Chester’s Tips for Success

Tips on How to Live a Rich, Passionate and Meaningful Life

The Top Four Introvert Advantages

November 25th, 2008 1 Comment

Over the last few weeks, since I’ve started following a daily writing regimen, I’ve come across a few realizations about the relationship between personality and creative endeavors that have startled me. A few months back I met a film maker who said he wrote for ten hours a day, five days a week. [...]

Tags:   ·

How to Identify Your Personal Strengths Part III - The Value of Assessment Tests

June 14th, 2008 1 Comment

When I started my training as a career counselor for my college’s career development center, one of the first things we did was take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI) and the Strong’s Interest Inventory assessment tests.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The purpose of the Myers-Briggs test is to assess your personality type. The assessment is a set of [...]

Tags:   · ·

How to Identify Your Personal Strengths Part II - Common Pitfalls and Challenges

June 12th, 2008 No Comments

Dream Infatuation – Knowing When to Let Go
Discovering your strengths might sound pretty straight forward. Try a whole bunch of things, take some assessment tests and talk to people and voila, you’ve got it all figured out!
I wish!
While the relation may be unclear at first, dreams and strengths are intimately connected. [...]

Tags:  

How to Identify Your Personal Strengths

June 11th, 2008 3 Comments

This is the first article in a series in which I will tackle the challenge of identifying personal strengths. My goal is to share my own journey on the path towards self-discovery and how that helped me identify my personal strengths as well as helping to clarify both my dreams and purpose in [...]

Tags: