a I think of myself as a positive

positive person person
I do not consider myself to be I consider myself to be a
a responsible person responsible person

I do not fully I fully

understand/accept/respect understand/accept/respect
myself myself
I do not have an attractive I have a very attractive
personality personality
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Your Score: 67 Your Score (Percent): 70%

Analysis of the Self Image Questionnaire

Analysis
Overall you have a positive bias. You are exhibiting positive trends and have good levels of self-esteem.
However, there are areas where you might wish to seek improvement. See the more specific comments
below.
Your profile suggests that you are fairly satisfied with your general behaviour. You are though very much
aware that you still have something to learn in this area. You are not over-confident regarding your
behaviour and know there is more for you to do to achieve full satisfaction.
These results show that you feel that you are indeed making some progress towards reaching your potential.
This is good news. It is true, your potential is ever increasing, but perhaps not as much as you might prefer,
or you might be changing in fits and starts. Maybe you just need to focus more precisely on what you want
out of life and how you intend to get there.
Because you believe that your family is somewhat happy with you, you have the beginnings of a solid
foundation from which to develop further. Be aware though that relationships are constantly changing and be
alert for any signs which, could suggest that relationships are deteriorating.
You feel that you have some confidence that you do get on well with other people. This is, as you will
appreciate a valuable quality. Maybe the reason that you have not given yourself a full positive here is that
you accept that there is room for much improvement in your communication skills. A first step could be to
take a good long look at yourself in the mirror and see yourself as others see you.
Also you suggest that you are aware of what you really want to do but have not quite managed to get there
yet. Maybe it would be a good time to conduct a personal SWOT analysis as a prelim to setting out a list of
goals intended to take you to where you want to be. A SWOT analysis is a brutally honest self-audit in which
you list all of your strengths and weaknesses as you see them. Then you list any threats, which could
undermine your ambition together with all the opportunities you see which support your ambition. Having
done this exercise you will be in a good position to then determine exactly what it is you want, knowing that
you have the personal capacity to achieve it. As time passes do be aware that your ambitions and goals may
well change therefore, you may still need to re-evaluate your life from time to time in order to stay on track.
You appreciate to some degree the importance of a good self image, this gives you some advantage ...
something you can build on. Many people have found that by developing a more positive image of
themselves they improve their lives. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you think you are, you
become!
Another point is that you are somewhat self-confident. Self-confidence is so very important in life. Yours is a
fairly high score and you should therefore be aware that maybe some people could perceive you as a little
too independent at times. A good appreciation of oneself is very important in achieving success and
happiness in life. True self confidence is a state of balance.
You believe that your behaviour isn't as well balanced in some areas of your life as you would like.
Controlling areas of excessive behaviour is an essential starting point. One uncontrolled outburst or some
other unseemly behaviour can cost you dear.
Thinking of yourself as a completely positive person places you in an elitist group. Very few people are able
to maintain a positive mindset no matter what befalls them. Balanced with other qualities, it should lead to
success and happiness.
Because you consider yourself to be a responsible person, you have a sound platform from which to explore
your opportunities for further personal growth. Any subsequent self development you may achieve will be
well supported by your high level of personal responsibility.
In responding positively to this question you set yourself apart from the majority. This suggests that you have
already made some progress in this regard. Most people have never thought deeply about really getting to
know themselves, so you are to be congratulated on getting this far. Have you ever taken a good look in the
mirror and had a heart to heart conversation with yourself? Yes, it may sound a little scary but you can gain
a lot from seeing yourself as others see you. Maybe now would be a good time to conduct another personal
analysis.
Possessing a fairly positive view regarding your personality is something that helps you in life. You can be
pleased that you have attained a reasonable level of self-respect and have a good self-image. You should
though always be on your guard against over confidence in this area.

