Summary arvin, your responses indicate that you are very warm, talkative, and especially willing to listen. When you need to use your persistent persuasiveness in a discussion, you do so in a pleasant manner. You show a concerted effort in making the best of whatever happens. While you are open to people's influence upon you, you are easily turned off if they wield authority or push regulations with a heavy hand. You prefer not to deal with details.
Communication Style arvin, you are an attentive and perceptive listener. You tend to be sensitive to other people's feelings. When speaking, you avoid conflict by choosing your words carefully. You are especially skillful at maintaining harmony. Your style of persuasion is diplomatic and tactful. Also, arvin, you use a diplomatic tone in order to work peacefully with people. You do not intimidate others and, in turn, you do not appreciate verbal intimidation.
Your style of communication is easy-going and indirect. You express yourself in a calm, caring, and consistent manner.
arvin, you feel that cooperation and teamwork are very important, and you set clear time frames to complete projects. You plan actions carefully, allow for time considerations, and maintain harmonious relations with colleagues.
You function best when reporting to a strong leader. You are good at prioritizing work, establishing routines, and getting things done on time.
Leadership Leadership Style: Mentor You perform your leadership role by accepting whatever comes your way, by adjusting to it and then pushing ahead with persistence. You regard timing as very important and this is reflected in your expertise in planning and then in pursuing your goals. You freely delegate both authority and details. You like to develop your people and to encourage teamwork.
Conscientiousness Your personal style tends to be somewhat easy-going and relaxed. You do your best work on tasks that you enjoy, but you may be able to sustain an adequate degree of effort when it comes to essential tasks. You may or may not be concerned about extremely high levels of achievement. You like to maintain a balance between work and relaxation. You may apply positive motivation for consensus-building work activities, but maintaining focus on bottom-line results may be a challenge for you.
Motivation Motivation Needs: arvin, you tend to be motivated when your personal efforts contribute to overall organizational goals. You prefer that your organization's structure be secure and steady. You desire to work in an environment distinguished by teamwork and compatibility. You are most productive in a harmonious, cooperative, and stable work environment. You respond positively when encouraged to use creativity in projects, and when there are no sudden changes in pace or workload.
You can be demotivated if excessive pressure is exerted on you at the last minute. Personality conflicts among co-workers can negatively impact your productivity. You may be less motivated in environments of rapid or sudden change. You can be frustrated by unrealistic expectations, or by frequent interruptions.
Primary Motivation: • An environment where there is harmony and cooperation. • A minimum of conflicts and a steady, stable structure. • A pace set for you with no sudden or abrupt changes. • Forewarning of changes so that there is sufficient time to adjust. • Encouragement in regard to creativity. • Knowing how your personal efforts contribute to overall goals. • Validation of self-worth.
Primary Demotivation: • Constantly pressured at the last minute. • There are too many personality conflicts. • There are too many sudden changes. • Expectations are too high and/or not clear.
Emotional / Intelligence arvin, your responses indicate that your Emotional Intelligence is exceptionally well developed. You tend to understand the emotional makeup of others, and to accurately sense what other people are feeling. Because you find it easy to see the world from another person's perspective, it is likely that you associate with a diverse group of people. You work for reasons beyond money or status. It is likely that you are proficient in both maintaining relationships and networking. You think before speaking, and form carefully considered judgments about people or situations. Furthermore, you are aware of the impact of your emotions on others.
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Name Your first name of Arvin creates individuality, independence, self-confidence, initiative, and an inclination to physical activity. You are not inclined to merge your opinions and viewpoints with others, to accept compromise, or to work in a subservient position against your will. Your expression is invariably quite direct and candid, and lacks the moderating tone of tact, diplomacy, and friendliness. Others find it difficult to accept your domineering and, at times, argumentative manner. Your circle of friends is restricted to those of like nature. Once friendship is established, you are very loyal and steadfast and do not tolerate gossip or criticism. In your close associations and family life, there is little demonstration of sentiment, appreciation, sympathy, or encouragement. It is difficult for you to find the right words for such circumstances. Weaknesses in the health caused by this name centre in the head.
Lexter as a first name gives you a very independent nature, yet you are friendly, approachable, and generous. You can be a spontaneous, expressive, and talkative person. Generally you are good-natured, though at times you can be rather blunt and sarcastic. This name incorporates creative, artistic, and musical abilities, and there would be an element of originality in all that you do. You like to do things on the spur of the moment without planning or prior arrangements. Your spirits are buoyed up greatly by encouragement and appreciation. There is a tendency to be scattering in your efforts and you prefer to avoid menial jobs of a routine and repetitive nature. You are inclined to pursue good times and emotional indulgences to excess. Weaknesses in health due to the influence of this name centre in the head. You could experience headaches, or difficulties with your teeth, ears, eyes, or sinuses. Disorders related to the liver, which would be aggravated by rich foods, could also arise.
