Grouping Traits
It is sometimes best to address the characteristics you want to change or improve one at a time. But often you can save time by grouping the traits. Your psychology isn't separate from the rest of you, and the parts of it interact. Why not use that fact to develop different aspects of yourself simultaneously?
If you've ever used weight equipment at a gym, you know that you don't exercise one single muscle at a time. Such a specific approach would take forever, and it wouldn't be successful; your muscles are designed to work in groups. The same goes for your psychology. Traits relate to one another, and employing one successfully generally means you'll use others.
Look again at the leadership assessment chart from Appendix A. All of the questions fall into categories, but we can make an even tidier summary, as you're really considering four areas of your life:
Spiritual
Intellectual
Emotional
Physical
In each of these areas, your traits do not act alone; they use other aspects of your personality as accomplices. Because they are connected, what affects one affects them all. Instead of having to address each part of yourself in isolation, you can often group things together and make progress on multiple fronts at the same time.
