Personality Test
"When people differ, a knowledge of [personality] type lessens friction and eases strain [in relationships]. In addition it reveals the value of differences. No one has to be good at everything."
Summary:
Extraversion – Introversion, signifies the source and direction of a person’s energy expression mainly in the external world or their own internal world.
Sensing – Intuition, the method by which someone perceives information receiving it directly from the external world or receives from the internal or imaginative world.
Thinking – Feeling, how a person processes information making decisions mainly through logic or based on emotion, i.e. based on what they feel they should do.
Judging – Perceiving, how a person implements the information he has processed organizing all of his life events and, as a rule, sticks to his plans or she is inclined to improvise and explore alternative options.
If you know your personality type
Managing and Validating Emotions
This website has about 20 tests to help you assess your level of happiness, strengths and virtues to help you identify how you can thrive. These tests are free, but you need to sign in with an email address.
This test will help you to understand the level of stress you are experiencing at any time. This test will also aid you in writing your loss inventory. John Maxwell says with every change there is a loss. You need to grieve your losses so you don't get stuck. See what losses you have gone through. Print this out for the next step.
Take the Stress Test printout to help with your loss inventory and add to it. When I did a Loss History, I included every move, new school, death of pet, divorce, loss of friendships, meaningful jewelry, death of loved ones, finances, morality etc. Looking at my losses validated my experiences. I pondered them for several days, cried about a few, went to counseling over others, and talked to the Lord along the way. Loss and grief will impact your well-being, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
The Grief Quiz will help you understand if you are still grieving your loss.
The Stages of Grief Quiz will help you understand what stage of grief you are currently experiencing. Click for more for understanding grief and its stages
The following assessment is designed to help you understand how you manage your anger based on the book "Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion" by Dr. Gary Chapman. Often pain is underneath anger. How you express your anger may be indicative of the pain you have or are suffering.
This quiz will help you discover your ability to forgive. The Power of Forgiveness film and website takes an honest look at the intensity of anger and grief the human nature is heir too. It exams the role forgiveness can play in alleviating anger and grief. It shows the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that come with forgiveness.
Joyce Meyer is a powerful teacher Bible Teacher whose ministry is dedicated to sharing God's love and the life-changing message of the Bible with the world through TV, radio, various media productions, live conferences and this website.
Freedom comes through forgiveness. It comes through three principles 1) Forgiveness in the Spirit is an act of the will, 2) We forgive because WE need to let go and 3) The time to forgive someone is as soon as we have been hurt. This guide will lead you through prayers of forgiveness and breaking bondages in your life.
DIG DEEP, even in the darkness there is light and beauty.
As Christians, there are times when we may feel unhappy and low, it is in these times we need to say outloud, whether we "feel it" or not, "Thank you Lord, for the joy set before you, you endured the cross. As this cross is bearing down on me, for the joy set before me, of getting through this mess, I will praise you for this opportunity to experience you; I will DIG DEEP."
Make a careful EXPLORATION of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
Galatians 6:4-5 (Msg)
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Myer's Briggs Typology Indicator: MBTI
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Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging ESTJs thrive on order and continuity. Being extraverted, their focus involves organization of people, which translates into supervision. While ENTJs enjoy organizing and mobilizing people according to their own theories and tactically based agendas, ESTJs are content to enforce "the rules," often dictated by tradition or handed down from a higher authority. ESTJs are joiners... http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/estj
Go to linkIntroverted Sensing Thinking Judging ISTJs are often called inspectors. They have a keen sense of right and wrong, ISTJs often give the initial impression of being aloof and perhaps somewhat cold. Effusive expression of emotional warmth is not something that ISTJs do without considerable energy loss. ISTJs are most at home with "just the facts, Ma'am." http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/istj
Go to linkExtraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging ENTJs have a natural tendency to marshall and direct. This may be expressed with the charm and finesse of a world leader or with the insensitivity of a cult leader. ENTJs are often "larger than life" in describing their projects or proposals. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/entj
Go to linkIntroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This is sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/intj
Go to linkExtraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving ESTPs are spontaneous, active folks. Like the other SPs, ESTPs get great satisfaction from acting on their impulses. Activities involving great power, speed, thrill and risk are attractive to the ESTP. Chronic stifling of these impulses makes the ESTP feel "dead inside". Gamesmanship is the calling card of the ESTP. Persons of this type have a natural drive to best the competition. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/estp
Go to linkIntroverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving ISTPs are fundamentally Performers (note the capital 'P' :-)), but as Ts their areas of interest. ISTPs are equally difficult to understand in their need for personal space, which in turn has an impact on their relationships with others. tend to be mechanical rather than artistic ISTP's lie dormant, saving their energy until a project or an adventure worthy of their time comes along--and then they launch themselves at it.
