Motivation and Values Test: what drives you and guides your choices

This interactive test covers work, money, commitments, perseverance, curiosity, pleasure, lying, limits, identity, recognition, rumination, responsibility, projects and openness to change. What the test asks, for example Work Whether what you do best goes unused in your current job. Whether, if money were not an issue, you would choose to carry on in the same line of work. Money Whether your job pays the rent without your getting anything more out of it. Whether your bank statement and your calendar show what you really care about. Commitments Whether you have several unfinished projects lying around, all abandoned halfway. Whether, when you agree to do something, you finish it by the date you said you would. Perseverance Whether, at the first serious obstacle, you let people know you are pulling out. Whether, when the initial momentum on a project has faded, you still keep moving it forward. Curiosity Whether, when a project has no reward at the end, you drop it halfway through. Whether you sign up for a course that excites you, even if it leads to no qualification and adds nothing to your CV. Pleasure Whether your week is filled with what has to be done and very little of what you want to do. Whether an activity absorbs you so much that, when you look up, you find that hours have gone by. Lying Whether, in a group, you laugh along with the others at a joke that shocks you. Whether, when someone asks you to fudge a figure in your favor, you refuse straight away. Limits Whether in your daily life you do things that you would criticize in someone else. Whether, under pressure from someone insistent, you stand firm on what you had given your word about. Identity Whether you stand up for an idea in public and do the opposite in your everyday shopping. Whether you can say which rule comes from your parents and which one you adopted by your own choice. Recognition Whether, when someone asks you what you do for a living, you change the subject. Whether someone recently thanked you for what your work brought them. Rumination Whether, when you take stock of your week, the gap between the life you wanted and the one you are actually living weighs on you. Whether, on the eve of a new week, thinking about what lies ahead energizes you more than it weighs you down. Responsibility Whether, when volunteers are needed for a shared project, you look the other way. Whether an injustice you hear about makes you look for a way to act on it. Projects Whether you only half commit to your projects, always keeping one foot out the door. Whether, when you choose a project, you think about what it will leave behind once you have moved on. Openness to change Whether what you have just described matters in how you function day to day. Whether you want to get better at working with this way of functioning.