(A Myers-Briggs Love Story), I'm still here!
semi - retired, one reason for my apparent absence has been the time involved in writing articles about type and spirituality for
Truity Psychometrics. If you missed those you can visit
truity.com, go to the bottom of the Home Page,
click on Search on the left side of the page, and type in Gayle Weinraub and then the search symbol on the right. This will lead you to the four articles I've written for them so far.
Not only have I not posted a blog in more than two years, but I fell a year behind in checking on my site's traffic. This is something I used to enjoy doing, logging it into a small notebook each night, with the indispensable aid of a powerful tool called Google Analytics. On May 24 I finished the lengthy and exhausting while at the same time amazing and exhilarating process of catching up on what has been happening on my site over the past year. Seeing how many interested visitors there had been from all corners of the globe made me wish I had made note of each one as soon as they visited, and that I had written more blog posts over the past couple of years.
But as I finally got my notebook of website activity up to date, what I saw filled me with a warm glow of pride and satisfaction. To my joyful surprise, traffic on Personality Assessments By Gayle hasn't slowed down a bit! During the past year my site has had its first visitors from Algeria, Laos, Costa Rica, Reunion, Chile, Mozambique, Ecuador, Croatia, Belize and Hawaii. Marking these places on maps was good exercise for this geographically challenged blogger, who certainly had no idea that Reunion is a small island off the coast of Madagascar!
At the top of this post is a photo of one of the maps I use with the countries of my visitors colored in with washable crayons. I also have a similar one of the United States. Since starting my blogging adventure in February 2013 and writing 37 posts, I've now had visitors from 84 countries, Washington, D. C., and all but three of the United States.
While getting caught up I also noticed that two of my blog posts in particular have been seen all over the world. Since they have to do with misconceptions and stereotypes about personality type, I can only assume that they are helping those who read them and are contributing to the improvement of the world. To say that I'm thrilled by that thought is a big understatement! Topping off this jumble of emotions is the awe - inspiring humility I've experienced at seeing so many people, friends I haven't met yet, take the time to search for and read what I've written.
Getting caught up on my website's activity was very
time - consuming since it took about two hours to go through each month's record of where my visitors are from, how they found me, and what pages of my site they viewed. Throughout the process two things really got my attention. First, interest in developing a better understanding of ourselves and others through the lens of personality type seems to be universal. But even more exciting and humbling is the evidence that, even in this time of worldwide disaster, there still seems to be a demand for what I write!
The world has undergone unimaginable changes since I wrote my last blog post in 2017 or even my last article for Truity Psychometrics in 2018. Perhaps living with
COVID - 19 and unprecedented racial unrest will bring to mind different aspects of or questions about personality type which we haven't considered before. Feel free to post any suggestions for future blog posts or spirituality articles in the comments section.
Many thanks to all who have visited this site even though it may have appeared that the author had abandoned ship. That reminds me of a third lesson I learned while digging through a year's worth of website traffic.
One sign of the ever - changing technology in our world is the fact that after six years of blogging I finally have the assistance of a smartphone, which I bought in late February 2019. Since a blogger may want to look up the locations of the countries her website's visitors are from, or check historical facts about those countries or double check some of the fine points of grammar, a smartphone may very well be her best friend.
Except, of course, for the people throughout that big and beautiful but often confusing world who generously give of their irreplaceable time to read her blog posts. For you the words "Thanks, friend!" seem woefully inadequate.