ASSESSMENT
entrepreneurial abilities
TEST YOUR
INTRODUCTION
Becoming an entrepreneur is a lifestyle choice. It can be a very enriching and rewarding experience, enabling you to take your future into your own hands.
But, this decision also comes with some risks. Therefore, it is vital for the budding entrepreneur to get clarity in making the correct choices.
This assessment can be used as a guidance tool to assist the aspiring entrepreneur in making this lifestyle and career decision.
It can also assist the entrepreneur on his journey to success through self-analysis to determine personal and business development areas that he/she may need to attend to.
Please set aside at least 30 minutes of uninterrupted time to complete this assessment.
Enjoy the assessment!
Remember to complete ALL 3 questionnaires!
(they are listed in order from 1 to 3)
*Please note:
This is a beta version of this questionnaire. Thanks for your willingness to assist us in refining this tool.
As a gesture of our gratitude, we will give you free access for 30 days to a series online training programs.
Completion of the questionnaire
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This questionnaire
consists of three sections - please complete all sections.
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Start with section one
After completion you will be directed to section two and after completion of this section, you can proceed to section three.
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Section one
is about your demographics, so please make sure to complete this.
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The other two sections
consist of approximately 200 statements. Please answer all questions.
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Read each question
carefully to make you sure that you understand it and then answer honestly.
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For each question
you will be asked to give a score from 1-10, indicating how much that statement applies to you. Use the entire scale as much as possible, as always answering "2" or "3" will not allow you to fully benefit from this tool.
Remember that there are no right or wrong answers. It is your honest opinion that counts!
IMPORTANT!
This assessment needs to be completed in the correct order. Please start with the questions below:
IMPORTANT!
This assessment needs to be completed in the correct order.
Please make sure you have completed the section above before moving on to the questions below.
IMPORTANT!
This assessment needs to be completed in the correct order.
Please make sure you have completed both section 1 and 2 above before moving on to the questions below.
THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS ASSESSMENT!
"He who would govern others, first should be master of himself."
– Philip Massinger
"Personal development is the conscious choice to improve one’s life to become a better person and to grow as an individual."
– Anonymous
"Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past?"
– Fred Rogers
"Income seldom exceeds personal development."
– Jim Rohn
"Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you."
– Robin Sharma
"Look in the mirror that’s your competition."
– Anonymous
"Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less."
– Norman Mailer
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is one single thread binding my way together the way of the Master consists in doing one’s best that is all"
– Confucius
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
– Henry David Thoreau
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
– Gandhi
"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
– Confucius
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."
– Morihei Ueshiba
"Personal development – the never ending chance to improve not only yourself but also attract opportunities and affect others."
– Jim Rohn
"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
– Epictetus
"You will never influence the world by trying to be like it."
– Anonymous
"Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals."
– Brian Tracy
"The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday."
– Anonymous
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
– Eckhart Tolle
"Your job is to be the best that you can possibly be."
– Brain Tracy
"Personal development is essential for a positive mindset, self-motivational, increasing self-belief and raising your standards."
– Anonymous
"It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."
– Oprah Winfrey
"Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
– B. R. Ambedkar
"Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives."
– Hal Elrod
"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
– Jim Rohn
"Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before."
– Pat Summitt
"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."
– Robin Sharma
"To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem."
– Maurice Young
"To grow yourself, start from knowing yourself."
– Anonymous
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
– Ernest Hemingway
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."
– Denis Waitley
"Live with fulfillment, serve with passion so in this lifetime you will have the ability to die with no regrets."
– Randy Gonzales
"An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make."
– Jim Rohn
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth."
– John C. Maxwell
"What we think, we become."
– Buddha
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself."
– Denis Waitley
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein
"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."
– Stephen Covey
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
– Pablo Picasso
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
– Napoleon Hill
"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
– Abraham Maslow
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
– Andre Gide
"What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that’s important is how I see myself. I know who who i am. I know the value of my work."
– Robin S. Sharma
"Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life; it will improve the lives of all those around you."
– Robin Sharma
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."
– Eckhart Tolle
"A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for."
– Marcus Aurelius
"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
– Bruce Lee
"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels."
– Daniel Goleman
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
– Viktor Frankl
"The best investment you can make is in yourself."
– Warren Buffet
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
– Will Durant
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life."
– Herbert Otto
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
– George Bernard Shaw
"The only journey is the journey within."
– Rainer Maria Rilke
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
– Aristotle
"Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression."
– James E. Faust
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
– George Bernard Shaw
"Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole."
– Seneca
"Know who you are and be it. Know what you want and go out and get it!"
– Carroll Bryant