It Is Friday!

My dearest bloggies, and Fix-it is the name of the game.
Holly from Walking In My Shoes humored me after I begged shamelessly asked nicely for her to do a Fix-it for me. She has got the BEST ideas for any covert sweet cravers. You will never be found out! Unless the other people in your house have good senses of smell, but by then the evidence will be gone and well...
My own Fix-it shall be up in a bit, I have some things to get done first, but I didn't want to leave Holly hanging, considering how I had begged and all that!
You all go on over and give her some bloggy attentions and most of all, try her recipes!
Sadly, the next one is only available to subscribers of Foster Abba's blog. But if you can, go read and find out how she fixed something broken!

Fix-it Friday!

My contribution to Fix-it Friday is finding out more about yourself. This is NOT an effort to fix you, because you need no fixing. But in understanding yourself better, you improve your interactions with other people and have an opportunity to perceive why you do things and why you might react a certain way. In my college studies, especially in psych classes you learn a lot about "instruments" which are the way you measure things that might seem unmeasurable. Quizzes, tests and surveys are all instruments. In understanding personality, the
Myers-Briggs has not only a popular fan base, but also some respect as a decent personality instrument. The best ones you actually have to pay for, so if you are intrigued you can either go buy a book at the bookstore, or pay a company online to do the test with you. I have a decent free one that I am going to give you the link for. And if you are honest, before you read my results, you will go take this test first, and then read my results. I would LOVE it if you either put your results in the comments or linked to a post you write about the test. Either way, I am showing you MINE, so show me YOURS!
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I am an ENFP!
"Like the other Idealists, Champions are rather rare, say two or three percent of the population, but even more than the others they consider intense emotional experiences as being vital to a full life. Champions have a wide range and variety of emotions, and a great passion for novelty. They see life as an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil, and they want to experience all the meaningful events and fascinating people in the world. The most outgoing of the Idealists, Champions often can't wait to tell others of their extraordinary experiences. Champions can be tireless in talking with others, like fountains that bubble and splash, spilling over their own words to get it all out. And usually this is not simple storytelling; Champions often speak (or write) in the hope of revealing some truth about human experience, or of motivating others with their powerful convictions. Their strong drive to speak out on issues and events, along with their boundless enthusiasm and natural talent with language, makes them the most vivacious and inspiring of all the types.

Fiercely individualistic, Champions strive toward a kind of personal authenticity, and this intention always to be themselves is usually quite attractive to others. At the same time, Champions have outstanding intuitive powers and can tell what is going on inside of others, reading hidden emotions and giving special significance to words or actions. In fact, Champions are constantly scanning the social environment, and no intriguing character or silent motive is likely to escape their attention. Far more than the other Idealists, Champions are keen and probing observers of the people around them, and are capable of intense concentration on another individual. Their attention is rarely passive or casual. On the contrary, Champions tend to be extra sensitive and alert, always ready for emergencies, always on the lookout for what's possible.

Champions are good with people and usually have a wide range of personal relationships. They are warm and full of energy with their friends. They are likable and at ease with colleagues, and handle their employees or students with great skill. They are good in public and on the telephone, and are so spontaneous and dramatic that others love to be in their company. Champions are positive, exuberant people, and often their confidence in the goodness of life and of human nature makes good things happen.

Joan Baez, Phil Donahue, Paul Robeson, Bill Moyer, Elizibeth Cady Stanton, Joeseph Campbell, Edith Wharton, Sargent Shriver, Charles Dickens, and Upton Sinclair are examples of Idealist Champions"

A less flattering, but still true description:
"General: ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on bo th an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another.

Social/Personal Relationships: ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to the more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality. They are outgoing, fun, and genuinely like people. As SOs/mates they are warm, affectionate (lots of PDA), and disconcertingly spontaneous. However, attention span in relationships can be short; ENFPs are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting about the older ones for long stretches at a time. Less mature ENFPs may need to feel they are the center of attention all the time, to reassure them that everyone thinks they're a wonderful and fascinating person.

ENFPs often have strong, if unconvential, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; his sometimes results in their neglecting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world.
Work Environment: ENFPs are pleasant, easygoing, and usually fun to work with. They come up with great ideas, and are a major asset in brainstorming sessions. Followthrough tends to be a problem, however; they tend to get bored quickly, especially if a newer, more interesting project comes along. They also tend to be procrastinators, both about meeting hard deadlines and about performing any small, uninteresting tasks that they've been assigned. ENFPs are at their most useful when working in a group w ith a J or two to take up the slack.

ENFPs hate bureaucracy, both in principle and in practice; they will always make a point of launching one of their crusades against some aspect of it.

Yup, yup, yup. It is all me. Silly, caring, zany, procrastinating, extra sensitive, ME!
A quote from a fellow idealist that I love! I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised to find out that she and I share many personality traits.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead.

Now tell me ALL about you. I am listening....