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Your Type is ISFJ Introverted 22 Sensing 11 Feeling 56 Judging 1
Protectors find great satisfaction in assisting the downtrodden and can deal with disability and neediness in others better than any other type. They go about their task of caretaking modestly, unassumingly, and because of this their efforts are not sometimes fully appreciated. They are not as outgoing and talkative as the Providers [ESFJs], except with close friends and relatives. With these they can chat tirelessly about the ups and downs in their lives, moving (like all the Guardians) from topic to topic as they talk over their everyday concerns. However, their shyness with strangers is often misjudged as stiffness, even coldness, when in truth these Protectors are warm-hearted and sympathetic, giving happily of themselves to those in need.
Their quietness ought really to be seen as an expression, not of coldness, but of their sincerity and seriousness of purpose. Like all the Guardians, ISFJs have a highly developed puritan work ethic, which tells them that work is good, and that play must be earned-if indulged in at all. The least hedonic of all types, Protectors are willing to work long, long hours doing all the thankless jobs the other types seem content to ignore. Thoroughness and frugality are also virtues for Protectors. When they undertake a task, they will complete it if at all humanly possible; and they know the value of material resources and abhor the squandering or misuse of these resources. Protectors are quite content to work alone; indeed, they may experience some discomfort when placed in positions of authority, and may try to do everything themselves rather than insist that others do their jobs.
With their extraordinary commitment to security, and with their unusual talent for executing routines, Protectors do well in many careers that have to do with conservation: curators, private secretaries, librarians, middle-managers, police officers, and especially general medical practitioners. To be sure, the hospital is a natural haven for them; it is home to the family doctor, preserver of life and limb, and to the registered nurse, or licensed practical nurse, truly the angels of mercy. The insurance industry is also a good fit for ISFJs. To save, to put something aside against an unpredictable future, to prepare for emergencies—these are important actions to Protectors, who as insurance agents want to see their clients in good hands, sheltered and protected.
The actor Jimmy Stewart and Mother Teresa are examples of Protector Guardian style
Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging by Marina Margaret Heiss Profile: ISFJ Revision: 2.4 Date of Revision: 20 Jul 03
ISFJ's are characterized above all by their desire to serve others, their "need to be needed." In extreme cases, this need is so strong that standard give-and-take relationships are deeply unsatisfying to them; however, most ISFJs find more than enough with which to occupy themselves within the framework of a normal life. (Since ISFJs, like all SJs, are very much bound by the prevailing social conventions, their form of "service" is likely to exclude any elements of moral or political controversy; they specialize in the local, the personal, and the practical.)
ISFJs are often unappreciated, at work, home, and play. Ironically, because they prove over and over that they can be relied on for their loyalty and unstinting, high-quality work, those around them often take them for granted--even take advantage of them. Admittedly, the problem is sometimes aggravated by the ISFJs themselves; for instance, they are notoriously bad at delegating ("If you want it done right, do it yourself"). And although they're hurt by being treated like doormats, they are often unwilling to toot their own horns about their accomplishments because they feel that although they deserve more credit than they're getting, it's somehow wrong to want any sort of reward for doing work (which is supposed to be a virtue in itself). (And as low-profile Is, their actions don't call attention to themselves as with charismatic Es.) Because of all of this, ISFJs are often overworked, and as a result may suffer from psychosomatic illnesses.
In the workplace, ISFJs are methodical and accurate workers, often with very good memories and unexpected analytic abilities; they are also good with people in small-group or one-on-one situations because of their patient and genuinely sympathetic approach to dealing with others. ISFJs make pleasant and reliable co-workers and exemplary employees, but tend to be harried and uncomfortable in supervisory roles. They are capable of forming strong loyalties, but these are personal rather than institutional loyalties; if someone they've bonded with in this way leaves the company, the ISFJ will leave with them, if given the option. Traditional careers for an ISFJ include: teaching, social work, most religious work, nursing, medicine (general practice only), clerical and and secretarial work of any kind, and some kinds of administrative careers.
