Why You Should Know Your Love Languages

Everyone speaks different languages to communicate love. Unfortunately, we don't always take the time to understand what language we are speaking.

The key is to be fluent in the language of the people you care about.

In The 5 Love Languages (which has sold over 8 million copies) Gary Chapman suggests that there are five ways to express love: acts of service, physical touch, quality time, receiving gifts and words of affirmation.

Each of us has a different favorite language and combination of which are most important to us.

As Gary says, "If your friend or spouses's language is quality time, you can wash her car and take out the trash every week, but she will not feel loved until you sit across from her, linger over a cup of coffee, and look into her eyes."

The chances are good that your friend or spouse’s primary language is not your language. It is important not only to speak their love language, but also to listen in that language. Translate for yourself so that you can receive their expressions of love to you.

Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to becoming bilingual to communicate love more effectively in your life. Visit this link to 5lovelanguages.com and take the test at the top to understand what means the most to you.

It has helped me tremendously in my relationships and I actually recommend all of my clients and colleagues take it as well so that we understand each other that much better.

And it's one more awesome tool to have in your entrepreneurial toolkit too!  

This is #20 in my new series 100 Awesome Things for Entrepreneurs where I remember little awesome reasons why I love being an entrepreneur.

#22 Working with People You Love

It's fun having a meeting coming up and thinking, "Oh wow, I get to talk to this person!" and you're getting paid to do it. What! As an entrepreneur you get to work with who you want to work with, so if you're smart you work with people you love. It makes the days fly by and it's also a recipe for some pretty sweet testimonials too.

Maybe they are fun or funny, energetic or crazy, full of great ideas or the kind of person who really treats you well. Or maybe they are all of those things. Whatever they are, they are your clients, your colleagues and the people who make you love being an entrepreneur.

This is #22 in my new, fun, tubular series 100 Awesome Things for Entrepreneurs where I remember little awesome reasons why I love being an entrepreneur.

#2 Completely Open Days

That feeling you get when you look at your schedule for tomorrow and it's completely open. Wait, that can't be right.

Oh, yes it can.

Sometimes it's by design, other times it feels like it's just lucky. Either way it's open and you can do whatever you want.

Being an entrepreneur means you can have completely open days, with no scheduled events, calls, meetings or obligations, and that can be totally okay.

It's one of the things I love about being an entrepreneur.

This is #2 in my new, fun, random series 100 Awesome Things for Entrepreneurs where I remember little awesome reasons why I love being an entrepreneur.

Why You Should Know Your Personality Type

I'm a big fan of the Myers Briggs test and its ability to help me understand myself and others better. I've taken it several times in the past 15 years and always it really enjoyable and interesting. I've also changed my personality type which has been fascinating. I was an ISTJ in high school and college, an INTJ in Peace Corps and I'm an INFJ now.

By better understanding my personality, I've not only made sense of what I am going through at different times in my life, I've also been able to attract things into my career and personal life that are a better fit for what I want.

I've taken a lot of tests, but here is my favorite one.

Also once you take it (bonus points!) you'll be able to see which character you are in Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Comics and more, which is always fun. You might be surprised who you are!

This is #16 in my new series 100 Awesome Things for Entrepreneurs where I remember little awesome reasons why I love being an entrepreneur.