Today, you are you. That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! 

Dr Seuss

Earlier this year I had to interview with an office of my churches denomination in order to become an official Army chaplain. We came to an interesting point in the conversation that I doubt I will ever forget, because of just how perfectly (and bluntly) an observation about me was said. I was asked about my personality type (Meyers-Briggs; I’m an ENFP), to which I said there was really only one area I was uncertain of (the ‘P’). What follows is as close to a direct quote as I can recall:

“You’re definitely a ‘P’. You have a trailed of broken and missed deadlines behind you”.

He wasn’t being mean. He was just being honest. I had just never heard it put that way. And oh man, was he right.

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