Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Personal Profile System

In the Personal Profile test that we did in class I discovered few things about myself that were some true and some new. After calculating the numbers I discovered that my dominant letter is D in the DISC evaluation. If you are a D dominant you are described as a person who "Emphasis on shaping the environment by overcoming opposition to accomplish results". I would say that this statement pretty much describes who I am. In arguments I am the person who will "compete to win", I always think that my opinion is the best and I am sure that if everyone will change their mind and follow mine then the results will be much better. Even in my personal life, in my relationship with my husband, I never take my husband opinion into consideration and I constantly try to convince him that my way is better then his way or the highway. Other D characters that I can identify with are; accepting challenges (that is why I work in sales), questioning the statues Que (always trying to change the impossible) and making quick decisions. I can say that I am happy to be a D personality, I think that it fits my vision or ambitions in life. I want to be something else, I don't want to be the normal I want to take the challenge and I want to get results quick. I don't think that I can even become another type, I have tried in the past to be more detailed oriented or to be accurate or to even try to be more organized but it obviously didn't work. I think that it is highly important to know someone personality type, especial to  know your boss type or your partners type so that you can better analyze their behavior which will give you an advantage over them, in that way you will know how to approach them and how to talk to them.

Monday, November 8, 2010

The Power of Vision

My vision for the future is very clear, I want to have my own business and I want it to be successful. I currently work as a sales person for a small company that generate great revenue. All of the revenue that the company makes comes from retail, the staff make their salary strictly by commission which encourage them to make more money. I have been working for that company for few years and now, right before I finish school, I feel like I want to go solo. I want to open my own shop and hire the same kind of people that I work with now; people who are ambitious, hard working and charismatic. I have been doing sales for so long that I feel as thou I am ready to do this and that I have the knowledge that is requires to succeed in the industry. In order to accomplish that I need to do few "small" things such as: rent a shop at the right location, recruit skilled people who will be eager to sale and train them to be the best (which I have done before) and I will need to improve my connection with the wholesale distributors. However, I know that if I don't put my heart and soul into this I will not succeed. I have seen friends of mine who tried and failed and I learned from their mistakes. one of the patterns I see is that ones the business became successful they started to become lazier and think that the business will run by its own.
and here comes my second vision for the future. after I plan to make a lot of money by opening my own business I plan to reinvest my money in real estate and become the owner of few apartment buildings in NYC. I plan to buy the buildings, renovate them and collect the rent each month from the tenants that will leave in my luxurious apartments.
Now that I am multimillionaire, my wealth is secure and I don't have to work anymore, my third vision will come into place. I will want to establish my own Charity fund that will help all kind of people. from those who need medical health to those who are in debt to young people who have no money for education. however, I will be fully involved in where the money goes and how funds are distributed and will make sure that the funds go to the right hands.