How many of you have sat through a company-administered Myers-Briggs evaluation to find your personality type? I know I have—several times—only to discover my profile is an INFJ. These are four more letters that I don’t need to memorize, when my birth date and name will suffice.

What executives all over the world need to know is your birth date can tell you a lot about your career choice; and I am not going to discuss your Life Path number. As a seasoned numerologist, if I hear someone else tell me what their Life Path number is, I’m going to revoke his/her esoteric access. Get out! Literally, remove yourself 😊.

Seriously speaking, your birthday number is your key to understanding what gifts, talents, and abilities you bring to the table from birth—the aptitudes brought in from previous lives if reincarnation isn’t a sore spot for you. Your birthday number is pertinent to your development as an executive because many of you rely on these skills as opposed to the skills that are inherent in your name—your raison d’être … your reason for being … your life purpose.

Someone who’s born on the 1st, 10th, 19th, or 28th of the month can easily fall in to a leadership position because these numbers, when added together, are all one. One is the innovative leader and pioneer who doesn’t take orders well and often needs a team to complete tasks and execute the vision. One is a starter but not a finisher. One is aggressive, arrogant, and driven. Now if this sounds like you but you find you’re unfulfilled in your current post as a manager, executive, department head, etc., it makes perfect sense to me.

Your purpose is your name. If your name isn’t a one as well, then you may be using your leadership abilities in the wrong way. It’s imperative to understand your birth number—your innate talents and abilities; your destiny number—your life’s purpose; and then your life path number—what you are here to learn over the full course of your life in support of fulfilling your destiny.