If you are a You've Got Mail fan you know that quote. This week at work I got this personality profile back on myself and it was uncanny how it really spoke back to me what I think and who I am. I answered only 24 questions and from it I got a 3 page summary of who I am and how I work. How is that possible?! But it seemed extremely accurate.
The program is called Insights and it basically uses four colors to group personality traits.
Red- Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone
Yellow- Involve Me
Green- Show Me You Care
Blue- Give Me The Details
Take a guess... What do you think I was?
Now everyone is a mixture of all the colors, but just in different proportions. But if you guessed my dominant color to be red, you are right. I also have a healthy dose of yellow (big surprise). My next color is blue, but a much smaller amount than I thought. Funny because it fits the "Analyst" jobs I've had and now I realize I didn't really like that piece of the job. Ha, ha, ha. And lastly green, which barely registered on the scale. So sad, I'm not very sensitive or caring naturally, I think I'm better than I used to be though. My tag title was "Director". Yep, I like to be in charge. There were a lot of pieces of the assessment that were really difficult to read. We hate to see our weaknesses or our blind spots, but guaranteed we all have them.
My favorite quotes from my assessment I received:
"Katie needs work that challenges her and holds her attention" - Oh YES!
"I am less interested in principles and theories than new projects and processes" - Definitely! I hated theology at school.
"She can get to the heart of any situation and implement an effective solution." - Bring me your problems and I will always try to give you a solution. ;-)
"She wants to make an impact and accomplish something in life that she will long be remembered by." - Hm... Explains a lot.
"Being respected by her peers is of greater importance to Katie than being liked."- Not so sure about that one, but respect is a big factor to me.
Ouch moments:
"She may unwittingly compare herself with others in the race for success" - bad, bad for the self esteem
"She may lose interest and move on to the next thing, once a job becomes routing or dull" - um, is four different jobs in 7 years a sign of this?
"She prefers to combine creative decision making with limited reflection." - oops, a bit hasty aren't I?
"May resort to dictatorial practices if anything appears to get in the way." - danger!
"Articulate and thinking, she tends to be matter of fact and practical." - i.e. not so sensitive
Since we did this, I've been assessing everyone I meet. They are probably all sick of it already. But it really is dare I say... "Insightful" to know how other people work and how to communicate with them. We are all so very different and to assume that someone else wants to be talked with or worked with in the way we want to be worked with is just silly. So my new motto for a while (because as we know from the assessment I will lose interest in this when it becomes routine or dull) is treat others how they want to be treated. Novel idea huh?
Guess your color and I'll tell you my assessment of you. Hee, hee, hee!
9/06/2007
8/10/2007
What I'd be wearing if I had a 25" waist
I stumbled across this FANTASTIC site while searching for knitting patterns. (Yeah, yeah, call me an old lady but I like knitting.) Its http://www.vintageous.com/ and its full of wonderful vintage clothes. Though pretty much every dress or coat is made for a 22" to 25" max waist! Seriously were women in the 40's and 50's really this small or did they all still wear corsets?
But if I was that small or had a magic contraption to make me that small... Had a spare $800 and the dress wasn't already sold... This is what I'd be wearing. Sigh. Such beauty. Its Christian Dior.
7/01/2007
Surrender
God spoke to me this weekend. It was a very rough last few days. Emotional wreck is the best way to describe me. Here's what he said...
Q. Are you willing to surrender everything to me? I mean everything.
A. But what do you mean? Of course I've surrendered to you. I believe in you don't I? I try to live for you.
Q. But you still hold on to things in your heart. You reserve them as your right. You think you deserve them. In fact you are mad at me for not giving you what you think you need. Right?
A. But I know those things are only at your grace and mercy...
Q. But you still think they are yours, your right. You have to sacrifice them to me.
A. Um... what?
Q. Sacrifice, like Abraham sacrificed Isaac.
Abraham was asked to sacrifice his miracle and promised child. His only son, whom he loved. It made no sense. Why would God ask him to give up what had been promised to him as a miracle and symbol of God's plans for his chosen nation? It was the ultimate act of submission, of trust, of surrender. Abraham so believed God would be true to his word, that he was good, that he would raise his son again that he got up and obeyed. Immediate obedience, without question, without hesitation. He built an altar with his own hands as an act of submission to his God. He laid aside reason, and his love for his child and put him on the altar. He held nothing back from God.
