How many Profile tools have you used?

I come to you today as a Virgo, born under some moon, in the Chinese year of the Tiger. I am part Peacock and part Owl. I have completed Myers Briggs more times than I care to and I am so over being tested for my personality. It still didn't help me work, or understand my actual decision making strategies. It didn't give me the next steps, except in the December issue of Marie Claire Australia for the last 20 years, as Tanya laid out my year and told me which star signs to look out for in love, and which moths I had to be careful not to spend too much! Please note I am secretly very sad that her column was cancelled monthly when Covid-19 hit.

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For what purpose are we testing ourselves, "unpacking" ourselves? The answer is to stay loyal to our self esteem.

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You have to like me as an organisation nerd and a sometimes stubborn people pleaser because I was born in September.. I was loyal to it for 30 years. I resigned myself to my fate, of not being the other possibly more desirable signs. This was me.

So I embraced it and bought lots of diaries and stationary that matched and had planners and reminders and on line calendars. Was I actually organised at work? Sometimes I was a machine! I have noticed though, that now as I have trained in behavioural coaching and understand the neurological patterns that occur, profiling our 'energetic signature' and our 'thinking style' resonated more with what I actually do. Professional profiling unpacks not just the quiz answers but the science behind the questions. And it maps out the strategy going forward, across all aspects of you.

In Meta Dynamics, I am a Collaborator primarily, but I have strengths in structure and process, I struggle in goal setting because implementing something I actually want to do, is tied to me giving myself permission to have the outcome. This ties in with my Extended DISC profile of being an I and S energy, which is about having a mother architype and an Influencer energy.

So I now understand that I am slow at decisions because I consider the social benefits of the outcome.

The biggest difference with quality thinking profiling, is the strategy a coach helps you build, to actually strengthen the other skills. They don't just delivery a box for you too slot into.

So I have strategies in place around building muscles in the other areas, when I need it. Building a business for example needs me to have certain traits at certain times, so I work with that energy or thinking pattern at that time. I don't stop, give up or abdicate from tasks because subconsciously a Virgo can't be sexy, or an Owl can't be a dolphin.

When you truly want to understand what makes you tick, true personal coaching shines the torch on your mind, so you can watch them back and develop any gaps, like an Olympic swim coach. So over the Christmas break maybe consider if it is time to step out of the box.