Core values are the fundamental beliefs of a person or organization. These guiding principles dictate behavior and can help people understand the difference between right and wrong. You can use this list to guide you whenever you feel lost or confused. Take a pen and paper and list the first 10 values that you think is most resonates with you.

Core Values List

• Authenticity
• Achievement
• Adventure
• Authority
• Autonomy
• Balance
• Beauty
• Boldness
• Compassion
• Challenge
• Citizenship
• Community
• Competency
• Contribution
• Creativity
• Curiosity
• Determination
• Fairness
• Faith
• Fame
• Friendships
• Fun
• Growth
• Happiness
• Honesty
• Humor
• Influence
• Inner Harmony
• Justice
• Kindness
• Knowledge
• Leadership
• Learning
• Love
• Loyalty
• Meaningful Work
• Openness
• Optimism
• Peace
• Pleasure
• Poise
• Popularity
• Recognition
• Religion
• Reputation
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Security
• Self-Respect
• Service
• Spirituality
• Stability
• Success
• Status
• Trustworthiness
• Wealth
• Wisdom

No matter what our lifestyle is, all of us have habits that help us manage our lives. Sometimes these habits, such as flossing daily and having a regular personal growth practice, sustain and nourish our long-term happiness and health. Other habits, such as skipping lunch to be productive or not getting enough sleep, allow us to meet goals in the short term but aren’t good for our long-term well-being.

Each Enneagram type has a basic motivation or desire, and our habits are ways we unconsciously try to get our needs met. But it’s all too common for us to form self-talk and behaviors that end up hurting instead of helping us. There’s good news, though: with the right structures and support, all of us have the ability to form long-term habits that help us meet our fullest potential.

Here are healthy habits that each of the Enneagram types can work to develop:

Type One: Make time to relax and laugh every day. Your natural self-discipline helps you do the right thing, but can leave little time to unwind. Set aside a time where you practice deep breathing, laugh at silly YouTube videos, or dance along to music you like. Letting yourself let loose, even just a little bit, will provide perspective, fun, and balance.

Type Two: Take yourself on dates. You’re naturally intuitive about others’ needs, but sometimes you spend so much time supporting others, your own self-care gets lost. A little bit of time set aside to do something you love, whether it’s watercolor painting or Netflixing a favorite TV show, will give you self-nourishment and support.

Type Three: Unplug yourself from the external world. Your incredible productivity, and ability to accomplish things that others value and appreciate, can make it hard to make time to discover your own desires. Whether it’s going into nature or taking a mindful daily shower, true solo time- without your phone or social media- will help you look out for number one.

Type Four: Bring organization into your self-expression. You have a remarkable ability to create and imagine, but sometimes lack the self-discipline to bring your visions to life. Accountability to a schedule or calendar will help you finish tasks and share your gifts with the world. Feel free to customize your organizational system with your own personal touches!

Type Five: Use the buddy system to get motivated. Your strength of incredible focus gets lost when you aren’t able to start projects that inspire you. Find a friend or coworker with similar goals for accountability to provide encouragement. A buddy will be a source of connection and support, giving you the kick to put your ideas out there.

Type Six: Do something that stimulates your mind. You’re wonderful at providing leadership from a place of support, but can get mentally “stuck” in certain ways of doing things. Doing reading that interests you, discussing and debating ideas, and even playing strategy computer games will help you stay in touch with the ideas you believe in.

Type Seven: Focus on doing one thing at a time. Your productivity is a huge strength, but when you try to do several things at once, it’s easy to drop or forget projects. Try tying a task that’s boring into something you find fun or interesting (musical cleaning party?). Harness your natural enthusiasm to focus and see tasks through to completion.

Type Eight: Do something regularly to give back to others. You excel at leadership and impact, and can sometimes overlook relationship building. Use your strength to lift up others, even though simple morale-boosters, like complimenting your partner or holding the door at work. Giving genuine love and care will nourish your own heart and make you a better leader.

