10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life: #8 Practice Your Opposites
“You have no idea how hard this is for me…” That’s how my friend’s boss began when he told her that her job had been eliminated. You see, he’s an “F” and in his mind this gave him permission to focus...
View Article10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life: #9 Stop Trying to Control the World
Don’t you just love it? That feeling that everything is going as it should? In my blog post The Illusion of Control I talk about how we fool ourselves into thinking we’ve got things under control. As...
View Article10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life: #10 Find Your Higher Purpose
Image via Wikipedia It’s time to talk about the big picture – who we are in the world. While self-awareness and self-acceptance discussed in the first nine installments of this series are important,...
View Article10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life: Epilogue – It’s Your Turn
The steps in 10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life are based on my challenges, on what I’ve learned in my life. They are the rules I try to follow every day to be the boldest, strongest and best person I...
View ArticleINFJs – Surviving a Toxic Work Environment
Photo: Getty For eighteen years I worked for a company that valued Extroversion, Sensing and Thinking. As an INFJ I sometimes felt like I was on a battlefield. Fortunately Judging skills were also...
View ArticleLiving With Grace
This week I’m just going to share this a wonderful passage about grace from the book Fortytude by Sarah Brokaw. It struck me as a perfect way to look at life when things don’t work out as expected....
View Article10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life: #7 Seek Approval From Within
Image by AJ Brustein via Flickr I spent some time reading an INFJ online bulletin board and was surprised and embarrassed at how many of the posts just shrieked “poor me!” It showed up over and over...
View Article17 Graphs That Are Way Too Real For Introverts (Buzzfeed)
I couldn’t resist passing this clever list from Buzzfeed along to my fellow introverts. http://www.buzzfeed.com/annaborges/brb-im-introverting#.ifGVXmYAM
View ArticleType Differences: How to Cope
I am an INFJ. My best friend is an ESTP. Yup. Complete opposites. And, as you can imagine, this has led to many misunderstandings. I’d visit her office and see endless piles of paper and think “How...
View Article10 Steps to an Amazing INFJ Life: #6 Stay Connected To the World
Image by Haags Uitburo via Flickr INFJs are typically pretty internal folks. As Charles R. Martin states in the book Looking at Type: The Fundamentals, “For INFJs the dominant quality in their lives...
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