Personality?

Here's another true confession: I'm a little weird. I like to take tests. I especially like to take "what kind of popsicle/Austen character/superhero/color are you?" tests. To me, anytime I get to choose a button and have immediate scoring results, I am happy. I enjoy taking things like the GRE and the GMAT. I am an excellent test taker. You didn't really need to know that although it does explain a little about why I decided to take the Servants by Design personality test thingamabob. To find out more, click Your Unique Design. It has been recommended to me by more than one person and it was again by life coach Shane (apparently he's going to turn up in this blog as often as the Daily Show does in any political conversation I take part in).

So with my found time (waiting for Mr. Electric), I decided to take this test. And really, if I told you the choices were Achiever, Persister, Dreamer, Energizer, Catalyzer, and Harmonizer (and you know me just a little bit at all), you'd probably put my results in that order. And that's my order with Achiever and Persister at 100%.
Motivators:
While in the process of developing your Dreamer part, you are motivated to seek solitude and peace. You need to spend considerable time undisturbed by people, noises or outside interruptions.

Planning, organizing and completing meaningful tasks or projects will remain a priority for you. Recognition for a job well done by someone you respect and admire can be an excellent motivator, although you have the ability to work for long periods of time motivated by only your need to be responsible and do your best.

Abilities: communicating, planning, and overseeing.

Here are the pitfalls:
Occasionally you will feel powerless to change things, believing instead that you just have to be strong and endure whatever problems come your way.
When overloaded, you likely will begin to avoid phone calls and miss meetings.
Under pressure, you will tend to find yourself wanting to withdraw from contact with others.

Pitfall seems to indicate a dangerous or bad thing. So...I'm not sure the things listed above fit. Aren't they just things, neither good nor bad really? I would say they are 100% true. Many days at work, I just want to sit under my desk. Quietly. Overload, yes, but what do I do about that?

Now maybe I need someone to tell me what to do with the info, short of wrapping it up and handing it to my family to say that it is, indeed, OK for me to spend time alone. In fact, it's needed. And then also to my boss and co-workers who value my "answers and clear thinking" to explain why I am sitting under my desk and rocking, avoiding phone calls, and missing meetings. It's the Dreamer part of me under overload. Just one crisis too many at the moment...catch me later.

That might actually be a big help.