 Do you know if you are a perceiver or a judge? Let me explain the characteristics to you and please comment below and let me know which one of the two you think you are and Also, which one of the two you think that I am and then I'll talk about how each type adds or strengthens the possibility of growing an authentic business and What you might want to learn from the other type whatever whichever one you are Okay, so first of all the perceiver judge your dichotomy is a personality typing It's part of a personality typing system called Myers-Briggs. You may have heard of it It a lot of people take the test when they're in some schools, you know And so please let me know what you think you are your perceiver or judge. Let me start with Describing the perceiver because according to a 2017 study by the very company That publishes Myers-Briggs Entrepreneurs tend to be perceivers. Okay, and perceivers what what what describes a perceiver? They are and I'm gonna look at my notes here as I go along. They're curious. They're creator They they're creative. They'd love to gather information They tend to work independently because they don't like bureaucracy. They don't like rules and structure They're more open to risk-taking They're more adaptable. So they don't need to prepare a lot of contingencies and escape clauses and they prefer to keep their options open That's that's a central Defining characteristic of a perceiver However, because perceivers are open very open and carefree They also tend to be indecisive. They want to keep their options open. So they don't like to decide Make a decision and certainly the decision comes very slowly They don't work well with deadlines They don't naturally manage their time well. They're they're often stressed if they're asked to make a quick decision or perform a quick action Also, they don't mind changing tracks in the middle of a project So the perceivers tend to like to start things and not necessarily finish them They don't like routine and they tend to procrastinate More than judges do So does that describe you I would love to know How you resonate with that or if you if you know perceivers in your life or if you are one We all are on the spectrum and the reality is that we all we're all in the spectrum between perceiver and judge and P's or J's sometimes are called and then We all can flex the muscle of the other side as well because as human beings ultimately We are moldable and our personality type can actually change over the years It takes a lot of work to change the personality type but or takes an environment that totally makes you something over many years but Generally, you are the way you're born and raised you tend to be one one type and then Trying to be another type takes you more energy And training or practice etc. So let me now describe Let me know so what do you think you are go ahead and comment below before I go on are you a perceiver? Did I just describe you or are you probably the opposite? Go ahead and let me know alright Let me start to describe the judges now. Okay, so judges on the other hand J's like to Love to plan things out. They love calendars Scheduling things following their schedule to do lists deadlines routines. They love closure and completion They like to make decisions, you know, let's figure out what we're gonna do. Let's they like predictability You know, they don't so they get they get bent out of shape more quickly when things don't go according to plan That's one one of the one of the weaknesses by the both sides of strengths and weaknesses So that's one of the weaknesses of judges So they don't have a they don't have an easy time dealing with unexpected information Things don't going to go according to their plan. And so they don't tend to to Want to become entrepreneurs. They tend that they like the security of a job I know exactly what I'm you know when my income is coming in and They don't like risk and uncertainty So which one are you? Are you a perceiver? Are you a? Judger, what do you think you are and thank you Ida Ida I was already put in there that Ida sounds like you know what you're what you've taken the test So you you are an INSP Actually, I think it's I think your iron INFP I believe because That that third letter is either feeling or thinking so anyway, so I I tend to attract a lot of iron INFPs into my into my clientele So can you guess what I am? Am I a perceiver? Am I a judge? Let me let me keep going and I just love I just love for you to take a guess It just based on what you know about me what you what you can Okay, so let me just continue on with my notes here The thing about judging perceiving is that it's not like I said It's not a inborn trait that you are that way forever more, but they call it a preference So you you you are more naturally this way, but you can also You know stretch your muscles in the other direction when the situation requires So for example, if you are a perceiver and then you're in a job where you know The organization is very structured very regimented your boss is very strict about deadlines and due dates Then you will be flexing your judging muscles a lot in that in that job and maybe over Decades you might actually start to prefer that and your personality might change But it takes a long long time, you know of effort just like learning any new skills something that doesn't come naturally to you It takes time of practice practice practice before it does become second nature essentially, right? And the other thing about the whole judging perceiving J&P thing is that it's Regarding how you interact with the world So these letters are about how you interact with the world and You might actually be different in how you interact with your inner life and with your thoughts So some people are actually perceivers internally But then externally maybe because of their environment or their company