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Here are some prayers based upon the Myers-Briggs personality types. Look up your type and that’s your prayer for the day. (If you’d like to take the test to see what type you are, here’s a link.)

MYERS-BRIGGS PRAYERS

ISTJ: Lord, help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41:23 a.m. E.S.T.

ISTP: God, help me to consider people’s feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive.

ESTP: God, help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even though they’re usually NOT my fault.

ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need some help, just ask.

ISFJ: Lord, help me to be more laid back and help me to do it EXACTLY right.

ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don’t mind my asking).

ESFP: God, help me to take things more seriously, especially parties and dancing.

ESFJ: God, give me patience, and I mean right NOW.

INFJ: Lord, help me not to be a perfectionist. (Did I spell that correctly?)

INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta

ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th - Look a bird! - at a time.

ENFJ: God, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest. Do you mind putting that in writing?

INTJ: Lord, keep me open to other’s ideas, *wrong* though they may be.

INTP: Lord, help me to be less independent, but let me do it my way.

ENTP: Lord, help me follow established procedures today. On second thought, I’ll settle for a few minutes.

ENTJ: Lord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdo.

There’s a cool online personality test that’s also a Facebook application. It’s called PersonalDNA and it’s interesting because it assesses quite a few different areas of your personality, but not just by using “either/or” questions. Some of the questions ask you to move an indicator on a gauge or “drain a bucket” in various categories, that kind of thing. The variety in question formats makes the experience more enjoyable, and I guess more accurate. Of course, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good.

You can take the personality test here: http://www.personaldna.com/ and you don’t even need to sign up for anything to take it.

They do a nice text-based evaluation, but then they go beyond that. Your results can be displayed either in a swatch or a strip, where the color is the personality trait and the size indicates how strong that trait is in you. Here’s what mine look like, so you can get an idea of how they look and work. Just mouse-over any color and it will tell you the trait and level. You can share these in a variety of ways, including in your Facebook profile. And if you really get into it, you can evaluate other people and compare your results with theirs. THAT can get interesting!

Here’s an interesting survey/quiz from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. It’s an “Internet Typology” quiz that says what kind of information technology user you are. You can access the quiz at http://www.pewinternet.org/quiz/index.asp

For what it’s worth, they said I fit into the “Connectors” group.

Connectors make up 7% of the American public.

Basic Description
The Connectors’ collection of information technology is used for a mix of one-to-one and one-to-many communication. They very much like how ICTs keep them in touch with family and friends and they like how ICTs let them work in community groups to which they belong. They are participants in cyberspace - many blog or have their own web pages - but not at the rate of Omnivores. They are not as sure-footed in their dealings with ICTs as Omnivores. Connectors suspect their gadgets could do more for them, and some need help in getting new technology to function properly.

Defining Characteristics
Connectors combine a sense that information technology is good for social purposes with a clear recognition that online resources are a great way to learn new things. Their cell phones have a lot of features, and they also try new things with technology; more than half have watched TV programming on a device like a laptop computer or cell phone.

The full list of group types includes:

• Omnivores
• Connectors
• Lackluster Veterans
• Productivity Enhancers
• Mobile Centrics
• Connected but Hassled
• Inexperienced Experimenters
• Light but Satisfied
• Indifferents
• Off the Network.

Which one are you?

Here’s an interesting thing that I came across today–a website with meditation rooms. Several virtual rooms are available with soothing pictures and relaxing sounds. Themes include: Space, Winter, Floral, Forest, Water, and Zen, each with its own mood and energy level.

Visit http://www.lime.com/meditation_room to access these meditation rooms. You can also download them for your iPod or subscribe to them via iTunes.

When you’re getting stressed or tense from work or school or personal situations, take a few minutes to relax in one of these meditation rooms. Purposefully relax your shoulders and arms, letting the tension go while you let the sights and sounds of the virtual meditation room salve your soul.

(Nice, eh?)

Over a year ago, I blogged about FindYourSpot.com, which asks you questions and gives you a list of ideal cities for you to live in. It seems to be a really good survey with accurate results. I decided to take the quiz again and see if my results had changed. Here’s the comparison:

I think the biggest difference was that this time I didn’t rule out any particular areas of the country. They say that doesn’t make too much of a difference, but there are more places in Tennessee this time than last time, as well as a South Carolina and an Oklahoma. Very interesting. I like how each city in your results list has a link to a page that tells you more about that city.

Check your own recommendations at http://www.findyourspot.com/.

I think most of us have somebody in our lives that we just “click” with. Somebody who thinks the same way we do and has a similar communication style. I’m not talking about getting along well with somebody or enjoying being with somebody. I’m talking about communication styles. I’ve had people that I work with in some capacity that I just really “click” with–I don’t have to do tons of explaining to them, I know how they’ll approach a problem or project, and communicating about anything is just really easy. That’s because we think similarly in those ways.

Scary thought, I know, that somebody might have a mind like mine.
It’s cool to work with someone like this. Especially when you have to make decisions about something without consulting the other person, and then when you finally do, they say they would have done the exact same thing.

And on the other side of the coin, there are some people that we just DON’T click with. I’ve had a few in various jobs/organizations I’ve been a part of, where it seems like no matter how we try to explain things to each other, they always get taken the wrong way or misinterpreted. And the more you try to explain, the more frustrated you both get. It’s so frequent that it’s obvious that the two of you just don’t think the same way at all.

It’s an interesting phenomenon. I wonder if there’s some kind of online Thinking Style test that would document this.