Personality Principles A Path to Improved Relations with Others

Each Person is a unique blend. As you scored your own personality profile, you have found that you are unique. Probably no one else have come up with the exact blend of strength and weaknesses you have. Most people have high totals in one temperament with secondary in one temperament, and some scattered traits. Natural Blends The Popular Sanguine/ Powerful Choleric combination is a natural blend. They are both outgoing, outspoken and optimistic. Popular sanguine talks for pleasure, Popular Choleric for business, but they are both verbal people. If you have this blend, you have the greatest potential for leadership If you combine your two strengths, you have a person who can direct others and make them enjoy the work.; a person who is fun loving yet can accomplish goals; a person with drive and determination, but who is not compulsive about achievements. In negative, such a blend could spawn a bossy individual who didnt know what he was talking about; an impulsive person who was running around in circles; or an impatient soul who was always interrupting and monopolising conversation. The other natural blend is the Perfect Melancholy/ Peaceful Phlegmatic. They are both introverted, pessimistic and soft spoken. They are more serious, they look into the depths of situations, and they dont want to be center stage. Peaceful Phlegmatic lightens the depth of Melancholy and the Perfect Melancholy pulls together the looseness of Peaceful Phlegmatic. This combination makes greatest educators . Perfect Melancholy love of study and research is

brighten by Peaceful Phlegmatics ability to get along with people and present material in a pleasant manner They may have trouble in decision making beacause they are both slow in these area and they both procrastinate. The best combination is one in which the evenness Peaceful Phlegmatic keep Perfect Melancholic from dropping into depressions and Perfect Melancholic desire for perfection gets Peaceful Phlegmatic motivated into action. Complementary Blends The Powerful Choleric/ Perfect Melancholy temperament is a Complementary Blend , a combination that fits well together and completes the lacks in each others natures. The blend makes the best business person because the combination of Powerful Choleric leadership, drive and goals with Perfect Melancholic analytical, detail conscious, schedule oriented mind is unbeatable. Nothing is beyond the range of combination, and they will be successful no matter how long it takes. Because this blend is decisive, organised and goal oriented, it has the most drive and determination and can hold tight into cause forever. Headed in a positive direction, they are the most successful but carried to extremes, even their strengths can be overbearing. The other Complementary Blend is the Popular Sanguine / Peaceful Phlegmatic is inclined to take it easy and have fun. The combination of double portions of humour with easy going natures makes the Popular Sanguine/Peaceful Phlegmatic are the best friends possible. Their warm and relaxed natures are appealing and people love to be with. This blend is the best of all in dealing with people. They are good in personnel work, being parents, and in civic leadership. Unfortunately, the other side of Popular Sanguine/ Peaceful Phlegmatic shows them as lazy, without desire or direction to produce anything they can avoid, and very poor in handling money.

Admit Your Weaknesses

The first step in any type of self-improvement is to find your areas of weakness and admit you have them. The refusal to examine our faults keeps us from doing anything positive about them. It is humbling to admit weve been doing something wrong for years, but its the first step in growing up. Immature people blame their parents, their mates ,their children, their friends , their circumstances, for why they have not become what they had hoped to be. A mature person examines himself, finds faults and gets to work on them. It is important to look at our childhood pain and rejection in order to find out why we behave the way we do, but this search is not to place blame but to bring a measure of understanding and cause us to begin a healing process. In Alcoholics Anonymous, each person has to stand up, gives his first name, and say Iam an Alcholic. Until a person can verbalise this admission, there can be no cure> We cant get over something we dont accept as a problem. If there were a Personality Anonymous, we would have to stand up and say: Im a charming Popular Sanguine, but Im a compulsive talker. Im a sensitive Perfect Melancholy, but I get depressed easily. Im a dynamic powerful Choleric, but Im bossy and impatient. Im an easygoing Peaceful Phlegmatic, but Im unenthusiastic. From the point of admission we are headed in the right direction.

