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1. What is your style of dress?
Simple, muted colors
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Late afternoon
No one particular time
Dawn
Dusk, twilight
Morning
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
No particular one
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
Sight
Smell and taste
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5. What do you desire?
To have it all
To do
To know
To feel
To just be
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Creating and doing projects
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Just being
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
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8. What do you fear?
Emotional intimacy
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Not having enough
Intrusion
Failure
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
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10. What do you do to take care of yourself when you are upset?
Realize that nothing is a big deal
Remember to slow down
Seek confirmation from others and reconnect to my own richness
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
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11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Intimate and emotional
Detached and logical
Spacious, simple
Active, making things happen
The center of attention
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Embracing and appreciative
Direct, straightforward
Empathetic and communicative
Accommodating
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
By being clinging then rejecting, exhibiting a love/hate dynamic, trying too hard to please
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Comprehensive and thorough
Spacious and accommodating
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Turning thought into action without hesitation
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15. What is your learning style?
Amassing information; doing research
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
By doing; trial and error
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Simple, slow
Clear, orderly, and precise
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Retaining large amounts of information
By just being
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing the big picture and its details
Seeing how things work
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Making sure things get done
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Nondoing
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Needing to get it done
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Wanting to possess
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Making things simple
Knowing the answers, being right
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
Planning and managing
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not certain who I am
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Taking control
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Speedy efficiency
Personal connection
Clear communication
More information
On-the-spot brainstorming
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Specific direction
An action plan
Confirmation and encouragement
Networking leads
Independence
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Insightful clarity
All-encompassing space
All-accomplishing action
Equanimity
Intuitive discrimination
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