Worried you may not be creative or you may not be creativeenough? This quiz will help you find out just how creativeyou are.

Take a piece of paper and number it from one to seven. Foreach question, write down the corresponding letter of youranswer.

1. When you come across a rose, you immediately:

A. Smell it.
B. Quote every rose poem you can remember.
C. Write your own poem.
D. Sketch the rose.
E. Step on the rose.

2. One of your dreams in life is to:

A. Write a novel.
B. Become a painter.
C. Travel the world.
D. Climb all the famous mountains.
E. Just once, get everything done on your to-do list.

3. Your desk:

A. You have trouble finding as it's buried under everythingincluding the kitchen sink.
B. Resembles a natural disaster.
C. Is a bit of a mess, but you know where everything is.
D. Is basically neat -- you use the stacking method.
E. Is in perfect order -- everything in its place.

4. The person you admire most is:

A. Einstein.
B. Walt Disney.
C. Your mother.
D. Jane Austin.
E. Anyone who can get everything crossed off his or herto-do list.

5. You consider yourself:

A. Extremely creative.
B. Creative.
C. Somewhat creative.
D. A little creative.
E. About as creative as a turnip (come to think about it,turnips may be more creative then you are).

6. You get new ideas:

A. All the time.
B. Several times a week.
C. Several times a month.
D. Once or twice a month.
E. You dimly recall getting a new idea when Clinton was inoffice. Or maybe it was the first Bush.

7. You dream in:

A. Color.
B. Black and white.
C. Both black and white and color.
D. You can't remember now.
E. Nothing. You don't dream.

Scoring:

Throw out all your answers except for number five -- "Youconsider yourself:". If you answered:

A. Extremely creative -- Then you're extremely creative.
B. Creative -- Then you're creative.
C. Somewhat creative -- Then you're somewhat creative.
D. A little creative -- Then you're a little creative.
E. About as creative as a turnip -- Then you're about ascreative as a turnip.

Okay, this was a bit of a trick. But it's true. How creative youthink you are corresponds with how creative you really are.

A couple of studies illustrate this. A big company wanted toincrease creativity in its employees. So it hired a group ofconsultants to come in. The consultants started bythoroughly testing all of the employees. They discovered theonly difference between the employees who were creativeand those who weren't was this: Creative people believedthey were creative and less creative people believed theyweren't.

Even more telling was what happened to the group thatwasn't creative. The consultants focused on helping themnurture their creativity. At the end, those employees wereactually more creative than the ones who had initiallyconsidered themselves creative.

And that means you too can become more creative. In fact,how creative you become is entirely in your own hands.

Creativity Exercise -- Assumptions

Ready to become more creative? Here's an exercise.

Write down all the reasons why you're not creative. Go on.Write them all down. Every negative reason you can think of.

Things like:

I've never been creative in my life.

I haven't had a new idea in over a year.

I don't have time to be creative.

Now reverse those negative assumptions and make thempositive. Like so:

I am a creative person.

I have lots of new ideas all of time.

I don't need time to be creative because I already amcreative.

Do this every day and see what happens. This is a greatway to start getting rid of those inner demons that keep all ofus from realizing our true potential.

Michele Pariza Wacek owns Creative Concepts andCopywriting, a writing, marketing and creativity agency. Sheoffers two free e-newsletters that help subscribers combinetheir creativity with hard-hitting marketing and copywritingprinciples to become more successful at attracting newclients, selling products and services and boostingbusiness. She can be reached athttp://www.writingusa.com.