ESFJ

对ESFJ人来说,最重要的是人际关系,并能真实具体地帮助别人。他们待人慷慨大方，喜欢庆祝传统的节日。

ESFJ人的不同之处在于，他们欣赏 。他们清楚地看到问题的所在，轻易地分配掉，然后兴致勃勃地努力工作。像大多数SJ类型的人一样，ESFJ人很忠诚于权威，他们心甘情愿的为上级劳动（生命的意义所在），同时希望自己的下级也能如此。

ESFJ人很容易受伤害。当他们受伤时，他们并不会压抑内心的情绪，他们天生就是那种"意形于色"的人。他们待人热情和蔼，但也不乏将内心的苦水吐露出来的时候。有些ESFJ人就将这种易变的情绪搬到舞台或屏幕上以戏剧的形式表现出来。

ESFJ人的内心受一股强烈的、矛盾的力量冲击着。他们的是非感强烈地驱使着自己去解救所有被扭曲的真理------- 一种本能的驱动力。所以当他们一发现有逾越者时,就会采取快速、迅捷的行动，而随之而来的可能是严厉的谴责。

像管理员一样，ESFJ人能感觉到周围潜在的危险--------- 内在的起因、外部的因素、肆无忌惮的恶人、阴险的人性弱点等，所以这是一个不可信任、充满了危险的世界。与其说ESFJ人疑心太重，倒不如说他们有高度的警惕性。所以他们是很好的保安人员，在医药保健和初等教育领域有很出色的表现。

善于照顾人的主人型（ESFJ）

若你是一个主人型

在紧张、充满压力的日子中，我们应该感谢最美好的人物的存在—那个照顾我们并帮助我们放松的人—主人型。你是一个亲切的人，一个宴会和庆典中的主角，因服务他人而喜悦，并且会确保每一个客人都吃饱，同时都被照顾得很好。

当说到要办任何一种社交活动，生日宴会、周年庆典或是任何聚会时，你总是难以掩饰心中的兴奋。一旦那个活动的日期被公布，你的脑袋早已开始计划筹备，同时想像着每位客人是多么的快乐。

当你恋爱时

作为一个主人型，你最深层的梦想之一就是拥有一个极成功的婚礼：热情的人潮、食物、音乐、欢笑和一个永结同心的海誓山盟约定。

在你走向婚礼的舞台之前，你会与你的爱人体验到一段时有冲突的热烈感情，你是那种在一段关系中能勇于表达自己感情的人。由于你已投入的感情和对伴侣的忠贞度，你可能不愿意结束一段已经变质的长期感情。幸运的是，当获得教训之后，你会找到对不匹配的伴侣说“不”的勇气，并将一份丰富的能量专注于培养一段健康并且两情相悦的感情上。

你的最佳恋爱类型

若你是一个女性主人型

和你最匹配的是男性主人型或大男人型(ESTJ)。男性主人型会是你宴会共同的主办者，而大男人型是一个传统的男性，他可以给予家庭一种强壮的、雄性的光彩。

若你是一个男性主人型

你最理想的恋爱类型是女性主人型，或是那个有同样柔情、但比较家居的照顾者型(ISFJ)。

照顾者型是一个标准的“妈妈”，也会是你较安静的理想另一半。当你喜欢以一种有趣和社交的方式照顾大家的时候，她享受着安静时光，温柔地照顾她的家庭：确保你的衬衫都烫平了，也满足了孩子的需求。

若你的理想情人是一个主人型

在哪里可以遇到一个主人型情人？

主人型天生就是擅长照顾其他人的。你通常会发现他们在当学校老师、护士、接待员和行政专家；或者是餐厅、夜总会和其他地点的男主人或女主人。

要与主人型熟络的一个很好的方法是，到他们帮助其他人的地方工作或当义工：医院、学校、精神疗养院和教堂都是好场合。

你也可以到有精致食物、美酒和有教养的人所在的地方：餐厅、单身者美食俱乐部、品酒俱乐部、单身者旋转晚会(在这个晚会上，单身者会依每道菜的更换轮坐不同桌次)、烹饪班、受戒礼和婚礼找到他们。

任何时候，只要迈克的朋友或亲戚邀请他参加婚礼，他都一定会出席。迈克是一个造型艺术师，他不仅仅陶醉于那种愉快的气氛，也知道自己有很大的机会在这里遇到他的理想恋爱类型—主人型。

在迈克参加的一场婚礼中，有人介绍他和雷切尔认识—一个引人注目的红发空姐，也是其中一个女傧相。迈克以一段简短的评述展开和雷切尔的交谈：“我敢说你一定是一个很棒的空姐。你今晚的表现非常优秀，你把新娘子照顾得很好，同时也让每一个人都度过了一个愉快的夜晚。”

雷切尔很高兴迈克发现了她的努力，迈克也证实了雷切尔确实是一个主人型。尽管如此，最让雷切尔惊喜的是迈克友善的个性，和他在婚礼接待处招呼大家的心意。

接下来他们共舞，猜猜看之后发生什么事？事情的发展一点也没有让他们双方的朋友意外，雷切尔和迈克将是紧接着步上红地毯的另一对新人。

如何与一个主人型情人约会？

告诉主人型你即将举办一场宴会，并且询问对方该如何计划一次非同凡响的热闹庆祝。准备好：那个健谈的主人型不仅会给你很多关于宴会的好点子，甚至会自告奋勇要求当这次庆典的主人。

另一个方法是请教主人型任何关于你房子、家庭生活或孩子的建议。主人型会非常乐于将喜悦带入每个家庭，他也会很愿意帮助你。

特蕾西是一个42岁的护士，她疯狂地爱上了51岁的哈利，一个拉斯维加斯的歌手，同时是一个主人型。哈利的表演，特蕾西已经看过7遍，而且每多看一遍他的表演，她就更加迷恋他那优美的声音、迷人的个性和乐于助人的真诚本质。

她知道哈利就是她要的男人，但同时她也知道至少有另外3位女人在追求他。为了打败她的敌手，特蕾西以她对主人型个性的了解，以及他喜爱自愿做善事的个性，设计了一个聪明的计划。

为了实践她的计划，她打电话给她当地教会的牧师，问他是否可以在即将来临的募款活动中，邀请像哈利那样的歌手。那牧师同意了，特蕾西兴奋地打电话给哈利的经理人，洽谈安排与哈利的会面。

哈利不仅仅同意为教会的募款活动义唱，同时还联络其他当地的娱乐业主一同共襄盛举。

在他们共进午餐的交谈当中，特蕾西和哈利展开了两人友谊的第一次；这份情谊后来亦绽放成一辈子的爱情。

如何赢得主人型情人的爱？

你可以邀请你的主人型情人到任何人们放松自己、尽情享受的地方，例如餐厅、舞厅或剧场，这样会给你的主人型情人留下好印象。

或许，更好的是，带你的主人型情人到充满活力的派对，看看这位社交大师天生的本领。告诉你的主人型你希望度过一段欢乐的时光，他一定会让你感到愉悦。

若是由你负责计划约会，请确定通知对方这次约会的所有信息：告诉你的主人型情人将前往的地方、该穿什么服装、什么时候要准备好及诸如此类的事。

一旦为约会准备了时间表，不要偏离它。使主人型情人相信你是一个可以被信任、会遵守诺言和坚守计划的人，他将会更爱你。

*恋爱锦囊：约会时，把谈话的主题引导到现实面。

谈谈实务和具体的话题，例如最新流行的服装、金融或娱乐消息。主人型，以他们务实的个性，喜欢谈论今天的新闻。他们并不是好思辨的哲学家，所以你应该避免任何需要他们专注于太抽象性事物的话题。

*恋爱锦囊：在邀请一位主人型回家时，请确保你的住处干净整齐。

在你的主人型情人前来你住处之前，请特别努力创造一个美观舒服的环境：确保住处整洁干净，同时让屋子发散出很舒服的清新空气的味道。你的主人型一定会很感激这一切的准备。

玛利亚是一个36岁的幼儿园老师，她在开始和她的主人型情人—39岁的美发师乔凡尼交往时，所做的每一件事情都是正确的。

玛利亚晓得主人型对一个美观舒服环境的偏好，每次当乔凡尼到她家吃晚餐时，她都会确保屋子一尘不染。为了调整气氛，玛利亚还会弹奏悦耳的新世纪音乐，并且会细心地准备烛台和有茉莉花香的蜡烛。

她屋子内的每一件东西都是整洁、美好和干净的。

虽然玛利亚熟悉很多事物，她却专注于谈论实务性的话题：政治、金融和服装—那些她知道将会刺激乔凡尼主人型思维，而且她自己也有兴趣的话题。

在他们相处一段时间后，玛利亚和乔尼凡开始建立一段长久关系的基础，一段建立在主人型对象、婚姻和家庭价值观上的感情。

如何和主人型情人拥有美好的性关系？

主人型是那种会把爱意说出口的人，他们在床上很爱说话。和所有追求安全者一样，主人型会被五官感觉引起兴趣：他们喜爱优美的音乐、奢华的美食、舒服的香味(好比香水或古龙水)、爱人肌肤的触感和一个整齐清洁的家。

**锦囊：让*变成一个完全传递感觉的经验。

迎合你主人型情人的感官享受。开始时，你可以在*的音乐声中，在一间充满烛光和舒服香味和房间中，用手喂对方东西(巧克力是很好的选择)。一边体验这种浪漫的气氛，一边轮流喂对方吃东西。

接下来，和你的爱人一起进行盛满玫瑰花瓣的温暖泡泡浴，你们可以轮流用柔软的毛巾或坚硬的浴刷替对方擦背。在一面擦背一面爱抚当中，告诉对方你为什么如此兴奋。

然后，继续观看、聆听、触摸、品尝和闻嗅，直到你们两人都燃烧着情欲。

谨记：主人型是追求安全当中最热情的，若你可以创造让对方解放*的必要条件，他或她将会是一个极佳的性伴侣。

如何和主人型情人维持一段长久的关系？

研究指出，女性主人型被评选为最为大家渴求的伴侣：她们拥有很多男人追求的特质—关怀、亲善和忠诚。

另外，主人型，不管是男性或女性，倾向于拥有比其他15种恋爱类型都还要长久的婚姻。除了他们有长久婚姻的倾向，女性主人型在结婚总体人数中排名很高(男性主人型的排名也属靠前)。

主人型平均比其他恋爱类型结过较多次婚的事实，并不一定代表他们是恶质婚姻的风险承担人。这个统计数字可以解释成由于主人型大部分都较早婚，如果他们离婚或丧偶，通常会倾向于很快再婚。主人型非常渴望再婚(同时会维系相当长的时间)，因为他们相信婚姻的体制和它所带来的安全感和传承感。

他们的婚姻型态和其他恋爱类型相反，好比说记者型(ENFP)，记者型总在拖延结婚(这前题是他们如果真的结婚的话)。同时，如果他们离婚，就几乎不会再婚了。

作为一个婚姻的信仰者，男性和女性主人型都会是忠心奉献的丈夫和妻子，他们是那种会愿意为了维系婚姻和家庭而做任何事的人。如果你渴望拥有一个社交天才，同时又能够把家庭照顾好的人，主人型会是你完美的选择。

The Caregiver

As an ESFJ, your primary mode of living is focused externally, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit in with your personal value system. Your secondary mode is internal, where you take things in via your five senses in a literal, concrete fashion.

ESFJs are people persons - they love people. They are warmly interested in others. They use their Sensing and Judging characteristics to gather specific, detailed information about others, and turn this information into supportive judgments. They want to like people, and have a special skill at bringing out the best in others. They are extremely good at reading others, and understanding their point of view. The ESFJ's strong desire to be liked and for everything to be pleasant makes them highly supportive of others. People like to be around ESFJs, because the ESFJ has a special gift of invariably making people feel good about themselves.

The ESFJ takes their responsibilities very seriously, and is very dependable. They value security and stability, and have a strong focus on the details of life. They see before others do what needs to be done, and do whatever it takes to make sure that it gets done. They enjoy these types of tasks, and are extremely good at them.

ESFJs are warm and energetic. They need approval from others to feel good about themselves. They are hurt by indifference and don't understand unkindness. They are very giving people, who get a lot of their personal satisfaction from the happiness of others. They want to be appreciated for who they are, and what they give. They're very sensitive to others, and freely give practical care. ESFJs are such caring individuals, that they sometimes have a hard time seeing or accepting a difficult truth about someone they care about.

With Extraverted Feeling dominating their personality, ESFJs are focused on reading other people. They have a strong need to be liked, and to be in control. They are extremely good at reading others, and often change their own manner to be more pleasing to whoever they're with at the moment.

The ESFJ's value system is defined externally. They usually have very well-formed ideas about the way things should be, and are not shy about expressing these opinions. However, they weigh their values and morals against the world around them, rather than against an internal value system. They may have a strong moral code, but it is defined by the community that they live in, rather than by any strongly felt internal values.

ESFJs who have had the benefit of being raised and surrounded by a strong value system that is ethical and centered around genuine goodness will most likely be the kindest, most generous souls who will gladly give you the shirt off of their back without a second thought. For these individuals, the selfless quality of their personality type is genuine and pure. ESFJs who have not had the advantage of developing their own values by weighing them against a good external value system may develop very questionable values. In such cases, the ESFJ most often genuinely believes in the integrity of their skewed value system. They have no internal understanding of values to set them straight. In weighing their values against our society, they find plenty of support for whatever moral transgression they wish to justify. This type of ESFJ is a dangerous person indeed. Extraverted Feeling drives them to control and manipulate, and their lack of Intuition prevents them from seeing the big picture. They're usually quite popular and good with people, and good at manipulating them. Unlike their ENFJ cousin, they don't have Intuition to help them understand the real consequences of their actions. They are driven to manipulate other to achieve their own ends, yet they believe that they are following a solid moral code of conduct.

All ESFJs have a natural tendency to want to control their environment. Their dominant function demands structure and organization, and seeks closure. ESFJs are most comfortable with structured environments. They're not likely to enjoy having to do things which involve abstract, theoretical concepts, or impersonal analysis. They do enjoy creating order and structure, and are very good at tasks which require these kinds of skills. ESFJs should be careful about controling people in their lives who do not wish to be controlled.

ESFJs respect and believe in the laws and rules of authority, and believe that others should do so as well. They're traditional, and prefer to do things in the established way, rather than venturing into unchartered territory. Their need for security drives their ready acceptance and adherence to the policies of the established system. This tendency may cause them to sometimes blindly accept rules without questioning or understanding them.

An ESFJ who has developed in a less than ideal way may be prone to being quite insecure, and focus all of their attention on pleasing others. He or she might also be very controling, or overly sensitive, imagining bad intentions when there weren't any.

ESFJs incorporate many of the traits that are associated with women in our society. However, male ESFJs will usually not appear feminine at all. On the contrary, ESFJs are typically quite conscious about gender roles and will be most comfortable playing a role that suits their gender in our society. Male ESFJs will be quite masculine (albeit sensitive when you get to know them), and female ESFJs will be very feminine.

ESFJs at their best are warm, sympathetic, helpful, cooperative, tactful, down-to-earth, practical, thorough, consistent, organized, enthusiastic, and energetic. They enjoy tradition and security, and will seek stable lives that are rich in contact with friends and family.

What does Success mean to an ESFJ?

The ESFJ is called the "caregiver", and for good reason. Caring is the very nature of their personality; a personality driven by feeling judgements and supported by a strong sense of the world around them. The ESFJ not only sees how situations affect themselves and others, they are concerned about it. Everything that makes them feel valued and successful is bound inextricably to the value and concern they need to exchange with others. "Give and ye shall receive" is the motto of the ESFJ, whose gifts serve the most important function in all communal human processes, from the family to the wider world of care giving such as hospitality, primary teaching, nursing, aged care, social services, human resources and so on. Whilst their judgements might be bound by a somewhat conventional moral code, the ESFJ always stands up for what they are certain is the best for others. In some situations this trait can lead them into disaster, particularly if they are thrust into an unsuitable role. The ESFJ thrives best where they can make the decisions and organise things to suit their own way of seeing the world. Regardless however of their particular station in life, the ESFJ is at their best when it involves caring for and about others, measuring their success by the happiness and gratitude which is reflected back to them from the people in whose lives they play a part.

Allowing Your ESFJ Strengths to Flourish

As an ESFJ, you have gifts that are specific to your personality type that aren't natural strengths for other types. By recognizing your special gifts and encouraging their growth and development, you will more readily see your place in the world, and how you can better use your talents to achieve your dreams.

Potential Problem Areas

With any gift of strength, there is an associated weakness. The strong expression of any function can overshadow others, whilst at the same time its own associated and unexpressed inferior function can mine the unconscious mind and throw up annoying resistances and unsettling emotions. We value our strengths, but we often curse and - even more limiting to our potential development - ignore our weaknesses. To grow as a person and get what we want out of life, we must not only capitalize upon our strengths, but also face our weaknesses and deal with them. That means taking a hard look at our personality type's potential problem areas.

ESFJs are kind, steady and responsible beings with many special gifts. I would like the ESFJ to keep in mind their many positive traits as they read on, and remember that the weaknesses associated with being an ESFJ are natural to your type. Although it can be depressing to read about your type's weaknesses, please remember that we offer this information to enact positive change. We want people to grow into their own potential, and to live happy and successful lives.

Many of the ESFJ's weaker characteristics arise because their dominant and Extraverted Feeling function can overshadow the rest of their personality. This generally results in two notable effects. With their Introverted Sensing function unable to provide sufficient balance to their sharply defined feeling judgements, they often miss the relativities and contingencies of the real world. This very often leads them into conflict with those who believe a situation needs to be properly analysed before its realities can be seen and acted upon. Secondly, with their sense of the world controlled by feelings alone, the narrowly defined ESFJ will nearly always find themselves at odds with any view of the world that does not see their own clearly held judgements to be primary, or which does not accord them the "feeling toned" responses they expect. This can produce a range of effects, every one of which ends in conflict for the ESFJ, either with others or with their own feelings.

Explanation of Problems

Nearly all of the problematic characteristics described above can be attributed in various degrees to the ESFJs externally mapped, feeling based view of the world not being successfully coupled to an appropriate level of Introverted Sensation. Without this internal balance, the ESFJs perceptions and ideas are determined by feeling judgements which are not in always a valid basis for understanding.

ESFJs are usually stable, certain, reliable and caring in their approach to life, but if unbalanced they are likely to treat any point of view other than their own with a kind of amused indifference or a tendency to keep those with differing attitudes and opinions at a distance. Whilst this is natural survival behaviour for the strongly expressed ESFJ personality, if they do not learn how to deal with the wide range of differing viewpoints they come into contact with, ESFJs can find themselves waging a self created war against all that opposes their own. This conflict often expresses itself in various unambiguous and simplistic "Us verses Them" generalities, or a penchant for smugly and narrowly defining other people by arbitrary or superstitious belief systems, which often actually symbolise and define their own conflict. At its worst, this conflict with the obstinate and unfeeling contingent realities of the world creates a situation where the ESFJ retreats to a kind of psychological castle where, not only none but those who have the "right" or "nice" approach can enter, but also where the ESFJs feeling based and often tortured logic, attitudes and judgments reign supreme and cannot be questioned; a place where: "give and you shall receive" can ironically twist quickly into: "off with his head!"

