Your success patterns · A free self-coaching tool
What’s making success feel so demanding?
You’re capable. You care. You get things done. But some of the ways you make it all work may be asking too much of you.
Explore the patterns beneath your workday—and find one small place to do things differently.
31 short questions · About 5–7 minutes · Results without an email
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Answer for the past four weeks. Think about what happens, not how you think you should feel.
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See the patterns your answers suggest, including how they might reinforce each other.
Experiment.
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Your success patterns
Thinking about the past four weeks, how often has this been true?
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These describe your average answer frequency, not severity, a diagnosis, or a percentile.
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Let’s look at what happens in your actual life.
A questionnaire can open a door. In private coaching, we can explore the situations behind your answers, test what fits, and find changes that support both your business and your life.
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The research behind this self-coaching tool.
This is an original, research-informed coaching tool. It is not a validated psychological test or a diagnosis. Its seven categories are a coaching framework, not a scientifically established list of the most common patterns in women entrepreneurs. These patterns are not unique to women.
The studies below inform the concepts. They do not validate our questions, scoring rules, personalized explanations, or suggested experiments. Several studied students or specific cultural settings; their findings cannot simply be generalized to every entrepreneur.
How this self-coaching tool uses your answers
There are four original questions per pattern and three separate questions about circumstances. Responses run from never (0) to almost always (4). “Not applicable / not sure” is excluded, not counted as zero. A pattern needs at least three applicable answers to receive a summary.
We average each pattern’s applicable answers. Areas averaging at least “sometimes” (2) are eligible for highlighting. We show up to two leading areas, plus any others within one-third of an answer point of the second area so close results are not forced into two labels. If no area meets that rule, we say so. Areas without enough answers remain unclassified. Context answers of “often” or “almost always” prompt a closer look at workload and support; they do not increase any pattern score.
These are editorial rules for organizing a conversation, not clinical thresholds, established reliability estimates, or comparisons with a population. Small answer changes can change the order. A higher score does not prove an underlying motive, and an unhighlighted pattern may still matter to you. The practices are optional coaching experiments, not tested treatments.
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