Self Awareness Questionnaire - Part 2

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2. This is your Self Control Questionnaire

NEGATIVE VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 POSITIVE VIEW
I am easily defeated I am not easily defeated

I do not accept responsibility I accept responsibility easily

easily

I never respect a confidence I always respect a confidence

I am not aware that I control I am aware that I control what

what enters my brain enters my brain

I do not know how to build I know I can build mental

mental defenses defenses

I always yield to temptation I never yield to temptation

I often get bad tempered or I am never bad tempered or
lose self control lose self control

I flare up get angry and sulk I do not flare up get angry and
sulk

I speak unkindly about people I do not speak unkindly about

people

I am generally calm under all

Often, I am not calm under all
circumstances, even stressful
circumstances
ones
Usually, I would rather not face Usually, I believe in facing
up to the facts facts
I often put off doing things I never put off doing things

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Your Score: 54 Your Score (Percent): 56%

Analysis of the Self Control Questionnaire

Analysis
Your self-control profile is more positive than many. You are somewhat positive and you believe that you
have good self-control. However, your profile does suggest that there are areas where you might wish to
seek improvement. See the more specific comments below.
You are fairly satisfied with, your levels of resilience and your determination to try again after a setback or
disappointment. This is very good and you should be pleased with yourself in this area. However, if you find
that things are not actually going well for you in this area from time to time, relax and sit quietly for a few
minutes you might then allow your intuitive side to make you more aware of your ability to solve problems.
This is, of course, desirable.
Knowing that you must accept personal responsibility for the quality of your life gives you a firm foundation
upon which to build. But perhaps you feel you have a way to go yet. You may even sometimes find yourself
tending to sidestep responsibility and blaming others for a particular situation. Do be aware though that just
because you accept personal responsibility does not mean that you will have a trouble free ride. Life is full of
trials and tribulations designed to make you stronger in their overcoming. You should be aware how your
acceptance of responsibility gives you more control of your life.
Because you usually try to respect confidences, others may trust and confide in you. However when
someone says to you that they want to tell you something in confidence, this is what you may consider
saying to them. You should tell them that whilst you will always do your best to respect a confidence it may
be that what they tell you is of such a nature that it may not be possible for you to confirm that assurance.
Then if they still insist in telling you and you discover that you just have to share that information with
someone else for moral or legal reasons you have still been faithful to yourself.
It is not surprising that you are not fully aware that you control what enters your brain. From the moment of
birth our brains are bombarded with unsolicited information much of which we have no control over. It is
believed that the brain cannot tell the difference between a real or imagined experience. Therefore it is
unlikely to be able to distinguish which of the information it is fed is good or bad, accurate or inaccurate,
positive or negative. Once you as a human were able to make those distinctions for yourself by way of
reasoning you began to make those decisions for yourself. Probably you started this reasoning process
around the age of three. From 24 to 36 months and you like all other young children probably experienced
huge frustration as you battled to understand what was going on in your world. This is why parents of
children of this age often refer to the terrible twos. Over the years you then develop your own system of
values upon which you then make your decisions. The problem is that you have already accepted into your
brain receptor cells much in the way of negative information about your self and others. There is a way to
reverse this process and then only accept positive into your brain. What you do is in effect install a negative
filter which, stops anything of a negative nature being recorded. Now of course you cannot delete what is
already recorded in your brain but you can so flood your brain with positive from now on that any negative
within you can be submerged under a sea of positive thoughts. You can be sure you are not alone in
admitting some degree of ignorance regarding this topic. You though unlike many others do have the insight
into the problem and from here you can begin to develop a method of ensuring you refuse to accept any
further negative into your brain.
Building mental defences to protect yourself against negative influences is a most desirable ability. You
suggest that you may find difficulty in building such mental defences. The first step to correcting this situation
is to determine to take charge and take control of your own life. The good news is that you then have the
opportunity to learn new techniques and ways of building mental defences.
Yielding to temptation means that you lose control and that you may become overwhelmed by the object of
your fascination. You are aware that you are sometimes led away from your true course in life by what are
mere distractions. By developing the ability to resist what is not important (but which seems enticing) you
can attain more satisfaction and success in life.
Bad-temperedness, and losing ones temper, even in childhood can be predictors of lack of success in future
life. The more you are able to control your moods, the more you are in control of your life. Further, you feel
you lose control too often, however, not to too great a degree. At least you appreciate that there is a
problem, and this is the first step to making improvements, so you can fully benefit from being more in
control of your moods and relate better with people.
This question relates to the previous one. As a child, you might have got what you wanted by sulking or
throwing a tantrum, but in adult life it rarely works. You may be aware how counter-productive this technique
is, and you are able to control it somewhat, but you need to learn how you can totally relinquish it.
Whilst speaking kindly about other people can lead to success, speaking unkindly about others is rarely
beneficial. It is often the result of yielding to the moment and expressing false superiority over others and
pleasing the listener (or not). It reflects a lack of self-control, and perhaps awareness. When we have a
problem with another person, we should normally resolve that issue with that person, and not 'natter' about
them to others. Fortunately, you can resist this temptation and you may have sufficient awareness to know
you can learn how to be more in control.
Loosing control, whether by becoming angry or afraid prevents you from fully achieving what you want or
being the person you want to be. When you easily lose control or become flustered, then you are often
controlled by other people or circumstances. You feel you are generally not calm under all circumstances,
which means you can benefit by learning more in the area of control.
You believe that, usually, you do face up to the facts, but not always. By reacting to the world by denying the
truth, whether it is good or bad, means that you do not have the information you need to follow your path
through life. Your world becomes a kind of fantasy world or a mysterious one, where nothing seems to make
sense, except in an illusionary way. Because you are aware of those occasions when you don't face the
facts, you have the awareness to seek new knowledge to improve.
Because you often act in a timely manner to deal with what needs to be done, you free yourself of the many
problems that arise due to procrastination. You can be pleased that these problems do not, therefore, bother
you. However, there is still more to be done to develop your control in life.

