I'm A Beaver

I'm A Beaver

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Hope you enjoyed the Smalley Personality Quiz! Your score report is presented below.  Your dominant personality is your highest score, but you will also notice how strong you are in the other three types.  Your unique personality style is a combination of each type.

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The Beaver

Strengths: Beavers have a strong need to do things right and “by the book.” In fact, they’re the kind of people who actually read instruction manuals. They’re great at providing quality control in an office and will thrive in any situations that demand accuracy, such as accounting, engineering, etc.

Because rules, consistency, and high standards are so important to beavers, they’re often frustrated with a mate who doesn’t share these same characteristics. Despite deep feelings for those they love, beavers must learn to communicate their softness and warmth in a way that’s felt and clearly understood by others.

Areas of Growth: Beavers need to accept that it’s all right to make mistakes and that it’s healthy to call for help when they’re struggling.

The Lion

Strengths: Lions are leaders. They’re usually the bosses at work, or think they are. They’re decisive, bottom-line folks who are not watchers or listeners. They love to solve problems. Unfortunately, if they don’t learn to tone down their aggressiveness, their natural dominating traits can cause problems for others.

Areas of Growth: Lions need to learn that meaningful communication takes time. They need to slow down to involve others in decisions.

Your score for each result type

Element	Density
The Beaver	50
The Lion	42
The Otter	27
The Golden Retriever	17

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How You Compare To Others

Darrell G. Wolfe

Storyteller | Writer | Thinker | Consultant | Multipotentialite

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Simply Grateful: It's more blessed to give than receive... So be humble and let someone give to you.

Receiving gifts is hard for me... 

Yesterday was orientation and today was my first day at a new job location. They prepared a gift bag full of fun treats and a hand-made card:

I mentioned Pokemon during the interview and they took note of it. Remembered it. Then used it to personalize my card.

Amazing! Stellar Service! Totally blown away.

Inside, though, part of me also took it for granted. Anytime I'm the center of attention I run from it as fast as I can. So I left shortly after and went back to my office to train on the computer.

The whole way back to the desk there was this inner voice saying:

"Aww... that's just what companies do for new hires... you're not that special. Don't let it get to your head..."

News Flash, ladies and gentlemen, that is false humility. It's actually serving to lessen the gift by a refusal to be simply grateful.

I can give and give and give and expect nothing in return, that's second nature to me; however, I have a hard time receiving gifts. There's a strong sense of "I'm not worthy" running underneath everything I do.... every thought I have... and for good reason.

I'm not.

As the Apostle Paul once said, I'm the Cheif of Sinners.

That aside, wallowing in this "I'm not worthy" thought place will keep you from receiving more from God. It will also prevent you from being simply grateful, which is your gift back to the gift-giver.

If you need a spin that makes you feel like you are doing something:

Your gift to the giver is "gratitude". 

Just smile, and say: "Thank you!" The giver is going to feel best when you appreciate the gift. I think I said thank you, but I'm quick to run away from gift-giving sessions in which I am the center of attention. I once ran away from a surprise birthday party and locked myself in a room for hours.

That is wrong.

Humility sometimes means letting someone else have the privilege of being a giver. If it truly is more blessed to give than receive, then someone has to be the receiver for the giver to give to... so allow yourself to be given to, it's an act of service to the giver, an act of humility.

There's nothing you could ever do to earn God's free gift of His son, Jesus. He is a gift. So you owe it to the Father to be simply grateful, and you owe it to the Father to be grateful to his ambassadors too when they give to you on this earth too (whether they know it's from Him or not).

Tomorrow, I'm going to send an email to the team thanking them!

That's my thought for today,

Darrell G. Wolfe

Storyteller | Writer | Thinker | Consultant | Multipotentialite

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It's a new season...

I just read a Facebook post from a friend/close acquaintance I know who was just laid off from a place I wanted to work at one time. It reminded me of my current season here...

I came to North Idaho with plans.... and they haven't worked out the way I intended. I'm not living where I thought I'd live, working where I thought I'd work, or doing the things I thought I'd be doing.

This season feels like a microcosm of my life... I'm not where I thought I'd be by now. I'm having trouble coming up with the motivation to do the things I maybe ought to be doing.

*Shhhh... Do you feel that? That wind gently blowing through the trees, down the hills, brushing your shoulders...

It's a new season! It's a fresh anointing.... it's coming your way.

The past doesn't matter. Not ten years ago, ten months ago, or ten minutes ago. God is always ready, ever ready, to do a new thing. He does best with participating people.

If you are feeling like I am, it's time to go into Low Slow.... shift down a few gears. Don't run after everything that shines, every job application, every idea, every fleeting feeling... Listen for the One who knows the best path, the one you haven't seen yet. Let Him lead you right to it.

Most of all... trust that this new season.

It's a season of power. The same power raised Christ Jesus from the dead. The same power that created a prosperous Abraham, a successful Joseph, a powerhouse in Elijah, and a double powerhouse in Elisha.

Watch this as you meditate on your new season:

*It's a new season! by Israel and New Breed

Darrell G. Wolfe

Storyteller | Writer | Thinker | Consultant | Multipotentialite

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What is a Topos? A strategic position of opportunity and influence

What does Topos mean?

Topos is a Greek word meaning: "Place, or Opportunity"

Properly:

• Any portion of space marked off, as it were, from surrounding, space

Metaphorically:

• The condition or station held by one in any company or assembly
• opportunity, power, occasion for acting
• A spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas chora is a large but participle locality).

As used by me: 

Topos is a strategic position of opportunity and influence

Topos: Your Calling

Everyone has a God given calling on this earth. There is something you were created and designed to do. What you are doing now may be "The Calling"; or, it may be the calling for this season of your life. Either way, you are either in your Topos, or you need to find it.

As you read the stories of biblical heros like Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Nehemiah, Peter, and Paul... etc... you find that God put them in the right place to do the right thing at the right time.

They ended up in their Topos, a strategic place of opportunity and influence. Some men, like king Saul before David were in their Topos but never reached their full potential because of sin, disobedience, or laziness. 

I'm on a life-long quest to reach the center of my Topos... and I want to help you find yours too. 

Follow this blog to take that journey with me.

Darrell

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What is a Topos? A strategic position of opportunity and influence

What does Topos mean?

Topos is a Greek word meaning: "Place, or Opportunity"

Properly:

• Any portion of space marked off, as it were, from surrounding, space

Metaphorically:

• The condition or station held by one in any company or assembly
• opportunity, power, occasion for acting
• A spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas chora is a large but participle locality).

As used by me: 

Topos is a strategic position of opportunity and influence

Topos: Your Calling

Everyone has a God given calling on this earth. There is something you were created and designed to do. What you are doing now may be "The Calling"; or, it may be the calling for this season of your life. Either way, you are either in your Topos, or you need to find it.

As you read the stories of biblical heros like Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Nehemiah, Peter, and Paul... etc... you find that God put them in the right place to do the right thing at the right time.

They ended up in their Topos, a strategic place of opportunity and influence. Some men, like king Saul before David were in their Topos but never reached their full potential because of sin, disobedience, or laziness. 

I'm on a life-long quest to reach the center of my Topos... and I want to help you find yours too. 

Follow this blog to take that journey with me.

Darrell

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