Improve Yourself

I just took a really decent test on self improvement, that, via questions, analyzes your personality and problem areas, I guess you’d call them, and explains a lot about yourself. A lot of it was really cool, in fact the anylizatin was pretty dead on – I am extroverted, but I don’t like people. I’m a hard worker, but also an advid member of the Procrastination Society of America, and then there’s the depression.

The test is supposed to help you determine how you can get into what they call the “Top 2% of Americans”, who apparently have loads of money and set social and pop culture trends, on top of this they’re wildly successful and motivated. Now, while this all sounds like a great way to be, it also sounds like a sad way to be, and the benefits of which – having better healthcare access, not stressing over money and paychecks, the ability to take vacations, a nice house, ect. – don’t outweigh the letdowns for me. Such cons are having better healthcare access, but not having the time to go, or having to go all the time due to work related stress. Or having the money for great vacations they can never go on because they’re too busy, and a big house they can’t enjoy because they practically spend their lives in an office. It makes me wonder if it’s worth it?

I don’t know, I’d like to enjoy my life since I haven’t been able to up til this point, but I also like a decent structure to my world that I’m just not getting now from anywhere but my own self-imposed daily rituals.

Like all self improvement tests, this one features itself in the position to tell you what to do with yourself – and for the most part, I agree, they’re dead right. I’ve got work to do on myself, even though I refuse to become a people person ( and I’m fully willing to sacrifice being in that ‘top 2%’ to be able to stay away from people, lol ), but I don’t agree that you just have to have a good attitude and formerly suicidal depression will fly out the window like a puff of smoke – that’s rediculous. I suppose I could pretend to be happy, then at least everyone around me could go about their day – oh, wait, I do that now! It doesn’t help, lol.

The site, though, is nice – it has the air of a cult, actually, lol. It’s very soothing, nice colors, the questions are well written and easy to understand, and the results are well thought out and very accurate. Their answers, however, are very much the “Preppy Guide to Better Living”, which, unfortunately, means they’re the best advice anyone could give you – but you have to be hopeless and rock bottom to take it. Which is why I plan to take that advice, I just hope it works.

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