Mitha's Quiz

When you’re on holiday do you:

• Leave your work phone and laptop at home, when you’re on holiday you’re on holiday

• Regularly check in with work while you’re away in case there’s something interesting going on

• Check your e mails once a day for anything urgent but that’s it. It’s best to stay on top of things so there’s not too much to come back to

• Keep an eye on things as they happen from the poolside just in case you’re needed urgently

When organizing your week do you:

• Clearly see the time divided into work and not work activities.

• Start with your list of work priorities and fit in other activities around that

• Consider the different types of activities that you have coming up (work, family, exercise, social) and make sure there is a fair spread

• Just try and work out how to fit everything in

You have an important deadline due the next day and it’s your friends birthday drinks tonight do you:

• Work flat out on the deadline until 6pm, then off to the drinks

• Work until the deadline is done, your friend will understand

• Work on the deadline until 6pm, make sure you are there for the start of the friends drinks. If need be you can leave the drinks early and make sure it is all finished

• Work on the deadline as long as you can, then go to the drinks and enjoy yourself, it’s OK if you’re a bit late. You can finish it off in the morning if you have to.

Mostly you feel like your life is:

• Very clearly mapped out in terms of what time is available for work and what isn’t

• Work focused. You love what you do.

• A careful balancing act trying to give different important areas of life enough of your time

• A constant battle with trying to fit everything in that you need to and want to do

A social invitation arrives in your inbox. Do you:

• Check your diary and see where it fits with your existing plans that week

• Check to see how demanding that week is work wise

• Consider what type of invitation it is and whether it’s appropriate given what else you want to do that week, i.e enough downtime/family time/friends time/time for exercise/time with partner

• Say yes immediately, it sounds like fun

When it comes to taking time out for yourself do you:

• Make sure you put time aside for it regularly

• Prefer to be productive and get things done

• Get scraps of time you really savour when everything else is done

• Don’t really think about it, you are far too busy

When it comes to organizing a get together joint activity, you are most frustrated by:

• People who say yes to something and then cancel at the last minute

• People who don’t appreciate the importance of work

• People who neglect their responsibilities

• People who don’t live life to the full

You are most stressed out by:

• Plans changing

• Getting interrupted

• Things not being fair

• Having to concentrate for long periods of time

A week is successful if:

• It’s been smooth sailing

• You’ve accomplished all the things you set out to

• You’ve managed to balance all the important priorities

• It’s been full and fun

You both admire and are irritated by:

• People who seem to go with the flow

• People who enjoy the simple things in life

• People who know what they want

• People who take things slowly