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Who Are You Meant to Be?: A Groundbreaking Step-by-Step Process for Discovering and Fulfilling Your True Potential
An energetic, step-by-step program that helps you move from surviving to thriving, live more authentically, and achieve your potential. Integrating brain science with a fresh take on how your personality affects your behavior, this book provides a clear roadmap, based on your brain, to break patterns of behavior that get in your way. This Too many of us live on autopilot, just trying to make it through the day. Who Are You Mean to Be? offers a way to put us in the driver's seat of our lives, providing a brand-new approach to living authentically and achieving our potential. It's a must-have for anyone working to understand themselves and others in order to live a more satisfying, fulfilling life.
384 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Anne Dranitsaris
82 books1 followerDr. Anne Dranitsaris, a dynamic Behavioral Change Therapist, Executive and Leadership Coach, and Consultant, has been transforming lives for over 40 years. Her work with individuals, couples, and senior leaders helps them unlock their potential and achieve their goals.
In the 1980s, Anne completed a rigorous 6-year Diploma Program at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, studying Karl Jung and other psychoanalytic theorists. She earned her Ph.D. in Therapeutic Counselling from the Open International University for Alternative Medicine while building her psychotherapy practice.
Anne is a Certified Practitioner of the MBTI® and integrates Jung's Psychological Type Theory into her practices. She applies psychological types in clinical and organizational settings, helping individuals and leaders understand themselves and others, earning her recognition as a top expert in North America.
Anne's unique approach draws from various theories and disciplines, including Psychodynamic Therapy, Self-Psychology, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Neuropsychology. Her holistic, psycho-educational therapeutic approach considers childhood conditioning and brain organization, guiding clients to identify limiting behavior patterns, develop greater insight, and adopt life-enhancing behaviors.
Anne's relationship with her daughter and business partner, Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard, whom she reunited with after giving up for adoption at birth, inspired their first consulting business, Sage Developmental Resources, which evolved into Caliber Leadership Systems. Anne also founded the Centre for Mindful Therapies, integrating mindfulness into psychotherapy and coaching.
An article by Anne in "O" Oprah Magazine inspired her and Heather to co-author "WHO ARE YOU MEANT TO BE?", leading to the development of the Striving Styles Personality System® (SSPS®). This neuropsychological approach helps individuals understand their strengths and challenges, offering a roadmap for personal and professional growth. The SSPS® psychometric assessment helps individuals overcome self-protective behaviors hindering their Authentic Self.
Anne and Heather authored "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN LEAD," supporting leaders with programs covering self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and effective communication. These programs are available online and customizable to clients' needs.
In 2020, Anne wrote "POWER PAST THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME," a brain-building framework for changing self-limiting beliefs and habits. The book and accompanying 8-week online course help individuals overcome Imposter Syndrome, providing practical tools and strategies for personal growth.
Anne's recent publication, "BECOME WHO YOU ARE MEANT TO BE IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE," is a comprehensive guide for those experiencing imposter syndrome or seeking personal transformation. It guides readers toward their true potential, addressing unconscious fears and fostering the development of their Authentic Self. This book is the first in the "Become Who You Are Meant to Be" trilogy, with Books Two and Three to be released later this year.
Anne resides with her husband Blake and their dog Pixie on a picturesque lake northeast of Toronto, continuing to inspire individuals and leaders toward their fullest potential.
For more resources, podcasts, and developmental tools, visit www.dranitsaris-hilliard.com or www.youtube.com/c/dranitsarishilliard.
In the 1980s, Anne completed a rigorous 6-year Diploma Program at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, studying Karl Jung and other psychoanalytic theorists. She earned her Ph.D. in Therapeutic Counselling from the Open International University for Alternative Medicine while building her psychotherapy practice.
Anne is a Certified Practitioner of the MBTI® and integrates Jung's Psychological Type Theory into her practices. She applies psychological types in clinical and organizational settings, helping individuals and leaders understand themselves and others, earning her recognition as a top expert in North America.
Anne's unique approach draws from various theories and disciplines, including Psychodynamic Therapy, Self-Psychology, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Neuropsychology. Her holistic, psycho-educational therapeutic approach considers childhood conditioning and brain organization, guiding clients to identify limiting behavior patterns, develop greater insight, and adopt life-enhancing behaviors.
Anne's relationship with her daughter and business partner, Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard, whom she reunited with after giving up for adoption at birth, inspired their first consulting business, Sage Developmental Resources, which evolved into Caliber Leadership Systems. Anne also founded the Centre for Mindful Therapies, integrating mindfulness into psychotherapy and coaching.
