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TEST YOURSELF

Fit for work? – a question of balance

We asked Malcolm Emery, chairman of Wellness Technology, to put together a quiz to check whether your physical and psychological reserves are up to scratch for dealing with the pressures in your life. You can visit Wellness Technology here.
Copyright Wellness Technology Ltd © 2005

1Activity: how do you regard your activity levels?

Highly active with frequent periods of sustained high level physical exercise

Generally active

Inactive with occasional activity

Highly inactive, rarely if ever taking any physical exercise

2Diet: how do you regard your diet?

Regular balanced meals with good input of fresh fruit and vegetables

Meals usually well balanced but not always regular and with occasional over indulgence

Regular meals but with tendency for convenience food and overeating

Irregular meals, often with convenience food and/or snacks

3Alcohol: how do you regard your drinking habits?

None or light consumption with absence of binge drinking

Alcohol up to 4 times per week, rarely bingeing

Regular alcohol drinker with occasional bingeing

Heavy consumption (2+ units per day for women/3+ units per day for men) with bouts of binge drinking

4Sleep: how are your sleep patterns?

You have regular deep and satisfying sleep most nights

Good sleep patterns broken occasionally by early rising or late evenings

Insufficient sleep often feeling tired

Your sleep is irregular, often broken and inadequate

5Partition: leaving it behind – have you got the knack?

When you leave work behind you scarcely give it a thought until your next journey back in

Occasionally take work home but always during the week and not more than twice

Often take work home both during the week and at weekends

Regularly take work home and constantly think about work problems

6Attitude: optimist or pessimist? How quickly do you think you lose your positive attitude when events turn against you and ‘beat yourself up’?

Very slowly

Slowly

Quickly

Very quickly

7Priorities: how well do you set them?

I deal with the important issues as soon as they begin to arise

I deal with important issues before they begin to worry me

I have difficulty getting around to dealing with important issues

I deal first with the trivial tasks, putting off dealing with important issues until the last moment

8Support: how’s your network?

I have good friends/family from whom I can get advice and support in difficult times

I have support when I need it

I have some support

I have little support from others in difficult times – I have to rely on myself

9Working life/home life balance: To what extent is either pressure from work or pressure from home life making life difficult?

Not at all

Very little

Quite a lot

A great deal

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