You deliver better ways to do most everything. You sift through opportunities and experiences to ultimately deliver what you believe is better. You also desire to share your improvement with the world. You ask yourself questions like: “What if we did this another way? I wonder if someone else has done this in a better way? How could this be better?” You are excellent at associating, which means that you’re adept at taking ideas or systems from one industry or discipline and applying them to another, always with the ultimate goal of improving something.

You are someone who is looking for results that are better. Someone else may have already tried many different ways and you will take what they’ve found that’s “better” and apply it to your practices.

The challenge that comes with the WHAT of Better Way is that you will have the tendency to want to continually make sure your answer or solution is better so you may change directions or decisions in order to achieve this goal. It could be hard for you to leave well enough alone, which can frustrate others, especially those who have gone to great lengths to create systems that work and they believe you should not be messing with. This might feel to other people like you’re jumping around or indecisive but to you it’s just how you make sure that what you’re doing is better. 

The solution to the challenge is realizing that sometimes what you really need is just good enough. Therefore you need to be able to define what good enough is in each situation so that you have an endpoint. Once you’ve decided it’s good enough, you need to be committed to the idea that you will stop trying to improve or change that particular project and now move on to something else. 

Those with the WHAT of Better Way can be fun to have a relationship with, but really challenging as well.

If you can find the latest and greatest thing, you’ll want to do that. This can be enjoyable for other people in your life (as they get to enjoy these new experiences as well), but it can also be exhausting for them as you continue to want more and more. You have energy for fun and exciting experiences, but not as much energy for things you don’t find enjoyable. These characteristics can be a challenge for people that don’t like change, or who like to do the same things more often.

Another place you may run into challenges is decision making. Since you tend to look for newer, better things, you can have trouble truly asking yourself: “When is it good enough?” This can cause stress for others; you are constantly sorting through available options to find “the best” thing, when an option that you passed over as “just okay” is truly good enough to them!

You are great at associating, which means you can take ideas and methods from one business or situation and apply them to something else. Although you are great at finding better ways, the truth is: sometimes better ways are not needed. Sometimes the results are good enough, the team or organization is satisfied, and a better way isn’t wanted. This can mean that your need to improve things may cause an upset or become an irritant for other team members that feel things are already working; they don’t believe they need your tinkering and tweaking, and may resent the intrusion.You are great to have when better is what is needed, but not as great to have when better is unnecessary!

People with the WHAT of Better Way are typically fun to have as friends and family members because they are always looking for new ways to improve our lives – which to you is definitely –  a better way!