An article by Anne in "O" Oprah Magazine inspired her and Heather to co-author "WHO ARE YOU MEANT TO BE?", leading to the development of the Striving Styles Personality System® (SSPS®). This neuropsychological approach helps individuals understand their strengths and challenges, offering a roadmap for personal and professional growth. The SSPS® psychometric assessment helps individuals overcome self-protective behaviors hindering their Authentic Self.
Anne and Heather authored "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN LEAD," supporting leaders with programs covering self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and effective communication. These programs are available online and customizable to clients' needs.
In 2020, Anne wrote "POWER PAST THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME," a brain-building framework for changing self-limiting beliefs and habits. The book and accompanying 8-week online course help individuals overcome Imposter Syndrome, providing practical tools and strategies for personal growth.
Anne's recent publication, "BECOME WHO YOU ARE MEANT TO BE IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE," is a comprehensive guide for those experiencing imposter syndrome or seeking personal transformation. It guides readers toward their true potential, addressing unconscious fears and fostering the development of their Authentic Self. This book is the first in the "Become Who You Are Meant to Be" trilogy, with Books Two and Three to be released later this year.
Anne resides with her husband Blake and their dog Pixie on a picturesque lake northeast of Toronto, continuing to inspire individuals and leaders toward their fullest potential.
For more resources, podcasts, and developmental tools, visit www.dranitsaris-hilliard.com or www.youtube.com/c/dranitsarishilliard.
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February 18, 2013
“..a lack of self-knowledge and self-awareness is one of the reasons that so many of us suffer from anxiety, depression, addictions, and other problems”
Dranitsaris and Dranitsaris-Hilliard
Who Are You Meant To Be authors Dr. Anne Dranitsaris, PhD, and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard are no strangers to the dynamics of human behaviour. This mother-daughter team observed in their practice stretching over 3 decades, a serious disconnect between a client’s self-awareness and their ability to change self-sabotaging behaviour. In their roles as clinical psychotherapist, corporate therapist, and organizational development consultants they had used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Emotional Quotient Inventory®, augmented by leadership assessments, and found that none of these provided the whole picture of what was holding back improvement. But they could see that types and styles were not being connected with emotions and vice versa.
This inspired Dranitsaris and Dranitsaris-Hilliard in 2007 to start developing the Striving Styles™ Personality System (SSPS) to resolve this issue. They have captured their research and new methodology in a well presented book, Who Are You Meant To Be. Based on the latest science, their work explains the first new comprehensive personality system, which looks at how different parts of the brain function and considers emotions, needs, behaviour and personality. By embracing the full human experience, they close the gap between knowing and doing in order to help people sustain behavioural change.
The SSPS marries approaches from psychology with brain anatomy and physiology. Dranitsaris and Hilliard demonstrate in Who You Are Meant To Be how psychological needs originating in the brain are the driving force for the behaviour behind each of the functional areas of the brain. Until recently the brain has been ignored when it came to studying psychology, but now it is being fully included.
Organized in three parts, Part One: Who Are You Meant To Be? helps the reader understand how their brain functions with the opportunity at the end to assess themselves and determine their Predominant Striving Style. Part Two: The Eight Striving Styles covers in detail all the components of each of the Striving Styles allowing the reader to become well educated about their Predominant Striving Style and its predominant need and how they behave in trying to get that need met. Part Three: Becoming Your Best Self is the working, practical section of the book. This is where the SSPS Roadmap for Development is outlined. It is this step-by-step approach, if followed, will enable the reader to make lasting change and achieve their potential.
Who You Are Meant To Be is written from an intelligent pragmatic logical viewpoint supported by science and well proven theories, augmented with actual examples to help you visualize what is being explained. Written for both the practitioner and the lay person, it speaks in clear, informative, respectful tones, in language that is easy to understand yet not too basic for those in the field. The simplicity of the concept and name Striving Styles is a perfect example of how Dranitsaris and Hilliard have managed to bring complex science and psychology together using friendly, widely understood terminology that few people would fail to grasp.
Who You Are Meant To Be is an extremely insightful book. It provides all the necessary information to understand how the brain is organized and intended to be used and how that relates to the Eight Striving Styles. By understanding this, a person can learn how to use the power of their emotions for them instead of against them. Dranitsaris and Hilliard do not try to pretend that this process is easy but with the step-by-step roadmap and the associated websites they provide you with the opportunity to achieve results whether you choose to do it alone or with help.
“We have written this book to show you how to fill the gap between what you know and what you do; … so you can achieve your potential and become who you are meant to be.”
Dranitsaris and Hilliard
This book is impressive. It addresses both the scientific and spiritual person. The research and findings make sense and it excites the reader to take action so that they can stop those self-sabotaging behaviours and start being all they are meant to be.
