I'm An ESFP

I'm an ESFP-nice to meet you. Let me introduce my wife-she's an INTJ and my friend Allan here-is an INFJ. What are you?
Find out now by clicking on this online test by Humanmetrics and get your own 4 letter personality profile:http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
When I say "Myers Briggs" my friends say oh yeah, "I'm an ESTJ or I'm an ISFJ"-whatever. But if I say "Carl Jung" my friends have this odd stare and drool falls from their mouth-it's rather disturbing. But it was Carl's insights on the human psyche that inspired a mother and daughter- Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers-to develop the Myers Briggs personality test. The 4 letters are your MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator)
Breaking Down The MB (Myers Briggs)
My personality is a combination of traits, characteristics, tendencies and dispositions which make up the real ME. It puts the B.O.B in Bob. Carl Jung said within the personality there are:

• Two Attitudes: Extravert or Introvert and

• Four Functions: Sensing; Intuition; Thinking and Feeling:

• Extravert: Outer-directed, chooses people as a source of energy, often action-oriented.
• Introvert: Inner-directed, chooses solitude to recover energy, often reflective.
• Thinking function: Logical, cool, distant, frank, questioning.
• Feeling function: Creative, warm, intimate, a sense of valuing positively or negatively.
• Sensing function: Sensory, oriented toward the body and senses, detailed, concrete, present.
• Intuitive function. goes with hunches, impractical, sometimes not present.

For a detailed description of the myers briggs test click here: http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm
Consider these questions:
Do certain people drive you crazy because of their personality?
Do you like to get involved with social events at work?

Ever wonder why you have a tendency to be shy?
What personality traits in people are you attracted to?
My personality helps me know my preferences for work, relationships and recreation. I know there are other factors involved as to why I act a certain way-like values and life circumstances. But knowing who you are and what makes you tick goes along way into becoming authentic and enjoying your life to the fullest.

Yeah-But She Has A Great Personality

My friend Roy had a sister who had a friend. Roy's sister Kristina frightened us. One day she told Roy she wanted me to go out with her friend-no questions asked. Roy didn't ask any but I did. I asked Roy if she was cute. Roy couldn't answer. I got queasy. Roy snapped back with the She has a great personality line. I don't know about you but if you get the "nice personality" line, it wasn't hopeful. I decided to meet her because I enjoyed being alive. So I rode my sting ray with the banana seat to Roy's house, walked in the front door and saw this pretty girl and Kristina. My knees went wobbly-my mouth went dry and I think I blurted out something unintelligible that sounded like Hi…The girls laughed and I went to Roy's room. Our little chat went something like this:

Bob: "Where is she?"

Roy: "Who?"

Bob: "The girl with the great personality"

Roy: "She's in the front room with my sister"

Bob: "I thought you said she had a great p-e-r-s-o-n-a-l-i-t-y"

Roy: "She does, why?

Bob: "But she's cute"

Roy: "What's wrong with you?"

Bob: "I don't know"

It was true I didn't know what was wrong with me. I have been on both ends of the "Nice Personality" excuse before. I also was a victim of the "It's not you -it's me" and the"Let's just be friends" line before. So you could see why I was gun shy. But I learned two things that day:

First: Everyone has a personality independent of their looks.

Second: I hit the jackpot-a good looking girl with a great personality.

We dated three weeks then she dumped me. On the dump day she told me "I was nice but not her type". That's a new one, I thought. That actually got me thinking "well what is my type?" I would find out soon enough. In fact I found out my type is a four letter word…The story continues next post.