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Maria Maravilla

Ms.Trotter

Senior lit (3)

08 January 20

The Healthier Version of Me

An Enneagram is a nine- sided figure that is to represent the spectrum of possible

personality types. Each personality type explains the pros and cons , strengths and weaknesses,

and different traits you have within that type. I took the Enneagram test and it chose 3 different

types for me, the Achiever , the Helper, and the Peacemaker. All of these 3 types have something

alike towards me.

My top type on the Enneagram was type 9 The Peacemaker. The 3 challenges of being a

Peacemaker is Stubborness , Ambivalent, and Indecisive. Stubborness is​ ​having or showing

dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of

good arguments or reasons to do so. In my life I’ve been stubborn to find out the truth between

people spreading things about me that weren't true. Sometimes I took it upon myself to avoid

conflict with them because I didn’t want the drama.​ “Most Nines are fairly easy going; they

adopt a strategy of "going with the flow." ( The Enneagram institute). Me being how I am I

couldn’t live with avoiding so much that was happening so I went to find the truth myself.

Another aspect of type 9 is being Ambivalent. Ambivalent is to have mixed feeling about

something. An Ambivalent moment I had in the past is I had mixed feelings “​Change can

provoke unpleasant feelings and disrupt the Nine's desire for comfort” (The Enneagram institute) 

about the true intentions of one of my friends. I thought they were being distrustful to me
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because she would avoid certain questions or conversations. My feeling for my friend were out

of place and I didn’t like the change that was between us. I need to know things all the time and I

needed to know why she was doing what she was doing .

The last of type 9 is being Indecisive. In many ways this certain trait is more to my

personality as a person. ​Indecisive ​is not being sure about something or always changing your

mind when it comes to certain things My indecisiveness is when I have to make big decisions

like where I’m going to college or what I want be when I grow up, or making small decisions

like what I want to eat for dinner or choosing what to wear to school. It can take some minutes or

hours for me to decide. I usually ask for people to make my decisions or pick for me.

Looking through all these personality traits they’ve made me realize somethings about

myself. Now that I know what those aspects are in my personality type I can now strive to be a

better or healthier version of myself and knowing what areas I need to focus on to be better.

Ways I will try to better these aspects by trying to see a situation from both sides, listening to

both sides of a story then just my own. I will try to be more honest about my emotions and be

honest about how I’m feeling towards other people. The last thing I will try to accomplish is

making big or small decisions on my own instead of getting other people to do it for me, putting

myself first before others. I know that making these changes for me will benefit me throughout

my life. It will improve my relationships with others and my family and most of all make me

happier and healthier.

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