aLBoP Amore Archives - A Little Bit of Personality https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/tag/albop-amore/ a celebration of people with your adorable host, an ENTP... and her INFJ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:16:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/alittlebitofpersonality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/aLBoP-Favicon-Heart.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 aLBoP Amore Archives - A Little Bit of Personality https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/tag/albop-amore/ 32 32 120501175 3 September Wallpapers (one for anyone!) https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/3-september-wallpapers-one-for-anyone/ https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/3-september-wallpapers-one-for-anyone/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:16:46 +0000 https://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/?p=4523 Hey look, I made some wallpapers!  (Finally…) And one of them is available to anyone, even those who aren’t Patrons!  I’m going to be making three a month to try and catch up on all the many months missed, and each month I’ll make one of them free to everyone. Here’s a preview of September’s […]

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Hey look, I made some wallpapers!  (Finally…) And one of them is available to anyone, even those who aren’t Patrons!  I’m going to be making three a month to try and catch up on all the many months missed, and each month I’ll make one of them free to everyone.

Here’s a preview of September’s free wallpaper!  This one was an idea from the amazing Mariana, who said basically “There’s one pic of Gwen and Phil looking bad a**.” so I added a couple of modifications to the original picture, and here they are!

I would like to imagine this is aLBoP’s tagline: Making definitions look good.  Although I’m pretty sure Gwen and Phil are cooler than me. I’m kind of okay with this.

Get the full-size versions here, in two sizes, again totally free and you don’t have to sign in or anything.

For our $5+ patrons, there are two more!  Quotes from The Four Types of Love and The People of Stranger Things.  Here are the watermarked versions:

The badly repeated aLBoP logo won’t be on the actual ones lol, I just wanted you guys to be able to see the overall preview.  Here’s the $5+ patron-only link for those.  So fancy!

I’m hoping in the months coming to get all our rewards in shape and update them to what you guys want, so if you were considering becoming an aLBoP supporter, it’s a good time.

Let me know what wallpapers you guys want next!  Quotes, stick figures, weird pics of me and Justin, whatever you guys want!  As always, if I use your idea, you’ll receive that wallpaper, even if you’re not Patreon-ing atm, so let me know what you’d like to have as your background!

Oh and let me know if you guys would use phone backgrounds!  I was going to do it for this month, but they’re a little more effort, sizing-wise and everything, so I didn’t want to bother unless I know you guys actually want them.

And as another Patreon housekeeping thing, on our next Thank You vid, I’m planning on adding the list of patrons to the end of the video, but if you’re a patron and you don’t want your first name listed, let me know privately the pseudonym you want, or if you just don’t want to be listed at all.  I want to give due credit, but not if you don’t want me to! 😉

Okay, I think that’s it for now.  If you use a wallpaper, send me screenies!  I’d love to see!! Thank you for all you guys do, especially if you are or have Patreon-ed, but even if you haven’t or can’t.  Support in general means the world to us and I never know what I’d do without you guys.

Much love,
<3 Calise

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5 Years https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/five-years/ https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/five-years/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:37:19 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/?p=3881 Five years today since I posted “Disney Typed: Hercules” and embarked on the first 5 years of A Little Bit of Personality. I can’t tell you what those five years have meant to me. Sure, I’m proud of the breakthroughs we’ve had in understanding human cognition and quantifying the world via basic dichotomies, but that […]

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Five years today since I posted “Disney Typed: Hercules” and embarked on the first 5 years of A Little Bit of Personality. I can’t tell you what those five years have meant to me.

Sure, I’m proud of the breakthroughs we’ve had in understanding human cognition and quantifying the world via basic dichotomies, but that isn’t why I wouldn’t trade these last five years for literally anything.

I can’t tell you what the *people* of aLBoP mean to me, those I’ve met through my silly little collection of stick figures and thought-vomit. The people of aLBoP don’t claim perfection, they claim something better: a desire to be more, to learn more and to understand more. They’re intelligent, caring, and love to think for themselves and add to the things we’ve discovered.

I couldn’t ask for better “readers” or better friends. I use readers snarkily, as people who love aLBoP have become so much more than that.

