I am not administrative. Apparently I have led a few of you to believe that my ability to get things done stems from my talents and giftings as someone who leads an organized life. Contrary to my great desire to be organized, I am, in my natural state, a heap of unfinished projects flung into a corner of good intentions. My ability to get almost anything done is the fruit of God’s wonderful patience in sanding down my rough and ragged edges. I have had to learn to get up from my list and force myself into action.
I LOVE organization. I find it exhilarating to walk through Office Depot and look at all the organization tools. The Container Store is like a little slice of heaven to me and little boxes and labels and tags make my heart flutter. But I am not a natural at making any of it work. My tendency is to over-organize until there is too much work to keep it organized. Then I find myself in a mess because I left things lying around until I have time to arrange it back into my very detailed system.
When given a project to work on, I tend to spend all my time planning it and never get around to actually putting any of my plan into place. When I’m thrown into the ring, I feel completely exposed and flustered. I am terribly flawed in this area, but have a strong conviction that I can improve.
I decided to try to find a personality assessment online to see if there were a good way to sum up my abilities or lack of. I found a very simple quiz and here is what I found out about me. This paragraph and the following assessments describe me pretty well. One huge difference is that I DO like to impress people. I’m a performer and I like affirmation. Lots of it. Although I do not handle projects well, the assessment is correct in that I do find myself wanting control of them often. I think it’s because I feel my vision or reputation is at stake. It is a hindrance in the area of delegation.
According to my quiz results I’m an INFP…what are you? Go to the Discover Your Type button to find out.
I had a birthday on Saturday. I turned 37 over the weekend and God gave me really great weather as a gift. We spent a lot of time outside and did a lot of relaxing. It was very nice.
The weather is beautiful again today and there is so much to do. I think my first priority should be napping. Too bad nobody has put that back porch bed idea into motion. Ah well.
Hmmm, funny. I think it figured me out pretty well. I’m still trying to figure out if I’m a perfectionist, why is my house so messy? http://www.personalitytype.com/types/intj.asp
I think all those things are true but I don’t like any of the recommendations for me as a career. It’s pretty interesting though.
I’m an INFJ. 🙂
And to Amy, I read your question, and believe it or not a lot of perfectionists, from what I have noticed, have messy houses. A lot of the time a perfectionist has an all-or-nothing type of outlook on things, which is why a lot of projects and things go unfinished. I’m that way a lot, and it’s a real struggle to try to remind myself that it’s okay to be imperfect sometimes.
Difficult to convince myself, but I am trying at least. 🙂
Uh, yep. INFP. When I read your paragraphs, Mary, I was thinking, “This sounds a lot like me.” I wasn’t really sure on the decision-making part (ha!). I left that one as a “not confident.”
So cool that you found this Mary! It looks like the Myers Briggs. My friend was really into this and I have tons of info if this did not satisfy your curiosity. I am ENFP from what I remember. I can relate to feeling flustered when it is finally time to put my plan into motion. Maybe one day I will follow through on all those ideas. Yeah right!