or their family or society or culture They might act like a J externally, but there are P internally and vice versa Some people might be really like structure and routine or whatever, but because of their environment whatever they act like a P outside So the test actually is about how you act externally in the world. What what do other people perceive of you? Do they perceive you more as a P or J? Now I don't know whether or not it's usually in a line between inner and outer I'm not I'm not I don't know enough about the Myers-Briggs know that but I just know that based on the research It seems like it's it's about how you interact out outside Vita says perceiver for sure Stacey thanks for joining Jay says can we have a combination of both? We all are on the spectrum We all are on the spectrum So as an example when I when I took the Myers-Briggs test back in college It was the first time I took it and then I took it several other times Since when I first took the Myers-Briggs test, I came out as an extrovert. Okay, so there's four letters, right? You know, there's extrovert introvert thinking or sensing Intuitive versus sensing Which doesn't actually it's not actually what it sounds like well kind of but and then there's thinking versus feeling and there's Judging versus proceeding right so I I used to be an E and Extrovert back in college But then over the years is that is I've grown as I've become more more of an adult now I test as an eye But back then when I when I tested I now I test as an introvert back then when I tested an extrovert I was also just on the cusp between Expert and introvert and now I guess I've turned the corner and now I'm more introverted, but I still I'm not way introverted I'm just kind of quote, you know kind of in between the E and the I So yes, we are all We're all on the spectrum and you might want to go go online and search You know Myers-Briggs test and there are lots of free tests out there Take several take several of them because each one probably has slightly different questions and and see what you Average out as and and take it again in you know a couple years and see if you if you moved in there and Okay, so well, I won't keep you in suspense any longer. I am for sure a J. I am a judge or now Yeah, I'm definitely a judge or It's interesting that I'm a judge or because I am very entrepreneurial. I'm very I guess Open-minded But whenever I'm tested there is no question. I'm not like on the on the edge between J and P I'm definitely definitely a J. I'm like, yeah, I'm definitely a J. That's one of my strongest characteristics So it's not a surprise that I'm always preaching routine. Have you noticed like I I This has been a really interesting sort of revisit of this whole topic for me because now I'm I'm wondering I Lot of you are peas. I Just in my own clientele as I've asked people I work with a lot of peas. I've worked with a lot of perceivers, you know Whereas I'm a very strong judge or so sometimes I honestly feel like an alien among my client base because I'm like Why am I so different? What is it about me? It's like I have to really stretch to understand my clients It is it's really it's a it's it's an effort for me It's it takes me energy to really try to understand my clients and how they feel and how they think and I'm definitely I feel like I'm still a baby in understanding my clients, honestly I have a long way to go going. Thankfully. I probably have another 40 to 80 You know depending on modern medicine, right? I have another 40 to 80 years of working life Love so I'll give myself the break. You know, I've been in I've been in business for 10 years successfully I have another 40 to 80 years now I'm really going to start understanding you all better because I feel like up to now I have not understood you very well, which is why my content you'll hopefully you'll notice my content getting better and better Over the years as I get to understand you better because I will tell you it is it is now I realized the past 10 years of content that I've created I didn't create content for the first five six years So really the past three or four years of content that I've created. I've been very Jay I've created from a Jay mindset from a judge or mindset I've assumed that of course you have to be yeah, of course you have to love routine Of course you have to love calendars and that you of course you should love deadlines You should repair your relationship with deadlines. I say that I always say you should repair your relationship with deadlines Because it's easy for me because it's natural for me. I was born and raised as a Jay So it comes natural for me to love deadlines. I love deadlines. I love due dates. I love calendars I love structure. I love following my calendar all day long. I love to do this and clearing them My email is is is cleared almost every day now. You know why it's because it's natural for me to do that And it's probably not natural for you. It's very hard for you now. I have to you know be more I'm grateful to revisit all this thing now. I'm even more compassionate It's hard for you to clear your inbox to follow a schedule to to follow my curriculum to Did happen to do this and declare that just to categorize things to? Have information be put into buckets. That's so easy for me That's just natural for me to use spreadsheets create structure You know create processes create a plan create backup plans upon backup plans I have backup backup backup. You're so many backup plans, but it's all planned out, you know and So anyway, I want to I want to thank you for your patience with me all of you who are peas for For like sometimes going God, why is it so easy for George to create a successful now? That so that's that's the thing that I want to inquire with you. I Want you to brainstorm with me now? Because I have been so Dense, you know, it's like I only think