Thank you to everyone, whether you’ve stuck around for 5 years, as slow as we’ve posted sometimes, or if you just found aLBoP last week.

aLBoP is for you. Every word I write, every stick I make, every person I type, I picture your reactions and how it’ll hopefully make you laugh, make you smile, make you think and hopefully help you feel a little bit closer to being the you you’ve always known was in you.

Love you for realz.
<3 Calise (and Justin)

 

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Bloopers Video to Celebrate 4 Years of aLBoP! https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/intro-bloopers-video/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:12:04 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/?p=3670 Last week marked four years of A Little Bit of Personality, so to celebrate we decided to share a goofy behind the scenes look at our very first video, made three years ago! The filming process took twelve hours straight, with a lot of sweat, a little bit of tears, and a lot of silly […]

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Last week marked four years of A Little Bit of Personality, so to celebrate we decided to share a goofy behind the scenes look at our very first video, made three years ago! The filming process took twelve hours straight, with a lot of sweat, a little bit of tears, and a lot of silly outtakes. Here are our favorites.

Thank you guys for everything you do! aLBoP is made worthwhile by you guys, and we seriously couldn’t ask for better friends than the ones we’ve found through this amazing journey ❤

See the original video here.

Music credits:
Locally Sourced – Jason Farnham
Sunny – Bensound.com
Dance – Bensound.com
Pop Danthology 2012 – Daniel Kim
Funny Song – Bensound.com
Ukelele – Bensound.com
Clap and Yell – Bensound.com

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Halloween Chubby Bunny ~ October Patreon Thank You Video https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/halloween-chubby-bunny-october-patreon-thank-you-video/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 03:10:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/halloween-chubby-bunny-october-patreon-thank-you-video/ Chubby Bunny and expanding marshmallow peeps, in costume!  And maybe even some singing… Uh, pretend this was uploaded on Halloween 😉  We filmed it on the 31st, but weren’t able to get it all edited until the 1st 😛  Don’t forget to leave your favorite aLBoP quote and a video suggestion in the comments, please!! […]

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Chubby Bunny and expanding marshmallow peeps, in costume!  And maybe even some singing…



Uh, pretend this was uploaded on Halloween 😉  We filmed it on the 31st, but weren’t able to get it all edited until the 1st 😛  Don’t forget to leave your favorite aLBoP quote and a video suggestion in the comments, please!! 😀

The web versions of the COGs (Cognition Orientation Guidebooks) are available here.

Click here to learn more about becoming an aLBoP Patron!

Much love,
<3 Calise and Justin

 

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Elsa and Aladdin Give Each Other Advice – Belated January Thank You Video https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/elsa-and-aladdin-give-each-other-advice-belated-january-thank-you-video/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:42:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/elsa-and-aladdin-give-each-other-advice-belated-january-thank-you-video/ In typical aLBoP fashion, this video turned out much later, much longer and much sillier than anticipated.  The requested video was Queen Elsa from Frozen and Aladdin giving each other advice… and well, you can see the rest.     Click here to learn more about becoming an aLBoP Patron.  Click here for more on […]

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In typical aLBoP fashion, this video turned out much later, much longer and much sillier than anticipated.  The requested video was Queen Elsa from Frozen and Aladdin giving each other advice… and well, you can see the rest.

 

 

Click here to learn more about becoming an aLBoP Patron.  Click here for more on Anakin Angst.  And don’t forget to give us more video suggestions and desktop wallpaper suggestions!!!

 

Much love,

<3 Calise and Justin

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December Thank You Video – “My Eyes” Duet https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/december-thank-you-video-my-eyes-duet/ Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:02:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/december-thank-you-video-my-eyes-duet/ Happy New Years everybody!!!  We thought we’d squeeze in the December Patreon “Thank You!” Video… an hour before the new year hits here.  lol Love this song from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, plus some updates and bloopers!  Thank you guys for *everything* and an amazing year!!  We love you so much!!! And don’t forget to […]

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Happy New Years everybody!!!  We thought we’d squeeze in the December Patreon “Thank You!” Video… an hour before the new year hits here.  lol

Love this song from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, plus some updates and bloopers!  Thank you guys for *everything* and an amazing year!!  We love you so much!!!
And don’t forget to leave us suggestions for future videos and desktop wallpapers!  If you’d like to support A Little Bit of Personality on Patreon (or just look at how our group rewards are coming along), click here.  Every little bit helps and we have almost reached the “Guaranteed Major Post” monthly tier (for Super Simple Series, Type Heroes, etc.)!  Seriously amazing, guys! <3 <3  Thank you, times a billion!

