The amount of money we make, the relationships we have, the progress we make… can be directly related to the effectiveness and quality of our actions.
At a warehouse for example, if the machine is effective, we’re pushing out quality products. The labels line up perfectly.
We’re like machines in that way. If we’re off in some way, the results we get will be slightly (or majorly) different from what we’d want.
Below are 28 questions that allow us to take a personal inventory. They come from one of my top books: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Ideally we find faults in our actions and work to improve them. Overtime we should find ourselves doing better, at a larger amount, with a good positive attitude. The theme of these questions is performance, at work and in life.
Self-Analysis Questionnaire for Personal Inventory
- Have I attained the goal which I established as my objective for this year? (You should work with a definite yearly objective to be attained as a part of your major life objective.)
- Have I delivered service of the best possible quality of which I was capable, or could I have improved any part of this service?
- Have I delivered service in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?
- Has the spirit of my conduct been harmonious and cooperative at all times?
- Have I permitted the habit of procrastination to decrease my efficiency and if so, to what extent?
- Have I improved my personality, and if so, in what ways?
- Have I been persistent in following my plans through to completion?
- Have I reached decisions promptly and definitely on all occasions?
- Have I permitted any one or more of the six basic fears [poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love of someone, old age, death] to decrease my efficiency?
- Have I been either “over-cautious,” or “under-cautious”?
- Has my relationship with my associates in work been pleasant, or unpleasant? If it has been unpleasant, has the fault been partly, or wholly mine?
- Have I dissipated any of my energy through lack of concentration of effort?
- Have I been open-minded and tolerant in connection with all subjects?
- In what way have I improved my ability to render service?
- Have I been intemperate in any of my habits?
- Have I expressed, either openly or secretly, any form of egotism?
- Has my conduct toward my associates been such that it has induced them to respect me?
- Have my opinions and decisions been based upon guesswork, or accuracy of analysis and thought?
- Have I followed the habit of budgeting my time, my expenses, and my income, and have I been conservative in these budgets?
- How much time have I devoted to unprofitable effort which I might have used to better advantage?
- How may I re-budget my time, and change my habits so I will be more efficient during the coming year?
- Have I been guilty of any conduct which was not approved by my conscience?
- In what ways have I rendered more service and better service than I was paid to render?
- Have I been unfair to anyone, and if so, in what way?
- If I had been the purchaser of my own services for the year, would I be satisfied with my purchase?
- Has the purchaser of my services been satisfied with the service I have rendered, and if not, why not?
- Am I in the right vocation, and if not, why not?
- What is my present rating on the fundamental principles of success? (Make this rating fairly, and frankly, and have it checked by someone who is courageous enough to do it accurately.)”
This is the exact self-analysis questionnaire we use at our house! It’s the first thing we do to close out the year and plan for the new year. And you most certainly can go through this at any point throughout the year.