Self Awareness Questionnaire - Part 3

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3. This is your Creativity Questionnaire

NEGATIVE VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 POSITIVE VIEW
I do not use imagination in my I use imagination in my
ordinary work ordinary work

I do not consider myself to be I consider myself to be creative

creative

I never act on intuition I act on intuition

I seldom create new ideas and I want to create new ideas and
things things

I never visualise my successes I visualise my successes in

in advance advance

I never picture every particular I picture every particular thing I

thing I have to do have to do

I never find that solutions to I often find that solutions to

problems appear to come from problems appear to come from
nowhere. nowhere.
I do not feel there is a special I feel there is a special purpose
purpose in life for me in life for me

I do not feel that I am spiritually I feel I am spiritually

directed/protected directed/protected

I never receive solutions to my I often receive solutions to my

problems through dreams problems through dreams.
I never make jokes or play with I often make jokes, or play with
"crazy" ideas when solving "crazy" ideas when seeking
serious problems solutions even to serious
problems.
I prefer the conventional, and
I actively seek new ideas.
never seek new ideas.
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 Your Score: 62 Your Score (Percent): 65%

Analysis of the Creativity Questionnaire

Analysis
Your overall profile is tending towards the positive for Creativity. The answers you gave suggest that you feel
you do occasionally benefit from your creative aspect. However, you may not fully realise the immense
power for positive growth and advancement that the creative faculty offers you. What you should consider is
that this creative power (the Genie of your imagination) is ready willing and very able to help you fashion for
yourself the life you truly want. See the more specific comments below.
Your answers suggest that you feel you seldom consciously use imagination in your ordinary work. This
probably means you do not realise how much imagination could help you in many aspects of your life. If you
can learn how connect with your creative imagination and begin to utilise it you may well be surprised at the
positive effect on you, and its continuing benefit.
While you do consider yourself to be somewhat creative, you should check whether this is supported by your
answers to other questions in this section If so, then you may indeed consider yourself to be someone who
is in tune with their creative faculty. As you must then know, we are all born with a huge basket of inbred
skills and abilities, one of which is an ability to be creative and inventive. What you should now focus on is
ensuring that you do utilise to the full your creative power. The Genie of your imagination is ready willing and
very able to help you fashion for yourself the life you truly want.
Your answers suggest that you feel you sometimes do act on intuition. You may also therefore be aware of
how much you, like everyone else on the planet are constantly and unconsciously influenced by
intuition.Intuitional Power concerns the power or faculty of receiving direct knowledge without
rational thought or inference. Intuition as you may have experienced is an inflow of knowledge that arises
usually suddenly when you need information or guidance and is so relevant that you do not question that
knowledge. By understanding, accepting, tuning in and using to the full your own intuitive faculties you can
vastly improve your personal development possibilities. You may still further improve your intuitive powers by
meditation and contemplation.
Certainly your answers suggest that you sometimes create new ideas and things. Creativity, as you are
probably aware is more than just problem solving. It is also having the pleasure of bringing new ideas and
things into existence. Therefore, by using your creativity, you have this delight in life. By understanding,
accepting, tuning in and using to the full your own creative faculties you can vastly improve your personal
development possibilities. You may still further improve your powers of creativity through meditation and
contemplation.
You sometimes visualise your successes in advance. Only a fraction of humanity practices this essential
skill, so you can be pleased about this. You are therefore more aware of the power of positive visualisation.
Olympic athletes use this skill as an essential part of their pre race build up, and so add that extra layer of
positive imagining to their training schedule. They actually re run the race many times in their minds eye and
see themselves succeeding over and over again. Fortunately, you are aware power of positive imaginings.
As you do not always picture every particular thing you do, you may find that things do not turn out as you
expect. You may have forgotten to consider something. By visualising every particular aspect of a project,
you make it come alive, more real, and therefore more attainable. Recent brain biology discoveries have
confirmed that positive imaginings and positive imaging creates neural pathways in the brain. These
increase dramatically your chances of experiencing for real what you have pre-recorded in your minds eye.
Maybe without realising it you have been pre recording negative expectations. From now on be sure to
correct this and only pre-record positive expectations.
Another point is that your answers here suggest that you seldom find solutions to problems seemingly
appearing from nowhere. That is, from your intuitive and creative faculties. This means you are not
benefiting from their consistent and positive use. You should maybe discipline yourself to tune in to, and be
more aware of this process, and thereby learn to use it for your future personal growth and development.
You feel there is a special purpose for you in life, which makes you a special person. Sadly this is not a
'normal' state for people in this society. However, many great people shared your belief that they too had a
purpose in life and what they did was meaningful. You may through the pure magic of meditation and
concentration become even more attuned to the inner you and maybe discover even more clearly just what
your special purpose in life is.
Even though you are sure that you are spiritual directed and protected, you may find there is more to learn
and to experience in this area. When we shut out our creative processes, we can feel we are alone and our
lives are pointless. Being tuned into our environments can greatly enhance our inner satisfaction.
Happily, you feel that you may occasionally receive solutions to your problems through dreams. Some
people do not even realise that they dream, let alone benefit from the messages and solutions to problems
that they can receive through their dreams. Many great discoveries have been made through the assistance
of dreams.
You rarely make jokes or play with 'crazy' ideas when solving serious problems. Creativity, by its nature often
uses jokes and 'crazy' ideas to find new ways to look at problems and to allow the thinker to loosen up. By
developing your creativity, you might utilise new ways to solve both personal and worldly problems.
Sometimes, you actively seek new ideas. This means you are sure to gain huge advantage from becoming
totally attuned with your own creative and intuitive faculties.

