This morning as I was researching on the latest articles on Personality Plus for my upcoming training session, I came across a moving statement that makes me feel so sad. I attended the Personality Plus® certification way back in the fall of 2000 at Sandy Cove, Maryland. My family came along with me to enjoy the fall foliage scenery and we stayed up till Halloween that year.
On the second day of my training when we had breakfast in the morning, we met Florence Littauer and she came to our table. Getting excited as she always did, she pointed us to Fred Littauer, her husband, a perfect Melancholy who was enjoying his breakfast at a table some distance from where we were seated. Marita shouted at Fred, “Fred, come and meet our friends from Malaysia!” I remembered the scene very clearly. Fred looked surprised, stopped eating, lifted his head to look at us and then continued with his breakfast. I understood very well that a perfect Melancholy will always finish what he has started, unlike Sanguines who may just stop and run over to meet new friends.
It’s been a few years since I last keep track of what’s happening with them. Today as I browsed through the web, I learned that Fred died in 2002, that is two years after we met him. May God rest his soul. Florence is still up and running. Back then when I looked at Florence delivering her presentation at the age of 70, I was motivated and told myself that I would work till I am 70 years old. She was so dynamic, so bubbly and has such a high level of energy. Most of all she is so humorous that you can laugh and fall from your chair listening to her stories.
Now that I am back in action, I would like to get back into sharing Personality Plus® with others through my training sessions. I would like to reach out to more people. The reason I took the Certification was to reach out to people who can afford to learn this concepts. Even though I am also certified in DiSC and other tools, they are expensive for me to administer to the layman out there. Personality Plus® is affordable to the larger audience outside the corporate setting.
I once gave a session to a group of women from the suburbs, mainly housewives. At the end of the session, a few walked up to me, with tears in their eyes to thank me. One of them said, “Thank you for sharing this. I now understand my husband better because he is a phlegmatic. “It gave me a sense of fulfillment and now I am ready to reach out to more people to make a difference in their lives.
