self-awareness

I love personality tests and anything that seeks to explain how and why people do what they do. It’s fascinating to me. Even though not all personality tests are completely accurate, they still can be a great way to find out more about yourself. When you are a chronic identity-seeker like myself, it’s easy to become obsessed with this type of thing. I was intrigued when I first started to hear about the Enneagram, but it took me a while to really get into it. Once I started reading about it though, I had to find out more. It’s taken me a long time to figure out what my number is. I’ve mistyped myself multiple times. I thought I was a 2 then a 4 then a 6 then possibly a 5 then a 9. None of them seemed to fit me entirely. So I did what someone like…

There are a lot of messages that get tossed at you daily, from anything and everything. Little messages each day can slowly create the way you see yourself both in a positive or a negative light. The messages you internalize are not always conscious or noticed. You absorb them. Then you begin to live them out. Some of you probably can’t remember when you started to act on those messages or when they started to become a part of you. They were just there, added to the back of your mind. Every so often it is a good practice in self-awareness to take an inventory, to assess your emotional state, your motivates, motivations, actions, desires, character to discover what you have internalized that is positive and what you can eliminate that is negative. You can’t always control what messages you hear, but there is something you can do. You can…

An Enneagram Journey

The Messages You Send