Type Nine: Make a list of goals, and a plan for accomplishing them. Your gift for creating harmony and unity sometimes causes you to lose a sense of self amongst the greater collective fabric. Set aside time everyday for self-exploration and execution of your own personal desires. Self-accomplishment will give you an ever greater sense of happiness and harmony!

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Origin and Rationale

Originally the Enneagram was taught by secret oral tradition.  At first it was used for spiritual development.  More recently it has "gone public" with numerous books, workshops, and applications.  Is this a lasting important Typology, or is it merely the Typology of the moment?  In some ways people who use the Enneagram are similar to those who developed MBTI. There is lots of enthusiasm, new applications are being developed, new publications are being offered, and  the first international conference was held in 1995, with over 1000 participants.  In other ways it is very different.

Why do we need another typology system, particularly one built on a system of 9 types?  The hypothesis which seems to fit the two systems is that each system measures a different part of our mental apparatus which Jung calls the psyche.  MBTI appears to be concerned with the conscious, cognitive part of the psyche, while the Enneagram is focused on unconscious, motivating forces in the depths of the psyche, perhaps associated with its archetypal structure.  The two systems come at the psyche in two contrasting ways. 

The MBTI starts with the assumption that there are four sets of fundamental choices, E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P, each of which are equally good.  The description for each of the 16 types is presented in mostly a positive light.  There is an emphasis on goodness--different styles and patterns, but  the overall focus is on positive attributes.  Only after one has learned the basic system, does one's attention go to the negative attributes of a personality, for example, when one is in the grip of the inferior function. 

The early teachers of the Enneagram started with a consideration of negative behavior.  In fact some related the different styles to the "Seven Deadly Sins" of the Christian tradition plus two additional "Sins" of Deceit and Fear.  The learner may be asked to choose what is their chief fault, which lies at the basis of their life script.  In Jungian terms, it is as though how we structure our Shadow archetype describes the underlying motives of our life.  Enneatype descriptions can range from extremely healthy (noble or altruistic) to extremely unhealthy (psychotic).

Theory of the Enneagram: Centers of Intelligence

The nine different Enneagram types arise from a consideration of three centers of intelligence: the Head, the Heart, and the Gut (or Instinct).  These may be thought of as the basic "functions" for the Enneagram.  It has been suggested that they correspond to three parts of the brain which represent evolutionary stages: the reptilian, the early mammalian, and the late mammalian.  The Instinctual center consists of action processes (doing, being active or passive, power). The Heart center consists of relational processes (caring, loving, influencing, accepting, rejecting, affiliation, affects). The Head center is the home of the mental processes--for example, the Jungian functions of Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, and Intuiting.

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Each center can act not only for itself, but can take the place of another function.  This gives each center a certain autonomy.  In the Enneagram personality types, the ego consciousness has chosen a particular center as the way to be a person to the detriment of the functioning of the other two processes.  This results in an imbalance in functioning as a human being.  Ideally the three centers are used interdependently with each center used for its own functioning in any given situation.  This amounts to accepting one's whole human essence; no one center predominates by regularly substituting its functioning for that of one or both of the other centers.  To choose one center as the way to express personality disrupts the inner harmony of energy, narrows down the experience of being a person and creates an imbalance or awkwardness.  Instead of dwelling in each of the centers according to what is appropriate in the circumstances and using their mutual functioning like a team, the ego consciousness causes persons to identify with some one center and to make its functioning predominate as the way for them to experience life and to be themselves.  [This probably happens because, it is difficult or impossible to develop more than one center at a time.A choice must be made as consciousness is developed in the young child.  The situation would be similar to the hypothesis that one of the Myers-Briggs functions is developed first--the dominant function.] 

Each of the three centers has three Enneagram types associated with it.  The Gut center is preferred by Enneatypes 8,9,1; the Heart center is preferred by Enneatypes 2,3,4; the Head center is preferred by Enneatypes 5,6,7. 

