Personality at work

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Nico Liebenberg (MA Psychology), CEO and owner of Dust consulting in conjunction with BBD, one of the largest privately owned IT companies in South Africa, developed a Personality app for the iPhone.

The personality app, ‘Personality at work‘ measures three major dimensions of a person’s personality, i.e.

  1. Life Orientation
  2. Thinking Process, and
  3. Preferred Lifestyle

The app works on scales of opposites and gives an indication of the following sub-elements of a person’s personality:

1. Life orientation

  • Introvert vs Extrovert
  • Things Focused vs People Focused
  • Deliberate vs Expressive
  • Team Player vs Independent

2. Thinking Process

  • Whole vs Parts
  • Theoretical vs Practical
  • Abstract vs Concrete
  • Spiritual vs Natural

3. Preferred Lifestyle

  • Open-ended vs Decisive
  • Punctual vs Non-punctual
  • Relaxed vs Driven
  • Structured vs Flexible

Download the app from the iPhone App Store by clicking the link below

Download from the App Store now

If you need any support with the app from BBD, please send an e-mail to MobileSupp@bbd.co.za

For a very interesting video clip on BBD’s history click their logo (below)

I am the Word

“Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you,” Jesus said to his disciples, “do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work.”

‘Phillip, you still do not believe that I and our Father are one? I am in Him, always, enveloped in Him. He is in Me, everywhere, deep in Me. We are inseparable, one and the same. Our oneness disallows us to be two, separate, distinct realities. When you see the One, you see the Other and when you see the Other you see the One.

Phillip, the words I am speaking, and every time I have spoken are not My words alone, it is also our Father’s words. Remember, I deeply understand that on my own I can do absolutely nothing! I am but an empty shell if you take the Father out of me. With Him, I am everything, but without Him, I am nothing! It even feels strange to think that our Father can be taken out of Me. I am in Him and He is in Me and there is no way we can change that.

I have spoken so many words. I have transferred so much truth to you. I have spent time to impart to you all the truth our Father has birthed in Me. The commandments I have given you are my Father’s request. It is my Father who told you that the law and prophets can be summed up in one act of greatness – LOVE!

Love Him, love yourself and love all other people. He imprinted it on My heart to remind you there is no greater life than one of love.

My commandments are His, not my own. His words are Mine. Actually in essence, I am not speaking words – I am the Word. I am God’s very own Word. Every Word that comes from Him is Me. I am the Word that came and live amongst you, My own. I, the eternal Word, the Word of God was from the very beginning.

I am God.’

We are One

“Jesus answered, “For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”

‘Phillip I have been with you for so long and still you don’t know Me, really know Me for who I am. You still know Me for someone I am not. You still know Me partially. You have actually after all this time, being with Me, never realised who I am. You have seen me doing so many wonderful things and still haven’t made the connection that I and the Father are one. If you look at Me you are looking at the Father.

When you see Me you see the Father. When you know Me you know the Father. When you come to the Father you come to Me. When you ask the Father something you are asking Me something. It is not possible to look at Me and not also see our Father. It is not possible to seek our Father and not also find Me. Phillip why do you say I must show you the Father if He has been with you all this time I have been with you?’

Where’s the Father?

“Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father; that is all we need.”"

‘Lord, I have actually no clue what you have just said in terms of you and the Father being one. Won’t you just for once and for all show us the Father. Since you say that you know the Father intimately, show Him to us, please. All we need is to see that You can show the Father to us. This will so deeply establish the reality that you are the Christ. The One who can show us the Father is the one who is the Christ. So, when you can show us the Father we can rest in the truth that you are truly the Christ, the Messiah that came from God to save us.’

 

In the Father, we are One

Now that you have known me,” he said to them, “you will know my Father also, and from now on you do know him and you have seen him.”

‘My beloved friends, the Father is visible. He is not hidden, not at all. He is here, right now. Actually He is standing in front of you. I have come to reveal Him to you. Know Me and you know the Father. Know the Father and you know Me. Look at Me and you will see the Father. I and the Father are one. There is actually no clear distinction between Me and My Father. We are one. We are not just inseparable as if we are two merged into one – we are one. One like one. You know Me. You have walked with me for more than three years, for sure you know me better than anyone on earth. Knowing me is knowing our Father.

This is part of looking deeper. Looking at Me will make you realise that you have (also) seen our Father. When you see Me keep in mind that you are also looking at Him. Look with the eyes of your face and look with the eyes of your heart. Look at the same time with both set of eyes and you will see the truth.

Your minds draw distinctions that are not as clear and exact as you think they are. See Me as separate from the Father and you are deceived. You will certainly be deceived if you don’t apply the eyes of your spirit as you also look with your physical eyes. Never trust the judgement made only on what your five physical senses observe. True judgement in what you observe lies in seeing with the eyes of your face and in the (exact) same time seeing with the eyes of your heart. Let the eyes of your spirit look from behind the eyes of your face. Only then will you start to see truth for what it is. Only then will you see things in the way they are, the way I see them.

