This assessment aims to help you understand how mindful you are. The authors provide you with a rating of your mindfulness and recommendations for improving it.

Mindfulness is the ability to stay focused, while being aware of your thoughts and surroundings and being able to recognize and move past distractions as they arise. This is getting harder. Research shows that people spend almost 47% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, which impairs their creativity, performance, and well-being .

Mindfulness is the ability to stay focused, while being aware of your thoughts and surroundings and being able to recognize and move past distractions as they arise.

In our information-saturated workplaces, this mental skill is becoming as important as emotional intelligence and technical skills. Research shows that people spend almost 47% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, which impairs their creativity, performance, and well-being.

We developed this assessment, in collaboration with Accenture, to help you understand how mindful you are, both at work and in general. It is based on our work at Potential Project conducting mindfulness training for thousands of individuals in organizations around the globe. We will provide you with a rating of your mindfulness and recommendations for improving it.

For each of the questions below, think about your behaviors and thoughts at work and indicate your level of agreement. Please answer honestly and carefully. There are no right or wrong answers.