Excel at Work Life Balance the Myers-Briggs Way!

Four Necessary Steps You Should Take When Creating Better Work Life Balance!

by Kenneth L. Meyer

Most folks are out of balance in life when they compare their personal life with their work life. Most folks will say something like, "I'm one way at work (mostly a bad way) and another way at home (mostly "somewhat" better than work). When you know your Myers-Briggs personality type you can better balance work and the rest of your life. You were created to enjoy both work and your personal life!

1. 70-80% of the Workers in America Dislike What they Do

Most of those folks who dislike their work so much are suffering from two things, at least. One is a conditioning that takes place in the American culture that says you are not supposed to like what you do....after all it is called "work"! Secondly, most workers are working daily in areas of "weakness" on the job. Their jobs don't match their "naturalness" that we call personality type. A perfect match between personality type and job is not required; but, most folks are working in type-unlike jobs to such a degree that job dissatisfaction, health threatening stress that is job related, constant boredom and work related irritations are pandemic in the USA!

2. Knowledge of Myers-Briggs Personality Type Holds the Key!

You have a basic, natural and instinctive way of behaving in situations that is you. This is because you were imprinted while in the "womb" to prefer certain behaviors over other behaviors. This is why at work if you must repeatedly engage in certain behaviors that are NOT your instinctively favorite ones in order to get the work done...you will become stressed, bored...dissatisfied on many levels. It is inevitable. Most will fight thru it and spend a lifetime not like their work, which reinforces the incorrect "cultural" teaching that work is not to be liked. By understanding your personality type thru the Myers-Briggs personality indicator you will discover your instinctive way of becoming energized, taking in information every second of you life, reasoning and making decisions upon the information you take in and setting up your outside world so you can get things done.

3. Pick Careers That Are "Like" Your Type!

You can identify careers and jobs within careers by finding those that require the same energy level/source, information intake method, decision making model and approach to work activity and getting things done that you have! If you can take a Myers-Briggs and use just about any Occupational Handbook you can do a better job of matching yourself to the "perfect" career/job or improving your current lot within the job you have now!

4. Choose and Navigate Relationships the Very Same Way!

Most of divorce in America is generated because people are too different at their core. Their personalities have too many differences than sameness. Yes opposites attract but the experience and the data is telling us that the sameness in type between two people trying to relate the better that relationship will be naturally. Also, when two people have more in common from a personality approach the easier it is to get along, communicate; make decisions without gross arguing and better enjoy life!

You can better balance your personal and work life by making both more "type-like" rather than "type-unlike". It may not be easy at any step but it is also not that difficult. Choose a job or career that reflects your personality type as identified and described by the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator. Use your MBTI results to discover your energy source, information intake preference, and reasoning and decision making preference and finally how you instinctively prefer to organize your day to get things done. Pick your life relationships the very same way! Use your never changing nature...your personality type....to create more sameness in work and relationships and your life will achieve more balance.

My name is Kenneth Meyer and I am the President and founder of the consulting firm: Solid Rock Consulting Group, LLC. I am also a member of the very first class in America every certified in the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator and technique which occurred in December of 2001. Myers-Briggs Certification is above and beyond becoming "qualified"(I was qualified in 1999), certification is the final professional step. I am "charter-certified" in MBTI (certification#C11868). I have been using the MBTI to help thousands identify and use their God give personality type for a more powerful, happier life!

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