Several years ago, I went through a crisis of identity.   I was 40 something working in a call Centre with no foreseeable career prospects.   My main goals at the time was to provide for my family and ensure the bills were paid and there was food on the table.

Well, this constant worry led me down a path of searching for who I was and what I really had to contribute to the world.

After many months of struggling through my daily grind and hiding every night in my room away from the world, I was browsing through emails and found this astrology advertisement claiming they had the answers to my life's questions.

Now, I will mention here that I am a believing Christian who was also raised to believe that there is truth in all things.

So, off I went down, what I hoped would be path of enlightenment.

I was asked a few questions, such as, what's your birth date, time and city where you were born.  I provided these details and within a few minutes I was provided a free "astrological" report that told me what my Greek zodiac sign was (Pisces)  and what that meant in terms of my horoscope.

As part of the report, I was also provided a couple of pages pertaining to my Piscean personality.  Now that was interesting.

So I discarded the horoscope side of things and began delving deeper into the personality traits that were being presented.  

The report broke it down into two categories; 1.  Your positive traits and 2.   The traits that needed some work.  OK, I'm hooked now.

Where to go next?  Where else, but to my favorite search engine with the key words of Pieces and personality traits.  

With so much information being presented to me I decided to start printing certain pages so I could highlight the good and the areas that I could see need improvement.   Days and many pages later, me and my highlighter pen began understanding a few basic principals about my personality.

Slowly I started to adapt the learnings to my work life and my private relationships.  As I did so a number of people commented on how they perceived that I seem to be changing for the better and wished to know what I had done.

So I explained a  bit of what I did and did a test run of the same process I had begun by collecting some details from some of my associates at work.  The result was the same.  We all started feeling better about ourselves, goals were being reached and our over all lives seemed to improve.

To continue my education around my personality and related traits I began to do additional searches for personality tests.  Some of these tests generated long documents for me to read while others provided me with letters and colors corresponding to a specific set of traits commonly found with others that were of the same set.

The more I studied, the more I began seeing the patterns and today I am still studying and learning.

Here is the process I followed and continue to follow as I learn.

1.  Search for your astrological sign.  There are a number of different ones, including Greek, Chinese, Celtic etc.  

2.  Find and print out the personality traits of as many of the different signs as you would like.

3.  Use two different highlighter pens to mark "positive traits" and "traits to improve on"

4.  Use a blank page and draw a line down the middle and label each side as above.

5.  Hand write in each of the categories the respective traits

6  Take some time to familiarize yourself with  both sets of traits and create a plan that you believe you can follow that will allow you to showcase your positive traits and improve upon the rest.

7.  Do a search for personality tests, some you may want to pay for, and print or save the information somewhere to increase the variety of traits you want to showcase or work on.

8.  Find a friend or two and share your findings with each other, taking into consideration that each of them my also see things that differ from your own self opinion.

To this day I feel more comfortable with myself as a person and a greater understanding of my personality.  It has helped me to reduce my stress in llive and cope with the levels of anxiety that I experience.

I wish you well in your searching and would love to hear about your journey via the comments on this blog.  Alternively you can also contact me and we can work together in your journey.