Hi, my name is Crystal, and I love taking personality tests. From legitimate tests like Myers-Briggs (I’m an INFJ if you were curious) to the goofy ones you find online or in magazines, I love them all. When I found out my husband and I to take them as part of our pre-marital counseling, I was thrilled. When a potential job asked me to take one as part of the hiring process, I couldn’t wait to get started.
But then I read the results, and my mind starts to wonder…is this really me? Is this all there is to “Crystal,” all neat and tidy and packaged into a few pages of analysis? My DISC assessment is the one I struggled most with when it came to these thoughts recently, and here’s why: I’m not the most flattering “letter.”
Decisive – your preference for problem solving and getting results
Interactive – your preference for interacting with others and showing emotion
Stability – your preference for pacing, persistence and steadiness
Cautious – your preference for procedures,standards and protocols
Yep…that spells DISC. You know. In case you wondered why it was called a DISC assessment. You’re welcome.
Oh, you are singing a song I am so proficient at singing! (Glad to know I’m not alone!) Today was such a long, long, day and ever since Tuesday I have felt overburdened. Earlier this evening I just wanted to drive my car to a closed national park so I could have it all to myself and no one would come looking for me wanting me to do or be anything but on a break for a while.
I’m so glad I clicked over to you here tonight via the Personal Endeavors list. I’m #148 there… and am continuing to write even while being commentless. Well, I got one comment on Day 1 but it wasn’t from anyone in this community.
I’m back to feeling like I did when I started Five Minute Fridays and eventually discovered the most fabulous group of women imaginable. Thank you for reminding me how important community is to me.
Let me scooch over some for you! Reach right down into that bag of chips I’m stress munching on. There’s always room here, even when we sometimes scratch each other with the rough edges of our cracked places. We’re all just trying to hold it together – together.
One for me, one for me too!! =)
Be ok with it, girl. Thank you for sharing this beautiful comment. Big hugs. (and I’ve totally been known to go with the shirt when the kleenex just seems like a waste of energy…there, you have “TMI” company!)
It started for me on Instagram this #31day thing. Now I’m reading blog after blog! I have to say its refreshing to my (weary) soul. Some days the only thing I have to offer anyone is the ugly cry…. Usually over nothing…. Something …. Who knows.
Fight with hubby, kid failing science, day to day schedule set backs and I’m a basket case, generally not a very sturdy one either, you know the kind that you’re not one bit sure it will hold that bunch of bananas but you display them anyway!? Yeah some days (weeks, seasons) I’m that kind of crazy. The kind that even the best encouragement or verse or prayer doesn’t permeate and then you feel worse!? These things “should” work!
Then they don’t and you are stuck looking for your place on the bench. Or trying to imagine there is a bench! Because you can’t imagine there is a bench when you’re trying to have it all together, keep it all together, keep it wrapped up with a pretty bow.
Today my box has come untied. I’m trying to be okay with that. And imagine there is a bench (and coffee). I’m beyond Kleenex. I’m just using my shirt… Hmmm maybe that’s tmi. 😉
{{hugs}} thanks girl – looking forward to that in real life hug in a few short weeks 🙂
Okay… have you been reading my journals again? Friend I know this like I know the back of my hand! The part about being a broken vessel with His light shining through?? YOWZERS!!! Made me have goose bumps. It is an honour to share a bench with your friend and I promise to always carry enough kleenex, chocolate and be the shoulder you can lay your head down on when you just want to be and not talk… {hugs}
you are so kind, thank you!
i’ll bring the coffee, you bring the cupcakes 😉
“my heart’s reflection of his great love”…oh that’s a gorgeous line 🙂
Can I come sit on the bench with you? I think I have also bought into that lie. Crystal, you truly do a wonderful job of creating an inviting community. I have been blessed by your transparency again & again!
There will always be a place right next to me, for you.
xo,
Stacey
I used to believe that if I wanted to be a part of our church’s worship team that I needed to be perfect. What I love about singing praises to God is that is my heart’s reflection of His great love and my need for it every hour!! Great post friend!!
So loved this post! Thank you for visiting us at Kindred Grace.
I’m ESFJ, by the way. 🙂 I’ve never done the DISC one. But that one that asks about temperament consistently reveals I’m split nearly exactly in half with perfect melancholy and powerful choleric. (Yes, this means I’ve taken it many more times than once!)
They’re so fun, right?
It’s just fun for me to learn how to interact with people, and what makes people “tick” 🙂
I did try that one! And totally forgot to save my results. I think maybe I was a “loyalist”? I’ll have to go take it again now 😉
DISC isn’t my favorite either. But every other personality test on earth? I LOVE. I recently took the enneagram test – have you tried that one yet?
Girl I LOVE personality tests too! But I love telling other people what their personality is… Ha! I’m ENTJ and very high D! So kind of a bulldozer… 😉
I also love personality tests of any kind. 🙂