Friday, 18 of May of 2012
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My Signature Themes from Taking the Strengths Finder Profile created by The Gallup Institute.
For those of you that have been wanting to know me better... I can't think of a better opportunity to find out how I really tick. I've been enrolled in college now for a year. My plans of Internet Marketing are taking on new ideas fast than I can keep up. At least that's how it seems.
So I'm going for a Major in International Marketing through Capella University. Yeah me! I know, but I really wasn't prepared for some of the stuff this course was going to cover.
Right now I'm taking a course on Leadership and Management. The 2 Books they assigned to us have been phenomenal and extremely thought provoking!
These books fly in the face of conventional wisdom and ask you to really define what it is you truly believe about yourself and how you fit in the world. They conducted surveys of the last, I dunno, centuries maybe... But they found some very interesting patterns on how the brain develops through childhood and how some things about you can not be changed no matter how hard you may try.
I know, sounds kind of rough doesn't it? I'm still not sure exactly what I believe about changing yourself and how much of "you" you can really change. First, Break all the rules defined how excellent managers in top companies around the world operated. Then they found the patterns of behavior that gave the most consistent results. Then refined it further to discover some of the myths of conventional wisdom in management.
Now, Discover Your Strengths is focusing on finding the 5 main strengths we all have based on our own recurring thoughts and behaviors. To do this they have you take a 35 minute questionaire. All the questions are descriptions of you and they judge you how quickly you select each answer.
You can take the questionaire here: www.StrengthsFinder.com
The only catch is you have to buy a new copy of the book.... to get the code.... And sign up! It's all pretty simple, besides you'll need the book to get ideas on how you can incorporate this information and what it all really means! This way you can apply it to your own lives more effectively.
I've copied and pasted straight from my results page what the StrengthsFinder discovered for me. Some of it was all new but all of it made a lot of sense. Now I believe I have a better foundation to build from and a better chance at developing myself.
First, we all must understand ourselves before we can ever understand others!
Take care and let me know what you think!
Your Signature Themes
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.
A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes.
Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five."
Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.
Strategic
The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that can be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This perspective allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns, you play out alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? Okay, well what if this happened?” This recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate accurately the potential obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make selections. You discard the paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into resistance. You discard the paths that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until you arrive at the chosen path—your strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is your Strategic theme at work: “What if?” Select. Strike.
Woo
Woo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are drawn to them. You want to learn their names, ask them questions, and find some area of common interest so that you can strike up a conversation and build rapport. Some people shy away from starting up conversations because they worry about running out of things to say. You don’t. Not only are you rarely at a loss for words; you actually enjoy initiating with strangers because you derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection. Once that connection is made, you are quite happy to wrap it up and move on. There are new people to meet, new rooms to work, new crowds to mingle in. In your world there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet—lots of them.
Intellection
You like to think. You like mental activity. You like exercising the “muscles” of your brain, stretching them in multiple directions. This need for mental activity may be focused; for example, you may be trying to solve a problem or develop an idea or understand another person’s feelings. The exact focus will depend on your other strengths. On the other hand, this mental activity may very well lack focus. The theme of Intellection does not dictate what you are thinking about; it simply describes that you like to think. You are the kind of person who enjoys your time alone because it is your time for musing and reflection. You are introspective. In a sense you are your own best companion, as you pose yourself questions and try out answers on yourself to see how they sound. This introspection may lead you to a slight sense of discontent as you compare what you are actually doing with all the thoughts and ideas that your mind conceives. Or this introspection may tend toward more pragmatic matters such as the events of the day or a conversation that you plan to have later. Wherever it leads you, this mental hum is one of the constants of your life.
Connectedness
Things happen for a reason. You are sure of it. You are sure of it because in your soul you know that we are all connected. Yes, we are individuals, responsible for our own judgments and in possession of our own free will, but nonetheless we are part of something larger. Some may call it the collective unconscious. Others may label it spirit or life force. But whatever your word of choice, you gain confidence from knowing that we are not isolated from one another or from the earth and the life on it. This feeling of Connectedness implies certain responsibilities. If we are all part of a larger picture, then we must not harm others because we will be harming ourselves. We must not exploit because we will be exploiting ourselves. Your awareness of these responsibilities creates your value system. You are considerate, caring, and accepting. Certain of the unity of humankind, you are a bridge builder for people of different cultures. Sensitive to the invisible hand, you can give others comfort that there is a purpose beyond our humdrum lives. The exact articles of your faith will depend on your upbringing and your culture, but your faith is strong. It sustains you and your close friends in the face of life’s mysteries.