Happy 2016 guys!! <3

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Support aLBoP for More Posts!! https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/support-albop-for-more-posts/ Thu, 13 Aug 2015 01:50:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/support-albop-for-more-posts/ Hey guys!  I’m super excited to share with you that aLBoP’s Patreon Page is live!!  This is a way for readers to support aLBoP and be rewarded as a group with guaranteed major monthly posts (like Type Heroes and Facial Typing!!), Q&As, Character Spotlights and more! Even $1 a month helps contribute to the bigger […]

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Hey guys!  I’m super excited to share with you that aLBoP’s Patreon Page is live!!  This is a way for readers to support aLBoP and be rewarded as a group with guaranteed major monthly posts (like Type Heroes and Facial Typing!!), Q&As, Character Spotlights and more!

Even $1 a month helps contribute to the bigger picture of aLBoP and shows us you care! <3 <3  And even if it’s not a good time for you to be an aLBoP Patron at all right now, if you encourage your friends to support aLBoP, you still get the posts and content!  Win-win!

We love you guys!!  Thank you for all that you do!  We can’t wait to bring you all the things you love about aLBoP… faster, stronger, better!  Yay technology!!!

Much love,
<3 Calise

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We’re Listening: Audience Feedback and Patreon https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/were-listening-audience-feedback-and-patreon/ Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:48:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/were-listening-audience-feedback-and-patreon/ Hello there!  Hmm…trying to decide how to start this post.  Lol   I’m feeling very happy 🙂 and sometimes I feel like I’m always starting posts by rolling my eyes or saying something to the effect of “how many times do I have to say this?”, but today I feel contented and like everything is […]

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Hello there!  Hmm…trying to decide how to start this post.  Lol

 

I’m feeling very happy 🙂 and sometimes I feel like I’m always starting posts by rolling my eyes or saying something to the effect of “how many times do I have to say this?”, but today I feel contented and like everything is going in a good direction.  Did I mention that we’ve had lots of great emails and conversations with you guys lately?  That may be a super-large contributing factor! 😉  Also my birthday is on Sunday (Golden birthday!  26 on the 26th!) and everyone was super sweet when I updated my profile picture on Facebook.  It’s been a good week. 😀

 

And so this post isn’t about telling you guys you’re doing something wrong or about trying to ask you to do more; it’s about saying “Thank You” for the things you’ve already done and asking you for feedback so that we can give you more content, get more of your questions answered and help you further on your way to being the most *you* version of you ever!  Basically, we want to get feedback from you on how to give you more of everything that drew you to aLBoP in the first place. 😉

And so I will ask you to *comment*!!!  Please tell us in the comments (or in an email if you’re not comfortable commenting… or have too much to say 😉  These are both common reasons for our full inbox! :D) how we can improve, especially in the areas I’m going to ask about in this post!  Just like how we’re constantly refining our understanding of cognition, like I talked about in the last post, we’re constantly refining how we convey all that information to you and our systems for communicating with you.  Finding new ways to do things just makes everything easier!  And while we might not implement every suggestion, or implement it right away anyway, due to time constraints, etc., we do want to hear all your thoughts and feedback and it may lead us to find new solutions we never would have thought of without you guys!

 

Here are some things I specifically want feedback about:

 

Site Organization

 

Heh, there are a lot of words on aLBoP. 😉  This is due to a combination of *so* much complex information to communicate… and a weirdo content author who types like she thinks.  Justin, my INFJ, often has to comb through my posts and fix really strange sentence structure where I’ll be trying to fit 18 thoughts into one super run-on sentence.  Long story short, (proving my point), it’s sometimes hard to find the content you’re looking for on aLBoP.  In blatant honesty, I don’t know what to do about this and it’s one of my least favorite aspects of working on aLBoP.

