S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you JB for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored (in alphabetical order):

75%

34%

28%

46%

12%

56%

25%

25%

90%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am a good student, and have good learning habits. I seek to make sense of things, and to synthesize different inputs. I enjoy using examples from scripture and culture to make a memorable impression for myself and others. I have a passion for figuring things out, and take joy in watching things unfold, emerge or simplify in the mind of others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have lots of leadership experience earned the hard way from my career. I have floated up quickly in most teams and organizations Ive been part of. I look for additional responsibility and am very performance oriented. I am accountable.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My brain is wired to take information and share it with others with my own presentation or style. I love reading and gathering inputs, figuring it out on my own, and trying to present in a way that is simple to understand and sticky in the minds of people who walk away with it.

[H]eart

1. I love reading, studying and discussing things. I am curious.

2. I love to be tested and challenge myself.

3. I love being in nature, especially with my family and friends.

I love to work with people a little older and more experienced than I am. I especially love strong male leaders, and people who are teachers and storytellers. I thrive around confident people and people who challenge me.

I enjoy studying scripture, theology and community groups. I am most concerned with isolation, anxiety/depression and distortion of truth. I am very worried about a decline in empathy and critical thinking and an increase in addictive behaviors (technology, food, social media…pleasure seeking) and valueless noise/junk.

Parenting
Educational
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

General Manager of the CrossFit Games. Executive leadership, down to field-level and fast decision making. Strategic planning, business development, revenue generation, partner negotiation (business and legal), media production, event management.

Professional lecturer and flowmaster (presenting and running team of presenters for educational seminars around the world). Presenter/Fellow at MBA programs for sport management. Curriculum design. Gym owner. Athlete.

I am a good lecturer and presenter. I can organize public talks, and deliver talks and outlines from others. I write well. I have good crisis management skills. Im able to get big egos at the table and facilitate discussion/action.

Entrepreneurship, Event Management, Sport History, Sponsorship, Nutrition, Goal Setting, Fitness (many).

I am curious. And my ability to listen/perceive, understand, and paraphrase (reduce complicated systems into understandable and actionable points).

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Beaver’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

[E]xperience

I attended a small christian elementary school where we attended chapel and had basic religion classes. My best friends parents always made us go to church, so we attended sunday school and church camps. I accepted christ at a camp in the moment, and considered myself a christian thereafter. However, I did not mature far and in high school and college never attended church and didn\’t pray except before games and sometimes went to the bible hoping to open to a lucky verse. My wife attended some, and when we moved we started attending a church where they taught me to analyze scripture and it\’s author, historical context, grammatical patterns and overall timeline. Then was introduced to the Bible Project videos and then podcast conversations, then a men\’s group where we discussed scripture and shared our lives, and now feel like I\’m finally and only recently able to call myself a true follower of Christ.

No church, but I did start a small community-based gym in Jacksonville, Florida from 2008-2011.

No church, but delivered lectures and ran small teams of lecturers and instructors at 2-day fitness seminars around the world.

Having a dad with high standards for performance. I learned to do things right the first time, that getting good requires lots of practice time, and also saw him model this as a world-class horse trainer. So having a performance orientation first, rather than a political or social or economical bearing, has made a big impact on me.

The experience of playing competitive baseball, and especially the training and practice time under really great coaches, has made me receptive to strong and capable leadership. And it fits well with my performance orientation…it feels great to be steadily improving and doing it with others (above and side-by-side).

Joining several teams in the last roster spot, and working my way to the top. I went to a new High School with really smart kids, didn’t know anyone, and ended up making varsity teams as a freshman and also keeping straight As through school. I was the last person to make a traveling team, and ended up as a starter on a team that had over 10 kids drafted professionally. I was an intern and swept the warehouse floors at my first job, but made Sr. Sales Manager in 3 years. I quit that job to open a gym (without experience) and intern for CrossFit, and ended up making the seminar team, becoming one of ~10 flowmasters in the world at that time, and also eventually becoming the GM of the Games. So, I have positive experiences of starting from scratch in something I’m passionate about and floating upward.

I tore my hamstring at the end of my senior year of high school, and before the draft. But was still picked up by a club. Then held out for a year in junior college during which I tore my rotator cuff and effectively ended my baseball career. I also ended up transferring schools and breaking up with my girlfriend just after surgery…so I went from a highly rated high school student athlete, to injured and out of both school and baseball in less than a year. But, it at least somewhat prepared me to cope with #2.

My dad committed suicide when I was a senior in college. I had to take a leave of absence from school to take care of my mom and brother, and never really dealt with it since I was focused on pushing forward for all of us. But outside of their view I was gutted. My best friends dad came and stayed with me, and he was the only person who I could really lean on. And he became one of the most important Christian figures in my life, and continues to be a loving coach and friend to this day. I also became acutely aware of depression, addiction and anxiety in others and since I’m blessed not to be depressed myself, I am somewhat inoculated in a way that lets me empathize with some others who struggle.

I recently had my career and leadership taken from me for a period, and was forced to lay off 35 people from my team (including best friends and people in my wedding). It was abrupt and misleading to some, and very negative for all on every side for over a year. I was also taken out of a position of leadership and removed from all decision making while our founder punished someone else (and consequently me by association). Then I was re-inserted and tasked with landing a very challenging year with a small team of very hurting and uncertain people. But, God also used that time to strengthen my knowledge and faith in his word and to deepen my relationship with my wife and young kids. So despite the portion of my identity that my career took up becoming chaotic and emmotionally toxic, my identity in Christ and ability to love others grew dramatically. So, it’s been more than a fair trade 🙂

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. To write a “life: user manual” for my kids, and publish and lecture on a public version.

4. To create a tool for evaluating behaviors (ala Consumer Reports) for aggregated peer-public data on what works, free to millions and valuable for the long-term support of truth in health free from perverse incentives or corporate interest.

5. To attain a doctoral degree in biblical studies and teach/lecture on clear thought and critical decision making in a distracted world