Explore Your PotentialPersonality

At this point in the weekend, we will begin to drill deeper into this notion that life is to be lived on purpose!

So often, young college men just barely keep their heads above water… doing just enough to survive the demands of academics, relationships, and part-time jobs. Nobody intends to squander or misuse their days, and yet that is what often happens, particularly for young adults who feel immortal.

Every one of us knows that our days are numbered, but we tend to live each day as though we are guaranteed tomorrow. This is not the case. As a result, for the rest of this weekend together, we will examine the perspective and practices necessary to living an intentional life of influence and impact. The goal for every man is not merely surviving, but thriving!

Thinking about your personal life, take a few minutes and reflect.

Have you ever privately wrestled with the questions:

• What am I really living for?
• What is truly most important to me?
• Why do I do what I do?
• How can I even be sure I’m doing the best things?

Or have you ever found yourself wondering:

• Where does all of my time go?
• Why can’t I ever seem to get on top of my schedule?
• Why can my life sometimes seem so out of control?
• And even when I’m getting stuff done, why is there still this nagging sense that there is something missing?

The comprehensive change required to getting a handle on your life is 80% about big perspective and only 20% about best practices.

10 Powerful Perspectives on Living Life on Purpose

1. Time management has little to do with managing your time and everything to do with managing yourself.
2. Every moment matters and should be maximized.
3. Time is to be invested, not spent.
4. You are not a slave to your schedule.
5. One day counts more than you can imagine.
6. People and relationships should be prioritized.
7. I am what I continually do.
8. Make choices each day with the end in mind.
9. If I fail to plan, I plan to fail.
10. I will not wake up one day having become someone I have not been becoming.

If you could choose just one of the powerful perspectives to reflect upon for five minutes every day, which one would you select and why?

Your life is important. It matters. You matter. Most importantly, your potential is amazing, if you invest your life on purpose and live your life with precision and wisdom. So the first step to comprehensive change and putting you on the right path to living each day with the end in mind is about better understanding what makes you… you!

You are unique. There is only one of you on the planet, and this world needs you. Only you have your one-of-a-kind personality. Only you have your distinct combination of strengths. And only you have your specific composite of core values and passions.

So what is my unique contribution when considering my personality? The Meyers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is a time-tested tool available to learn more about the 16 general personality types, as well as helping individuals identify their own personality composite.

Special thanks to the great minds at 16personalities.com and Otto Kroeger Associates for their creative language that adds depth and description to the Meyers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator.

How do you feel about the results of your personality test? Does the description feel like it fits you?

As you read about how your personality type manifests itself in strengths-weaknesses, career paths, workplace habits, friendship, romantic relationships, and parenting at 16personalities.com – what are your thoughts?

Special thanks to Dr. C.G. Jung (Theory of Psychological Types) and Isabel Briggs Myers & Katharine Briggs (Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator) for their fantastic contributions to helping human beings better understand themselves!

Who's Who In The Room

(E’s meet I’s; S’s meet N’s; T’s meet F’s; P’s meet J’s; A’s meet T’s)

What was your experience of the exercise? What did you feel and/or think as you participated?

Wake Up

...to the reality that a comprehensive approach to living life to the fullest begins with an important first step of determining how you are wired and what makes you… you.

Rise Up

...and realize that there is only one of you in the global community, on your campus, and in your chapter. Furthermore, your one-of-a-kind personality has the potential to make a unique contribution in each space and place you find yourself.

Step Up

...and engage in a process of self-discovery to determine your personality type, so that you will better understand where you find energy, how you learn and synthesize information, the manner in which you make decisions, and how you organize your life.