The Comprehensive ENFP Survival Guide

ENFP tends to be drawn to other intuitive types for long-term partnership. Those who lead with introverted intuition (INTJs and INFJs) are particularly well-suited for long-term partnership with the ENFP

While ENFPs make for passionate, openhearted lovers, they often experience difficulty settling into a relationship that fulfills their own needs. This type needs a partner who can both challenge them and balance them out – and for the excitable ENFP, this can be a difficult combination to find!

I encourage others, journal, read, or find something to celebrate!”

Take one hour to journal at the end of each night for a week.

Suggested alterations:

Add an additional hour of sleep/night to your schedule
Eat three balanced meals at specific times each day for a week
Add 30 minutes of vigorous exercise to your schedule each day for a week
Eat lunch with a friend or coworker every day for a week, if you usually eat it alone.

Identify one area of potential improvement and alter your behavior accordingly for the corresponding week.

i.e. If you are consistently scoring 3 or higher when surrounded by people, add an additional hour of social time into your day, 3 days/week. Alternately, if you are consistently scoring 4 or higher between 6-8pm on the days when you exercise, head to the gym every day for a week.

Examine your chart for any patterns that emerge on both a daily basis and a weekly basis.

For example, within the scope of a single day, you may score 3 or higher every time you are surrounded by friends or loved ones. Conversely, perhaps you score 2 or lower every time you are doing a repetitive, detail-oriented task.

Create a chart or agenda that separates each day of the week into approximately 2-hour blocks of time. For one week, record what you are doing at each point in time, as well as your mood on a scale of 1 (Depressed) – 5 (Elated).

As ENFPs, we often forget that our moods are largely dependent on our habits, behaviors and environments. By becoming conscious of which external stimulus corresponds to which of our moods, we can begin to organize our lives in a way that maximizes emotional stability.

It’s unglamorous to admit that the majority of our struggles are born out of a simple lack of self-neglect. But they are. And if we truly want our moods to stabilize, we have to engage our extroverted thinking and introverted sensing to take concrete, definitive steps toward managing them.