What's your shift?

Quiz Questions

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  When I dream about the future, I would most like...

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    More adventures, less drudgery
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    Be in tip-top shape
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    Zero debt, growing nest egg
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    Peace and Balance
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  THIS is my jam...

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    Purging + organizing closets
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    Finding Deals
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    Retail therapy
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    Doing nothing. Like.....nothing at all.
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  Alright it's time to think about your next meal

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    ALL. THE. MEAT. Like, Ron Swanson style.
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    Light mix of meat, fish, and/or dairy alongside plenty of plant-based foods.
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    Only what grows from the Earth enters this temple.
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    Whatever is cheapest and easiest
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  If not making a meal at home you would most likely

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    Go to some off-the-beaten-path place
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    Farm to table 
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    Somewhere with plenty of healthy options
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    Anywhere decent that is very affordable
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  When planning a vacation this is the most important feature:

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    Exciting
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    Within my budget
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    Active
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    Not over-scheduled
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  My favorite celebrity environmentalist...

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    Erin Brockovich
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    Jacques Cousteau
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    Michelle Obama
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    Kristen Bell
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    Elon Musk
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  The biggest tipping point for an awesome day in my book...

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    Learning that a new gadget or technology that will be released
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    Grabbing some time free from distraction 
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    Squeezing in some exercise
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    When there is a place for everything and everything is in its place

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Frugal Dream Team

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  YESSSSS. You are determined and focused on saving money...either to build up a fund for travel, your dream home or the sizzliest sizzle: being debt free. You're Kryptonite: When you are focused on saving money, seeing how much some products or solutions can cost up front can be a major distraction. Your top 3 best-fit planet habits: 1. Active commuting (car pool, ride share, use the bus, bike, walk or a combination of some of these). Reducing your time driving just yourself around has the potential of saving you SO much money. Not only are there so many ways to active commute, there are so many places you can choose to active commute. Social events, shopping, your place of worship, out to eat, meets ups, or work. If you want the biggest savings opportunity look to where you travel to most regularly and look for friends or neighbors that might have a similar schedule and destination. Sometimes your local public transit system has a ride share finder to help identify a good car pool buddy. 2. More plant-based eating. One recent study from the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition found that switching from a meat eating to a vegetarian diet saved about $750 a year (more than $60 per month!) even while upgrading certain nutrients and ingredients used. Vegans (no dairy or meat) can save even more than that. 3. Start a money-saving planet habit or two first, then add in more efficient products as a reward. Energy efficient everything is attractive to those of us on the frugal dream team...but paying for all of that up front isn't the easiest to stomach. However waiting too long to purchase something presents too many obstacles for making serious strides on your environmental footprint. If you set a goal for one or two money-saving planet habits to tackle this month, use that as your 'starter motivation' to take the plunge on your next needed efficiency upgrade. It lets you already prove it to yourself that you can and are making changes to account for that initial investment and will more quickly grow that money saving impact soon enough with your new high-efficiency purchases!
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  Health & Wellness Aficionado

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  Your body is a temple and you strive everyday to treat it as such. Healthy eating, staying active, and/or being choosy with what products you use personally or in your home. Your top 3 best-fit planet habits: 1. Active commuting (car pool, ride share, use the bus, bike, walk or a combination of some of these). Whether it's to work, social events, your place of worship, or errands, walking, biking, and using the bus more are the best fit for your health goals. Even if it takes ten or fifteen minutes longer, adding in extra steps or a short bike ride at the beginning or end of your day is the most time efficient way to build in more activity into your busy life. Plus you feel so much more energized to start your work day when you aren't sitting in traffic for your entire commute. 2. More plant-based eating. Eating less meat is one of the highest impact ways you can help prevent heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. There are other benefits like ... well the more polite way to say this is "digestion" but I want to be specific since I've heard from so many people this is a huge plus: better poops. And that's something you can appreciate every day once your system is being fueled by things that help keep everything moving and in harmony day to day. There, now we can move on to other things... 3. Environmental health in your home: this can be a wide ranging and looooong topic to get into, but if there were just one thing I would focus you on it is phthalates. They sneak into SO many products as "fragrance" or with a Recycling code #3, especially in "V" or "PVC" products. They are found in soaps, laundry detergent, toys, food containers. The good news is there are so many alternatives! Instead opt for products that explicitly say "phthalate-free", "fragrance-free" or have recycling codes #1, #2, #4, or #5. Kryptonite: Sometimes the health and wellness benefits feel not-so-immediate and diffused within the world. This makes environmental issues feel less aligned with what drives you and more just extra stuff to take on as the 'right thing to do'. Contradicting info can especially weigh you down and make it harder to align healthy choices with environmental habits. How to fully utilize your superpower: Take care to notice any immediate physical benefits from shifts. For example: Hanging laundry can be a good low-impact movement to strengthen your arms and provide some immediate delightful experience with the smell of 'fresh line-dried' clothes.
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  Wild Card