PERSONAL PLAN Now that you understand the four basic temperaments and have scored yourself to find your custom blend of traits, you are ready to take steps to accentuate your positives and eliminate your negatives. Look over your personality profile Assess your Strengths Both Popular Sanguines and Powerful Choleris see their strengths quickly and identify with them immediately, but often Perfect Melancholies and Peaceful Phlegmatics, because of their pessimistic natures, have to think awhile before accepting their positive qualities. Whichever your temperament, look over your personality profile realistically and decide which three strengths you feel are the most important in your relationships with others. List them here. Be sure to make this discussion of each persons strengths and encourage one another with sincere compliments.

As you look at your strengths, take God for the abilities. He has given you and accept them. Those who tend to knock yourselves and say, theres no good thing in me change this attitude immediately. There is good in you. Your so called false humility is so un attractive and forces others to lift you up constantly.

Evaluate your Weaknesses As Perfect Melancholies and Peaceful Phlegmatics may have difficulty in relating to their strengths, so Popular Sanguines and Powerful Cholerics can hardly bear to evaluate their weakness. One of their greatest faults is their feeling they dont have any. Whatever your weakness and put down three that most need improvement.

If you are really anxious to have a more pleasing personality, be willing to ask others for help. Seek other opinion, ask your family for help, encourage honest opinion and plan your steps for personal improvement.

Plan for Personal Improvement

As you look at the three weaknesses you have chosen to work on, list what you can actually do to change these areas.

Opposite Attract We have all heard of opposites attract. When looking at the strengths of an individual it is a great asset to have the opposites united together. Since Popular Sanguines are lighthearted, they lift Perfect Melancholy. Since Perfect Melancholy are organised, they get Popular sanguine pulled together. We can be grateful for our differences and stop trying to change the other person.

Application of your Personality Knowledge to your job as a Licensed Embalmer All persons pursuing a career and those surrounding them are affected by personality. Licensed embalmers are no different. The practice of embalming presents both unique situations that fits personal personality preferences and challenges that embalmers must overcome for success in this career. A. Popular Saguines As licensed embalmers and team leaders, they provide light moments in the process of embalming. These can contribute to a less stressful working environment. Their creativity may lead to discoveries of methods that make the embalming process more efficient . Optimism in the embalming room will make the task easier and less tedious. To be an effective licensed embalmer/ team leader, saguines need to improve on their organizational skill, lessen unnecessary talk, be less forgetful and improve on following through. Saguines need to be more serious and focused on the task at hand. B. Powerful Cholerics Choleric embalmers provide leadership in the working environment. Their ability to make quick, correct judgements can be invaluable asset of the embalming team. Their leadership may lead to more accomplishments in shorter times. The potential to be too bossy, authocratic, insensitive, impatient, unwillinness to delegate and give credit to members of the embalming team are possible extensions of the choleric personality. The choleric embalmer can accomplish more and have better working relationship with his/ her team if he/ she learns to delegate authority, let others make decisions,

be more sensitive and patient. Accepting that the choleric embalmers way s not the only way is a step forward for the entire embalming team. C. Perfect Melancholics Melancholic embalmers are the prime organizers of the embalming team. Their ability to analyse deeply contribute to the teams efforts to aim for high standards and ideals. The sensitivity to peoples feelings and desire for quality work endears them to the embalming team. Weaknesses that may affect the melancholic embalmer and his/ her team are his/ her tendency to be easily depressed, to be too focused on details that slows down work. Their inclination to linger on past negatives and be suspicious of others may have negative effects on work and the working relationships of the members of the embalming team. D. Peaceful Phlegmatics With pleasing personality, balance, even disposition, and dry sense of humor, the phlegmatic embalmer provide peace and relieve stress in the working environment. They are good mediators between contentious people. Phlegmatic embalmers could increase productivity in the workplace by being more decisive as leaders of the embalming team. To learn to set goals, be self-motivated, do more and faster will help establish their role as leader of the embalming team. To try to come up with creative, new ideas regarding work will be an asset for the phlegmatic embalmer.

The possible weaknesses of the Saguine embalmer are their organizational skills that ca