While their work ethic is high on the ISFJ priority list, their families are the centers of their lives. ISFJs are extremely warm and demonstrative within the family circle--and often possessive of their loved ones, as well. When these include Es who want to socialize with the rest of the world, or self-contained ITs, the ISFJ must learn to adjust to these behaviors and not interpret them as rejection. Being SJs, they place a strong emphasis on conventional behavior (although, unlike STJs, they are usually as concerned with being "nice" as with strict propriety); if any of their nearest and dearest depart from the straight-and-narrow, it causes the ISFJ major embarrassment: the closer the relationship and the more public the act, the more intense the embarrassment (a fact which many of their teenage children take gleeful advantage of). Over time, however, ISFJs usually mellow, and learn to regard the culprits as harmless eccentrics :-). Needless to say, ISFJs take infinite trouble over meals, gifts, celebrations, etc., for their loved ones--although strong Js may tend to focus more on what the recipient should want rather than what they do want.
Like most Is, ISFJs have a few, close friends. They are extremely loyal to these, and are ready to provide emotional and practical support at a moment's notice. (However, like most Fs they hate confrontation; if you get into a fight, don't expect them to jump in after you. You can count on them, however, run and get the nearest authority figure.) Unlike with EPs, the older the friendship is, the more an ISFJ will value it. One ISFJ trait that is easily misunderstood by those who haven't known them long is that they are often unable to either hide or articulate any distress they may be feeling. For instance, an ISFJ child may be reproved for "sulking," the actual cause of which is a combination of physical illness plus misguided "good manners." An adult ISFJ may drive a (later ashamed) friend or SO into a fit of temper over the ISFJ's unexplained moodiness, only afterwards to explain about a death in the family they "didn't want to burden anyone with." Those close to ISFJs should learn to watch for the warning signs in these situations and take the initiative themselves to uncover the problem.
Qualitative analysis of your type formula You are: slightly expressed introvert slightly expressed sensing personality moderately expressed feeling personality slightly expressed judging personality
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Saturday, August 23, 2003
hey hey hey!
Hello Dear Friends,
How are u guys? im okay! I havent written here in a while becoz i really have no news to say and i would be blabbering about some trivial stuff that can already be found in my blog. This friends blog is still alive and its good to hear that u guys are okay. I am okay, Ive been sick but im getting a lot better but there are still days where i feel awful and i hate taking medicine, the doctor said it might be an allergy and i think its the cold. Im allergic to the cold... lol, Im just very prone to illness and catch cold easily as well as my headaches.
Yeah I better skip to the job search, Im still unemployed but it's cool, Im still looking, I already have an agency behind me so its cool, they actually offered me an admin/clerical job to start last week but it was just too far for me to get there, they said they will look for something more appropriate. Im still looking by myself, in the newspaper, asking friends and family and the internet. I get a lot of rejection letter coz they are looking for people who have so much (1-2 years) experience and know so much things (MCSC, A+, ASP, advanced programming...) that i cannot offer them right now. Oh well... i'll probably take classes later, it will be okay. Good luck with all your study / job / job search as well.
What have i done? nothing much... I really have nothing much to say... I'll continue this later.
Hello, again... this is another attempt to tell you what i have been up to other than what has been already discussed above. Nothing. did i mention i was sick and still looking for a job? yes and yes. lol i know, this is not something you would want to read but i really havent done anything exciting at all... i'll try to squeeze some stuff that might be of interest...
Ok....here goes, the agency was at circular quay but the weather was terrible that i stayed indoor most of the time, interview was okay... ummm ....Im still waiting for the library to get the book that i want and havent read anything at all since kushiel, Ive spoken to donna, mariebel and vivienne on the phone just in the last few days, i havent been to the movies but saw, 40 days & 40 nights, on video and this filo movie called, ang tanging ina (meaning something like.... the one and only mother), both was pretty good.
My current favourate cough lolie is fisherman's friend, i like vicks vapour rub, i use telfast for my allergy that is not really working, i occasionally drink cold and flu neurofin when it gets really bad, use too much tissue and like the filo soap, sanay wala nang wakas (meaning something like....hope there is no end).
I eat a lot of mandarins and oranges, drink plenty of water and hot drinks. I think i am putting on un-needed weight, its been really cold and so i am getting indulgent at food and getting addicted to daytime tv, in my trackies with warm blankets or just go online and apply for things, blog, read friends blogs like this, teri, bec and others non-friends and search whatever interest me at the time.