in terms of a J. I am so J such a judge You're I have thought about business development in completely in a J kind of way And like I said the next 10 years next decade now, you know now The next decade I am now learning to think like a pea that's gonna have had to stretch in your direction I have you have to teach me how a pea thinks those of you who are I mean some of you are Jay You're like yay. I'm a J too, but let me see. Let me actually see right here in the chats if we have any J's Okay, so a lot of some of you are saying you use the disk system Yeah, so I don't know okay, so I haven't seen any any other Any comments here about P or J but those of you watching this later, please let me know so Basically, I know how to run a business as a J. I know that you need to be consistent with your content I know because with consistency and with routine comes skill building so that I know and and here's the other thing you should know the whole business world much of it is built around J's Corporate corporate the companies and organizations tend to I'll just say this again speaking from a J. Of course, I can see the entire world through a J Color J colored lens here. I think businesses thrive when they're J's when it's run by J's, right? So what about peas? What were how do peas contribute to the whole picture? Well peas? Like I said are more creative curious open-minded. They don't want to come to conclusions very quickly. So they tend to to be They tend to be able to Come up with new ideas innovation So that's the the strength that that peas bring into business entrepreneurship, etc But the problem with peas is they have a harder time getting things done, right peas are Have a hard time delivering on schedule. And so when it comes to a solopreneur business the way I know how to do it I Understand a solopreneur business meaning that you have to get good at content like you have to get good You have to develop your skill, right? Either in content or in networking. It's really one or the other if you don't want to do content. You don't have to do content This might come as a surprise to you Okay, but but I should have I should say this more often You don't have to create any content at all in your business just to have a thriving six-figure seven figure eight-figure business But if you're not going to create content Then you have to be extraordinarily good at networking. You have to be so good at at connecting with others and and really Forming relationships and partnerships that allow you to bring your business to a lot of people There's really two ways that I know of creating a successful business. There's either content or There's networking now some people do both. I think I'm a little bit good at both I started my business. I created six-figure business in my first five years You said George you said you didn't create content until three four years ago because I created a successful business six-figure business very well You know almost mid six-figure business as a solopreneur in my first five years Not doing any content. Yes. I started without any content first five years made a lot of money only doing networking I just created partnerships that brought my my product and services out to a big audiences And it's only in the last Four years that I am I trying to build a successful business with content and now I have because I as you if you follow my videos You know, I have not I have been a terrible networker in the last four to five years I really have not kept up with my colleagues. You know, I just My business has was started from I closed down my my product services four years ago and I started from scratch again And Essentially I changed from a networking type of business to a content type of business So now I have a thriving business yet again, but completely because of content So now I know how to build both types of businesses. So um, so perceivers You may you may it may may make more sense for you to create a networking type of business Maybe because you don't have the discipline All right, it's hard for you to have the discipline to create content And if you don't have the discipline to creating content, you're not going to get good at creating content You won't really become a good writer. You won't become a good speaker if you don't do it consistently Because the way that skill building works like for example Playing the piano if you play the piano whenever you feel like playing the piano You're not going to become a good piano player But if you play the piano every single day without fail You can become a great piano player or you can become a great swimmer or you can become a great, you know You know knitter, I mean whatever skill that you want or or a great content creator Any skill you want to develop needs the discipline the more frequently you do it the faster you grow that skill So that's why when I first started doing video for um back in 2015 I did it every single day Monday through Friday took took the weekends off That's how I got good at doing videos and speaking. That's how I got good at it so quickly now You can't get me off a video. That's how I got over my video blog and same thing with writing I hated writing before 2015 before 2016. I I I just was a terrible writer. I hated writing This did not like it at all But because I'm a j I was able to force myself discipline myself to write every single day Monday through Friday And then by 2016 I had overcome my writer's block and I was fine with writing now and now in 2018 I'm a pretty good writer. I'm a I'm a pretty decent writer writing is not a problem for me anymore I'm a different person Because of discipline because of consistency. I am a different person now You know in terms of my skills and my ability to expand my message and my business, etc so Please help me out if you are or even doesn't matter if you know your p or j or whatever you