 

Between Justin and me, we are aLBoP’s two-man-band.  We’re the Research and Development team, the most behind-the-scenes, unseen job of figuring out, hypothesizing and experimenting on cognition… and researching faces until my brain literally hurts and everyone’s face looks like a squidgy incomprehensible mess.  We serve as content development and communications directors, keeping track of if we’re staying on-message and how to best get that message across.  We’re writers, perhaps the most obvious part of the process, which can make it nerve-racking, but is also one of my favorite parts (except also being editing and grammar… I make Justin do that!).  We’re the advertising department, in charge of all social media outlets and trying to hook people into coming to aLBoP in the first place.  Not one of my favorite jobs :P.  We’re customer service, in charge of handling and responding to all emails, comments, etc. left on all said social media outlets.  That often turns into serving as life coaches or counselors, which is one of our favorite jobs, but means that an email takes *so* much more thought and effort than if we were just running an entertainment, fashion or DIY site.  (Which is one reason we’ve recently put a stand-alone chat option in the aLBoP Shop 🙂  Real-time chats are *so* much faster and more communicative than email!!  Especially when it comes to applying these things to your individual lives.)  And then there’s other roles like film crew, film “talent” (lol!), hair, makeup and costuming (important to me!), film editing (tediousity :P), graphic design/art (one of my favorite things!  Even if the stick figures take a lot longer than they look ;)), CEOs, store managers, and of course People-Who-Type-You-When-You-Order-a-Personalized-Typing (I was trying to think of a title for that job and I couldn’t lol).  It is soooo awesome that with the internet, suddenly these roles that used to require a big team of a ton of people can theoretically be done now by a two-member team wearing pajama pants at side-by-side computers!  But… time is still a factor and often my highly tedious jobs of webmaster and tech support fall to the wayside.

 

I enjoy setting up systems, like the “Browse by” pages, but when maintaining them is a drag and I fall behind, they’ve grown a little unkempt.  Feedback on how *you* browse the site and how to make it easier for you would be quite welcome, because I’ve grown a little unhealthily apathetic about how easy it is to find things on aLBoP, which I know probably shows. 😛

 

Patreon

If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a fantastic crowdfunding website similar in concept to Kickstarter, but for ongoing instead of one-time projects.  Crowdfunding is an awesome thing, again made possible by the internet, of having lots of people contribute smaller amounts of money to fund a project they care about, rather than having to have a single venture capitalist, grant, producer or employer front the cost themselves.  In other words, spreading the cost of an idea, invention, production, etc. across many people in little chunks instead of needing a large upfront sum.  This has enabled so many cool projects to be accomplished that would never have gotten going without the internet!!  And the consumer can get the product they want instead of waiting for a big company, foundation, etc. to give it to them!  Cool, no?

 

And in return, the contributing consumers get rewards for backing the project, both on a personal and group scale.  The more a backer contributes to a project, the bigger rewards they receive, and the more backing a project has overall, the more rewards the group as a whole receives—such as a better version of a product, more features or more content, etc.

 

Patreon specifically is for ongoing projects that don’t have an end date, for people like YouTubers, musicians, bloggers, web comic artists, etc. who are continually putting out new content that their audience is going to continually enjoy and want more of, rather than a product that once finished is finished, and doesn’t need more upfront capital (which is more what Kickstarter funds).  “Patrons” of a project can decide how much they want to contribute on a monthly basis (which, as I understand it, is usually set up to be automatic, but can be canceled at any time) for different tiers of personal rewards, while knowing they’re also contributing to the bigger picture of the project and receiving more, better content for their efforts! 😀

 

Anyhue, it’s the perfect way to help you guys get the content that you want, faster!  It has the benefit of both personal rewards, similar to how our current Support aLBoP system gives, and group rewards like *POSTS!!!* lol  But tell me what you guys want for rewards!  I need your input!

 

Even if you can’t be an aLBoP Patron at the moment (and we totally understand if you can’t!  Though remember, even $1 makes a big difference to us!  And contributes to the group goals), I want your ideas and input anyway!  Maybe you’ll be in a position to back aLBoP down the road, or maybe your ideas will get other people to want to contribute which will get you posts faster too! 😉  Crowdfunding is a win-win.

