“A gift not deployed for its rightful purpose will become useless”.

To sound more like a broken record, different temperaments has got peculiar strengths that serves or suits various career purposes, and also weaknesses that tends to hinder the actualization of such purposes and intents if allowed to hold sway. If you’re conversant with the various temperaments and their peculiarities, you will agree with me that the strength and weaknesses of a sanguine are quite different from those of the choleric. And also the melancholy’s strengths and weaknesses differs from those of the phlegmatics, despite the fact that they belong to the same extrovert and introvert categories respectively.

However, there could be some similarities in their individual strengths and weaknesses depending on their proximity to each other. Do not also forget that an individual could have a combination of two or more temperaments embedded in them, when this happens, they will naturally possess a combination of both the strengths and weaknesses of all those temperaments combined in them, which will usually be in varying proportions. This will be a topic for another day. But in our discussion in this chapter, we want to look at how to maximize your primary temperament strength to achieve success in your career.

What Is Career Success?

Career success simply means to attain financial stability while doing the job that makes you happy and feel very fulfilled. When your job makes you feel elated and accomplished that you desire to get stuck with it, it clearly means that, that job concurs with your personality or temperament. The question then is, how do you attain financial success and stability in your career doing what you love? This is precisely what we want to discuss in this chapter. It’s basically to share with you how to maximize your basic or primary temperament strengths to achieve career success and become financially stable. If your predominant temperament is sanguine or choleric, melancholy or phlegmatic, there are core strengths that are associated with each of them that could be harnessed, and also maximized to enable you become exceptional in your chosen career field regardless of the fact that you could possess other secondary strengths.

What Is Vocational Strengths In Temperament?

Straight off, vocational strengths in temperament  refers to those natural strengths that are associated with our temperament type that enables us to become exceptional in certain vocations wherein these basic strengths and qualities are required. Temperament is everything; for inside it, are some natural strengths and qualities that are peculiar to each of them. The four temperament types are accompanied by various innate strengths, and corresponding weaknesses. But for the purpose of this chapter, we want to focus on the strengths alone which enables the carriers of any of these temperament to be better at certain vocations, or effortlessly succeed in some jobs and career path more than others. But more specifically in this book, we are interested in the sanguine temperament, and some of the major strengths associated with it, that enables the sanguine personality to be head and shoulder above others in certain vocations.

 

Therefore, since temperament is everything because it influences almost everything we do in life and how we do them. The strengths and weaknesses linked to each temperament is undoubtedly responsible for our personality, and to a very large extent describes who we are. As the strengths enables us to easily navigate through life, and without dissipating so much effort and energy be able to succeed in certain career fields, and also become exceptional in fields that aligned with our temperament strengths, so also the weaknesses are there to scuttle our success and hinder us from becoming efficient and productive in life. Therefore, since our natural temperament strengths are potent enough to enable us easily navigate through life and be exceptional in what we do, then it won’t be out of place to refer to it as our common natural gift that are given to us to function effectively and efficiently in life.

 

However, it’s perplexing how many people intentionally or unintentionally refuse to maximize their natural gift to enable them become effortlessly and exceptionally successful in jobs that aligned with these gifts. While some despise their natural gifts and talents because they consider them to be too negligible, and others because of challenges of unemployment, and ignorance of the importance of personally maximizing their innate gifts and be sought after by others, consequently make them go through life without making any positive impact. Hence, they find it so easy to go into other fields that they are not designed to function in, thus becoming very redundant and unproductive in those fields.

The reason why we are given a natural gift and talent is to maximize it, make it become very useful not just to us alone but to others as well. A gift not used is useless, and can be abused. In similar way, a natural gift that is not maximized is not only useless, but the generosity of the giver has been wasted and made mockery of. It is quite unfortunate that a lot of people are unknowingly making God look stupid by not utilizing or by despising the natural gifts given to them by  Him. Matthew 25:15-26.

How Do You Maximize Your Temperament Strength For Career Success As A Sanguine?

There are no hard and fast rules to harnessing and maximizing your primary temperament strength for career success and financial stability. The rule of thumb here is “practice makes perfect”. To become perfect at what you do, the generally accepted truth is that, you ought to consistently practice and improve yourself in that thing. As a predominant sanguine, you’ve no doubt inherited some of these strengths at birth, courtesy of the basic temperament you’re born with. Having inherited them, it’s very unwise to sit back and relax without utilizing them or perhaps use them in very uncomely and unproductive manner that does not bring any substance to you personally or impact positively on your career.

For instance as a sanguine, instead of building and improving on your natural eloquence and salesmanship ability by enrolling in some effective communication and customer service and relationship courses to further enhance and maximize these strengths, you decide to always engage it chit-chatting, irresponsible and unreasonable talking which clearly does not add any value to your life and career.

You can choose to maximize your natural gift or temperament strengths by reading books on effective communication skills, through enrolling for some effective and efficient communication classes, sales and marketing courses, going for courses in the entertainment sector, and finally insisting on getting a job or working in fields that matched your natural vocational strengths and capabilities. This will for sure help you to sharpen these natural gifts, maximize your temperament strengths and qualities, and become more productive and efficient.

You can order and read vocational capabilities of sanguine personalities and blends in order to discover your vocational strengths as a sanguine and the best jobs or careers you are best suitable for.