Input
You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might collect information—words, facts, books, and quotations—or you might collect tangible objects such as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls, or sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to add more information to your archives. If you like to travel, it is because each new location offers novel artifacts and facts. These can be acquired and then stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time of storing it is often hard to say exactly when or why you might need them, but who knows when they might become useful? With all those possible uses in mind, you really don’t feel comfortable throwing anything away. So you keep acquiring and compiling and filing stuff away. It’s interesting. It keeps your mind fresh. And perhaps one day some of it will prove valuable.
I stole this from an E-mail I received. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Would love to hear other people perspective!
Take a look... Rant... Rave... Just give voice to your Message!
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is facing possible imprisonment, and it has been reported that Army officials have gone so far as to "suggest" that he submit to a "mental evaluation" ... all because he has the audacity to ask Barack Hussein Obama to supply a copy of his actual birth certificate.
During his 18-year career as a flight-surgeon in the United States Army, Lakin has put his life on the line in defense of the United States Constitution. And he's more than willing to do so again.
But before Lakin places himself, yet again, in harm's way, he's asking Barack Hussein Obama to do the very same thing that he, and countless others who honorably serve our country are, in so many cases, REQUIRED to do... namely, supply a copy of an actual birth certificate; and thereby prove that the orders he gives as "Commander-in-Chief" are, indeed, LAWFUL.
Why go to all the trouble? Lakin answers the question best himself: "I feel I have no choice but the distasteful one of inviting my own court martial. The Constitution matters. The truth matters."
And so, a brave soldier, who has placed himself in harm's way, and is willing to do so again, is being harassed and faces possible imprisonment because Barack Hussein Obama... REFUSES to honor the Constitution... REFUSES to prove that he is not a FRAUD and a USURPER... REFUSES to prove that the orders he is giving our brave men and women in uniform are lawful... and REFUSES to release his actual birth certificate.
Of course you won't hear about Lt Col. Lakin's plight on the nightly news or the front page of the New York Times. In fact, the Western Center for Journalism is only one of a handful of credible news organizations calling attention to Lakin's plight.
And that's why our mission is so important. Truth be told, everyone needs to hear this story and you can make that happen. Your TAX-DEDUCTIBLE donation will make it possible for us to cover the stories the Mainstream Media refuses to cover... tell Lakin's story to the world... keep the pressure on Barack Hussein Obama... and send a clear message to him and his allies in the Obama-Media that questions concerning his eligibility are not simply going to go away.
Of course, as a loyal reader of the news and information that the Western Center for Journalism sends your way... you already know much of what the Mainstream Media is not reporting.
 You already know that Barack Hussein Obama has outright REFUSED to release his actual birth certificate and that hundreds-of-thousands of dollars have been spent to OBSTRUCT requests that he supply his actual birth certificate.
You already know that the document that Barack Hussein Obama claims is his "birth certificate" is NOT a valid long form birth certificate and that, until recently, the state of Hawaii did not even accept that very same document as proof that an individual is a Hawaiian citizen because that document can be issued to individuals not actually born in Hawaii.
And you also know that when Lakin (an officer with 18 years of service in the Army) stated his intention to refuse deployment orders until his presumed "Commander-in-Chief" proves that he is eligible to hold the post, he was "counseled," threatened with jail time and encouraged to undergo psychiatric evaluation. |
Specifically, , Lakin received a reprimand which stated, in part:
"On 30 March 2010, this command became aware of your intentions to refuse to follow deployment orders. Your stated reason for refusal was your belief that the election of the President of the United States is invalid.... Failure to follow your reassignment and/or deployment orders may result in adverse action including court-martial... If found guilty … you could be sentenced to dismissal from the service... forefeiture (sic) of all pay and allowances; and confinement for a period of months or years in a military prison."
But here's something else the pro-Obama Mainstream Media will NOT report.
If the Army follows through on its threat to court martial Lakin, he would have the right of discovery... meaning that his defense team could compel Barack Hussein Obama to produce the document that he has REFUSED to produce... his actual birth certificate.
That's why Barack Hussein Obama's allies in the media are NOT covering this story. They don't want to the American people to know what is going on... they don't want the American people to start asking pesky questions.
In short, they don't want the American people to know the truth.
Is the biggest political crime in American history taking place right before our eyes? Is the man in the White House INELIGIBLE, according to the Constitution, to sit in the Oval Office... is he a FRAUD... a USURPER?
Barack Hussein Obama could put the issue to rest right now by simply releasing his actual birth certificate.
He's dug in his heels. He has teams of lawyers fighting efforts to get him to release his actual birth certificate, while his underlings look down their noses at the American people and call these legitimate requests “garbage.”
And the one pivotal question that those who attempt to dismiss the controversy cannot answer is: If Barack Hussein Obama has nothing to hide, what’s the problem? The more he resists, the more you have to wonder.
Meanwhile the liberal press is trying to drag this story into a dark alley and bludgeon it to death.
It’s time for you and me to weigh in and force the issue. Let's call-out the liberal media.
Floyd Brown
Western Center for Journalism
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