How Others See Me

Ask someone who is close to you-- spouse, sibling, roommate or friend-- to circle 10 to 15 traits that describe you. Their impressions may surprise you and possibly point you in some new direction. Look for ways to maximize your strengths and overcome your weaknesses.

Able
Accepting
Active
Adaptable
Ambitious
Angry
Anxious
Assertive
Bitter
Bold
Bright
Calm
Careless
Caring
Certain
Cheerful
Clever
Cold
Confident
Conforming
Controlled
Courageous
Creative
Critical
Cynical
Demanding
Dependable
Dependent
Determined
Dignified
Disciplined
Domineering
Dutiful
Efficient
Elusive
Ethical
Extroverted
Fair

Fearful
Foolish
Frank
Friendly
Frugal
Gentle
Giving
Gruff
Gullible
Hard
Helpful
Helpless
Honorable
Idealistic
Imaginative
Inconsiderate
Independent
Innovative
Insensitive
Insincere
Intelligent
Introverted
Intuitive
Irresponsible
Irritable
Jealous
Jovial
Juvenile
Kind
Knowledgeable
Lazy
Liberal
Lively
Logical
Loving
Manipulative
Materialistic
Maternal

Mature
Modest
Mystical
Naive
Negative
Neurotic
Noisy
Observant
Obsessive
Organized
Original
Overconfident
Overemotional
Overprotective
Passive
Paternal
Patient
Perceptive
Perfectionist
Persuasive
Petty
Playful
Pleasant
Poised
Pompous
Powerful
Precise
Pretentious
Principled
Progressive
Protective
Proud
Quarrelsome
Questioning
Quiet
Radical
Rational
Reactionary

Realistic
Reasonable
Reassuring
Reflective
Relaxed
Reliable
Religious
Remote
Resentful
Reserved
Resolute
Respectful
Responsible
Responsive
Rigid
Sarcastic
Satisfied
Scientific
Searching
Self-Accepting
Self-Assertive
Self-Aware
Self-Conscious
Self-Indulgent
Self-Righteous
Sensitive
Unpredictable
Unreasonable
Unstructured
Useful
Vain
Vulnerable
Warm
Wise
Withdrawn
Witty
Worried
Youthful