The main driver to the ESFJ personality is Extraverted Feeling, whose function is to judge the relative human value of the ideas, behaviours, situations and objects they perceive. The resulting world view is tidy, and ordered according to its worth to the ESFJ's own particular character: "Everything has its place and everything in its place". If this picture of the world is threatened by external influences, the ESFJ generally tries to shut such new information out of their lives. This is totally natural, and works well to protect the individual psyche from getting hurt. However, the ESFJ who exercises this type of self-protection regularly will find they can only connect and relate with those who do not actively disturb their increasingly narrow and rigid world view. They will always find justification for their own inappropriate behaviours, and will always find fault with the outside world for problems that they have in their lives. It will be difficult for them to maintain the flexibility needed for a healthy relationship with the messy world outside because the differing ways others value things is a constant affront to their personal judgements.

It is not an uncommon tendency for the ESFJ to support their feeling judgements by selectively using only their immediate perceptions of a situation and how it appears to them. However, if this tendency is given free reign, the resulting ESFJ personality is too self-centred to be happy or successful. The ESFJ's auxiliary function of Introverted Sensing must be allowed to grow beyond this limit, where it is used only to support Extraverted Feeling judgements. If the ESFJ uses Introverted Sensing only to serve this purpose, then the ESFJ is not using Introversion effectively at all. As a result, the ESFJ does not sufficiently recognise and understand the vast number of contingent and differing ways in which the world is perceived by others. They see nothing but their own perspective, and deal with the world only so far as they need to in order to support their perspective. These individuals usually come across as somewhat illogical and full of fixed and often rather staid or conventional ideas about the world. Other people are often surprised by the simplicity, ambiguity and often unrelenting vehemence of their ideas.

Solutions

To grow as an individual, the ESFJ needs to focus on opening their perspective to include a more accurate picture of the world and its ways. In order to be in a position in which the ESFJ is able to perceive and consider data that is foreign to their value system, the ESFJ needs to recognise that their world view is not threatened by the new information. The ESFJ must consciously tell himself/herself that the judgements of others are not unrelated to reality; that the ideas of others are also just and valid within a wider and less rigorous vision of the world.

The ESFJ who is concerned with personal growth will pay close attention to the way things appear to them. Do they try to find the basic connections between the elements of a situation? Or, do they appreciate only those elements which accord them a feeling of worth? At the moment when some connection or relationship between things is perceived, is the ESFJ only concerned with whether that perception supports something they value? Or is she/he concerned with becoming truly appraised of how things fit together in the world? To achieve a better understanding of others and the world in which they live, the ESFJ should try to put themselves into the minds of others, to locate and recognise how others see things, before making judgements. They should consciously be aware of their tendency to discard anything that doesn't agree with their carefully adjudicated system of relative worth, and work towards lessening this tendency. They should try to see the way others might see situations, without making personal judgments about how others ought to feel. In general, they should work on exercising their Sensation in a truly introverted sense. In other words, they should use Sensation to recognise that all parts of a situation are necessary for its functionality and that valuing one function or objective connection over another narrows their ability to deal with the real world as it truly is. The ESFJ who can successfully envision the world as a realm of functioning and connected parts which are all necessary to its balance can be quite a powerful force for positive change.

Living Happily in our World as an ESFJ

Some ESFJs have difficulty fitting into our society. Their problems are often a result of an inability understand the connections and relationships necessary to each situation, a too conventional and dogmatic set of values which limits the way others can relate to them, or an unrealistic and illogical view of the world. These issues mostly stem from using Introverted Sensation in a diminished manner: the lack of a strong internally focused viewpoint allowing an often ambiguous and yet strongly defended set of values to control the personality. An ESFJ who attempts to envision a more accurate and impartial view of the world for the sake of understanding the ways of others, rather than quickly deciding how things alone affect them, will have a clearer, more objective understanding of how society is dependant not only upon adherence to values and care for others, but also how the world relies upon structure and laws which function regardless of their human value. He or she will also be more comfortable and less likely to demand that the world and the behaviour of others conform to values of right and wrong, good and bad, worthy and worthless etc. Such well-adjusted ESFJs will fit happily into our society.

