<h1><span style="font-size: small;">Significance</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">You want to be very significant in the eyes of other people. In the truest sense of the word you want to be recognized. You want to be heard. You want to stand out. You want to be known. In particular, you want to be known and appreciated for the unique strengths you bring. You feel a need to be admired as credible, professional, and successful. Likewise, you want to associate with others who are credible, professional, and successful. And if they aren't, you will push them to achieve until they are. Or you will move on. An independent spirit, you want your work to be a way of life rather than a job, and in that work you want to be given free rein, the leeway to do things your way. Your yearnings feel intense to you, and you honor those yearnings. And so your life is filled with goals, achievements, or qualifications that you crave. Whatever your focus -- and each person is distinct -- your Significance theme will keep pulling you upward, away from the mediocre toward the exceptional. It is the theme that keeps you reaching.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Choose jobs or positions   in which you can determine your own tasks and actions. You will enjoy the   exposure that comes with independence.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Your reputation is important to you, so decide what it should be   and tend to it in the smallest detail. For example, identify and earn a designation that   will add to your credibility, write an article that will give you   visibility, or volunteer to speak in front of a group who will admire your   achievements.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Make a list of the goals,   achievements, and qualifications you crave and post them where you will see   them every day. Use this list to inspire yourself.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Identify your best moment   of recognition or praise. What was it for? Who gave it to you? Who was the audience?   What do you have to do to recreate that moment?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Share your dreams and goals with your family or closest   colleagues. Their expectations will keep you reaching.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Be ready to:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Stay focused on   performance. Your strong Significance theme will drive you to claim   outstanding goals. Your performance had better match these goals, or others   might come to label you as only a big talker.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Write down your strengths   and refer to them frequently. Heightened awareness of your strengths   will give you the confidence you need to rebound, when, for whatever reason,   your "audiences" are not giving you the feedback you need.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Accept that, unless you   possess a strong Self-Assurance theme, you might fear failure. Don't   let this fear prevent you from staking claims to excellence. Instead, use it   to focus on ensuring that your performance matches your claims.</span></p>
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