Features:
The Heart Center: Moves towards others - Out of
touch with the center
Original Loss: "I was nothing - a failure."
Conflictual Emotion: Sadness
Decision: Being successful and achieving allows you to survive and be loved.
False Claim: "I do not fail. I always get the job done."
Four Adjectives: Self-assured and ambitious, but narcissistic and hostile.
Self-image: "I am successful."
Compulsion: To be a success. Always achieving.
Avoidance: Any hint of failure.
Sin: Deceit
Gift: Producing, bringing to reality in an expedient manner.
Two Wing: Warmer, more encouraging, sociable, and popular, and seductive
Four Wing: More introspective, sensitive, artistic, imaginative, and pretentious
Stress Point: 9 - Overwhelmed, spacing out, vegging out, blown fuses.
Security Point: 6 - Builders of work teams and organizations, loyal idealists,
cautious, responsible.
Crossing the River: Wear their best and do
attractive strokes.
Affirmation: "My feelings are as valuable as my accomplishments."
Descriptive Adjectives for High
Functioning Threes
Admired |
Practical |
Creative |
Efficient |
Accomplished |
Impressive |
Outstanding |
Goal-Oriented |
Motivator |
Self-starter |
Empowering |
Energetic |
Highly Social |
Got it all Together |
Descriptive
Adjectives for Average Functioning Threes:
| Adaptable |
Career-Focused |
Pragmatic |
Opportunistic |
Achiever |
Ambitious |
Image Conscious |
Seeks Success |
Competitive |
Descriptive
Adjectives for Low Functioning Threes
Calculating |
Defensive |
Chameleon |
Arrogant |
Pretentious |
Seeks Admiration |
Self-deceptive |
Lacks Self
Awareness |
Self-promoting |
Prestige
Conscious |
Denies and
Avoids Failure |
Famous Examples of Threes:
Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jane Pauley, Meryl Streep, Tom
Cruise, Jodie Foster, Tony Robbins, Dick Clark, Sylvester Stallone, Sting, Paul McCartney,
O.J. Simpson, Donald Trump, Michael Jordan, McDonald's, Federal Express, Hong Kong, USA.
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