Derek Halpern is the founder of SocialTriggers.com, a thriving business that sells software, online courses and digital training. In this episode, he talks with James and Phoebe about the seemingly unremarkable daily habits that help people become extraordinary in business. More specifically, how walking can change your life!
Knowing yourself will allow you to understand more how you can show up and operate as an entrepreneur. In this episode, James explains what the Myers Briggs Personality Test is all about, while allowing the listener to answer the question “what type am I?”
Personality types aren’t meant to limit you. You can learn much about yourself, and along the way, discover a lot about the people around you.
At a business function in 2008, someone “read” James, based on his personality type, which fascinated him.
“What it did for me was open a door to discover this on my own”
He says he was an introvert growing up, referring to himself as shy and not knowing how to relate to others.
“I lived the first 25 years of my life thinking there was something drastically wrong with me because everywhere I looked, I found evidence that people were the exact opposite”
James discovered his Myers Briggs Personality Type is “INTJ”, which is one of the rarest of the 16 personality types in the framework. Myers Briggs allowed him to look at what he had as strengths, as opposed to weaknesses.
“I accepted who I was and really fell in love with that”
He created a journal that he kept for about 18 months, tracking and analyzing the personality types of people that he knew. He discovered a lot of similarities between them in terms of behaviors, mannerisms and even physical attributes. This has resulted in him being able to read people with great accuracy.
“It has allowed me to be more effective in communication. The moment you work with one more person in your life, communication becomes the number one most important thing”
He believes that the one breakdown we have in communication is not being able to understand where the other person is coming from and what’s going on with them.
Knowing people’s personality types can help in terms of hiring for new positions, as well as determining who the ideal client is for your business. The Myers Briggs system can even point you in the right direction for finding your purpose, or reaffirming the path that you are on.
“I believe that everyone has a purpose, and your purpose needsto be aligned with the things that come natural to you”
It’s important to note that no personality type is right or wrong, or better or worse, than another.
Myers Briggs is based on asking yourself a number of questions:
1. Are you an Extrovert (E) or Introvert(I)?
This question examines where you get your energy. If it’s from internal sources, such as thoughts, ideas and imagination, those are introvert qualities. Extroverts tend to get their energy from being around people.
Extroverts outnumber introverts about three to one, and it’s common for introverts to live their life feeling pressured to feel they need more friends and have to go out more often in groups.
Introverts often think first and speak second, enjoy peace and quiet and are great listeners. They love small gatherings and they believe that “talk is cheap.”
Extroverts talk first and think later, often have more friends and value that as something that’s important to them. They are not as affected by external stimuli and find listening more difficult than talking. Often, they require more affirmation from others.
2. Are you a Sensor (S) orIntuitive (N)?
This question revolves around how we see the world and take in information, which can be challenging to describe but can have the biggest impact on who we are and how we communicate.
About 60 to 70% of the population are sensors. Sensors prefer specific answers to specific questions, and are very detail oriented. They prefer jobs and tasks that yield a tangible result.
Sensors want to master things, and identify with being “the best” at something. These types of people would rather work with facts and figures than ideas and theories. They are very literally and tend to be more athletic than Intuitives.
Intuitives can be seen as being absent-minded and can get frustrated with details. They are future-oriented, looking at the“big picture.” They are able to draw a connection between people,things or ideas, and often are the type that will question authority.
3. Are you a Thinker (T) or Feeler(F)?
This question looks at how we make decisions, whether in a logical way or from the heart.
Thinkers are calm and collected, looking for what is fair and truthful rather than what will make people happy. To be a good manager of people, you most likely need to be a Thinker to make the tough decisions that are necessary. They are mathematical, scientific and left-brained in general.
Feelers take other peoples’ feelings in to account, and are more empathetic.
4. Are you a Perceiver (P) or a Judger(J)?
This question looks at how you structure your day and life.
Perceivers are creative and spontaneous,as well as good at starting projects. However, they can be easily distracted and are not big planners. They can be slightly disheveled in their appearance (males with longer hair and females wearing clothes that flow).
Perceivers experience time in abundance, which is why they’re always late.
Judgers are very linear with their time, and structured in that they are probably the type that has to have “to-do” lists. As well, they are tasks finishers, taking a project from start to finish.