Don’t stare yourself blind. The surface is truth and that beneath the surface is also truth. The two combined will reveal the Truth. The natural observable reality is truth as well as the underlying, hidden spiritual reality. The one always has the other implicitly interwoven into its fabric. When you see someone there is also someone in them that is not so immediately observable. When you look at someone’s body don’t forget there is a spirit also.

Spirit is seen through the eyes of the spirit.’

I am your Way, Truth and Life

“Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.”"

‘Thomas, I want you to use your mind but also your spirit. I want you to think with the mind of your soul as well as the mind of your spirit. I want you to move beyond what you only see with your physical eyes. I also want you to see with your spirit. Stay with me here. When I talk about a Way to our Father, I am talking about Something more spiritual, but maybe even more real than what you can see, hear, taste touch or smell. What I am referring to is not figurative, but real. Or must I say, Whom I am talking about is not figurative, but real? Thomas, know Me as your Way. I am your Way to the Father.

Soon I will die, descend into darkness and be resurrected from the dead. Through My death I will become your Way to our Father. Whenever you wonder, ‘where is the way’ let your spirit reveal to you that I am your Way. That kind of realisation doesn’t come from your soul, it comes from your spirit. This revelation requires more than an intellectual understanding of who I am. It is much different from just intellectual knowing. It is a deep and profound revelation in your spirit of who I really am. Many people will only understand Me on a soulish level as a historical Figure that can be studied intellectually. Please don’t ever just see Me as someone you must study like you would study plants, animals or the stars.

You have a natural mind to understand many things. Let Me reveal a secret to you. The natural mind of your soul is not sufficient when it comes to knowing Me. Use also the mind of your spirit. Keep on returning to your spirits. In future it is also in your spirits where you get in touch with Me. I have become your Way in all ways possible. When you walk on Me you will never, ever get lost. For anyone to get to our Father they can simply get onto Me and walk. This Way will take them to our Father. This Way to our Father is the only true Way. You cannot miss our Father if you keep going this Way. The Way I am talking about is Me.

You may think I am talking figuratively, but I am not. There is such a deep reality knowing Me this way. Know Me beyond your natural way of knowing. When you truly start to know me in your spirit you will know I am not just talking in figures of speech. I am really your Way. And it is true that you will never get lost when you walk on Me. Embrace Me as your only Way, the One you will choose everyday. When I, your Way, become your lifestyle there is no higher Way in life.

I am not only the Way, I am also the Truth and the Life. Thomas, Truth is not just the opposite of lie. Truth is not just being honest. Truth has got much less to do with what you are or what you do. Truth is Me. I am the Truth and it is not just an intellectual, debatable concept. I am not a concept Thomas, I am a reality, a Person, a Life. I am a Someone, not an it. Look, here I am standing in front of you. I am real. I am living, breathing, walking, talking. Philosophy? No, I am not a philosophy. I am the all-inclusive Truth within everything that is. I am the embodiment of Truth. I am the Truth in everything and everyone. Whenever you hear someone speaking the truth, he is speaking Me. The truth is not a concept of man’s soul. The Truth is Me. I am it!!

The same goes for life Thomas. I am the Life, actually there is no Life outside of Me. It is impossible to have Life if you don’t have Me. How can you think if you have no mind? How can you live if you have no Life? Living without Me is impossible. Living without Me is not life. Simple, you cannot live if you don’t have Life.

I am also that – Life!

Where is the Father?

“Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?”"

‘Jesus, You think we know where You are going to and You think we know the way there, but we actually don’t. You talk about going to our Father, but where is that? You want us to make interpretations that go beyond what we see with our physical eyes. You want us to look deeper, but You need to show us how to look deeper. We haven’t been taught the depths of looking deeper. You want us to look deeper and that makes me aware that I am only looking at what I see on the ‘surface’.

Jesus, I only know God as God, the higher Being, the One to be feared and revered and you are talking to me of a God that is family, a Father and not just a God. You know Jesus, I haven’t actually thought of God as a  Father. That doesn’t fit what I have been taught. Growing up in a religion and not in a relationship I have never thought of God as a Father, but only as a supreme, high, holy and untouchable God. So, no, I don’t know to whom You are going and how on earth am I going to get there?

Is there a road that leads to God, our Father? If there is, where is it?’

You know the Way!

You know the Way that leads to the place where I am going.”

As I said, ‘don’t worry how you are going to get to our Father’. You already know the Way to Him. You never have to think that you don’t know where to go. You will always know where to go or what to do, because you know the Way. Actually you know the Way better than most people who haven’t been with Me. You also know Him, our Father, the One I am going to. You don’t only know Him, you also know the Way to Him. Look deeper. Look beyond the mere observations of what your physical eyes see. See with your physical eyes, but look also with the eyes of your spirit. When you look at Me, see beyond Me. The Father and I are one, so when you look at Me see Him too.

This way of looking is also true for seeing the Way to our Father. See Me as your Friend, as your Teacher, as your Christ, but see Me also as the only Way to our Father. I would love for you to see the spiritual truths hidden in physical realities. People get caught up in the one or the other. Some are very spiritual and misinterpret physical realities. Others are very natural and oversee spiritual realities. I want you, My friends, to see both the physical realities and the underlying spiritual realities. I want you to see Me and at the same time see our Father.

I want you to know your Way. Know Me.’