 

Here are some of the group rewards we were thinking so far:

 

A Monthly Patreon Thank You Video

Yes, I know we only did one thank you video.  Yes, I know I promised them in February.  Yes, I know lots of you supported aLBoP a *year* ago and we still haven’t made them.  Yes, I feel like I deserve to have rocks thrown at my head. :C  I may *always* be behind on things—it’s the hard combination of learning how to handle specific action when it doesn’t come naturally for me… and working with the fact that we’re a two-person company trying to do a much larger job—but I *never* stop appreciating you guys and the wonderful feedback and support you give to us!  I may not be prompt, but I *will* show you guys I care and appreciate what you’ve done!!

 

Ahem.  Anyway, this will be a fun, little video of us doing something silly, that anyone supporting our Patreon campaign can help vote on, even if you’re just contributing $1 a month!  This will probably be the lowest reward tier that we’ll do pretty much if anyone supports us on Patreon at all. 🙂

 

Guaranteed Big Posts Every Month

*Guaranteed* big posts every month, like thorough letter comparisons (“How do Judgers and Perceivers Use Action Differently, but Equally?”), Type Heroes (and the crowd goes wild), the “Super Simple” Series (straightforward explanations anyone can use, with no previous psychological background or reading, that should make everything make more sense), and before too long, Facial Typing Posts (don’t even get me started on how excited we are for you guys to be able to use this system for yourselves!!)!

 

Character Spotlights!

Giving our insights on how certain characters tick and our typing process.  You guys have already requested so many great characters to type, or our reasons behind typing the ones we’ve already typed, and it’ll be fun to talk about how characters apply to real life and real people’s cognition.  Also, it’s crossover heaven!

 

Q&A Quickies

You guys ask amazing questions!!  So. Many. Of. Them.  Lol  No guilt tripping, seriously, I’m so glad you guys ask us questions and give us feedback because that’s how we learn to communicate these principles more effectively!  But I also feel the tremendous weight of over 18 months of backlogged questions riding on me.  This will hopefully give us the chance to remedy that problem.  Regular Q&A videos will give us the opportunity to answer questions for the whole class so you guys can get answers once and for all!  (We’re also *unbelievably* excited for the forum on Phase 2, where you guys can get together and answer each other’s questions too!)

 

aLBoP Meet-Up Trips

As a stretch-goal, one that we’ll let build up over months, we hope to come and visit you guys in your natural habitats!  We want to make special trips (starting domestically of course, international flights are pricy ;)) to come meet up with you guys, spend time with you, help you in person, hold aLBoP workshops, and just get to be closer friends!  Honestly, we’ve had an absurdly large amount of aLBoP excitement from the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) so that would probably be our first destination, but since we live in North Georgia and would be traveling by car, there are plenty of places we could hit along the way if you’d like us to swing by and grab lunch and a selfie together (I think that is the first time I have *ever* typed the word selfie…).

 

As for personal rewards, I would extra love to get your input there, because I’m not sure what you guys would especially want.  I want to give you rewards that you’ll be excited to receive monthly, not just one-time.  That’s been an odd thing with the current Support aLBoP system, the rewards if you donate more than once aren’t especially “stackable.”  I don’t want to give you a bazillion of the same type’s wallpapers, for example. 😉  I also need to make the rewards reasonable to deliver to you without getting in the way of writing posts, etc., while still being exciting enough for you guys! 🙂

 

Digital things are pretty easy (*really* easy if I can give the same thing to many people).  I’ve considered rewards like a new aLBoP desktop wallpaper each month (with stick figures, etc.) or backer requested stick figures of your favorite characters, such as stick-Avengers, stick-Star-Wars or stick-Fellowship-of-the-Ring.  But I don’t know how much that kind of thing means to you guys or what you might like better… so let me know!!

