Type Six: The Loyal Guardian
As a type Six, you value loyalty above all and take active steps to secure your relationships.
You work hard to earn the trust and support of your friends, and you expect them to uphold their end as well.
A natural skeptic, you often find yourself preparing for the worst by thinking steps ahead of everyone else.
Your desire to feel protected and prepared motivates much of what you do on a daily basis. You are organized in your actions and deliberate in your ways. You love belonging to a strong friend group, and you’re a natural team player. You celebrate others well and champion them to be their best. Since your core desire is to feel safe, you will often seek reassurance from your friends and family to solidify your place with them as secure. Your worst fear is to feel unsafe or unprepared, and you cope with this by preparing ahead of time for any and every possible outcome.
You buy in completely to whatever it is you’re doing, and this devotion is one of your greatest strengths.
Since you value loyalty so highly, you are the epitome of reliability. You honor and respect commitments since you see them as a way to care for and love your closest people. Both logic and emotion balance well in your mind, so another one of your gifts is making well-balanced decisions. You are also the first to include someone new or different into the group, and you welcome new and different perspectives with ease.
Your deepest struggle tends to be with self-confidence. You don’t trust your intuition or core beliefs enough to stick to them, so you instead seek out that stability from others. You struggle to make a decision without confirmation from someone outside of yourself. Your life is riddled by the dichotomy of fearing making large decisions hastily, but also fearing someone else making the decision for you. This split fear often paralyzes your decision-making skills, and as a result, only increases your stress and worries.
For personal growth, focus on discovering your inner strength to make decisions in your life. Remind yourself that you have the power to control your life, and instead of overwhelming you, focus on yielding that power to make bold decisions. Trust yourself. Start small, and you’ll be amazed by the progress you’ll soon make. In relationships, try first to believe the best about those closest to you and push down the inner voice of skepticism that can wedge itself into your relationships. Lastly, take practical steps to get out of your own head and share your thoughts with others. Your thought life is extremely powerful, and you want to leverage that power for personal growth and development, not paranoia.
