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You make your decisions based on what will thwart your enemy.
WISDOM
Your judgment is narrow and distorted.
You are defensive, over-reactive, and often paranoid.
POWER
The little power you do have comes from anger, envy, resentment, and vengeance -- negative energy
that shrivels and destroys, leaving energy for littlle else.
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If you are Church Centered...
SECURITY
Your security is based on church activity and on the esteem in which you are held by those in
authority or influence in the church.
You find identity and security in religious labels and comparisons.
GUIDANCE
You are guided by how others will evaluate your actions in the context of church teachings and
expectations.
WISDOM
You see the world in terms of "believers" and "non-believers," "belongers" and "non-belongers.
POWER
Perceived power comes from your church position or role.
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If you are Self-Centered...
SECURITY
Your security is constantly changing and shifting.
GUIDANCE
Your judgment criteria are: "If it feels good..." "What I want." "What I need." "What's in it for me?
WISDOM
You view the world by how decisions, events, or circumstances will affect you.
POWER
Your ability to act is limited to your own resources, without the benefits of interdependency.
More often than not, a person's center is some combination of these and/or other centers. Most
people are very much a function of a variety of influences that play upon their lives. Depending on
external or internal conditions, one particular center may be activated until the underlying needs are
satisfied. Then another center becomes the compelling force.
As a person fluctuates from one center to another, the resulting relativism is like roller coasting
through life. One moment you're high, the next moment you're low, making efforts to compensate for
one weakness by borrowing strength from another weakness. There is no consistent sense of direction,
no persistent wisdom, no steady power supply or sense of personal, intrinsic worth and identity.
The ideal, of course, is to create one clear center from which you consistently derive a high degree of
security, guidance, wisdom, and power, empowering your proactivity and giving congruency and
harmony to every part of your life.

A Principle Center

By centering our lives on correct principles, we create a solid foundation for development of the four
life-support factors
Our security comes from knowing that, unlike other centers based on people or things which are
subject to frequent and immediate change, correct principles do not change. We can depend on them