Designed for Life

Check Out The Guests At The House Party

He rains on your parade when you are sharing a special insight, with "not only that, but ..... ";
She dresses for ordinary occasions like the queen will be there;
He wears white socks with a black suit;
He regales the guests with funny stories, one after another;
With her, conversations are always one-on-one;
He kind of holds court, mainly about his latest show;
The two of them will argue politics, knowingly, most of the night;
He checks your knowledge out in 10 minutes;
You always know what part of the house she is in;
You find yourself sharing personal problems with a stranger;
He always looks so together;
That dress had to be designed for her;
That's the fifth time he asked me if I needed anything;
The food was more exotic than well prepared;
Yes, he's a name-dropper, but so interesting;
She wants to know everything about your family;
People seemed to cluster around him when he went on about God.
He played bridge like winning was critical to a meaningful life.

Look at all the clues in how they live at home

There is no, I repeat, no crabgrass in the lawn;
I've never seen a three-story tree house before;
It's been 5 years and the addition still isn't finished;
The garage is filled with stuff he bought; the three cars are outside;
On every wall are pictures of her with famous people;
His study has a bolted lock on his side of the door;
It looks like no one ever sits in the living room;
Home is a hang-out for their son and his friends;
Dad built a baseball diamond and a scoreboard next to the house for his daughter and her team;
They heat an 8-room colonial with solar energy;
They keep goats in their fenced suburban back-yard;
Neighbors drop in at all hours to spend time with Harriet;
Every room has a fire extinguisher;
She has one entire room filled with Victorian clothes;
He's been trying to grow Crenshaw melons for years;
They have a sketch by Picasso in their entrance hall;
She loves to find slightly dilapidated homes, buy them, restore them, and sell them;
Their home was where you took lost dogs or cats;
She changed the layout of her living room every season;

See how others express who they are at work ( notice the emergence of job fit problems lurking around achievements)

His picture was in the company paper every other issue;
He knew how to get a consensus when the time was right;
During the flood he worked in the lab 48 hours straight;
His people knew how he would decide even in his absence;
She was the wrong person to pick a fight with;
Somehow she got the customer to leave our competitor;
Once he had it up and running, he lost interest;
He did everything right up to decision time and its risks;
Great ideas, but which one would really work;
She did well with what was assigned, but got low marks for lack of initiative;
His development work was outstanding but he never seemed to complete anything;
He ran the most productive sales office in the west, but lost ground trying to develop a new product from scratch;
Very hands-on effectively training new recruits, yet criticized five years later by the same employees;
Brilliant career in long-term project management roles; as a reward he was promoted to a demanding operations job;
Magnificent in a one-person office, she became a handicap when transferred to a pool;
A gifted strategic planner, he was promoted to run a large division in a start-up operation, stationed in a foreign city.
A cheer-leader type of manager over a small cohesive unit, she was promoted to run a number of offices all over the country.