Blogtember 6: Describe a distinct moment when your life took a turn.

While I sat and thought about this prompt, I really couldn't think of anything. I did other stuff for a few minutes, and then it came to me: my life took a turn when I decided to stop drinking myself into a stupor each and every weekend.  I was at a very, very stupid time in my life a few years ago. I didn't want to meet people in Milwaukee, so I stopped trying and just opted to go home to Green Bay every weekend. I would go out to the bar, hang out with people who didn't give a shit about me, treat my family like garbage, and all around just feel stupid when I finally got my head back on straight. But did that stop me? Of course not. I decided to just keep going, and going, and going, until finally, it hit me.  It was 3 AM, I had just gotten home from the bar and was eating some kind of leftovers in my dad's recliner, with a true crime show playing on the TV in front of me. I wasn't drunk, but I also wasn't sober, either. It hit me like a ton of bricks: you haven't done anything constructive in months. And it was true! I hadn't been making anything, writing, or doing anything good. I was pissing all of my money away every weekend to hang out in a shithole of a bar two hours away from Milwaukee with people who could care less about me. What a horrible way to live. And it just hit me from there. I had to pick up, do something, anything, that wasn't what I was doing. Since then, I've been living a lot differently. I focus on positive things, like creating. And writing. My job, that I love more than anything. And friends. And building up a great life, just because that's what I'm supposed to do.  To be honest? I haven't ever looked back to that life.

Blogtember 5: Take a personality test and respond to your results.

I had a lot of fun with today's post! Today's prompt was to take a personality test here and respond to your results. I'm not usually one for this kind of stuff, but I figured hell, why not! 

My results stated I am an ENFJ, or "Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging". Honestly, I feel like it was pretty spot on! Here was the description: 

ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it's usually not meant as manipulation -- ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are. 

ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability. 

ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. But they don't resemble the SJs or even the NTJs in organization of the environment nor occasional recalcitrance. ENFJs are organized in the arena of interpersonal affairs. Their offices may or may not be cluttered, but their conclusions (reached through feelings) about people and motives are drawn much more quickly and are more resilient than those of their NFP counterparts. 

ENFJs know and appreciate people. Like most NFs, (and Feelers in general), they are apt to neglect themselves and their own needs for the needs of others. They have thinner psychological boundaries than most, and are at risk for being hurt or even abused by less sensitive people. ENFJs often take on more of the burdens of others than they can bear.

Seriously! Spot on! It's funny - I feel like I'm the most introverted extrovert you could ever meet! I love people, but I also love being by myself, too. I have a crazy attention to detail, and often fixate on the needs of others and/or the wider view of the world. And, imagine that, I'm an entrepreneur, too! 

Take the test and find out what you are! I'd love to have you share it in the comments!