Are you good at sticking to your resolutions?

You win £100,000 on the lottery. You:

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Put it to one side until you decide what to spend it on
Make a down-payment on that flat you liked so much
Make an impulse buy
Open a pizzeria in Naples

A colleague reads the first few pages of a report you’ve written and decides that there’s room for improvement in your analysis. You:

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Ask them to expand on their criticism
Return to your office to go back over all the possible angles
Finish it anyway, skimping on the detail
Tell them to mind their own business

A friend announces that he is going to go round the world on a bike. You think:

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It’s a bit of an eccentric thing to do
He’ll get a lot out of it
You would like to go too
It won’t be that difficult in this day and age

How do you select the projects to undertake? By:

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Their feasibility
How interesting they are
How much they appeal to you
Their originality

In your life you usually have:

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One or two projects on the go, which you have been working at for a while
Both small- and large-scale team projects on the go
More short-term plans than long-term
Your own personal projects

You meet someone who, like you, is off to live in Australia. You:

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Feel reassured and check that you have taken the same steps in organising things
Are really pleased that you have met someone doing the same thing. You swap email addresses
Are really excited and suggest renting a house together
Are a bit disappointed and decide to choose a different country

When you’ve got plans that are important to you:

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You relish the challenge to carry them out
You devote a lot of time to them
They are all you think about
You would go through with them, even if others advised you not to

You want to go on safari in Africa but your plans aren’t working out. What do you do?

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Try to work out what the problem is so you can get round it
Stick to the holiday plan but change the destination
Give up the idea
Go anyway

You decide you want to live in the country. After three months you:

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Are still working out the best place to go
Have just fitted the final window frame to your newly built home
Dream of living by the sea instead
Have shown those carping city folk a thing or two

Your friends think you are a little too:

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Careful
Dogged
Impulsive
Headstrong

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Personality Test

You win £100,000 on the lottery. You:

A colleague reads the first few pages of a report you’ve written and decides that there’s room for improvement in your analysis. You:

A friend announces that he is going to go round the world on a bike. You think:

How do you select the projects to undertake? By:

In your life you usually have:

You meet someone who, like you, is off to live in Australia. You:

When you’ve got plans that are important to you:

You want to go on safari in Africa but your plans aren’t working out. What do you do?

You decide you want to live in the country. After three months you:

Your friends think you are a little too: