I attended an amazing training session with The Coaches Institute this weekend...more on that to follow over the next year. In the meantime, I want to share with you one of the things that occurred to me. We all have patterns in our life. Some of them are good and some of them are not. For example, for me, it always seems that just when I've found an area in which I can contribute quietly and effectively (because no one else cares about it) there is that person who suddenly cares just as much and beats me out for the job. I'm not proud to admit that for a couple of years, I wondered why I should bother caring about anything because this will always be the outcome. This weekend I remembered why I should care. Because caring is so much more fun than not caring. I also thought a lot about how to handle that person the next time they showed up in my life to take something I care so much about. Then it finally occurred to me. If I want a different result, I need to do something different to achieve my desired result. After all, Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And you might be wondering what it is that I'm going to do differently? Well, thanks to a wonderful weekend of insight through coaching by the best group classmates I've ever had...I realized that I have a tendency to undermine myself by floating ideas rather than proposing them. It may sound like word-play, but it is more than just the words. It is the attitude with which an idea is floated until it finds a champion or actually championing the idea from the beginning. It means putting my ideas out there as my ideas and gracefully handling rejection if they aren't enthusiastically embraced. What sounds like the easiest thing to fix is now my main professional focus for 2012. What will you do this year to change the negative repeating pattern in your life? Join me in this ambitious goal!
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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