Self Awareness Questionnaire - Part 4

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4. This is your Cooperation Questionnaire

NEGATIVE VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 POSITIVE VIEW
I am often abrupt when dealing I am never abrupt when
with others dealing with others

It is not easy for me to forgive It is easy for me to forgive

I do not trust people I trust people

I do not make every effort to I make every effort to see good

see good in others in others

I am not naturally cooperative I am very cooperative

I am not completely loyal to I am completely loyal to every

every purpose I undertake purpose I undertake

I seldom experience quality in I believe in quality in human

human relations relations
I always reject other people's I never reject other people's
ideas out of hand ideas out of hand
(immediately, without (immediately, without
consideration) just because consideration).
they aren't my ideas.
I do not like working with I believe in working with others
others on common tasks on common tasks

I am not concerned about I support what I believe is good

anyone but myself. for everyone

I feel I am an isolated person I do not feel I am an isolated

person

I always build communication I never build communication

barriers in my work barriers in my work
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Your Score: 67 Your Score (Percent): 70%

Analysis of the Cooperation Questionnaire

Analysis
Your overall profile is stronger than many on Cooperation. You tend to be cooperative and benefit to some
degree from the happiness and success that this brings. However, you may also be aware of how much
better life can be with greater understanding. See the more specific comments below.
You are sometimes abrupt when dealing with others. This means you are aware that your relationships with
others do not always go smoothly. This can indicate a nervousness wherein you feel you must respond
quickly, before you have fully understood. It can also indicate a lack of understanding, in which case, it is
likely that others say you are abrupt. Through further self development, you can become more relaxed and
more capable in dealing with others.
Because you make an effort to forgive to some extent, you do not generally hold grudges, you may,
however, hold grudges, or even adopt a victim mentality, on some occasions. Your mind is not greatly
disturbed through anger or the inability to forget some real or imagined wrong. You understand, if only a
little, that 'forgiveness' does not mean thinking that a bad person is good, or bad behaviour is good. It means
no longer troubling yourself with past wrongs, committed by you and others. By being able to forgive yourself
and others, at least sometimes, you may find that cooperating with others is easier, because you believe
they will help you and you will help them.
Because you trust people, at least to some degree, your life is better in many ways: in communication,
relationships and in personal well-being. In all our activities we need to trust, or rely on other people and
believe in their honesty. Whilst we do not want to be gullible and credulous, we do need to have the peace of
mind that in general people are on our side and will help and do their part, as we must do ours.
You see to some degree the good in others and make the effort to find it. By doing so, you make your life so
much better. By making the effort to see the good in others, you benefit from the self-fulfilling prophesy, and
they reward you with their goodness.
Because you are somewhat cooperative, you therefore gain the benefits of working with others when
appropriate. A great deal of our success and happiness depends on the give and take that occurs between
people, or within groups. Sometimes we need to make adjustments for the sake of the common good. To the
degree you are able to work with others, you are to that degree personally satisfied. If your life isn't going the
way you want it to go, you could be somewhat malleable, or easily manipulated.
Because you are normally loyal to every purpose you undertake, you may find that you usually attain your
life goals. This means you have trust in others and also self-trust. You are probably also quite adept at the
art of true delegation. If this isn't true, or if your life isn't going the way you would like just now, then it may
mean that you should review the answers you have given.
You experience quality in all or most human relationships. One of the greatest pleasures in life is the
pleasure of the company and communication with other people. When we lose the 'flavour' of relationships,
many aspects of our life can become meaningless. Your life should be very happy and successful. If
problems remain, then further work in self development could impact pleasurably in your life.
You do not always reject other people's ideas out of hand (immediately, without consideration). Normally we
get new ideas and inspiration from others and this enables us to find solutions to our problems and develop
new ideas to help us with our projects. To fully benefit from others ideas we need the skills of cooperation
and other skills, even to listen to what others say. Whilst you benefit to some degree by considering others
ideas, by rejecting some ideas from others out of hand, you would be depriving yourself of part of a great
resource of help.
You believe, somewhat, in working with others on common tasks. This is a benefit to you. Whilst we can
sometimes do better when working alone on some things, to be honest, we need the input and help of others
to attain anything of great value. There are very few people who have attained success and happiness by
working without the support, help and encouragement of others.
Generally, you support what you believe is good for everyone. Overall, most people expect some exchange,
preferably positive in their relationships with others. When others act only for themselves, they find it difficult
to form long term relationships with others fail to benefit from the synergy that comes from a positive and
vibrant relationship.
You do not feel you are isolated person. Of course, there is a difference between being lonely and being a
loner, where someone is apparently content to be alone. In either case, there is a lack of the ability to
cooperate and benefit from the pleasure and help that comes from associating with others. You do benefit
somewhat by being a member of a group and you can benefit more by studying and working on issues in
cooperation and other areas of self development.
In your work, you do not always build communication barriers. Communication barriers can relate to knowing
how to build mental defences, which is a useful skill. However, when working on a shared undertaking, it is
better to be able to communicate freely. When we afraid what we might hear, or believe we cannot cope with
others disagreements, then we try to hide away from communication by building barriers. You do not always
build communication barriers, however you can learn to handle others communications even better so you
can be open and confident when working with them, even on those occasions where you might previously
have needed to build barriers to communication.

Self Awareness Questionnaire - Part 5

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5. This is your Planning Questionnaire

NEGATIVE VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 POSITIVE VIEW
I do not plan my life I plan my life

I never check the feasibility of I always check the feasibility of

everything I attempt everything I attempt

I never think ahead and I always think ahead and

confirm my actions are right confirm my actions are right

I seldom finish what I start I always finish what I start

I find it hard to plan my work I do not find it hard to plan my

work

I have not fully planned my life I have fully planned my life

I do not plan the rewards I I plan the rewards I want from

want from my efforts my efforts

I never plan anything. I always I nearly always plan, and rarely

ad-lib (improvise) improvise

I have not planned a personal I have planned a personal

contribution to society contribution to society

I never assure that my goals I always assure that my goals

are measurable are measurable

I never visualise my goals I always visualise my goals

I never create a timetable for I always create a timetable for

my goals my goals
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Your Score: 39 Your Score (Percent): 41%

