Attitude Inventory*

 
 
 

We have all picked up attitudes as children.
Which attitudes are most like you at this time?
Check boxes(left or right).
Then click the send button to discover your score.

My life has been a struggle, with one problem after another.

My life has been full of interesting challenges.

I look for the negative in every situation and usually find it.

I look for the positive in every situation and usually find it.

This is how I am and have always been. . I can't change.

Life is change. I am alive, so I can change, although I resist at times.

I am a victim of events, world trends, my parents, social pressures.

I am responsible for everything that has happened in my life and how I handle it all.

I have a right to be angry when people and situations don't meet expectations.

If life hands me a lemon, I will make lemonade.

The world owes me a living.

Nobody or nothing owes me anything. I am responsible to make my way in life.

Even though I may be in a partnership, I am ultimately alone in this world.

I am interdependent with every other life form in Creation. I am never alone.

Our national dream promises me that I deserve a high standard of living.

I trust life will provide me with all I need, although not always all that I want.

It's realistic to operate out of a sense of lack.

It's realistic to operate out of a sense of plenty.

When I get sick, the doctor will fix me up, like a mechanic fixes my car.

The doctor is my teacher and helps me take responsibility for my own health.

We all have a right to be impatient.

Life rewards patience in all things.

In life, it's usually a matter of luck.

"What goes around comes around!"

I live with guilt from the past and worry about the future.

While I learn from past and anticipate the future, I operate in the present moment.

I am often powerless to control outcomes.

I always have enough power and wisdom to deal with things as they arise.

I'm here to get what I can out of life and with gusto.

I'm here to give what I can into life events and with gusto.

Seeing is believing

Believing is seeing.

I am my job. Without it I am nothing.

My job is a role I play. But, I am more than even the sum of all these roles I play

Success in life depends on acquiring money, status, relationships and knowledge.

My success in life depends on how much I free myself from "needs" to love people.

I think complaining is how we get things done in this world.

I am eager to understand when people present the unexpected. We can work it out.

Responsibility is a burden which we all must accept, like it or not.

Responsibility is my "ability to respond" in situations. Thus it is really my freedom to act.

*Note: This survey was adapted from HEALING CURRENTS, Journal of the Whole Health Institute, 1985.