Do you ever notice no matter how rough your week or how long your day is, when Friday close of business comes, you have a new energy. Is it a sense of accomplishment for what you've accomplished (making it through the week) or is it looking forward to two days off? I think that it is probably a little of both. That is how I feel today. With the crazy weather we had here, I worked from home a lot this week, but I worked about 50% more than I would have if I had gone into the office. So with the work week behind me and an evening with friends, a day of volunteering, and a day off in front of me, I left work Friday full of energy and happiness. If we could bottle that feeling, we would be millionaires. Until that time, happy Friday.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung. Jung observed that people have inborn preferences for gathering information and making decisions and that these preferences guide an individual’s behavior. The mother/daughter team of Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers expanded on Jung’s theories and created an assessment to make the combined work accessible to all individuals. Today, the assessment is used by most Fortune 100 companies and over two million people worldwide, annually. The assessment identifies an individual’s inborn preferences on four dichotomous scales: where you focus your energy, how you prefer to take in information, how you make decisions, and how you deal with the outer world. Type is best used to understand other people, improve communication, and develop individual skills. The first dichotomy is Extraversion (gets energy from other people) and Introversion (gets energy from reflection). The second is
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