Analysis of the Planning Questionnaire

Analysis
Planning is certainly one of your weaker suits. Your responses are on the negative side of Planning. This
means that you do not, in general, feel you plan your life. While most people do not make a life plan, or plan
their activities, it seems that those who do plan are the ones that succeed, find happiness and give meaning
to their lives and activities. It also seems that even though the plan may have to be changed, perhaps
radically, during the course of the project, the fact that there is a plan seems to make attaining the goal more
likely. By not making plans you are similar to most people. By learning to plan and by planning you can make
attaining whatever you want much more likely, and also make your life more meaningful. See the more
specific comments below on the other questions.
If you do not plan your life, and this seems to be so in your case, then you are probably not in control of your
life's direction. You have indicated that you do not plan your life. This is a crux question, and you should also
have responded negatively to every question in this section. This is a crux question, and you have therefore
possible responded negatively to every question in this section. If you have generally responded positively to
this part of the questionnaire, then your answer to this question indicates a lack of understanding about what
planning is, and you could benefit through learning more.
Because you do not always check the feasibility of everything you attempt, your planning is to that degree
deficient. This relates to the time scale (and other factors). If we had unlimited time, then there would be few
things that were impossible. However, because we often have a limited time to achieve a goal, we can find
ourselves chasing sunbeams, or goals, which, had we thought about them more carefully, would have been
clearly seen as unattainable, and we waste our time by pursuing them in the way we imaged. However, had
we thought about their feasibility the balance of our own competencies and those required by the project),
then we might have changed our plan so that success were possible, by changing such things as the time
scale, creating sub goals, etc.
Not thinking ahead and confirming your actions are right can lead to problems. If you do not prior to action,
positively visualise the steps to be taken in any plan you may miss pre existing conditions, which in effect
render your plan ineffective. Thinking things through in advance of action helps you to understand how your
plan may be possible, in various ways, and how it may be ethical or not. The consequences of your plan are
an important part of planning and should be considered. Hopefully, an unethical plan would never be
successful in the long term. But without a little thought beforehand, you are in danger of creating plans
which, even if attained, will not create success and happiness, and will negatively impact on the
purposefulness of your life.
If you seldom finish what you start, then you seldom attain your goals and the success, happiness and life
meaning that follows. Goals that are well-planned will only rarely prove to be unworthy, and therefore
abandoned. Therefore, when we almost always fail to attain our goals, it means we lack the knowledge of
planning to attain them. Part of planning concerns motivation, and a well-planned goal is itself motivating, as
you will learn. When you become knowledgeable in planning, you will attain more and more of what you
desire.
You sometimes find it hard to plan your work. Planning is more than mechanical attainment of worldly things,
and your difficulty in planning your work may relate to your personal plans and your life plan (or absence of
these). By learning to plan, you can use this knowledge to improve all aspects of your life.
As you have not fully planned your life, you may find that things do not turn out as you expect, and that some
things seem extremely difficult. Planning your life enables you to make sense of many of the things you do
and motivate you to do them. You can benefit greatly by learning how to plan effectively.
Another point is that you do not always plan the rewards you want from your efforts. Planning isn't just some
mechanical activity. It is extremely personal and should be motivating. Life isn't merely about the attainment
of things, such as wealth. It is also about being happy. The rewards from our efforts include physical
rewards, status and happiness. By planning for these, you can avoid pursuing goals which will not give you
what you want and also ensure you attain what you want. Whilst a slave might work for nothing, a free
person expects and needs at least minimum rewards. As you have the choice decide not to live your life as a
slave.
You rarely plan anything. You normally ad-lib (improvise). Whilst it is good to be able to improvise when
necessary, such as when there isn't time to prepare, success and happiness are more often attained through
proper planning.
Since you have planned a personal contribution to society, you may have some crucial knowledge about
planning and life success. Planning is not merely objective and limited to the needs of oneself or of one's
group or organisation. It has to fit in with the larger whole. At the very least an ethical goal does not go
against society. However, more is often needed. Having a personal contribution to society or having this
within your plans is something that not only benefits others, but also strengthens our own plans and makes it
easier for us to attain our goals.
Ensuring that your goals are measurable is part of the planning process. The word measurable causes
problems for some people. As you will learn, in a way 'measurable' means 'how we know we have attained
our goal'. If there is no way to tell whether we have attained our goal in part or whole, then we can never
know when we have succeeded. Sometimes we can do this with numbers. Sometimes we use a judgement
whether things are better or not. In any event, we need to think out beforehand how we will know whether we
have succeeded or to what degree we have succeeded. By not thinking out beforehand how you will
measure the results of your activities, you are not using all the techniques of planning.
You rarely visualise your goals. Visualising your goals enables you to quality check your ideas in several
ways, including whether the goal is feasible or not. By visualising your goals beforehand you can also check
whether what you are striving for is actually something you really want, and whether it is something that will
make you happy.
Because you do not create a time table for your goals, you cannot check whether they are attainable,
realistic, etc, and are less likely to attain them. Clearly some things are impossible in the short term, although
they may be possible over a longer period. By limiting what we do over the short term to what is possible,
etc, we are more likely to attain our goals, and to attain the greater goals in a step-by-step manner over the
longer term.

