ACTIVATOR 
"When can we start?" This is a recuITing question in your life. You are impatient for action. You may concede that analysis has its uses or that debate and discussion can occasionally yield some valuable insights, but deep down you know that only action is real. Only action can make things happen. Only action leads to performance. Once a decision is made, you cannot not act. Others may worry that "there are still some things we don't know," but this doesn't seem to slow you. If the decision has been made to go across town, you know that the fastest way to get there is to go stoplight to stoplight. You are not going to sit around waiting until all the lights have turned green. Besides, in your view, action and thinking are not opposites. In fact, guided by your Activator theme, you believe that action is the best device for learning. You make a decision, you take action, you look at the result, and you learn. This learning informs your next action and your next. How can you grow if you have nothing to react to? Well, you believe you can't. You must put yourself out there. You must take the next step. It is the only way to keep your thinking fresh and informed. The bottom line is this: You know you will be judged not by what you say, not by what you think, but by what you get done. This does not frighten you. It pleases you. 

Activator sounds like this: 
Jane C., Benedictine nun: "When I was prioress in the 1970s, we were hit by the energy shortage. and costs skyrocketed. We had 140 acres, and I walked the acreage every day pondering what we should do about this energy shortage. Suddenly I de- cided that if we had that much land, we should be drilling our own gas well, and so we did. We spent $100,000 to drill a gas well. If you have never drilled a gas well, you probably don't realize what I didn't realize: namely, that you have to spend $70,000 just to drill to see if you have any gas on your property at all. So they dug down with some kind of vibratory camera thing, and they told me that I had a gas pool. But they didn't know how large the pool was, and they didn't know if there was enough pressure to bring it up. . If you pay another $30,000, we will try to release the well,' they said. 'If you don't want us to, we'll just cap the well, take your $70,000, and go home.' So I gave them the final $30,000 and, fortunately, up it came. That was twenty years ago, and it is still pumping." 
Jim L., entrepreneur: "Some people see my impatience as not wanting to listen to the traps, the potential roadblocks. What I keep repeating is '1 want to know when I am going to hit the wall, and I need you to tell me how much it is going to hurt. But if I choose to bump into the wall anyway, then, don't worry, you've done your job. I just had to experience it for myself.' ,.