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  Adventure is ALWAYS on in your world. You love living life to the max and enjoying the new, the extreme, the unusual, or just your favorite go-to comforts. Your top 3 eco habits to try: 1. Active commuting (car pool, ride share, use the bus, bike, walk or a combination of some of these). Whether it's to work, social events, your place of worship, or errands, walking, biking, and using the bus more are all opportunities to take in more adventures and experience your community in a fresh and up-close way. While sometimes it can take ten or fifteen minutes longer, it gives you a better vantage to see small and wonderful hidden gems you would have missed in the car by yourself. Plus you feel so much more energized to start your work day when you aren't sitting in traffic for your entire commute.2. More plant-based eating. Whether finding the newest vegan or vegetarian restaurant or food truck or diving into creating your own new discoveries from Thug Kitchen or Peace and Parsnips recipe books. Finding creative ways to see meat more a side dish or just simply eat more plant-based foods is an adventure within itself. You can find inspiration from menus around the world, entirely new creations coming out of the lab like the Impossible Burger, and a fusion of everything in between. 3. Volunteer. Want to hop into bogs unavailable to the public? Or climb trees, traverse ravines, and get a vantage point into natural systems rarely seen by more people? Sign up to volunteer with your local conservation district, nature conservancy, or urban environmental organization. Kryptonite: Sometimes routines or feeling constrained by 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' makes you avoid or reject ideas and small changes don't seem that exciting. Alternatively you can find new, big life changes exciting, but long term staying power with those changes a big challenge. How to fully utilize your superpower: Look at each new possibility as a challenge to make your own and stay aware of what brings you joy with each shift. Staying in tune with what brings you excitement or positivity in your day will make it feel authentic and internally driven.
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  Conscious Tranquility

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  You seek to simplify things wherever possible. Fewer to-do's, life clutter, so you can have a few more moments of peace or quality time with friends and family. You seek balance and approach life with mindful care and consideration. 1. Active commuting (car pool, ride share, use the bus, bike, walk or a combination of some of these). Whether it's to work, social events, your place of worship, or errands, walking, biking, and using the bus more are all great ways to simplify your transportation and present fewer opportunities to add clutter to your life. Whether from extra purchases you are more likely to make or simply clutter that seems to take forever to get out of your car, decreasing the time you are driving around by yourself is a strong motivator against that extra accumulation of stuff in your car. 2. More plant-based eating. While there are lots of ways to approach upping your plant-based foods, a really effective way to do this to achieve better balance is to focus on planning and adding around plant-based foods or ingredients you already love and incorporate varieties of those foods more. Love tacos? Look to try out new fillings from your favorite foods like sweet potato or brussels sprouts. This can offer a path into more plant-based eating that feels simple, focused and not another thing you're just adding into the mix for the heck of it. 3. Simplify your household cleaning. Simple baking soda, vinegar, and dish soap will clean most all of the messes in your house. Vinegar is a great disinfectant and much safer for your health and the planet than bleach. Use it with newspaper to clean mirrors and windows. Baking soda is a terrific scrubber for tough stains or 'muck' build up. For bathroom tubs and tiles combining a big of baking soda, dish soap, and vinegar is an unstoppable team against mold, mildew, or any other kind of grime. Kryptonite: Environmental issues are inherently complex and there can be contradicting info that can feel complicated and too intense. There are also ENDLESS possibilities of actions you can take, where to start or figure out what's next can feel overwhelming. How to fully utilize your superpowers: Focus on how each small shift can release extra clutter from your mind, physical clutter from your life, and make space for your core values and priorities. What ultimate extra space or deepened connection to what you enjoy could be created from the shift?
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  Organized Minimalist