In this episode, Kari Samuels links Numerology to personal and business success. What is it, and how can we use it in our businesses?
Kari explains how using numbers can help make decisions, discover optimal times when events should be happening or not happening, as well as revealing much about you as an individual.
She says everything boils down to numbers. A place on a map, numbers assigned at birth, date of birth, and your name are all calculated by numbers.
“Basically our whole life is a number.”
She says that people are divinely designed to come to life to incarnate during a certain day, period with a certain name because that’s the vibration that carries the spiritual lessons for that person.
When linking Numerology to business, Kari says knowing this information will help you become more successful and more aware of what is going on around you. As an example, Kari talks about the moon and how certain times of the moons cycle is better to make new business decisions in. As well, another part of the cycle is for making revisions.
“This is a science, a science that has been used for thousands and thousands of years; there is a reason it hasn’t gone away.”
Kari touches on energy, and how energy guides us and how people can feel energy from each other. She makes her business decisions with a positive energy, so she can really reach out and touch her clients.
“I truly feel people respond to energy more than information.”
She tells others to not look at their lives as a series of goals but rather to look at life as look at as energy.
“To me everything is energy, and that’s how I look at it.”
She concludes with reminding listeners that you’re cultivating the energy of your future, with every action you’re doing now.
INTERVIEW LINKS:
Karen Carter is a professional Feng Shui consultant and healthy lifestyle designer, educator and best-selling author of "Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life" and "Make a Shift, Change Your Life." She coaches, trains and empowers people to use a variety of techniques to improve and enrich all areas of their lives. In this episode, we find out if moving things on your desk, in your home and in your office can really change your life!
Karen shares that Feng Shui is a method of mindfully arranging your space so that it supports you.
She says that she was originally a skeptic, but needed to learn Feng Shui to get a project as a landscape architect.
Quantum physics plays a part in it, as everything is energy. Karen adds that Feng Shui deals with all the things you might never think of that could be detrimental to you, as well as minor things.
“Little, tiny and subtle things can make a big difference”
She started applying Feng Shui to her house, and soon after a major publisher contacted her to write a book that she hadn’t even pitched.
She feels that you should start by looking at changes that can be made in your home, as you spend a lot of time there. Karen focuses on her bed, as it’s a health generating area of the home.
With Feng Shui, it’s about setting your intention, your goals and what you want to do.
“I’m not really that interested in fixing a house as much as I am changing the outcome of somebody’s life”
If you have a business, you need to look at the biggest challenges you are facing, and get very specific with tracking. For example, it could be revenue generation, before and after Feng Shui is implemented.
A few suggestions she has for business owners is to make the front door inviting, easy to see and ensure it opens freely. A fresh and clean welcome mat will provide “inviting energy.”
Karen says that her rule is that whatever is closest to you will have the most impact, and she advises that you clear out the things that don’t support you anymore.
“If you are to truly propel yourself forward, cut the ties of the past that doesn’t serve you”
She believes that a lot of interior designers resist learning about Feng Shui as they feel it will be limiting to them.
Displaying your credentials (certificates, diplomas, etc.), getting a permanent work space as well as putting a plant in the prosperity area of your desk are just some suggestions she has.
Karen shares that you can always learn more to master Feng Shui.
“You have to know the basic rules, then apply”
When launching a product, trust in the universe and have something to anchor you against the anxiety, stress and energy (see Karen’s YouTube video in “INTERVIEW LINKS”).
She believes in “planning the party”, or celebrating something that hasn’t happened yet.
Karen concludes by reminding people to be mindful of where you want to go, and who you are.
“Look around; see what you’re surrounding yourself with”
INTERVIEW LINKS:
"Move Your Stuff with Karen" Membership Program
"Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life" book
"Make A Shift, Change Your Life" book
Kate Northrup is the best selling author of “Money, a Love Story: Untangle Your Financial Woes and Create the Life You Really Want.” She’s grown a team of 3,000 wellness entrepreneurs in the network marketing industry and her work has been featured on The Today Show, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and in many other amazing publications. She is committed to empowering as many people as possible to have the ultimate luxury in life. In this episode, she shares all about creating that “margin for magic” in your business!
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