Possession Centered
Security:
- Your security is based on your reputation, your social status, or the tangible things you possess
- You tend to compare what you have to what others have
- Your security is short-lived, anesthetizing and dependent upon your environment
Guidance:
- You make your decisions based on what will protect, increase, or better display your possessions
Wisdom:
- You see the world in terms of comparative economic and social relationships
Power:
- You function within the limits of what you can buy or the social prominence you can achieve
If you are possession centered these are alternative ways you may tend to perceive other areas of your life:
Spouse:
- Main possession
- Assistant in acquiring possessions
Family:
- Possession to use, exploit, dominate, smother, control
- Showcase
Money:
- Key to increasing possessions
- Another possession to control
Work:
- Opportunity to possess status, authority, recognition
Possessions:
- Status symbols
Pleasure:
- Buying, shopping, joining clubs
Friends:
- Personal objects
- Usable
Enemies:
- Takers, thieves
- Others with more possessions or recognition
Church:
- “My” church, a status symbol
- Source of unfair criticism or good things in life
Self:
- Defined by the things I own
- Defined by social status, recognition
Principles:
- Concepts which enable you to acquire and enhance possessions
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