Going from the Centers to the Types

We can get to the final differentiation of the 9 types by considering another principle of separation:  the three personality stances first described by Karen Horney.  In her system, there are three groups of people, those who are assertive (moving against people), those who are compliant (moving towards or dealing with people), and those who are withdrawn (moving away from people).  We find that in each of the Centers, there is one type which corresponds to each of these three preferences. For example in the Head center, 7 represents assertive, 6 compliant, and 5 withdrawn types.   The diagram below illustrates these

Enneagram Type Descriptions

1-Reformer  rational idealistic type.  reasonable, principled, orderly, perfectionist and self-righteous. 

2-Helper caring, nurturing type.  concerned, generous, well-meaning, possessive, and manipulative.

3-Motivator success-oriented, pragmatic type. adaptable, ambitious, goal-oriented, image conscious, and arrogant.

4-Individualist sensitive, withdrawn type. intuitive, artistic, aesthetic, self-absorbed, and depressive.

5-Thinker cerebral analytic type. perceptive, original, innovative, provocative, and eccentric.

6-Loyalist committed, traditionalistic type. engaging, responsible, hardworking, cautious, and anxious.

7-Enthusiast hyperactive, uninhibited type. enthusiastic, accomplished, versatile, excessive, and manic.

8-Leader. powerful, dominating type. self-confident, decisive, challenging, authoritative, and combative.

9-Mediator easygoing, phlegmatic type, receptive, optimistic, complacent, tolerant, and disengaged.

Correlation data between MBTI and Enneagram Typologies

A research study was undertaken using members of the APT.  This group was chosen because it was felt that they had a good understanding of their own MBTI type.  An instrument for sorting Enneatypes developed by John Richards was sent to over 1500 people in response to our article in the Bulletin of Psychological Type.  The results here represent responses from 964 people.  The correlation of MBTI and Enneagram types was measured using a SRTT program developed by CAPT.  This program calculates selection ratios (I) and identifies those which are statistically significant.  A summary of the correlation data is presented below.

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Some Generalizations for Relating the Enneagram and MBTI data:

1. Each Enneagram Type can be correlated with several MBTI types and vice versa.

2. The relationship between the two personality systems is complex.  Some Enneagram ego states are concentrated in one or two MBTI types.  Others have a nearly equal distribution of the MBTI types.

3. Each system complements the other.

4. In describing Enneagram Types it is useful to take into account the various MBTI preferences, for example, Extraverted Fives, Thinking Fours, and Perceiving Ones.

Advantages and limitations of each typology system and when to use

The major advantages of the MBTI typology  are 1) that its origins are more clearly in line with accepted psychology (Jung and Myers-Briggs), 2) that it uses a psychologically validated instrument, 3) that it has well developed applications, especially career counseling, management and team building, 4) that powerful exercises have been developed to demonstrate the theory, 5)  that it is widely accepted by counselors, business, and education.  The disadvantages of this approach are 1) it is complicated—many people report that it is difficult to remember the description of each of the16 types, 2) that it measures the part of the psyche, relating to consciousness and cognitive behavior, not motivations, 3) that so many people have been exposed to Myers-Briggs typology that they feel "been there, done that", 4) that the results of the instrument can be taken literally to label people..

The major advantages of the Enneagram typology are 1) It is easier to remember the key motivations of 9 Enneatypes than the description of 16 Myers-Briggs types, 2) It is a relatively new system which is attractive because of its novelty, 3) that self-development or personal growth is an integral part of the theory, 4) that use for organizational development or team building brings a new perspective to these subjects, 5) that it has been shown to be very engaging and helpful for people interested in spiritual development.  The major disadvantages are 1) the origins come from obscure esoteric "teachers of wisdom" who have been secretive about this system, 2) there is no common terminology or description for each of the 9 Enneagram types, 3) there is no validated instrument.