 

I’m hoping to have our Patreon page up and running by early August so that it can fund September’s posts!  😀  Oh, and if you’ve donated to aLBoP in the last few months and I haven’t given you your rewards yet (my bad), I’ll add the amount you gave to our August group total, and you can have the new version of the personal rewards if you want!  (If I haven’t given you everything from a long time ago, you can still have the new personal rewards instead if you want, but I may not be able to count your contribution toward the group total.  You guys understand.)  That way you don’t need to feel like if you had just waited a little while to donate, it could have gone toward posts, etc.  We really appreciate those of you who gave earlier!!!

 

And now that we’ve better streamlined our Personalized Typing system with the COGs, and as we’ve been talking to so many more of you lately, especially in live chats (which, remember, have a stand-alone option now!  Ooooo), we are getting *soooo* excited to release aLBoP Phase 2 and the Forum!!!  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I announced it here.  We have so much more to share with you on Phase 2, ways to help you more fully implement what we give you here on Phase 1.  And the forum…!  The massive percentage of you who email and chat with us, and are so awesome and have so much to contribute to the world… but feel alone.  We hope for the aLBoP Forum to be a way for you to meet together digitally, share your ideas on anything—aLBoP related or not—and just hang out and get to know each other.  It’s like when you have two friends from totally different parts of your life, that both mean so much to you, and you want to introduce them so they can be friends with each other too!  That’s how we feel about all of you!!  And all our recent conversations with you guys have made us want to get there even faster! 😀

 

Aaand… I think that’s all I specifically wanted to bring up at the moment… Oh, wait!!  We’ve added two new pages to the beginning of the COGs in order to dispel the immediate myths and misconceptions that come to mind when you hear about each type, so check those out!  Also we now have a deal on Personalized Typings, that if you buy 3 at a time, you now get an additional Personalized Typing, free!  We wanted to make that bundle option available so it gives you a discount if you want to type a whole bunch of friends, family, etc.!  (We had requests 😉  Don’t feel bad if you don’t want to type everyone you know right away!)  It applies to any price tier, though we only have one each of the $5 and $7 “Love Me Anyway” versions at a time until they get fulfilled and then we replenish them, just FYI.  But you could get like one $25 chat option and two $15 base price and then use the chat to talk to us about all four typings, for example.  You just have to email us pics of each of the four people you want typed, from multiple angles, blah blah blah.  I hope that makes sense. 😉  The discount will apply automatically in your cart… supposedly–this is our first promo so let us know if it doesn’t work for some reason!

lol I think I’m done now!  So go, my pretties!!  Fly to the comments and write your thoughts and feedback!  Nicely though, please.  It is almost my birthday. 😉

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Thank You Video: Beyonce Cover …and Interpretive Dance https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/thank-you-video-beyonce-cover-and-interpretive-dance/ Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/thank-you-video-beyonce-cover-and-interpretive-dance/ Finally!  The first of many “Thank you!” videos!!!  This one was as requested by the lovely Anh… except I sing and lose my voice and Justin… busts a move…  Please enjoy and please believe I can sing better than this! If you’d like to have us do something embarrassing of *your* choice, go here to […]

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Finally!  The first of many “Thank you!” videos!!!  This one was as requested by the lovely Anh… except I sing and lose my voice and Justin… busts a move…  Please enjoy and please believe I can sing better than this!

If you’d like to have us do something embarrassing of *your* choice, go here to learn more 😀

For more aLBoP Amore Month, keep watching here!
<3 Calise + Justin, her INFJ

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aLBoP Amore Month and What’s to Come https://alittlebitofpersonality.com/albop-amore-month-and-whats-to-come/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 01:17:00 +0000 http://www.alittlebitofpersonality.com/albop-amore-month-and-whats-to-come/ Happy February, beloved aLBoP readers!  In honor of the month of *luve* my INFJ and I want to take this month to celebrate how much we love you guys and how much love you’ve shown for us!  D’aww!!   A Little Bit of Personality is almost two years old and I’m constantly overwhelmed at how giving, loving and intelligent you […]

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Happy February, beloved aLBoP readers!  In honor of the month of *luve* my INFJ and I want to take this month to celebrate how much we love you guys and how much love you’ve shown for us!  D’aww!!

