Your personality type plays a big role in working from home; if you're a leader or need to be lead, if you like to be around people or would rather be secluded, and if you're laid back and go with the flow or prefer to have things your way.

What's your personality?

There are 4 basic personality types.

Choleric - The choleric personality is a natural born leader, not detail oriented and good at delegating projects he or she doesn't like to do or doesn't have time for. Choleric's tend to be unsympathetic and controlling.

Sanguine - Sanguine's love attention and to be the center of attention. They're very social and often need to be around people in order to feel appreciated, loved and accepted. They also tend to be flighty and will put fun ahead of work.

Melancholy - Melancholy persons are usually musicians and artists, or engineers and analysts. They love to organize, keep charts and lists, and are very detail oriented. Melancholy personality types also tend to get depressed easily and let their need to analyze everything get in the way of progress.

Phlegmatic - These are your laid back friends. They're calm, even tempered, easy going, go-with-the flow type people. It takes a lot to ruffle a Phlegmatic's feathers. On the other hand, Phlegmatic's get side tracked easily and need someone to push them along or they'll never get anything done.

How Personality Strengths and Weaknesses affect your Home Business

As you can see, each personality type has definite strengths and weaknesses.

If you're choleric, there's no question about running your own work at home business. You know you want to do it and you know you'll be able to handle it. Now all you need to do is find the right people to delegate all the tasks you hate doing.

Having a good mix of the other three personalities under your belt is good for you, but you will probably have a hard time dealing with them-especially the Sanguines and Phlegmatics-they'll most likely get on your nerves because you'll have to push them more and don't have time for that. But, you need them in order to have a balanced business.

Sanguines would be perfect for a social networking business. You'd be best suited working under a Choleric's direction to keep you on task but you'll make work fun. That's not to say you couldn't or shouldn't start your own business, but you'll need a Melancholy and a Choleric to help you.

The Melancholy will be good for tracking sales and analyzing where you can make improvements and the Choleric will delegate tasks to others to keep your business moving and growing.

Melancholy's, you'll do a lot of research before choosing which work at home business is right for you and you'll be hesitant to make the change. But, once you've decided which road to go down, you'll get just the right people for just the right tasks. You'll need some help from all three of the other personality types, but you'll make sure they're right for the job first and will require an intensive interview before choosing.

Phlegmatic's, you're probably best suited to work for a business that already exists. You don't have it in you to start your own business or keep it going. That's not a bad thing because you won't have all the headaches and responsibilities of running your own business. You will need some direction to keep you going and to help keep you from getting side tracked. But you are very easy to work and flexible which makes for a great team member.

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