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  You seek to simplify and organize things wherever possible. Fewer to-do's, life clutter, so you can have a few more space for people and activities that fuel you. 1. Active commuting (car pool, ride share, use the bus, bike, walk or a combination of some of these). Whether it's to work, social events, your place of worship, or errands, walking, biking, and using the bus more are all great ways to simplify your transportation and present fewer opportunities to add clutter to your life. Whether from extra purchases you are more likely to make or simply clutter that seems to take forever to get out of your car, decreasing the time you are driving around by yourself is a strong motivator against that extra accumulation of stuff in your car. 2. More plant-based eating. While there are lots of ways to approach upping your plant-based foods, a really effective way to do this to shift your diet without a lot of wasted time, effort, or clutter is to focus on plant-based foods or ingredients you already love and incorporate varieties of those foods more. Love tacos? Look to try out new fillings from your favorite foods like sweet potato or brussels sprouts. This can offer a path into more plant-based eating that feels simple, focused and not a time-intensive endeavor with too many misses along the way. 3. Simplify your household cleaning. Simple baking soda, vinegar, and dish soap will clean most all of the messes in your house. Vinegar is a great disinfectant and much safer for your health and the planet than bleach. Use it with newspaper to clean mirrors and windows. Baking soda is a terrific scrubber for tough stains or 'muck' build up. For bathroom tubs and tiles combining a big of baking soda, dish soap, and vinegar is an unstoppable team against mold, mildew, or any other kind of grime. Kryptonite: Making space for new habits can disrupt your existing balance. Learning new habits and figuring out how to best work it in your life can feel like more work as well, especially at first. How to fully utilize your superpowers: Break down each new habit into steps and evaluate if there are any simpler ways to approach it. Think a bit about the simplicity it could bring to your life and align with how you like to spend your attention and energy. For example, taking on active commuting (like using the bus or bike) can require more mental energy to figure out schedules and routes, sometimes the hard way. But freeing up time to read your favorite magazines or books or catch up on some text chains with friends.
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  Product Pioneer

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  You are READY FOR IT when it comes to new gadgets and technology. Whether it's a smartphone or an eco-focused technology or service, you love the convenience, user experience, and aesthetic new solutions bring to the table. This early adoption can be incredibly powerful when it comes to planet friendly living. 1. Active commuting (car pool, ride share, use the bus, bike, walk or a combination of some of these). Whether it's to work, social events, your place of worship, or errands, walking, biking, and using the bus more are all opportunities to take in more adventures and experience your community in a fresh and up-close way. Check out Transit, an app that helps you identify active commuting options near you. And then save up all that money to put towards a new hybrid or electric vehicle! 2. More plant-based eating. Whether finding the newest vegan or vegetarian restaurant or food truck or diving into creating your own new discoveries from Thug Kitchen or Peace and Parsnips recipe books. Finding creative ways to see meat more a side dish or just simply eat more plant-based foods is an adventure within itself. Lots of new plant-based products are hitting the market this year like the Impossible Burger to Oatly oat-milk but there are also apps that can help you find new options wherever you are like Happy Cow. 3. Buy Green Energy. One of the simplest purchases you can make to instantly clean up a major contributor to your carbon footprint is buying green energy. You can talk to your current energy provider or there are plenty of trustworthy third party options that can partner with your current provider and source from certified solar or wind energy projects. Often these providers can offer additional features like recommendations on new efficiency technologies or ways to save on your energy bills over time. *It is improtant to know that you are buying from reputable places. Just ask the provider how they are certified or ensure quality projects. Kryptonite: It's not always a certainty that the new gizmo is a good fit for your habits and lifestyle so some of these products can go unused, collecting dust on your shelves. This can lead to an oversized waste footprint and frustration down the road. How to fully utilize your superpower: Use your early adoption tendencies to first think through what steps might have to change in your life to fully use a new solution. If you can bootstrap or borrow a trial before buying, it will greatly improve your success in buying solutions best fit for your life. You might even unearth features to help you decide between a few new options, saving you headaches down the road.