How to Change Your Life – Understanding Personality (Who Are You)?

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So you want to know how to change your life? The place to start is to recognize that any real change we make in our personality is made possible only through grace. However, grace is a real relationship with God and that means that God wants you to participate in the process. We need to do our part, and that means going through a conversion of heart away from our sins and distractions and toward God. You need to learn how to change your life, and a great place to start with that is to understand your personality.

What is Personality?

Use of the terms “personality” and “nature” were both solidified as the dual nature of Jesus and the nature of the Holy Trinity were clarified by theologians and ecumenical councils. Jesus’s Incarnation gave him two natures but he was still only one person. The Holy Trinity is three divine Persons that share one divine Nature. You and I are individual persons who share a human nature.

So what do these terms mean? Well, our nature is what we are. You and I are human beings. As humans we share certain characteristics and abilities. Human nature is an integration of body and spirit. We have the spiritual abilities of intellect (spiritual knowledge) and free will. We also have the physical abilities of the senses and the physical appetites and desires. These are all shared by every human being because they are part of who we are.

Personality describes who we are as individuals. It is made up of the attributes that make us unique.

If you want to learn how to change your life, you need to learn how to improve both your nature and your personality with virtue.

The Parts of Your Personality

There are two main parts of personality.

Your temperament is more or less your emotional make-up. It’s pretty much biological. That means that it’s very difficult to change. However, learning virtues such as temperance, patience, and fortitude can help you to manage your temperament so that it can be an integrated part of who you are without controlling you.

Your character is the part of your personality that you form through your own choices. Our character can also be formed through our environment, influence of the people around us, and by our temperament. In fact, if you don’t make deliberate choices about the formation of your character, these influences will form your character for you.

How to Change Your Life

Learn how to change your life by cooperating with God's plan for you and HIs grace.

Learn how to change your life by cooperating with God’s plan for you and HIs grace.

We need to have some awareness of how our personality is formed and developed if we want to do our part in shaping it for the better. If you really want to know how to change your life, it starts here.

1. Be aware of your temperament – your emotional response to the world around you.
2. Think of how you need to manage your temperament.
3. Consider what influences are acting on your character
4. Decide and pray about what kind of character God wants you to have.
5. Figure out what changes you need to make (conversion) and what virtues you need to develop in order to get there.

Bonus Tip: The easiest way to form your character is to follow a proven behavioral template.

So to make things easier on you, I created a set of behavioral templates that can help you grow in an important habit in five key areas of Catholic spirituality.

You’ll get an easy-to-follow diagram that leads you step-by-step through the formation of the habit.

Click this link and fill out the form to get the template on establishing virtue. This template will give you your next step in learning how to change your life.

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