Hello all:

I’ve wrestled with the process for establishing goals for a while. Scott’s always been pointing toward an alignment of values and goals and then on the 10 April 2007 daily boost pod cast suggested evaluating Dr. Rice’s 16 needs as a means to determine important versus non-important needs as a means to uncover values and then fitness and life goals.

Still, after attempting to classify the needs last night and then prioritize them I was only able to cluster them and then began recognizing relationships between them.  What it did do for me was point me back to work I’d done with the Enneagram a few years ago following reading an article on Leadership and the Enneagram, by Mary Bast Ph.D. http://www.breakoutofthebox.com .  The Enneagram is a way to access personality by recognizing your ‘motivation’; I liked the method back then because it was one of recognition and not pigeon-holing you into a type. What did I do last night? I completed an online Enneagram test with the Enneagram Institute http://www.EnneagramInstitute.com . There are some free online test inventories to access and some great information.  This morning I was able to dig-in much deeper to values and recognition of self. From there, it’ll be something to assemble more accurate Life goals.

Last night I also looked around for ideas about Personality. Here’s some ideas collected along the way. Understanding our personality should allow us to identify our personal style of responding to people and tasks.  The task should allow us to: gain self-understanding and self-acceptance and greater understanding and acceptance of others; identify the consequences of our interpersonal style when relating with others at home or at work; and, identify our typical reactions to pressure and learn to compensate for weak areas. As well, I thought the following interesting. Personality develops from: bio-physical factors (genetics, health); personal style (behavioural, interpersonal); traumatic experiences (negative events, positive events); social learning (parents, teachers, friends); environmental factors (school, workplace, society, culture); and sense of self-worth (self-esteem, self-concept, identity, self-acceptance, self-respect).

Working through towards and then living out Life goals seems to be what a lot of our homework needs to be about.  I’d be most interested in reading your posts with regard to aligning your values toward goals and how you’ve done it and made out.

Ross,

Thanks so much for the thread and the links.  I too have a great deal of trouble with goals/values.  I am working with a life coach so I have a general set of goals but I have never quite grasped the values no matter how hard she tried to explain why I need to know them.

Scott also talked about values in a more general way (his personal values) in the DB (weekly) #16 (3-11) & DB #50 (3-11) (they may be the same) “Lining up your Values” which helped me-not to a full “click” but at least it moved the stuck gears in my brain toward a click.

I will re-listen to the pod casts and go to links and see what I can learn about myself.

Thanks again Ross.

Thanks for the information and your honesty.  It’s great to get information, insights, and the knowledge that we are all in this together.

Keep it up.

Thank you for bringing this up…Scott’s podcast on this topic really got me to thinking as well.

I had difficulty separating my personal/professional values. I decided not to force this and to just let them flow…and count them as the same for now. What I realized was that I live up to my values where work and family are concerned, but often drop the ball personally…when dealing with myself.

For example – some of my values are Honesty, Cooperation, and Confidence. Always straightforward and dedicated when it comes to product delivery, team work, family, etc…but not so honest with myself regarding my lifestyle and habits and the impact my personal choices have on my self esteem, confidence and personal success.

Hmmmm…more work is needed I for sure…will check out the link you shared J

Working through towards and then living out Life goals seems to be what a lot of our homework needs to be about.  I’d be most interested in reading your posts with regard to aligning your values toward goals and how you’ve done it and made out.

I do my own home based business, my goal I want my business will give me financial freedom so I can have great time with my family. Actually I don’t really have problem since I can choose when I want to go work and when I should take a rest.

Hi there

I tried the Enneagram personality test and it was scarily accurate - I’d recommend it to anyone who would like tips on personal growth based on your personality type as sometimes ideas for moving forward just don’t apply to all of us.

lovessport77 - 09 May 2007 01:24 AM

Hi there

I tried the Enneagram personality test and it was scarily accurate - I’d recommend it to anyone who would like tips on personal growth based on your personality type as sometimes ideas for moving forward just don’t apply to all of us.

Hey there, Fi:

‘Scarily accurate’ - well done! You get somewhere if you’re honest with yourself.  The other thing about the enneagram is that you evaluate/review the result and have the opportunity to reason through the assessment and the different profiles. You really are responsible for ‘recognizing’ you.  

Good day, all:

For those of you interested in exploring your personality type further iTunes has two pod casts that deal with the Enneagram – ‘Enneagram Personality Types’ and ‘Authentic Enneagram Audio Archives’. Both are rich in dialogue about the dynamics and motivations of each personality … well worth the listen, well worth checking out.