 

A Little Bit of Personality is almost two years old and I’m constantly overwhelmed at how giving, loving and intelligent you guys are!  You’re always there showing us your support through both your words and actions.  You’ve been incredibly patient, even when things haven’t always gone as we’ve expected, or when trying to explain things in a brand new way is a little harder than anticipated 😉  Your questions are remarkable, thought-out and unexpected, so often giving me posts upon posts of information I’m bursting to give you! (Once again, patience is always appreciated ;))

 

And so many of you have made the extra effort to not only be readers and fans, but to be true friends; not just caring about the info we can provide you, but caring about us as individuals.  It’s incredible!  And I know, super mushy. 😀  (Cue the “Aw, Mom!  Gross! Can we go and play now?” kind of faces.)

 

Anyhue, in honor of how awesome you guys are, we’ve decided to use February to celebrate that awesomeness in a myriad of ways.

1) Thank You Videos!

We are *finally* going to make and release all the ridiculous videos that aLBoP supporters have creatively (and with evil laughs) suggested!  They are sure to be comfort zone razing, but crazy fun nonetheless 😉

 

2) Catching Up on “Love for aLBoP” Orders

In February I will also be attempting to get *all* caught up on giving out everyone’s digital Thank You gifts, including Thank You emails, wallpapers, and personalized stick figures I haven’t yet given to the generous parties!  I feel soooo bad that it’s taken me this long!

 

You’d think from helping other people with the way they think, by now I’d know that apologizing too profusely doesn’t really help anyone.  Instead I will merely say “Thank you” again, for being so patient.

 

{Bonus: As it happens, I’ve found saying “Thank you” rather than “I’m sorry” tends to be more effective in many situations, as apologizing tends to make both the wronged party and the mistaken party feel resented, while gratitude makes both feel appreciated instead.}

 

3) The Fan Love/Lurve Page

Also long promised, the “Fan Lurve” page will be a compilation of wonderful things fans of aLBoP have done and said!  I still can’t decide if “Lurve” is too silly or confusing, so please chime in and let me know if you like Love or Lurve better! 🙂

 

For months I’ve been collecting quotes of the sweet and beloved things you’ve said about aLBoP and how it’s helped you in your life.  Throughout February I’ll be asking you if it’s okay to use quotes from your individual emails, as testimonials about how much you love aLBoP 😀  Though I figure as long as you posted a comment publically it’s okay to use (though you’re always welcome to request your quote be removed 😉 ), if it was private, like in an email or Facebook message, I’ll definitely get permission first!{Edit 3-3-15: LIES!!!  Actually, my INFJ came up with pages upon pages of wonderful quotes from your emails, and I simply wouldn’t be able to catch up the way I need to if I emailed each of you for permission!  I’m being careful not to post anything too personal and feel free to request your quote be removed or made anonymous!}  Though of course you could help me by either giving me permission, or specifically sending in a brief aLBoP testimonial, if you want! 😀  Obviously that would cut down on the already daunting email load I’ll have for this project 😉

 

Also, pictures!!!  You know I love pictures! 😉  We’ve received a couple pieces of *incredible* fan art which were sent to us completely unsolicited!  I honestly never even thought to ask because I didn’t really think of what we do as being a fan-art-worthy endeavor!  lol  And yet the ones we’ve received have been so beautifully thought-out and inspiring that I get a giant lump in my throat every time I think of them (and not just because I have a sore throat atm :P).  We also have some awesome fan photos, including people wearing their “Keep Calm and Be Yourself” t-shirts and a few readers decked out in Halloween costumes by type.

 

Pleeeeease!!!  I’m not above a little beseeching 😉  Show us your beautiful art and your lovely faces!  They’ll make me super happy, as well as bringing color and interest to the Fan Love page, as long as you’re cool with me sharing.

 

This page is also where the “Friends of aLBoP” sections will list the names or pseudonyms of people who have supported aLBoP!  Yay!!!

 

Oh, and please let me know how you want to be credited, for testimonials, pics, donations, videos etc!  I’ve found this to both be a remarkably important problem and surprisingly forgotten thing to mention, with aLBoP in general.  Some people want to have their full names, websites, pictures, etc., while others don’t even want a pseudonym.  I really understand both ends of the spectrum and in between, but I never know which should be my default assumption.  As general principles, if it’s something sensitive, like a personal question from an email, “he” or “she” might be the most I’ll mention.  If it’s not very private, like a cool general question or a quote from something you said publicly, I lean toward your first name and last initial, or whatever you signed your signature with.  But honestly, people are so lovely and diverse that I usually don’t know what the heck to do and it would be nice if you just told me! 😀  /love rant done.