think you are Help me brainstorm. How can someone who is a perceiver? How can they Succeed in business and the solopreneur especially You know perceivers you could probably do fine in a company in a job where someone else gives you structure And that's maybe part of the part of the solution is you need to partner with a coach Or to join a business program to join a business group You know that you pay money to so you have some skin in the game that you feel like okay I don't want to waste this here You need to pay money to a coach or a group who is very much j or gives you that kind of structure that you believe in Like you have to believe in the structure. Otherwise as a p you're not going to do it Doesn't matter how many structures are given to you. You don't believe in it. You're a solopreneur Yeah, like nobody's your boss, right? So if you don't believe in the structure, you're not going to do it So you have to you have to join a program or a person Who structure you really believe in that that makes sense to you that you said you I'm going to commit to that And even though I'm a p and I don't I hate deadlines and routines I believe in it So I'm going to stretch my muscles in that j direction and try to follow the structure because as a p if you're a p It's hard for you to come up with structure. It's not natural to you It's hard for you to make plans, right? Struct step by step plans. It's easy for me I can come up with I can come up with five steps to do this at any day all day long I can come tell me what what routine or tell me what what goal you want And I can come up with a five step structure just like that like I could just you know It starts off You could say I'm bs-ing the five steps or you could say that somehow as a ji channel it very easily Or I can come up with it very quickly. That's the way I think so anyway, I hope this is helpful and I don't I want to end because all I'm just going to keep rambling on about about j and p but Thanks. Thanks for Helping me brainstorm. How can perceivers because as a ji I have a hard time thinking of as how can perceivers Succeed as a solopreneur business in the modern world What what does that look like? What does a successful? Perceiver led business look like perceiver built business look like I honestly don't know And I'm trying to figure that out. So so yet I can help my clients better. Please help me help my clients better Okay, um, so thanks to those of you who are joining this call Joining sorry joining this this facebook live video jace Slash captain, uh, alahendra. Welcome and thanks to you carissa. Hello, annie Arturo, ida. Hello And let's see who else is joining here Sharon and Let's see Sharon and stacey Um Vita Thank you all for joining. So let's let me just kind of address some of the comments going on here Uh, I this is yes, I need outside accountability. That's why I'm a master. I'm a master heart utilizing coaching. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um So Yeah Yeah, alahendra says yes, it takes the right kind of understanding and motivation to inspire me to be more like a j I'm doing it takes practice. Yeah, it takes if you are a p it takes you more energy That's just the bottom line So you're gonna need more sleep after trying to be a j that day, you know, you're gonna need more rest you're gonna need more self-care because you know It's me honestly The modern world in my opinion is a j world Again, that's again probably coming from the j perspective. Maybe as maybe it's a p-world I don't know but to me it looks a lot like a j world, right? Like you have to Well government, you know governments and positions on us are j you have to pay your taxes on time You have to fill out these forms. No, that's all j stuff If you work in in in business, you have to deliver to your clients on time. You have to you know, that's all j stuff. So So no wonder those of you who are p's Realize that oh my god self-care is so important because I'm exhausted in a j world I'm in a j world. Like this is the third dimension Has, you know, this life it has a deadline. It's called death So even life itself might be have formed as a j Experience for all of you who are perceivers and I think perceivers. I imagine perceivers are probably more naturally intuitive in terms of like spiritual like you are I think I'm gonna just riff here a little bit I imagine the spiritual world is probably like the the afterlife or the spirit world is probably more p Right because it's totally open. It's infinite, right? It's there is no boundaries. The boundaries are all just for Convention purposes. It's just maybe the boundaries to help you grow in a certain area but the reality of Life and of the universe and spirit is perceiver. It's p. It's it's infinite. It's open-ended No, there's no quick decisions are not needed because there's there's no time in in the afterlife in the in the spirit world and so You know, you are very brave as a p. You came in as a spirit, right? Into this very j world to learn how to stretch in the j direction a little bit more maybe again I'm just completely rambling and and riffing here, but It's fun for me to think about in a way So I hope this is helpful and I look forward to your comments and your suggestions on how can you if you are a p Or you can imagine your what a p is like. How can p's Be helped to succeed more in business to grow a business and to do it without To do it with with to do it With enough within enough time to not run out of money because again, we live in a j world There's a there's a there's a reality that you will run out of money if you don't build a business in time, right? So um, or you'll run out of life, right? So I appreciate your thoughts and I look forward to seeing your comments Below. Thank you so much. Have a great day. Whether you are a j or a p. I wish you Well-being And I wish you authentic success Take care