You're a SUPPORTER on the Thinking Zone!
The Thinking Zone helps us learn about how we think, relate, and process all of life. Click the button here to download your personalized report that will give you insight about:
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How to leverage your strengths, characteristics, and weaknesses
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How to determine a great role and career that fits you
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How to best connect with your spouse, parent your children, and relate to friends
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How you can engage other Thinking Zones at work
Download your report - but keep on reading to understand how the Thinking Zone works and how it can help you navigate life with more insight and joy!
Overview of the Thinking Zone
The Thinking Zone captures how we are innately wired to think across all areas of life. It is designed to capture our innate thinking, not our learned behavior. It is our default setting, natural to us in a deep way since it’s an expression of who we are without any spin or pretense.
So knowing our Thinking Zone can help us understand and impact all areas of life such as:
- How we cook - or why we don't!
- How we organize our closet or are comfortable with it more messy
- Why we enjoy certain pastimes, hobbies, and activities over others
- How we either plan a vacation to the 9th degree or just hope to go where the wind takes us
- Why we do a project at work the way we do it - and why others may approach work differently
- How we show up at in a team, at a small gathering or volunteering opportunity, etc.
In contrast, we may have learned to mimic other places on The Thinking Zone continuum. We may be able to pull this off briefly, for a season, or in certain environments as it won’t feel natural and comfortable to us. A learned Thinking Zone will always take more energy, require more effort from us, and be of shorter duration for us than our natural Thinking Zone. This is why knowing and stepping more intentionally into our natural Thinking Zone is so life-giving and fulfilling.
There are two continuums on the Thinking Zone:
Processes Concretely or Conceptually
Those on the left side of the Thinking Zone tend to thrive in concrete and specific thinking, enjoying and employing useful facts and solid data. On the other hand, those on the right side of the Thinking Zone are best when they can dwell in conceptual or abstract thinking that flexes their imagination and creativity.
Starts Independently or Collaboratively
Those on the bottom of the Thinking Zone tend to start their thinking process from a place of independence after which they can then move (or be forced) into collaboration as needed. In contrast, those on the top begin their best thinking with others and then can move towards their own autonomous work as needed.
Each of us innately process life best from the vantage point of our particular Thinking Zone. To be our best self, we want to spend 70% of our time and energy in our Thinking Zone.
Knowing our Thinking Zone can help us understand why certain previous jobs may have been frustrating or boring, while others felt easy and fulfilling. If our Thinking Zone is not aligned with our role, it will lead to frustration and disappointment and eventual burnout or job loss.
So while understanding our Thinking Zone can positively impact our work, it can also give us insight into enjoyable activities and relationships - such as friendships, marriages, parenting and the like.
Each of the 7 different Thinking Zones is completely unique and valued:
Detailers
Protectors
Supporters
Builders
Discoverers
Adventurers
Innovators
Knowing our Thinking Zone is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Figuring out your best specific fit vocationally - as well as how to best relate to others on The Thinking Zone - are just clues that help to answer the elusive and nagging bigger questions of life. Wouldn't it be great to know once and for all who you really are - such as your unique talents, purpose, and vision - and create an action plan to live your best life?
You are made for so much more . . . and we are expert guides who can lead you there.
As Life Strategy Guides, we are trained and experienced in guiding thousands of people just like you to create a customized strategic plan for all areas of life - in just a single day online. The Thinking Zone is just one of many transformational tools that we use with our clients in a Life Strategy Session. Just think:
- You can stop second guessing yourself, your giftedness, and your purpose.
- You can stop wondering if you're in the right role or headed in the right direction.
- You can stop wasting valuable years, resources, finances, and energy spinning life away.
Instead, you can stride confidently through life knowing that you are purposefully aligned in all areas of life - personal, family, career, and community - and be empowered to live out your unique giftedness.