 

4) A “Fan Stats” Video

This one isn’t super important, but I thought it’d be fun.  So long as we’re not too swamped trying to finish all the “Thank you” videos (I know sometimes I put it in quotes and sometimes I don’t.  😛  I defy you and your grammar!), we’ll do a video talking about reader stats like the top ten countries aLBoP readers are from, what browsers they use and some of my favorite random search keywords!  Okay, that sounded cooler in my head (are you surprised I’m a nerd?), but we’ll also talk about trends we’ve noticed about what types tend to frequent the site the most, who speaks up in comments vs. who would rather email, and which types we wish we saw on aLBoP more because they’re way underrepresented!  (btw, Internet Explorer is waay far down on the list, which makes me so proud <3!)

 

What Comes Next?

What comes after all of this blatant fan fawning?  Well, that’s the thing; the whole point of aLBoP Amore Month is not simply to kiss your little feet, but to catch up, *especially* on the aLBoP Shop before the release of the long-long-long-awaited Modular Personalized Typings!  When we’re finished with aLBoP Amore (and maybe somewhat concurrently), we’ll be finalizing each of the sixteen modular pdfs, in their trademark aLBoP thoroughness, including the release of the remaining Type Angsts so that they can be referenced and applied to each type <3  We’ve also brilliantly (if I do say so myself) come up with even more ways to release them to you with greater haste and volume so no one has to be left out if they want help determining their own personality 😀  Yay!!!

 

Also, be thinking about what kinds of rewards you’d like to see on aLBoP’s Patreon page, which will most likely be coming in March (with rewards in April)!  We want to know what would excite you guys, especially on a personal-rewards basis, and we’re super excited for the group-funded tiers to bring you things like a certain number of guaranteed posts a month, more requested content like Q&As and Character Spotlights, and use it as an opportunity to bring you everyone’s favorite, Type Heroes, more quickly!  This way you guys get the content you want and we’re able to produce it and still have groceries!  Win-win!  All joking aside, you guys have been amazingly generous and we’d still be doing this even if you couldn’t support aLBoP at all… but the pace might have to be glacial.

 

Which, in a way, I think is a great segue into the next soon-to-come on aLBoP 🙂  Actively for months, and in the back of our minds since before aLBoP’s inception, we’ve been working on a new, completely free, by self-invite only (meaning you need an invitation, but anyone can ask for one), advanced-user section of aLBoP.  We’re going to call it aLBoP: Phase 2 (yes, as a call-back to Avengers, because *Avengers!*)  and it’ll be for the people who want more of the kind of content aLBoP has always offered, who are ready to apply even more awesomeness to their own lives, and who honestly want something new and archetypal to open new horizons to them.  It’ll also be a place for awesome people to get together, make friends and digitally hang out on the Official ™ aLBoP Forum!  Yay!!!  Many much yay!

 

While Phase 2 stuff won’t be anything secret, and we hope to lay it out in a format that anyone can understand, we want a little bit of a moat so that Phase 2 won’t be the kind of thing that people come from Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr or Facebook, skim a post, leave a stupid comment, and leave.  While most our readers are fantastic, intelligent, thorough and caring, we do still get the occasional “Seriously?  I literally just answered that *in* that post!  Five times!!  In bold!!!” type readers and comments here in “Phase 1”, which are the kind of thing we want to avoid in Phase 2 with the kind of in-depth content we want to give you 😀

In short…
We are insanely excited about celebrating *you*, our readers and how totally awesome, amazing and rad you are!!  February should be a really fun month but, even more exciting, it’s a promise of things to come.  Because we love you <3 and we want 2015 to be a banner year for you becoming who you truly want to be!

Much love,
<3 Calise + Justin, her INFJ

Stay tuned!  Throughout aLBoP Amore Month content will be linked here:
Thank You Video: Beyonce Cover …and Interpretive Dance
Fan Love!

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