Thoughts Outside the Box: June 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Reunions...

It's been a challenging month thus far, for in addition to the challenges of our economy as it affects business, (and selfishly, my business), I have also been grappling with that ever present topic which we tend to push to the backs of our consciousnesses- Death...

I have three wonderful brothers-in law and this month two of them have had calamities strike their families. My oldest sister's husband lost his brother when he was struck by a car while riding his bike. My baby sister's husband lost his brother to a long illness, at age 37. As I pondered these events I came to again realize that we all suffer from the same desease from which there is no escape- that of mortality, and the death rate is 100%. We will all die, barring the return of the Lord, for those who believe... My brothers-in-law's brothers were both believers in Jesus Christ, and I do believe that they are in Heaven, in a far better place, now.

As I attended this most recent funeral I again realized how close my time is coming, as I consider my life in the grander scheme of things. David wrote in his Psalms that our life on this earth is like a breath of air escaping- it is that fleeting. I picture a frosty winter morning, standing outside and seeing my breath escape into the cold air, a warm vapor quickly disapated into the cold morning air... That is my life here on this earth in the grander scheme of Eternity... But I realized something else too- that on the day that I die, that I pass from this earth, that day is a day of celebration, for it is my birthday, my eternal birthday, for I will be reborn into a new body, a new life, with my Savior Jesus Christ, a birthday I will celebrate into eternity... I will not be lost to my friends and loved ones of this world; we will have only lost contact for a season, until that time that they join me in a far more glorious country, a country called Heaven. Indeed, my brothers have not lost their brothers, only lost contact for a short while, for a part of a breath, and then there will be a joyous reunion...

Food for thought...

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Personality Profiling...

Carl Jung developed the theory that everyone has their own distinctive psychological type which makes up their personality type. He developed sixteen different personality types, later further developed by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Meyers. There are four major catagories, and two sub catagories within each one. Every one falls into one of the sixteen types developed.

Personality typing is incredibly helpful in areas of growth and self-development. It also helps us understand those personality types we are best compatible with...

The four catagories are Sensing (S) or Intuition (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), Judging (J) or Perceiving (P),and within each catagory we are either Introverted (I) or Extroverted (E).

The different combinations possible that all fall into are:
ESFP ESTP ISTJ ISFJ ENFP ENTP INFJ INTJ
ESTJ ENTJ ISTP INTP ESFJ ENFJ INFP ISFP

Understanding your own personality type is a real an d effective tool in self discovery, and can further help us understand those around us. To learn more about personality typing, and even take the Briggs-Meyers personality test visit www.personalitypage.com .

Personally, I am an INFJ...

IQ TEST

Your IQ Test
YOUR RESULTS =155. Genius Outstanding! Your score on the IQ test suggests you are well in the Genius intelligence range. Your score has placed you at the highest measurable levels of intellectual prowess. Ironically, intelligence research has found an unexpected tendency among the exceptionally intelligent to under-achieve, at least as far as the traditional academic and professional indicators are concerned. The smartest people seem to wind up living relatively modest and ordinary lives. Why? It may be that when you have an over-abundance of natural intelligence the ordinary elements of life can seem far beneath you as to be boring. Alternatively, this glut of intelligence can lead to mental indolence and “coasting” on one's natural abilities. Few geniuses really achieve the heights of success and achievement that we would expect the powers of genius to bring them. So, while you have achieved magnificently on this IQ test, take only so much comfort from your lofty score. Remember, it is far better to be actively striving toward success than to lie recumbently expecting it. THE MEANING OF I.Q.: I.Q. or intelligence quotient is a general assessment of your ability to think and reason. Your I.Q. score is actually an indication of how you compare in this ability with the majority of people in your age group. A rating of 100, for example, means that, as compared to the majority of other people in your age group, you have a normal rate of intelligence: Most psychologists consider those falling in the range of 95-105 as having a normal or average I.Q. There are many abilities which are not measured by I.Q. testing. For example, I.Q. does not measure musical talent, manual dexterity, or a variety of other abilities. However, I.Q. testing does give you an important indication of your ability to think, reason and solve problems. This is critical to your success in life. An individual’s overall intelligence is a difficult thing to measure in any absolute fashion. Human intelligence may be said to consist of literally hundreds of different and distinct mental abilities. And only a few of these may be measured through formal testing. Creators of IQ tests have attempted to isolate and measure only a handful of mental abilities which serve as likely predictors of achievement – namely logical reasoning, math skills, general knowledge, the ability to classify things, the ability to see analogies, and the ability to recognize patterns. Your score on this IQ test by no means reflects a complete picture of your intelligence. It does not take into consideration verbal, social or emotional intelligence, to name just a few. Nor does it measure all your intellectual potential. No IQ test can do that. FAMOUS IQ'S Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Inventor 220 Blaise Pascal, Mathematician, Philosopher 195 Isaac Newton, Mathematician 190 Voltaire, Writer 189 Gary Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster 185 Galileo Galilei, Astronomer, Physicist 183 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer 165 Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Writer 165 Albert Einstein, Physicist 160 Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft 160 Ben Franklin, Writer, Scientist, Politician 160 DALE "BUD" BRAUER 155 Abraham Lincoln,U.S. President 150 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor 145 Hillary Clinton, Senator of New York 140 Madonna, Singer, Actress 140

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Reunions...

Some of our Visitors from the USA... (Dec 2010-2016...then I stopped counting!)

Home Sweet Home...

Some of My Visitors Abroad