Self Awareness Questionnaire - Part 6

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6. This is your Concentration Questionnaire

NEGATIVE VIEW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 POSITIVE VIEW
I have very low powers of I have excellent powers of
concentration concentration

I do not know how to I know how to contemplate,

contemplate and do so regularly

I do not have the will power to I have the will power to

achieve all I desire achieve all I desire

I seldom seek progress in my I always seek progress in my

life life

I see the negative in everything I try to be constructive in

everything

I have little self-discipline I have a sense of self-

discipline

I am not in control of my life I bring all I am engaged on

under personal control

I have no clear sense of I have a clear sense of

direction in my life direction in my life
I am easily distracted I am not easily distracted

I cannot get into reading or I can easily get absorbed in a

studying book or in study
I do not easily get bored with
I easily get bored with anything
anything which requires mental
requiring mental effort
effort
I am usually bothered by I am not normally bothered by
distracting thoughts distracting thoughts
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Your Score: 47 Your Score (Percent): 49%

Analysis of the Concentration Questionnaire

Analysis
Concentration is one of your weaker suits. This means that you do not feel you use your ability to direct your
mind. Concentration involves powerfully directing your mind towards something. When our minds flitter from
one thing to another depending on what currently is in focus, we find it hard to achieve our goals and to
develop. By learning to concentrate we can increase our success and happiness.
Your responses suggest that you have low powers of concentration. You are not alone. The ability to
concentrate fully on a particular objective to the exclusion of all else is a skill not learned or practised by
many. However if you are able to focus on a clear direction in your life then you are well on the way to
understanding the quantum leap you may make in your own personal achievements through applied
concentration. Concentration is the actual process of focusing solely on a common central objective. Too few
people use contemplation and concentration. That is why there are so many ordinary people. This is not said
in a disparaging way. It is a tragedy that millions of people simply never move beyond fulfilling basic urges.
They live and yet are not 'alive'. They consume yet they neither create nor produce. True concentration is
learned over many years and in truth only ever practised by those who have mastered the art of isolated
contemplation.
While you do not know very well how to contemplate, you can learn more and increase your ability. By
learning to contemplate you can increase your ability to learn and to attain what you want and avoid leaving
many life tasks incomplete.
You feel you sometimes have the will power to achieve what you desire. Even so, you are aware that you
have more benefits to gain in this area through gaining further knowledge.
Certainly, you feel you usually seek progress in your life, although perhaps not as much as you would like. It
is from development within that we make our spiritual, mental and worldly progress. It is this inner
development which some consider the very purpose of life!
Your response suggests that you feel you see the negative in everything. Why do you say this? Upon what
do you base this view of yourself? Maybe this is what others have told you are their views of you? Are they
right? Or is it that you are just a little more guarded than they are? Is it that you are not given to the wilder
flights of fancy and risk taking that some of your friends and acquaintances seem to revel in? Maybe you are
just much more realistic than many of your friends and acquaintances. Or do you truly believe that you are in
some way negatively earthed? If so do you feel that this has held you back in any way? If you feel it has then
why have you not taken steps to make the changes to your behaviour? Do you need a little help perhaps?
While it is valuable to be realistic, even sceptical, actively looking for the negative in everything rather than
taking a balanced view seldom leads to success and happiness. By being more constructive in your
approach you may well make your world so much more enjoyable and a happier place for you and those you
care for.
As you feel you have little self-discipline, you may find that things do not turn out as you expect, need or
want. When we lack the self-discipline to keep ourselves on track in our studies and in our activities in life,
we leave behind us a mass of uncompleted tasks and half understood subjects. Through developing self
discipline, we can attain more success and happiness in life.
Another point is that you believe you are not wholly in control of your life. This belief or feeling is always
undesirable. However, the truth is we are always in control of our lives, and what happens or is happening to
us is directly related to our actions, decisions and thoughts, now and in the past. By developing the skills
taught in the How To Master Your Destiny course, you can learn to control your life in the way you want to.
You seem to feel you have a no clear sense of direction in your life. This also relates to other parts of this
questionnaire, for instance, Self Control, Creativity and Planning. When these faculties, abilities and skills
are strengthened, then you will experience, among other things, a sense that your life has a clear direction.
You will be able to bring your personal event horizon closer and see more clearly your life direction.
Even though you feel you are easily distracted, it may be that you are actually easily attracted to new and
exciting ideas. These ideas though may prove costly in time and lead you away from your main objectives.
Perhaps you should consider taking time to study ways of increasing your powers of concentration and
contemplation. This may help so that you are more in control of your ability to keep your mind on the task in
hand. You may gain much from considering the lessons to be learned from study of the How To Master Your
Destiny course.
While you find some difficulty in disciplining yourself to read or study, you probably find that you generally
prefer to learn by doing, a hands on approach if you will. Whilst this is an approach to life and business
embraced by many it does leave you wide open to sometimes taking ill informed decisions. You are probably
missing a great resource of information by not being able to concentrate on books and on study. Perhaps
you should consider taking time to study ways of increasing your powers of concentration and
contemplation. You may gain much from considering the lessons to be learned from study of the How To
Master Your Destiny course.
You say that sometimes you find it hard to apply yourself to anything requiring mental effort. Is this true of
most things? Or is this only true of those things that hold no personal or natural interest for you? Most people
would find it difficult to exert much mental effort on subjects that hold no interest for them. Naturally we tend
to do well at those things that interest us and do badly or avoid altogether those things we find, to put it
bluntly, boring. There is no real answer here. It may well just have to be accepted that from time to time we
will all have to apply ourselves mentally to things we find boring.
You are not alone most people are sometimes bothered by distracting thoughts. Many thoughts race through
our minds in a single day. The critical skill to employ here is one of concentration on the matter in hand. If
however a particular thought has merit or is an intuitive answer to a problem you have been trying to solve,
write it down and then get on with the current tasks. When the task of the moment is completed you may
then apply yourself to the thought you wrote down. If you do not write out these thoughts they may keep
popping up to distract you again and again , or even worse be lost forever.
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Conclusion
This is your Overall Negative/Positive Profile Balance
Test Score
Score Percentage
Self Image 67 70
Self Control 54 56
Creativity 62 65
Cooperation 67 70
Planning 39 41
Concentration 47 49
Overall (Per Cent): 58%

