The adventurer personalities

Adventurers are spontaneous, practical, and think and react quickly.

ISTP: The engineer

You are introverted, sensing, thinking, and perceiving. You are also optimistic, creative, practical, spontaneous and good with priorities.

You need significant time alone where you can step back and analyse your world. You value your independence and will struggle if you have to spend large amounts of time working closely with others. You need space to work logically and pursue the things that interest you. Only in this environment will you find the inner peace that you long for.

How change impacts you

Well-thought-out change and new opportunities tend to be very appealing to you. You do not mind switching things up or pursuing a new challenge. But you dislike change that seems emotionally-directed or overly optimistic.

You want to know what the systematic changes will be, what the logic is, what new options will open up, and whether or not the direction seems feasible. You also want plenty of time to reflect on a change and assimilate information before jumping on board.

Overcoming the stresses of life

You react to stress by withdrawing and becoming overly sensitive. You may start to rely on others to make decisions.

Remind yourself that you are capable and focus on near-term tasks to boost your confidence.

How you can achieve your goals

You can resist change, digging in even when a change is needed. You lose focus and get bored easily. You tend to resist planning for the long-term.

The best way for you to adapt your goals is to impose some of those engineering-type skills on the process.

• If something isn’t working, think about how to best take it apart and put it back together, using new information that is available to you.
• Write down your goal and read it frequently. Include the big-picture and long-term reason for the goal.
• You do not want your goal to feel burdensome. So, make time to tinker on other projects outside of your goal.
• Do not feel compelled to stick to the month/week/day approach, which probably does not work well for you. Instead, choose one activity each day to move you forward.

ISFP: The artist

You are introverted, sensing, feeling, and perceiving. You are also charming, imaginative, passionate, curious, and artistic.

Tuned in to aesthetic detail, you are highly creative. Although not naturally outgoing, you have a friendly and warm personality and values a small, close-knit group of friends.

You struggle in situations where you are expected to work logically or take charge. You can find fulfilment when you unleash your creative potential. You are finely tuned to your environment and have a keen eye for aesthetic detail. Time spent working artistically or designing things is likely to be both enjoyable and successful.

How change impacts you

You can feel hesitant when new changes come your way. While you are typically adventurous and flexible, you are also deeply attached to your loved ones and the lives you create for yourself.

You need time to reflect on change, to analyse the implications and discern how it will affect your relationships. You want to feel that there is a meaningful reason to pursue a change.

You need to feel supported and be given reasonable facts and specifics about why the change needs to happen in the first place.

Overcoming the stresses of life

You avoid conflict and lose patience quickly or become bossy.

Direct your attention toward a passion project or creative activity to reconnect with your artistic or adventurous side.

How you can achieve your goals

You live in the moment. So, it is easy for you to lose sight of future-oriented goals. Daily actions and weekly tasks feel oppressive, curtailing your freedom to be spontaneous. You do not like it when anyone points out you are not meeting your goals.

To make goal-setting work for you:

• Build your goals around experiences.
• Do not plan for each day but instead decide spontaneously for each day what you want to work on.
• Do not tie your goals to a deadline because you do not handle deadlines well. Set a trajectory instead — you know when you are moving toward and as long as you get closer each day, you are on track.

ESTP: The doer

You are extroverted, sensing, thinking, and perceiving. You are also bold, rational, perceptive, direct, and social.

You are motivated by activity rather than planning or management. You live in the moment and enjoys trying out short-term experiences. You need to allow yourself the space to be spontaneous and mix socially.

You can be hampered by repetitive tasks or long-term work. You engage successfully with your environments and are quick-thinking problem-solvers.

You need to receive positive affirmation from those you interact with.

How change impacts you

You are thrilled by change and variety. You get a rush of excitement from a new adventure or challenge. You tend to get bored if your environments become predictable or mundane.

Rather than repetition and consistency, you enjoy novel experiences and a mixture of tactical and strategic risk-taking. However, you do not like having your decisions made for you. You are more likely to create change or instigate it rather than just follow along on someone else’s plan.

If you are going to pursue a life-altering change then you will want strong, logical reasons to do so.

Overcoming the stresses of life

You feel more pressure, your chattiness escalates, and you begin to multi-task. You may start to doubt yourself.

Weed out the non-essential things on your to-do list and focus on meaningful tasks.

How you can achieve your goals

Despite being so rational, you do not like rules. So, you tend to jump into a project without any planning. Without a challenge or a risk, you get bored easily.

Put these aspects of your personality to good use in goal-setting by:

• Doing minimal planning to meet your goals. You do not need to plan every detail but no planning at all leads to a lot of wasted effort.
• Turning your goals into a game where you make the rules.
• Adding an element of risk. It does not need to be something big, but it should provide you with both risk and accountability.

ESFP: The performer

You are extremely extroverted and approach the world through your senses, feelings, and perceptions. You are also spontaneous, energetic, authentic, generous, and encouraging.

You are a people-person and to feel truly fulfilled, you need to be having a lot of contact with people. Your focus should be on surrounding yourself with people and avoiding getting bogged down on highly complex tasks.

You like to be in the spotlight. but still needs positive feedback from people.

You are excellent problem-solvers but can get frustrated by red-tape. You like to see tangible results for your work.

How change impacts you

You have a knack for adapting to change and seeing the opportunities involved in it. You enjoy variety and novelty and tend to get bored if life feels too repetitive or predictable. You do not like having changed forced on you and will want to have the freedom to make up your mind about it and figure out whether it aligns with your values.

You will want to know what options this change will provide, what exciting opportunities will open up, and how it will impact your relationships.

Overcoming the stresses of life

You tend to feel scattered and have irrational fears leading to pessimism.

Relieve your stress in healthy ways like exercising or escaping into a good book or entertaining show. A quick walk can even be enough to relax your muscles and mind.

How you can achieve your goals

Your spontaneity can trip you up. You do not like to track your progress. You lose focus easily and do not plan your goals. You move from one shiny object to another.

When it comes to goal-setting, you need to put the brakes on your spontaneity just a little bit.

• Tracking your goals will never be something you enjoy but at least set up a system for minimal tracking.
• Set aside time to try new things.
• When you are working on your goals, you will find it easier to focus on you.
• Forget the detailed planning (you will anyway) and set up a system for doing the minimum to keep you moving forward. Follow a trajectory and not a deadline.
• Always keep a list of new things you would like to try. When you come across something that sounds like fun, add it to your list to do later instead of attempting it at that moment.