Q. Can you sacrifice your love and will and mind like that? Can you surrender fully to my plans for you? Can you trust me?
A. But God those aren't bad things I want to hold on to...
Q. But they keep you from giving me your whole heart. I want all or nothing. Your whole heart is what is a pleasing sacrifice to me. Not partial surrender, but total surrender. Its only in my will that you will be free.
A. I'm not free am I?
Q. No, you are slave to what you think you need.
A. I see now... I'm chained to those things, I hold so tightly to them. I see the whole world and even you in light of those things. They've begun to suffocate me, they are so heavy. I didn't realize it until today. I'm chained to my security blankets, my dreams, my so called needs. You are right, I have to surrender them to you. I've carried them my whole life.
Q. It will be one of the hardest things you will ever do. Do you trust me? Do you trust that what is on the other side is my good and perfect will for you?
A. Yes
Q. Then build your altar, sacrifice and surrender totally to me. Then you will feel freedom.
I built the altar. Crying the whole time at what I was giving up. I don't know what life is going to be like without them. What if God doesn't restore them again to me like he did for Abraham? There is no guarantee. I had to take the risk. I can't live this way anymore. I want His freedom. I want His blessings. I crawled up there along with all the things I'd placed on it and I let it burn up. A holy and pleasing sacrifice to God. Maybe the only true sacrifice I've ever made.
And I do feel freedom. I am at peace. Its only in His will that we are free.
Are you free? Have you surrendered fully? What do you hold back as your own? Christ is our picture of true submission to our Father. His sacrifice saved us and restored us. Abraham was just a taste of what full surrender looks like. Follow Christ. Submit to God, to His will, and find freedom and peace and blessing.
Q. Are you willing to surrender everything to me? I mean everything.
A. But what do you mean? Of course I've surrendered to you. I believe in you don't I? I try to live for you.
Q. But you still hold on to things in your heart. You reserve them as your right. You think you deserve them. In fact you are mad at me for not giving you what you think you need. Right?
A. But I know those things are only at your grace and mercy...
Q. But you still think they are yours, your right. You have to sacrifice them to me.
A. Um... what?
Q. Sacrifice, like Abraham sacrificed Isaac.
Abraham was asked to sacrifice his miracle and promised child. His only son, whom he loved. It made no sense. Why would God ask him to give up what had been promised to him as a miracle and symbol of God's plans for his chosen nation? It was the ultimate act of submission, of trust, of surrender. Abraham so believed God would be true to his word, that he was good, that he would raise his son again that he got up and obeyed. Immediate obedience, without question, without hesitation. He built an altar with his own hands as an act of submission to his God. He laid aside reason, and his love for his child and put him on the altar. He held nothing back from God.
Q. Can you sacrifice your love and will and mind like that? Can you surrender fully to my plans for you? Can you trust me?
A. But God those aren't bad things I want to hold on to...
Q. But they keep you from giving me your whole heart. I want all or nothing. Your whole heart is what is a pleasing sacrifice to me. Not partial surrender, but total surrender. Its only in my will that you will be free.
A. I'm not free am I?
Q. No, you are slave to what you think you need.
A. I see now... I'm chained to those things, I hold so tightly to them. I see the whole world and even you in light of those things. They've begun to suffocate me, they are so heavy. I didn't realize it until today. I'm chained to my security blankets, my dreams, my so called needs. You are right, I have to surrender them to you. I've carried them my whole life.
Q. It will be one of the hardest things you will ever do. Do you trust me? Do you trust that what is on the other side is my good and perfect will for you?
A. Yes
Q. Then build your altar, sacrifice and surrender totally to me. Then you will feel freedom.
I built the altar. Crying the whole time at what I was giving up. I don't know what life is going to be like without them. What if God doesn't restore them again to me like he did for Abraham? There is no guarantee. I had to take the risk. I can't live this way anymore. I want His freedom. I want His blessings. I crawled up there along with all the things I'd placed on it and I let it burn up. A holy and pleasing sacrifice to God. Maybe the only true sacrifice I've ever made.
And I do feel freedom. I am at peace. Its only in His will that we are free.
Are you free? Have you surrendered fully? What do you hold back as your own? Christ is our picture of true submission to our Father. His sacrifice saved us and restored us. Abraham was just a taste of what full surrender looks like. Follow Christ. Submit to God, to His will, and find freedom and peace and blessing.
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