I enjoy reading about myself, er, other people, lol. Seriously, though, with as many personality tests out there, we ought to take at least a few to identify our traits and better accommodate our existence in this world. If you haven’t guessed, I’m a proponent for individual understanding and discovery to better fit into roles more fitting for us. I mean, I don’t like feeling forced into a box. I’m sure very few do. And yet, I hear, way too often, how unhappy some people are in their current mass-fitted jobs, situations, etc. None of us were meant to conform to box standards. God is a creative, in fact, the Creator. Of us. And no two of us are alike. We are gifted with divergent traits, abilities, interests, perspectives, and coping methods. Wouldn’t it be beneficial to really understand how we’re each wired and where we really should strive to be, what we really should strive to do in life?
 
Until I learned, years ago, that I am in a personality group comprised of less than 1% of the population, I often felt lost, not seeming to fit in to a lot of different environments. Makes sense now, and I’ve since joined an empowering Christian support group for those with the same personality type (support groups exist, even for us odd birds!). That is, according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: INFJ - “The Advocate.” (If you’re an Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging person, too, here is a helpful link for more information about that:
https://www.lifereaction.com/infj-personality-advocate/)

Directly below, you’ll find a link to a personality test I find fascinatingly accurate, at least it was for me. You can spend twelve minutes test-taking and then read forty-something pages about yourself! Fun, right?
 
Take the test:
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
 
Well, I’ll leave you to it. For your pleasure (for those who like classic rock, anyway), here is music and video with a fine display of diverse personalities, for sure. 😊 Enjoy.
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For the first time, I’d experienced a debilitating writer’s block. Part of the problem was that I had too many things going at once. Spread in different directions, digging into numerous genres and projects, I was suddenly staring at the computer, numb, with no flow, zero movement. It’s as if I’d lost focus and motivation.
 
Meanwhile, several acquaintances asked what my current work in progress was, so I shared about my writing block dilemma. A good friend put a question to me bluntly, said, "In terms of writing, Tessa, if you died today, what would you want to be remembered for?" And just like that I gave him my answer. He said, "Then stop wasting time and get to work."
 
That verbal smack in the face was exactly what I needed (thank you very much). A reminder, a single push sharpened my focus, renewed clarity of purpose and aim when time is valuable.
 
This honing perspective proves a good application if you’re struggling with any vocational motivation, really. Use it as a kick-start. If you died today, what would you want to be remembered for?
 
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters…”—Colossians 3:23

One of my personal favorites in The Brother's Keep novella series, Wind's Aria,  has been rereleased and offered at a lower price. So, if you have not yet read this story, grab yourself a copy. You won't be disappointed if you like romantic, lyrical, allegorical fantasy. This also happens to be novella #1, the launch in the 8-novella series - so, it's a good place to start. Here is a recap of the overview:

The Unspeakable (Puma) is now in its second edition, a version with the same storyline but repackaged. Newly categorized under Christian Suspense, and International Mystery & Crime, if you have not yet read this book I invite you to do so – though it might keep you up at night.
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When bad things happen to good people, what then?

When a furtive conflict is pitted between violent leftist guerrillas and a rightwing paramilitary group in Colombia, a North American woman mistakenly gets caught in the middle.

“I spent four months, one week and two days in a clandestine prison referred to as The Water Cave. Every day I stared hell in the face, and each day I wanted to die. I don’t want to share too much too quickly. To understand fully, you must join hands with me, fasten your heart to mine, and course through my book. Stumble over the incomprehensible human rights journey with me. I've pondered it to the brink of questionable sanity, and it's the only way to explain. I suppose I should consider myself lucky I survived at all—for many did not—yet, perplexingly so, that’s not the premise of this narrative.

He altered my life, marked me forever.
But it’s not how you might imagine.
This is a story involving Horacio Botello, my torturer known as Puma.”