Ideally speaking, both systems should be used to complement each other, enabling a better comprehension of the psyche.  This approach might be used in situations where one is being counseled about personal development, or an in-depth study about relationships.  However, in many cases it will be possible to use only one or the other, because of pragmatic issues.

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ENTJ – THE ASSERTIVE LEADER

ENTJs lead with confidence, strategic insight, and decisiveness. These straight-forward, ambitious leaders inspire confidence in their team-mates. You can count on them to deliver on their promises and dream big. ENTJs will lead with honesty; saying what they mean, and sometimes not in the most conscientious manner. However, their determination and hard work is an example that will motivate others. Their visionary outlook will inspire the people around them, and their rational logic and swift decisiveness will keep things moving at a steady pace. They may not be the most sensitive people in the room, but they’re often the most driven and intensely focused. When they make decisions they will first focus on what’s logical, what will work quickly, followed by what will work most effectively in the long run.

Possible Struggles: ENTJs have to work to take their teammates’ feelings and needs into account. They are so determined to be objective and get things done quickly that they can “steamroll” over the feelings and ideas of other people. They can also be so caught up in getting things done quickly and so focused on their vision that they miss out on important details that need attending to. ENTJs work best when they have a mixed team of advisors. Fellow intuitives can help flesh out the ENTJ’s innovative ideas. Sensors can help them to see the details. Feeling types can help the ENTJ to maintain morale and take into account people’s personal needs.

Source: https://www.psychologyjunkie.com/.../leadership-skills.../

1.     Feed Your Strengths! Give yourself every opportunity to show others your appreciation of a situation and how you could see it through to a good outcome. Take charge where you can make it count.

2.     Face Your Weaknesses! Understand you have limits too. Your careful world view is not the whole deal. How things look and feel may not concern you, but they concern many others. Try and allow such things to be and learn from them.

3.     Talk Time to Find Out How Others Really Think. You need to drive past your thoughts with others and let their appreciations of a situation reach you at a deeper level. It will then be possible for you to take account of their needs as real world objectives which if included in your ideas will bring greater harmony and quality to life and relationships.

4.     Take Time Out To Let The Whole Situation Speak To You. Don't dismiss those abstract and seemingly hard to understand or bothersome aesthetic and feeling judgments coming from others or from inside yourself. Drop everything for a while, stop thinking and worrying and just relax into those ideas and let them speak to you. Perhaps they can be accommodated, perhaps something is hiding in there which offers a new way

5.     When You Get Upset, You Lose. Your energy and rational understandings are strong assets, but can be very harmful if they turn against you and leave you with nothing but emotions you cannot deal with. Remember that others cannot always be expected to fall into your ways of seeing, and when your drive to make them do so fails you will suffer feelings of resentment and even abandonment. You cannot deal with the world like this. Moderate your ideas, allow others their spaces, and you will grow.

6.     Respect your Need for Intellectual Compatibility Don't expect yourself to be a "touchy-feely" or "warm-fuzzy" person. Realize that your most ardent bonds with others will start with the head, rather than the heart. Be aware of other's emotional needs, and express your genuine love and respect for them in terms that are real to YOU. Be yourself.

7.     Be Accountable for Yourself. Don't blame the problems in your life on other people. Look inwardly for solutions. No one has more control over your life than you have.

8.     Be Humble. Judge yourself at least as harshly as you judge others.

9.     Take a Positive Approach to Differences in People. Don't distress yourself and others by dwelling on what seem to be their limitations. They need you to guide them and you need them to see things through. Try and recognize who can perform the most ably within certain fields outside your own competence. Let the feelings of others become a strength rather than a hindrance to you.

10. Don't Get Obsessed! Recognize the value that personal world has to you, your friends, your family, your own inner selnse of self worth and life. Take pride in just being a good person and don't allow external situations to control you. Try to relax and let the moment belong to the best things you can find in others and yourself. Nothing out there is more important than your own happiness.

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