My night watch are... amazing race, alias, oliver's twist, friends, malcomn in the middle, stargate, home renovation shows, csi, australian idol, crossing jordan and rove plus.....day time soap and talk shows, morning shows and felicity. Im broke most of the time, i like to just sleep in and sleep late sometimes, i havent been excercising coz its just really cold, i want a job, looking for IT and admin/clerical work, im happy staying at home but happier when i get a job. I had dilemma with my blog page so i moved site, I also have time to think but thats another series of trivial thoughts....opps im getting a dead leg.... ouch ...lol
I like these songs.... -Blu Cantrell ft. Sean Paul - Breathe (remix) -Beyoncé Knowles ft. Sean Paul- Baby Boy -Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now -Matchbox Twenty - Unwell -Benny Benassi presents The Biz - Satisfaction -Chingy- Right Thurr -Dream ft. Loon - Crazy -Thalia - I Want You -Ashanti - Rock Wit U -Da Brat - In love wit chu
well, i think im just boring all of you right now... sorry..... i know we will all be okay and get together more often once we are all settled down, one day we will look at these posts and smile... i know i would... what else? I guess that it! ohhh... well i think thats long enough, hope u enjoyed it... So...Thanks for reading, Take care and be good! enjoy your day people!!!!
ps. btw in case you are wondering the current weather and time i wrote this post.... its sat 9pm and its cold and rainy...
pps. next post should be way more exciting, cross fingers...
Sunday, August 17, 2003
Latest on B aka me !
Hey guys! I feel like I haven't been online inages though I know that isn't true. Weird like that. Hey T, if only I could have synchronised my self-pity wallow with you - we could have done it together. I was wallowing a few days before you did. At the end of it, I put it all down to over-thinking. For me, sometimes I feel like I have to keep moving to avoid thinking about things because I might go crazy. That sounds so dire - I don't mean to be so dramatic - or maybe I do?? V was saying that I am very dramatic. She has a point. I was talking about biting on a pepper granule in my mouth and I went into an elaborate display of how it felt like an explosion of spice in my mouth. Hand movements and all.
Latest on B/me, it's quiet. Isn't that usually how it is just before the tornado hits you and takes your house? No, I am hoping for calm. I strive for calm. Oddly, I think I am coming to terms about my father. Talk to me about it and I come across very matter-of-factly about it all. Hmm me thinks though that I am ego and it is in fact a coping thing. Once I am stronger, I will hit back at everything that is currently hitting me. I've had enough. No, I won't go postal but I need to be a friend to myself.
I had a great time on the Saturday gone by. I hope it is the start of a new era of friendship between Nick and I. We have this awful habit of losing contact too easily and I really mean too easily because anyone would think we didn't really give a crap about the other but we always did - we just are very lazy people. But he's one of the best people you could ever have as a friend. He's one of those people where he is so open but a part of him is not really closed but private and people sense that private part of him and they want in but he only allows a few in and those few feel so special for it. .... haha sorry. One would think I do PR for him. But yes, Saturday was mad. I was nervous at first but we all clicked right away and it was spot on fun for the rest of it. My name at Starbucks is Euphenia by the way...until my next visit. I am currently thinking of some wacky names for them to yell out when my drink is ready. Petty stupid fun? Perhaps but hell, it's all good.
Ok not much on the horizon of B. Am still sad over the end of Buffy. Yeah, hypocrite me for not watching it all season till the final episode but I just had to see how they did it. I had read the finale on paper but to see it, very sad. Still don't like Buffy though. The girl went bitch and never came back.......ok I think that's it. Geez, that really is it. Ok homework till next blog - get me more action!
Friday, August 15, 2003
Hello All
I have not been on for quite a while andcan only be on for a short time now. It is 6:07am and I can not believe that i am up when I have my alarm set for 7am. Michael started a few minutes ago. That is why I am up.
I apologise for my typing. i am having a few off days of late, although my fingers are going faster than usual due to my being at a computer for about 37 hours a week. I am just more off today than the past few days.
An update on my life... Yesterday I was so i the mood for going (bridal) dress shopping. i wanna look! So, girlies, whenever you wanna, call me and we'll see what we can arrange. i was thinking Sunday but that is not much notice and I don't know if the stores are open on Sundays. Are they?
