Let's Take a Four Tendencies Quiz

Have you kept a New Year’s resolution where you weren’t accountable to anyone—a resolution like drinking more water or keeping a journal?

Yes, but only for sometime

Yes, but I work on my own terms and times

Not really into it

I do it when the time is right

None

Which statement best describes your view about your commitments to yourself?

I make a commitment to myself only if I'm convinced that it really makes good sense to do it.

If someone else is holding me accountable for my commitments, I’ll meet them—but if no one knows except me, I struggle.

I bind myself as little as possible.

I take my commitments to myself as seriously as my commitments to other people.

None

At times, we feel frustrated by ourselves. Are you most likely to feel frustrated because…

My constant need for more information exhausts me.

As soon as someone expects me to do something, I don’t want to do it.

I can take time for other people, but I can’t take time for myself.

I can’t take a break from my usual habits, or violate the rules, even when I want to.

None

When you’ve formed a healthy habit in the past, what helped you stick to it?

I'm pretty good at sticking to habits, even when no one else cares.

Doing a lot of research and customization about why and how I might keep that habit.

I could stick to a good habit only when I was answerable to someone else.

Usually I don’t choose to bind myself in advance to a particular course of action.

None

Four Tendencies Quiz