Enneagram Type 8: Positive Affirmations for the Path of Growth

Overview of the Enneagram Type 8: The Challenger, Leader, Protector, Boss

If you are an Enneagram type 8, you are open, direct, driven, strong-willed and all powerful. The thrill of breaking barriers excites you. Taking pride in overcoming adversity, you love taking on challenges. You understand what it takes to reach great heights and you seek to develop strength, tenacity and resilience. Nothing deters you.

You are also charismatic. With strong persuasive abilities, you possess an innate ability to influence others to follow your lead in endeavours such as waging wars, starting a new company, managing a task force and so on. You have a commander’s aura.

“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.
If not, it can’t be helped.” — Fritz Perls
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Enneagram Type 7: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

Overview of the Enneagram Type 7: The Enthusiast, Optimist, Pleasure Seekers

If you are a Type 7, you are an extrovert. You are spontaneous, spirited, cheerful, playful, creative, versatile and optimistic. You are always on the lookout for exciting adventures.

You live in the world of imagination. Approaching life with child-like curiosity, you are in rapt attention of all the good things in life. You have no lack of ideas and enjoy having more than enough options.

“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.” — Mel BrooksContinue reading

Enneagram Type 6: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

Overview of the Enneagram Type 6: The Loyalist, The Guardian, Security-Seeker

If you are an Enneagram Type 6, you are faithful, friendly and conservative. You enjoy certainty and security. You are a protector, keeping yourself and your loved ones safe from harm.

As an excellent troubleshooter, you place attention on worst-case scenarios. You are on the lookout for danger signs. Your core belief is that the world is a dangerous place. Thus, you avoid taking risks. You strive to put systems in place that keep people safe.

“Better encounter a danger than live in continual fear.”- William H Browne

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Enneagram Type 5: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

Overview of the Enneagram Type 5: The Observer, Investigator, Thinker, Sage

If you are an Enneagram Type 5, you are intellectual, informed and logical. You are an observer of life, and prefer to stay on the sidelines. You like others to see you as someone wise, perceptive and knowledgeable.

You prefer to conserve your energy instead of participating or engaging actively in life. Staying on the sidelines is your way of maintaining calm and composure in a seemingly chaotic world. To make sense of the chaos, you seek refuge in knowledge. Subject mastery appeals to you. As an Enneagram Type 5, you are part of the thinking triad (Types 5, 6 and 7).

“I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.” Charles Darwin

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Enneagram Type 4: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

Overview of Enneagram Type 4: Individualist, Romantic, Artist

As an Enneagram Type 4, you are authentic, creative, expressive and self-aware. You have the need to express yourself uniquely. Typically, you enjoy expressing your feelings through some creative works such as music, painting, and acting. What you desire are experiences that are rich and meaningful.

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” e. e. cummings

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Enneagram Type 3: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

Overview of Enneagram Type 3: The Performer, Achiever, Motivator

If you are an Enneagram Type 3, you enjoy projecting the image of success. You place focus on goals, efficiency and checking off your to-do lists. Ambitious, you are driven by your desire for personal accomplishments. As a high functioning Type 3, you are confident, with the ability to harness your strengths and to motivate others to greater heights.

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Enneagram Type 2: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

Overview of Enneagram Type 2: The Helper, Partner, Nurturer

If you are an Enneagram Type 2, you are extremely helpful, considerate, compassionate, empathetic, generous and loving. You are like Mother Theresa. You feel guided by the mission to save the world.

For you, going out of the way to help others makes life meaningful. Your life feels enriched when you have friends, family, connection, sharing and support. You inspire the world to be of service to one another.

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Theresa

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Enneagram Type 1: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali

I am on a Round-The-Enneagram tour, covering all 9 Enneagram Types in turn. Over the course of 9 weeks, I will be laying out positive affirmations aimed at serving the path of growth for each Enneagram Type. Please start off with a basic introduction to The Enneagram, as a guide for transformation, before reading on.

Overview of Enneagram Type 1: The Reformer, Perfectionist, Achiever

If you are a Type 1, you strongly emphasise key moral values such as responsibility, integrity, order, discipline and control. You place attention on what is right and what is wrong and will fight for justice. You have idealistic dreams, with the goal of improving the world.
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Join the Awaken Your Wealth Summit

Make peace with money and unlock your abundance potential!

When my friend, Paula Johnson, invited me to be part of the Awaken Your Wealth Online Summit, I said yes immediately. In a heartbeat, I resonated with its mission of empowering others – such as yourself – to make peace with money and unlocking our abundance potential. I like the idea of participating in a team effort to creating change and making a difference. Together with a bunch of inspirational and motivational speakers, we would like to share with you about how we had released energetic blocks in an improved relationship with wealth.

Each of the speaker comes with vast experiences, some of whom are now featured speakers on media channels such as CNN, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, CNBC, etc. Because we had been there previously, we would like to share what had worked for us. In my own personal journey, I had gone through a series of failures before I found a way to break old patterns that once held me back.
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Enneagram Quiz: How Would You Cross the River?

You can take an Enneagram quiz to help you determine your personality type.

The Enneagram quiz that I’d like to share: How would you cross the river?

There are many online tests but this is a favourite Enneagram quiz of mine. Also, as an update, I’ve benefited so much from the learnings over the years that I have since become an Enneagram Executive Coach accredited with the International Enneagram Association. I now use the Enneagram to help guide others in their personal growth.

If you don’t already know, the Enneagram is an excellent profiling tool. It describes your personality attributes. You can be one of 9 personality types. According to the Enneagram quiz,  your personality type influences how you would cross the river.

“The study of the Enneagram is the study of Everything that keeps us from Essence.” – Russ Hudson

(Photo taken while I was at the Trick Art Museum in Seoul, Korea)

Take the Enneagram Quiz: How Would You Cross the River?
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