For all those who do not know, i have a new job. It is slightly more money (most of which will pay for my getting to work). It is in policies. If you did not know, I was working in claims before, and only sorting out the documents on the computer. Now I am talking to clients about their policies, renewing them and other policy related stuff. In my first week (last week) I only indexed (what I did at the last job) just on a different computer. It was impractical coz some of te papers I needed were not with me. Although I was indexing I was answering the phone. It was clients wanting to ask about their policies. I did not like answerin the phone because I did not know anything. I had not been trained in anything. Why had I not been trained? Because there are 6 new people (I have not met any of them). All six of us are to be trained at the same time. Every morning i would get to work and wonder if that was the day the training would occur. On Wednesday we found out that the training would happen next Tuesday. Yey! Last week i was taught a few things by one of the people in my team (the guy who I always wanna say to him "Hello, my face is up here"). The reason they cant train me is because of two things; 1) This is the busiest time of year so nobody can sit with me all day and train me. 2) Th training next week. Thing is, this training next week is all theory, no practce. So, once I get back on Tuesday afternoon I will have theory stuff, not practice. I now know how to do a few more things. I am so excited by this! Now when the phone rings i can look on the compute and tell the client something and/or answer their questions. I still pass the call to someone else occassionally. But I can answer most of the questions. Well, the ones yesterday I could. There are four people in my team. I have two weeks of experience. between the three others, there is over 60 years of experience!!!!!! That is very daunting to me!
Um, what else? I am very tired of late.
How sad is that - my life is work!
We had fun on Saturday night. We had planned it to be different, but we had fun anyway. We played Cranium and Friends. After that we went to bed coz I took too long mking dinner.
B, why would the people at work call you the "sociopath who comes in three days a week"? I think you fit in well! You do your work and talk to a few people around you. I spoke to more people when i was there because I had to, and coz of who I sat with when I got there. Cindy taught me a lot so I talk to her, Kim is just great and I sat next to people. It is not possible to sit there for 37.5hrs a week and not say a word that whole time! Also I was given more stuff to do other than just indexing. so I had t talk to more people. And, nobody knows that you are there for 10hrs a day but a few people. I did that too - seeing how many I do in an hour. I usually did it by half hour, though. I always thought that Norm's expectation of 70/hr was impossible. But when you do 50 in half that time, it really isnt that hard.
Eek! 6:35! Must go. I plan to wakk the long way to the station today. Should take advantage of the time given to me.
hiya people! did a pretty ordinary time for city to surf. gave up pretty early, we stopped several times to admire the scenery and also made time to stop and buy some bagels (very yummy). it was a pretty cold day especially when arriving at bondi. it was so windy and the air chilly! got a headache, fell asleep for the first time in weeks before midnight! Sorry i couldnt make it on Saturday Ness. i was wallowing in self pity but i have recovered. Anyway back to the books for me.....
Friday, August 08, 2003
More B Stuff
Hey there everyone! I have been meaning to write more here but after my work time, I get so tired and I just crash. I was beginning to think I was developing narcolepsy because, seriously, I would fall asleep in the middle of a friggin' sentence. It's because I have been working an average of ten hour days - sounds like I am a dynamo right? Wrong! I am accumulating flex time so I can have days off. Thing is, once it hits about 4pm, it is so nice and quiet and the "afternoon people" come in and it's just so nice so I find it easy to stay back for longer then because I get to enjoy myself. I don't really want to talk to people there and I find that I have to force myself to do it to avoid the prospect of them bitching about me and referring to me as "that sociopath who comes in three days a week". I actually like doing the work itself. It is monotonous yeah but I find that I can make it fun by setting challenges for myself. I processed 150 e-mails in an hour once so I tried to beat that score by doing 200 the next hour. Lame yeah but that's how my mind works. But the people...argh...it just takes a while for me to open up and maybe it's ego but I am so friggin' selective on who I open up to and I can't see me connecting with any of these people....I will get out of there soon.
Other news....don't feel bad Arvin~ ! All of us aren't meeting up this weekend anyway. V is having a games night and Carol and I are going out with Nick and his boyfriend. The two nights' plans were planned simultaneously which is why we ended up being split like this. I found out about V's thing after Carol told me she was thinking of trying to set something up with Nick. She's so excited about seeing him again I think she blew off a farewell thing for one of her work friends for it. It has been a while....either way, the plan about us all going out didn't happen this time round.
I'm so sorry that you have been going through crap with this cold/flu thing. Sounds like a stomach flu. When you catch something Arv, you always get the worst of it don't you? Get lots and lots of rest. Catch up on your soaps - I did with Days of our Lives when I recognised the actor from Dark Angel on it. It was DOOL T! Remeber we were trying to figure which soap he was on? Haha! ....... but you're in my well wishes and all wishings of good blessing passed on Arv - you don't deserve to be so ill. Hopefully by the time you read this, the worst of it is over and you're back on your feet. And don't feel bad mate. We'll see you soon!
Hmm saw American Pie - the wedding tonight and it was great! It made me feel so warm inside because you see what the friends do for each other. I love expressions of friendship. Anyways......stay beautiful everyone.
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