You can find out so much more from their websites:
http://www.strivingstyles.com and
http://www.whoareyoumeanttobe.com
Dranitsaris and Dranitsaris-Hilliard
Who Are You Meant To Be authors Dr. Anne Dranitsaris, PhD, and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard are no strangers to the dynamics of human behaviour. This mother-daughter team observed in their practice stretching over 3 decades, a serious disconnect between a client’s self-awareness and their ability to change self-sabotaging behaviour. In their roles as clinical psychotherapist, corporate therapist, and organizational development consultants they had used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Emotional Quotient Inventory®, augmented by leadership assessments, and found that none of these provided the whole picture of what was holding back improvement. But they could see that types and styles were not being connected with emotions and vice versa.
This inspired Dranitsaris and Dranitsaris-Hilliard in 2007 to start developing the Striving Styles™ Personality System (SSPS) to resolve this issue. They have captured their research and new methodology in a well presented book, Who Are You Meant To Be. Based on the latest science, their work explains the first new comprehensive personality system, which looks at how different parts of the brain function and considers emotions, needs, behaviour and personality. By embracing the full human experience, they close the gap between knowing and doing in order to help people sustain behavioural change.
The SSPS marries approaches from psychology with brain anatomy and physiology. Dranitsaris and Hilliard demonstrate in Who You Are Meant To Be how psychological needs originating in the brain are the driving force for the behaviour behind each of the functional areas of the brain. Until recently the brain has been ignored when it came to studying psychology, but now it is being fully included.
Organized in three parts, Part One: Who Are You Meant To Be? helps the reader understand how their brain functions with the opportunity at the end to assess themselves and determine their Predominant Striving Style. Part Two: The Eight Striving Styles covers in detail all the components of each of the Striving Styles allowing the reader to become well educated about their Predominant Striving Style and its predominant need and how they behave in trying to get that need met. Part Three: Becoming Your Best Self is the working, practical section of the book. This is where the SSPS Roadmap for Development is outlined. It is this step-by-step approach, if followed, will enable the reader to make lasting change and achieve their potential.
Who You Are Meant To Be is written from an intelligent pragmatic logical viewpoint supported by science and well proven theories, augmented with actual examples to help you visualize what is being explained. Written for both the practitioner and the lay person, it speaks in clear, informative, respectful tones, in language that is easy to understand yet not too basic for those in the field. The simplicity of the concept and name Striving Styles is a perfect example of how Dranitsaris and Hilliard have managed to bring complex science and psychology together using friendly, widely understood terminology that few people would fail to grasp.
Who You Are Meant To Be is an extremely insightful book. It provides all the necessary information to understand how the brain is organized and intended to be used and how that relates to the Eight Striving Styles. By understanding this, a person can learn how to use the power of their emotions for them instead of against them. Dranitsaris and Hilliard do not try to pretend that this process is easy but with the step-by-step roadmap and the associated websites they provide you with the opportunity to achieve results whether you choose to do it alone or with help.
“We have written this book to show you how to fill the gap between what you know and what you do; … so you can achieve your potential and become who you are meant to be.”
Dranitsaris and Hilliard
This book is impressive. It addresses both the scientific and spiritual person. The research and findings make sense and it excites the reader to take action so that they can stop those self-sabotaging behaviours and start being all they are meant to be.
You can find out so much more from their websites:
http://www.strivingstyles.com and
http://www.whoareyoumeanttobe.com
March 6, 2013
First, I need to say that I use the Striving Styles Personality System as a certified practitioner in my work when I believe it to be the best resource for a client. I have therefore observed first hand how the program can help clients flourish when used as part of a coaching process. It is also very effective in helping with workplace and personal relationship concerns. Even if readers of the book use the information provided independently it can certainy offer some useful insights into why we experience the world the way we do. The program provides some practical ways to achieve our potential that readers can readily practice.
July 31, 2014
I'm a big fan of self-help books. I'm a big fan of this self-help book. They actually provide some decent tools. I will admit that I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a more obvious - others with your style have these fulfilling careers - section... because that's what I wanted. But holy cow, do they hit the nail on the head with their styles, and with the way they know the styles will react to the exercises... Anyway. I'm making all my friends do this too, and we are going to do the exercises together. I'm an adventurer, my husband is a visionary, and my two friends so far are stabilizer and leader... Gonna be a good time I think.
August 7, 2013
Received this book in a Goodreads giveaway! Very well written book and discovered some new ideas.
September 1, 2014
Too much crap into this book.. Like different structures..
All u need to know is humans are 1.instinctive 2.emotional 3.rational beings.
Thats all! Thats matter's
All u need to know is humans are 1.instinctive 2.emotional 3.rational beings.
Thats all! Thats matter's
February 23, 2016
This just wasn't the book for me. I wasn't convinced by the theory, and couldn't get much out of it after that.
February 6, 2024
Good thought starter book
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