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When you live well between your ears your mind is at peace and in control, not racing from thought to thought. You are prepared, confident, and comfortable with yourself. Calm but filled with energy you feel alive, motivated, capable, and able to focus clearly on the task at hand.

At your best and not worried or afraid, your emotions are under control, and your thoughts are positive. Periodically we all hit some rough spots but when you live well between your ears you have the concepts and knowledge--the tools--to help you on your way.  This site is about giving you those tools.

One of the tools is the free VIP Self-Esteem test. It is simple, quick, and  provides you with four scores, a graph, and average scores for men and women.

Another free tool is the Time Management test which provides an easy to interpret graph customized with your input which  shows you those activities to which you devote too little or too much time.

 Things to do while you're here.

VIP refers to verbal, interpersonal, and physical abilities and characteristics.  Measuring how you value yourself on these three dimensions provides a unique way to better understand self-esteem.  Other self-esteem tests only give you one score for how you value yourself. 

The VIP test gives you an overall score plus three more: verbal, interpersonal, and physical self esteem. Self-esteem grows as we improve our verbal skills and abilities, our skills and abilities for relating to people and our physical qualities such as appearance, health, and agility.

Take the free test and rank your satisfaction with 27 of your skills and characteristics. You'll quickly see which of your characteristics contribute most and least to your self-esteem.

Are you a good time manager?  Which of your activities should you spend more or less time on to achieve your goals? My time management test is free and helps answer that question. It provides a graphic illustration of: (1) the importance of each of your activities for achieving your goals, (2) how you spend your time, and most importantly (3) which activities you should do more or less to improve your time management. Try it.