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Overall Analysis of the Self Awareness Questionnaire

Analysis
Overall your responses tended towards the positive side in this Self Awareness Questionnaire. You will then
probably be aware that you, like everyone else on the planet, have all the mental equipment necessary to
guide you to achieve all you want in life. Perhaps, though you are aware of this fact, you have not taken total
advantage of these faculties. The good news is that you can, by further applying yourself make any changes
you feel may be necessary to take you to where you want to be. One programme of self discovery which
may be interesting for you to consider is How To Master Your Destiny. Why not take a look at the course
overview. There is a free 20 page PDF download available at Human_Cybernetics.pdf.
As your responses tended to the positive side of the Self Image profile, you have probably feel quite satisfied
with your life. But don't you secretly feel that you could and should achieve so much more in life? You may
well have further opportunity for personal development and personal fulfilment. You could perhaps consider
shaking your life up a little and start reprogramming yourself for even more success and happiness in life.
The levels of Self Control which you say you have seems to be a good balance. Someone who has too
much self control could appear cold, aloof and unapproachable to others. However, you should take care not
to appear aloof and unapproachable to others. Remember though that one inappropriate emotional outburst
or loss of control can destroy in seconds what it may have taken years to build. By learning Self Control you
can improve your ability to become more in control of your life and your future.
Your responses are pretty much on the positive in the section on Creativity This means your life should be
extremely good in this area of Self Development. You should though be aware that there is still more to be
done in this part of your life.
Certainly, you feel you do quite well in Cooperation. Almost every successful person has attained their
success and happiness through the help of others. You, too, benefit from this ability. However, you have the
awareness that you can do even better, so you have the potential for development here.
You feel you do not do extremely well in Planning. Of course, we can be obsessive about planning, but in
general, we our more likely to achieve our life goals as well as other aims through planning them. You have
the awareness of the need to learn and apply data on planning to enhance your life.
As you feel you cannot Concentrate well, you may find it difficult to achieve what you want in life, because
you do not stick with your goals. You would, therefore benefit greatly by developing this ability.