Quiz Result: The Risk-Averse Planner
- Rachel Tenney

- Jan 1
- 2 min read

You're the Risk-Averse Planner
This means that you probably keep learning and planning to feel safe instead of polling your audience or running small tests.
Real clarity only comes from exposure and feedback, but you reopen decisions, stack research, and delay simple experiments that would show you what actually works. When momentum shows up, you may raise the quality bar mid-project or maybe you slow down—so the work stays safely in prep instead of in the world where it can help.
Symptoms Common to the Risk-Averse Planner
- Your planning board looks pristine, but your offer isn’t live.
- You binge educational content instead of taking the next action.
- You reopen decisions after you’ve already chosen.
- You expand the scope mid-project and slide the deadline.
- Your drafts multiply while published posts stay rare.
- You tell yourself you need “more information” instead of running a tiny test.
- A possible public miss feels scarier than not getting real feedback.
How This Affects Your Work & Kingdom Impact
You trade trench-learning for “prep,” so projects and profit wait. Posts don’t publish, invites don’t go out, launches slide, and your pipeline cools. Second-guessing fills your week with re-hashing instead of delivery; simple tasks take twice as long while you chase “one more opinion.” The people you’re called to serve can’t benefit from an offer that never gets tested in the real world, and momentum stalls at the edge of action.
How The Gospel Answers This
God gives wisdom generously; you can take faithful steps with His wisdom without guarantees. Your worth isn’t earned by flawless execution—Christ’s finished work settles your identity—so you’re free to decide, iterate, and learn in the light.
Why a “Put On” Identity
Scripture doesn’t tell us to identify with our weaknesses, but rather to put on what is true of us in Christ. Your quiz result isn’t a label—it’s an invitation to grow, showing you how the Spirit is shaping you beyond your current patterns and into greater faithfulness and freedom.
Your Put On Identity: The Persistent Tester I’m putting off hesitation and over-prepping. I’m putting on small, honest experiments.
Anchoring Statement: I learn when I risk; clarity grows with exposure.
Habits to develop:
I try one tiny test before I add research.
I allow my decisions to breathe.
I measure results, not feelings, before I adjust.
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