You must know yourself before you can discover who you are.
Find: discover who you are. What do you do every day? Most people tend to spend time on the things they like to do more than the things they don’t like. People gravitate toward things they’re naturally good at doing.
Personality Tests:Myers Briggs, DISC, Berkley Emotional Intelligence, Cerries Mooney, What color is your parachute, (and others abound of facebook…)
Two other favs… Enneagram (9 types) and Dressing your truth (Carol Tuttle)
Free Personality Tests:
https://www.16personalities.com/
https://cerriesmooney.com/how-to-complete-the-test/
https://my.liveyourtruth.com/dyt/could-this-quiz-tell-you-your-type/
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/embed/ei_quiz
Find: natural curiosity -
How things work, or a better way to do something
Find: You or someone you care about has a need
HOW DO WE Develop?:
1) Leverage strengths - What are your natural gifts and strengths? https://high5test.com/strengthsfinder-free/
Strengthfinders test by Clifton Strengths. 34 Types of strengths.
So many strengths we can draw from: focus, responsibility, harmony, achiever, belief, connectedness, arranger, deliberate, futuristic, self-assurance, adaptability, analytical, positivity
IMPORTANT to remember: Perfectionism is not a strength!!!
2) embrace your differences
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
Flying your freak flag makes it easier to find your tribe.
3) pursue with persistence
In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers suggests that it takes about 10,000 hour rule to become an expert or world class.
Key: Meaningful work – If you feel there is real purpose to your work, it’s more likely you will work hard and find joy in the process...
What about fear of failure?
In her book Mindset, Stanford psychologist, Carol Dweck showed through her research that mindset is more important than innate ability.
If a person believes her talent is inborn, she’ll give up quickly after any failure or setback. But if someone believes her talent grows with persistence and effort, she will work to master the challenge. We can change our results by changing our mindset.
According to the late David McClelland, psychologist and Harvard researcher, if you want to increase your performance set high goals where you have only a 50-70 percent chance of success. That’s the sweet spot for high achievers. When we are willing to risk failing half the time and apply a growth mindset – we analyze what we can do differently and try again. That’s practice. That’s growth.
Pick a word of the year! MY Word of the year: JUMP (joyfully unlocking my passion, purpose and potential)
“May you always do what you are afraid to do.”
Have FUN! Fun is motivating.
Today’s Takeaways: Take a personality test. Ask friends what 3 qualities they admire in you and look for the intersections or overlap. Make an Odyssey Journey plan - pick 3 potential paths and try them on for size.
