Know Yourself, Be Wildly Successful; Webinar with Penelope Trunk & Maria Killam

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I have a confession. You know that part of you that you’re convinced is bad or wrong or could be better or you wish was different or fill in the blank here?

Well as long as I live, up until Penelope and I did the blogging webinar in December my secret (well not sooo secret anymore because I do talk about it on this blog) stress and worry is that I don’t have this huge circle of friends that other people have.

I actually hosted a party once in my early 30’s late 20’s where almost no one came. So now, whenever I have a party, I worry that no one will show.

Penelope makes me feel normal.  When I did the personality test and figured out that I was an ENTJ, I called her. She said “I’m in ENTJ too, no one really likes to work with us, we’re crazy. I’m the one who calls up my sub-contractor/employee and yells at them to fix something because ‘Hey I’m losing money here’. Then I feel bad and call them back to apologize.” I said “OMG, haha that’s me too!”.

A little about ENTJs, they make up only 2% of the world, and only 1% are women. They make up nearly 100% of Fortune 500 CEOs. This is because ENTJs were born to lead big teams to big results. An ENTJ doesn’t actually care what they lead, but they need a team.

So here’s what I’ve learned about me this past year. It’s okay that I have a few, really close, great friends, it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with me that I don’t have friends by the dozens.

So here’s the thing, we are either having wild success in our life, or we are fighting against who we are. The things we wish we were doing that we’re not doing, we’re not doing because it’s not right for us. So if we understood that, we can stop being disappointed in ourselves and start doing what we’ll have wild success at.

The other dynamic that happens that keeps the “There’s something wrong with me” conversation alive is that we intuitively surround ourselves with people who are not like us, and that just validates for ourselves further, that there’s somethings wrong with us.

So Penelope and I–she’s the genius when it come to Meyers Briggs–are doing a 4 day course on personality types. Taking this course will show you how to be comfortable with who you are and THAT will lead to your biggest success.

We talked about personality types when we did our blogging seminar together but this one is entirely about personality types and how to have a successful design business being YOU! How awesome is that?

The course will be live starting February 4 – 7, 2014 at 11:00 am PST time for approximately one hour each day. You’ll get a link to do the test so you can find out which type you are as soon as you register.

The cost is $197.

THIS COURSE WILL BE TAPED IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT ON THOSE DAYS AND YOU CAN WATCH IT UNTIL THE END IF TIME. REGISTER HERE.

Here’s an example of a question Penelope received from an ESTP during our blogging webinar:

‘My business is mostly word of mouth. Should I take long-term clients who spend a lot of money or short term clients who are fun? I worry I won’t be able to get enough new clients if I focus on short-term clients.’ 

An ESTP likes being around people but doesn’t like to be tied down to anyone. Variety is really important and being able to finish a project and move on is really important. ESTPs can get an incredible amount done in a short amount of time. But the project needs clear definition and any sign of emotional drama — typical of long-term clients — will send and ESTP reeling. So even if getting lots of short-term clients seems risky, for an ESTP it’s far less riskier than setting up a business that depends on long-term emotional involvement with clients. We succeed at doing what we are skilled at doing. Short-term projects will bring an ESTP the most success.