Go to linkExtraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving "Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. They are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving, very fond of "toys", basically optimists. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/entp
Go to linkIntroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/intp
Go to linkExtraverted Sensing Feeling Judging Guardians of birthdays, holidays and celebrations, ESFJs are generous entertainers. They enjoy and joyfully observe traditions and are liberal in giving... ESFJs enjoy being in charge. They see problems clearly and delegate easily, work hard and play with zest. ESFJs, as do most SJs, bear strong allegiance to rights of seniority. They willingly provide service and expect the same from others. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/esfj
Go to linkIntroverted Sensing Feeling Judging ISFJs are characterized above all by their desire to serve others, their "need to be needed."ISFJs are often unappreciated, at work, home, and play. Ironically, because they prove over and over that they can be relied on for their loyalty and unstinting, high-quality work, those around them often take them for granted- http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/isfj
Go to linkExtraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging ENFJs are the benevolent [master teachers] of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. ENFJs have phe-nomenal interpersonal skills...not usually meant as manipulation -- ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are.http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/enfj
Go to linkIntroverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging INFJs are distinguished by both their complexity of character and the unusual range and depth of their talents. Strongly humanitarian in outlook, INFJs tend to be idealists, and because of their J preference for closure and completion, they are generally "doers" as well as dreamers. INFJs are deeply concerned about their relations with individuals as well as the state of humanity at large. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/infj
Go to linkExtraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving "Where's the party?" ESFPs love people, excitement, telling stories and having fun. The spontaneous, impulsive nature of this type is almost always entertaining. And ESFPs love to entertain -- on stage, at work, and/or at home. Social gatherings are an energy boost to these "people" people. SPs sometimes think and talk in more of a spider-web approach.
Go to linkIntroverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving More in touch with the reality of their senses than their INFP counterparts, ISFPs live in the here and now. Their impulses yearn to be free, and are often loosed when others least expect it. The ISFP who continually represses these impulses feels 'dead inside' and may eventually cut and run. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/isfp
Go to linkExtraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of a cosmic whole. They want to both help and to be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. ENFP are outgoing and warm, and genuinely like people. Some ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm... http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/enfp
Go to linkIntroverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.
Go to linkDIG DEEP, “Self-knowledge is tied with inner work, which is both demanding and painful. Change occurs amid birth pangs. It takes courage to walk such a path. Many avoid the path of self-knowledge because they are afraid of being swallowed up in their own abysses. But Christians have confidence that Christ has lived through all the abysses of human life and that he goes with us when we dare to engage in such confrontation with ourselves.” -Andreas Ebert
Personality Typing- How the world perceives you
This test is about how the world preceives you. The Enneagram proposes there are nine basic personality types. We are born with one dominant personality type and have two wings. After much research, tradition suggests Jesus holds all nine personality types in perfection. 1. The Reformer 2. The Helper 3. The Acheiever 4. The Individualist 5. The Investigator 6. The Loyalist 7. The Enthusiast 8. The Challenger 9. The Peacemaker
Book: The Enneagram-The Christian Perspective by Richard Rohr I recommend this book if you decide to pursue this interesting diagram. It has morphored over time to be very mystical, depending upon the author you read. The Enneagram began in the third century and its foundation is Christianity.
Strength Finder
Strengths are the unique combination of talents, knowledge, and skills that every person possesses. People who do focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs. They are more productive too, both individually and in teams. And they are more than three times as likely to say they have an excellent quality of life.
Top 5 strengths; purchase an access code to take the test; totally worth it!
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Spiritual Tests
Based on Gary Chapman’s book, Love Languages.
