Summary: A new series on personality styles, and in this episode learn about The Lion and what it takes if you are one, married to one, or have one as a kid. If you need to take the personality test to find out who you really are, click here. Relational Strengths: Takes charge. Problem solver. Competitive. Enjoys change. Confrontational. Strengths Out of Balance: Too direct or impatient. Too busy. Cold blooded. Impulsive or takes big risks. Insensitive to others. Communication Style: Direct or blunt. One-way. Weakness: Not as good a listener. Relational Needs: Personal attention & recognition for what they do. Areas where he or she can be in charge. Opportunity to solve problems. Freedom to change. Challenging activities. Relational Balance: Add softness. Become a great listener. And by the way, if you haven’t left a review yet in iTunes, don’t be shy, it’s easy to do and it really lets me know you’re listening (and other’s too). FEATURED RESOURCE BUY NOW ARTIST HIGHLIGHT FOURTEEN40 – Lucky Number 13 – Click here to view on iTunes (transcript of the show) Announcer: Coming to you from the heart of Texas where he met his one and only true love. Proving that this guy really does know how to love well because there’s no way he won her over with his looks. Therefore, he must be the relationship genius of our generation. Get ready for the best advice you will ever hear on how to keep your relationship thriving. Welcome to the Smalley podcast with your host Michael Smalley. Michael: Do you have any idea what the most popular page is on smalleycenter.com? Do you have any idea at all? You probably shouldn’t because if you did have some kind of idea, that might mean you have hacked into my back end system and you are stealing things from me and shame on you for doing it. But for those of you listening who are not corrupt evil hackers, the most by far – we’re talking the most popular page on my site, is the page that has the personality inventory or test that you can download and take by far. Everybody wants to come to our website in order to better understand themselves, better understand their spouse or their children and so they go to the personality page. They download the PDF and they take the test. So I think it is high time that I give you a series of shows focusing just on your personality style. Now, if you haven't been to the site, just go to smalleycenter.com. Go. You’ll see it right on the homepage. There’s a direct link to the personality test. You can download the thing for free and then you can just fill it out. It’s very easy. It takes maybe 5 or 10 minutes to take. But what I wanna do is I wanna focus on some of the key ingredients to personality styles, how you interact with each other, what that means, why you even wanna know what personality style your spouse has. I wanna do all of this in a series of shows just on personality styles and how they affect your marriage, dating, parenting and you can even take our personality test, the world famous lion, otter, golden retriever and beaver. You can take that for free and be able to follow along as I unpack each of the major characteristic traits like the lion, the otter, the golden retriever or the beaver. I’m gonna dedicate this show to each one of those but then I’m also gonna give some follow up stuff on marriage and even on parenting. That is what’s coming on. So again, go to smalleycenter.com. If you have not taken the personality test it’s based off a disc. The DISC test. We just give it a better more creative twist in terms of the different descriptors or the words we use. So we obviously went with animals. My father, Dr. Gary Smalley and his old longtime partner John Trent wrote the book Two Sides of Love and that’s where these animal names came from. I’m telling you it’s as fun. It makes it easier to understand coz who in the world knows what phlegmatic is or melancholy.
