The BLT is a brief, free, online, completely anonymous and private personality test. It measures 9 pairs of personality traits (mindsets and lifestyles), contrasting your healthy traits with unhealthy ones, for each of 9 issues that have the greatest effect on your personal well-being: TRUTH, HEALTH, SAFETY, LOVE, RESPECT, PURPOSE, MERCY, SEXUALITY, and MONEY. Beside your scores and descriptions of the attitudes they measure, you will receive a third combined score for each of the nine issues, so you can see which ones bring out the best in you, and which ones bring out the worst.
If you want to know more about this test, you can read more below. But if you are ready to take it now, here you go:
The BLT was designed to help people learn how to live healthier lives, and to learn from research what causes sickness and wellness. The test and research are directed by Wellness Education for Living and Loving (WELL Inc.), a 501c3 nonprofit pursuing this simple mission: to find out what makes us sick, and how to get well. You can learn more about WELL here, at mynewlife.com/WELL, and at its own website, to-the-well.org.
The personal details, anonymity, and privacy of BLT users are well protected. The test is free and anonymous. Test scores are returned to an email address that is given by the person who takes the test, but those wanting maximum anonymity will usually not use their own email. They can give the email address of a friend, relative, or neighbor, so we at WELL Inc. never know whose data we are looking at. These email addresses will never be shared with any other agencies or individuals. Someday others might want access to our database for purposes of their research, or to confirm our conclusions from our data, but the email addresses are not kept with our database. There will be no bulletins, newsletters, or offers sent out to these emails, only information needed by people who have taken the test. Anyone wanting to receive our monthly bulletins will be able to sign up for that on our website, or follow us on social media.
The test does ask resspondents personal information about their age, gender, occupation, marital status, residential region, etc. This information is required before the test can be scored, and before scores can be returned. But these answers are given in broad categories, so that nothing is precise enough to identify a person. We are researching how these things affect personal wellness, and in return, how well-being affects these things.
The BLTm measures nine pairs of TRAITS: mindsets and lifestyles that show patterns of healthy and unhealthy choices you are making in your life. Habits portrayed in red on your feedback are unhealthy traits, and the red color suggests both danger and inflammation that would lead to decay, disease, bondage, and death. The habits shown in green are healthy traits, suggesting both growth and encouragement to proceed toward life, health, freedom, and wellness. Traits are assigned this way based on a 3000-year-old view of wellness: what does the most good and the least harm for all people in the long run. This guiding practical definition also reflects what research has shown to contribute positively or negatively to people’s health.
WHERE DO THESE DEFINITIONS OF WHAT'S HEALTHY AND WHAT'S TOXIC COME FROM? The view of personal well-being presented here is a traditional hybrid approach, drawing from several different wisdom streams. For 1500 years it was widely taught by guidance counselors and physicians, by philosophers, and also by all three Western religions (the faiths which descended from Abraham: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity). “Taking inventory” of these very same nine issues is required in 12-step recovery. This nine-fold pathway to well-being has also been validated as healthy by four decades of scientific research. Studies have now clearly proven that these same nine pairs of beliefs and habits clearly have many positive effects on health, and not just in our bodies, but also in our hearts, minds, finances, and relationships.