The five Love Languages are how we best receive love. Typcially, we have one or two dominate ways we receive love which are through 1. Words of Affirmation 2. Acts of Service 3. Receiving Gifts 4. Quality Time 5. Physical Touch
Finding your place in ministry. There are 25 categories in this test: 1. Administration 2. Apostle 3. Discerning of Spirits 4. Evangelism 5. Ekballism 6. Exhortation 7. Faith 8. Giving 9. Healing 10. Helps 11. Hospitality 12. Intercession 13. Interpretation of Tongues 14. Knowledge 15. Mercy 16. Leadership 17. Miracles 18. Missionary 19. Prophecy 20. Service 21. Shepherd 22. Teaching 23. Tongues 24. Voluntary Poverty 25. Wisdom
Sacred Pathways by Gary L. Thomas as referenced by John Ortberg. This lists nine ways about how you best experience the Lord. He made us all unique with many ways to come into a closer relationship with him. 1. Naturalist 2. Sensate 3. Traditionalist 4. Ascetics 5. Activist 6. Caregiver 7. Enthusiast 8. Contemplative 9. Intellectual.
Destiny is based on God's unique design for individuals. That design is expressed in our passions and our gifting. It is shaped by our history, character, personality, skills and knowledge. Find out your destiny.
DIG DEEP, see what the Lord has done. He gives his children good gifts.
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We work on ourselves, but do we know where we are going.
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We need to know the goal, so we can navigate the path.
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Below are some goals to help you Grow and Mature
Develomental Growth & Maturity
Understanding Development
by LifeWay
by FCCI Kingdom-minded business professionals
In my work as a foster/adoption social worker, we often talk about the "Ages and Stages" of a child. The foster parents will often say, "This child looks like he is 7, but acts as if he is 3," to which I reply an emphatic, "YES." Or my friend will say, "My husband is a grown man, but acts like he is 10, when we fight." Again, I reply, "Yes!" The emotional maturity of a person does not always match their physical maturity.
We need to go back into their personal history and find out what stage the child/adult missed in their develomental years. Then we go back and meet that need. For example, a baby who cries for a bottle, diaper change, affection, or comfort. develops Trust when that this need is met. When the need is unmet, they develop Mistrust. Therefore, we work with the child using my CPS model of Trust; Consistency => Predictability => Stability = TRUST.
Whatever is true in the natural is typically true in the spiritual. Jesus says to enter the kingdom of heaven, you must be born again and enter the kingdom as a little child. In Corinthians 13 it says we must put away childish things. In Hebrew 5 & 6, Paul says solid food, not milk, is for the mature. The mature train themselves to know good from evil and understand advanced teachings. We are to leave the elementary teachings of Christ and go on to maturity, the high call of which Jesus died to give us. If we missed part of the process the Lord will take us back to learn it until we pass the test.
I am proposing, if we follow Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Development, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, learn the Levels of Communication and Attachment Styles we can follow these stages on a spiritual level. We build on each stage... just like babies drink milk the first six months, then progress on to rice ceral, finger foods and finally more solid foods when they are 18 months old. You have to progress through the fundamentals being hand fed before you learn to feed yourself. When you learn to trust the Lord fully you can go on to the next stage. If you have mistrust, can you look back at your upbringing and find a correlation of what you lacked as a child? Allow the Lord to re-parent you.
Summary: 1.Physical 2. Safety 3. Social 4. Esteem 5. Self-Actualization
View Charts: Demonstrate highest need on the bottom narrowing up to the top
Summary: 1. Small Talk 2. Factual Conversation 3. Ideas and Opinions 4. Feelings and Emotions 5.Deep Insight
View Charts: Demonstrates lowest level of communication on the bottom
See Video: Levels of Communcation
Read About: 5 Levels of Communication
Summary: 8 Stages to progress thru
View Charts: The grids below provide understanding of the developmental stages by age
See Video: Provides understanding of the stages using video
Read About: Biography of Erik Erikson and his stages described in detail.
The lower level needs are required to be met in order to move up the pyramid to reach our highest level of potential. Go to link is a youtube video. Skip to :46
1. Clichés/Small Talk-the Grocery Clerk 2. Information/Facts - Down the street neighbor 3. Ideas/Opinions - Neighbors 4. Values/Feelings/Emotions - Friendships 5. Intimacy/Confession/Deep Insight - Best Friend/Safe Family
8 Stages of Developmental Theory in pictures
This Chart shows what is accomplished in virtue if passed through properly
Test: Attachment Style
Attachment is a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care, and pleasure.
Summary: 1.Secure 2. Avoidant 3. Ambivalent/Anxious 4. Disorganized 5. Reactive
View Charts: Demonstrate highest need on the bottom narrowing up to the top
See Video: Romantic Attachments Styles
See Video: Attachment affects on Relationsip