DISC Personality Profiling For Weight Loss?

Due to my job, I have some knowledge of DISC profiling. And this profiling tool can help you to understand your own personality and how you are likely to behave. Each personality will have their strengths and weakness, you can manage them by understanding how it might affect you in different scenarios.

And therefore, I was wondering, since I am aware of my personality (I'm an I/D - my primary personality is "I" and secondary is "D".), I should make use of my knowledge and use it to my advantage to help myself to lose weight!

And here's a little background on DISC profiling:-

DISC assessment is a behaviour assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Marston. Marston's theory centers on four different personality traits: Dominance, Inducement, Submission, and Compliance. This theory was then developed into a personality assessment tool (personality profile test) by industrial psychologist Walter Vernon Clarke (July 26, 1905 - Jan. 1, 1978).

 

• Drive: People who score high in the intensity of the "D" styles factor are very active in dealing with problems and challenges, while low "D" scores are people who want to do more research before committing to a decision. High "D" people are described as demanding, forceful, egocentric, strong willed, driving, determined, ambitious, aggressive, and pioneering. Low D scores describe those who are conservative, low keyed, cooperative, calculating, undemanding, cautious, mild, agreeable, modest and peaceful.

• Influence: People with high "I" scores influence others through talking and activity and tend to be emotional. They are described as convincing, magnetic, political, enthusiastic, persuasive, warm, demonstrative, trusting, and optimistic. Those with low "I" scores influence more by data and facts, and not with feelings. They are described as reflective, factual, calculating, skeptical, logical, suspicious, matter of fact, pessimistic, and critical.

• Steadiness: People with high "S" styles scores want a steady pace, security, and do not like sudden change. High "S" individuals are calm, relaxed, patient, possessive, predictable, deliberate, stable, consistent, and tend to be unemotional and poker faced. Low "S" intensity scores are those who like change and variety. People with low "S" scores are described as restless, demonstrative, impatient, eager, or even impulsive.

• Compliance: People with high "C" styles adhere to rules, regulations, and structure. They like to do quality work and do it right the first time. High "C" people are careful, cautious, exacting, neat, systematic, diplomatic, accurate, and tactful. Those with low "C" scores challenge the rules and want independence and are described as self-willed, stubborn, opinionated, unsystematic, arbitrary, and unconcerned with details ~ (Source: Wikipedia)

(Source: ultimate youth worker)

P/S: You may wish to do this Free DISC Profiling Test to find out more about your personality.

So, I'm going to use my personality strengths to help me to achieve my weight loss goal.  Being an "influence" personality, I strongly agree the point of "favourable impressions".

By spreading words among my friends about my weight loss blog, I am holding myself responsible for the "promise" and being accountable to my weight loss goal to myself and readers (if there's any).

I'm an optimistic person, but I lacked follow-through (which caused a lot failures in a lot of my short term goals).

Though I do not intend to make this blog into a money making machine, but I do get a little excited when I find out that I have a slight increase of page views every time I posted new post/s.

Maybe you can come up with some innovative self-management strategies to motivate yourself towards your weight loss goal too.