Unless you really understand Psychological Type and the nuances of the various personality functions, it's a difficult task to suddenly start to use Sensation in an unambiguous and totally introverted direction. It's difficult to even understand what that means, much less to incorporate that directive into your life. With that in mind, I am providing some specific suggestions that may help you to begin exercising your Introverted Sensation more fully:

• Take care to try and discover how others see things. Try to notice the connections they make between ideas and objects. Don't immediately compare your own vision of things to theirs; simply accept that for them the world fits together in a valid way.
• Think of those times and situations in your life when you felt misunderstood or disregarded by others. Now try to understand how one or two other people would see the situation. Don't try to assume they would judge as you do: "she would have to feel the same way if that happened to her", or "he would change his tune if he saw things from my point of view". Rather, try to understand how they would truly see the situation. Would they analyse it through a code of values, or see it as an opportunity to grasp a wider perspective in which a solution can be found? Would it affect them personally or would they view it impartially? Try to determine their point of view without passing judgment or comparing it to your own.
• When having a conversation with a friend or relative, dedicate at least half of your time to finding out how the other person sees the world around them. Concentrate on really sensing the relationships within what they describe. Tell them how you see the world and compare. Ask questions about why things seem so to them.
• Think of the people who are closest to you. As you think of each person, tell yourself "this person has their own life going on, and they are more concerned with their own life than they are with mine." Remember that this doesn't mean that they don't care about you. It's the natural order of things. Try to visualize what that person is seeing right now. What connections are they making or enacting, what thoughts are they having? Don't pass judgment, or compare their situation to your own.
• Try to identify the personality type of everyone that you come into contact with for any length of time.

Ten Rules to Live By to Achieve ESFJ Success

1.     Feed Your Strengths! Let your talent for caring and giving spill out into the world around you, show your gifts to the world. Allow yourself to take opportunities to nurture and develop situations in your home and work environments which bring value for yourself and others. Find work or a hobby which allows you to realise these strengths.

2.     Face Your Weaknesses! Realize and accept that some things are never going to be how you would like them to be. Understand that other peoples need to deal with the world regardless of how it seems. Facing and dealing with discord or differences in others doesn't mean that you have to change who you are; it means that you are giving yourself opportunities to grow. By facing your weaknesses, you honour your true self and that of others.

3.     Discover the World of Others. Don't let yourself fall into the trap of thinking you always know what is right for others. Open your heart to the possibility of understanding that their true needs are something that must be discovered through a recognition that their view of the world might be very different, yet just as valid as your own.

4.     Don't be too hasty. Try to let things settle before you make a judgement, allowing others to discover the best for themselves while you try to see all the variables and contingencies in a situation.

5.     Look Carefully at the World. Remember, things are not always what they seem on the surface. You might need to look deeper to discover the truth, particularly when it seems you are sure of your first quick judgement. There are layers of meaning and truth beneath everything.

6.     Try to Let Others Take Some of the Load. By letting others make their own judgements, you are not letting things get out of control, but are validating their own need to be a part of your life. Remember, it is better to guide another to see your point of view than keeping them out of the picture.

7.     Be Accountable to Others. Remember that they need to understand you and your needs too. Express your doubts and difficulties as well as your reasons and let them become partners to your goals.

8.     Don't Hem Yourself in. Staying in your comfort zone is self defeating in the end. Try to make every day one where you get out and discover a little something different about the world and others. This will broaden your horizons and bring new ideas and opportunities into focus.

9.     Assume the Best and Seek for it. Don't wait for others to live up to your expectations. Every person has a goldmine of worth in them, just as every situation can be turned to some good. If you let yourself believe this, you will find yourself discovering ways to make it true for you.

10. When in Doubt, Ask For Help! Don't let your fears leave you on the horns of a dilemma or lead you into disaster. If you are uncertain of something or someone then get input from others who have greater experience in dealing with this difficulty.