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2022 On My Blog: A Year-End Review

2022 On My Blog: A Year-End Review

Marissa

I realized just today that I’d completely forgot to do my traditional year-end review of what’s been going on with my blog. That’s probably because so much has been going on in my life this year and will be going on next year. I’ll be graduating with my Master’s degree in May and I’m currently planning a wedding for a soon-to-be-determined date in the summer.

Life for me is wonderful right now, and part of that is all that’s been going on here with my blog. Cutting back to just one post a week and focusing on sharing Bible studies has meant less stress for me and it’s been wonderfully encouraging to see how many people are still reading and commenting with this shift.

10 Posts With The Most Traffic

Once again, the year’s most popular post was “What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?” This is the first post in my Spiritual Warfare series, and it’s the basis for my Armor of God Study Guide (which will be available in spring or early summer of 2023). My INFJ and other personality type posts also remain popular.

  1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?
  2. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships 
  3. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
  4. What Do Other People Think of INFJs?
  5. INFJ Dark Side
  6. 5 Relationship Problems INFJs Often Struggle With
  7. How Do I Know if I’m an INFJ or an ENFJ?
  8. How To Tell If An INFJ Likes You
  9. Want to Date An INFJ? Here’s 15 Things We’d Like You to Know
  10. How Do I Know If I’m an INTJ or ENTJ?

Top 10 Bible Studies

As my focus with LikeAnAnchor shifted from personality types to Bible studies over the past several years, the most popular posts shifted as well. As you saw in the last list, my INFJ posts are still getting a lot of traffic, but the Christian posts are also getting more attention. Here are the Bible studies which people read most in 2022.

  1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?
  2. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
  3. Jesus Christ’s First Words
  4. Letting God Define You
  5. When God Gives You Something You Can’t Handle
  6. Reasons to Pray: Building Relationship with God
  7. When God Calls You By Name
  8. The Benefits of Living In Covenant With God
  9. Hearts of Shalom: Nothing Missing, Nothing Broken
  10. Replacing Anxiety with Power, Love, and A Sound Mind

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

Almost two years ago now, I started adding 30-Day scripture writing plans to the resources available on Like An Anchor. You can see them all and download them for free by clicking here. These were the most popular in 2022 (ranked by numbers of downloads):

  1. Love
  2. Compassion
  3. Self-Control
  4. Big Questions
  5. Double-Minded

Countries With Over 5,000 Visors

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I’m always amazed by how many people visit my blog from all over the world. To give you all a glimpse into where your fellow readers are located, here’s a list of the countries home to at least 5,000 blog visitors this past year (I cut this list off at 5,000 simply for the sake of length).

  1. United States
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Canada
  4. Philippines
  5. India
  6. Australia
  7. Germany
  8. Indonesia
  9. Nigeria
  10. South Africa
  11. Brazil
  12. Singapore

Thank you so much to everyone around the world who reads and comments on my blog! It means the world to me to see how many visitors come through here, and to read the comments and encouraging emails that some of you take the time to write and share. May this next year be filled with blessings for all of you ❤

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2021 On My Blog: A Year-End Review

2021 On My Blog: A Year-End Review

Marissa

With 2021 behind us, I’m halfway through my grad school program. I’ve slowed down posting on this blog because of that, but I’ve still posted every week and even released a new book in June (The Beatitudes, first in a Like an Anchor Study Guide series that will continue this year with Armor of God).

As I do every year, I’m starting 2022 with a look back on what’s been happening on this blog. Here, I have top 10 lists for most popular posts. Since I’ve added downloadable resources to the blog, I also have a top 5 list for those. Finally, we take a look at the countries around the world that this blog’s visitors call home.

10 Posts With The Most Traffic

The most popular posts list for 2021 changed quite a bit from the ones in 2020. There are still some posts about fictional characters on this list, but “What Does It Mean To Be Strong in the Lord?” took over the top spot. This is the first post in my Spiritual Warfare series that will be the basis for my next study guide.

  1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord? (12/16/2017)
  2. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships (published 11/11/2017)
  3. INFJ Dark Side (published 3/31/2014)
  4. How To Tell If An INFJ Likes You (published 1/7/2019)
  5. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity (published 8/25/2018)
  6. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate To If You’re An INTP (published 4/1/2019)
  7. What Do Other People Think of INFJs? (published 5/22/2019)
  8. Updated Disney Princess MBTI Chart (published 12/19/2016)
  9. Finding Your Real Myers-Briggs® Type (published 11/2/2015)
  10. Want To Date An INFJ? Here’s 15 Things We’d Like You To Know (published 9/18/2017)

Top 10 Posts For This Year

As usual for LikeAnAnchor.com, all of the posts that got the most traffic on my blog last year were published before 2021. Of the new posts I published, these 10 were the most popular.

  1. What Would the Myers-Briggs® Types Be Like as RPG Classes?
  2. Hearts of Shalom: Nothing Missing, Nothing Broken
  3. What Does It Mean To Be Double-Minded, and How Can We Fix It?
  4. Why Are So Many INFJs Obsessed With Fictional Characters?
  5. Getting Comfy With Your INFJ Personality Type
  6. Psalm 133: Unity Like Oil and Dew
  7. The Curious Case of the Introvert’s Function Stack
  8. Finding Treasures, New and Old, in the Pages of Scripture
  9. “Instead, I am single-minded”: Learning from Paul’s Focus on Jesus
  10. Judge Yourself (and Others) as You Would Like God to Judge You

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

This year, I added 30-Day scripture writing plans to the free resources available on Like An Anchor. You can see all the ones available for download by clicking here. These were the most popular (ranked by numbers of downloads):

  1. Compassion
  2. Big Questions
  3. Self-Control
  4. Double-Minded
  5. Love

Countries With Over 5,000 Visors

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I’m always amazed by how diverse my readership is. I love looking at the world map in WordPress’ reports and seeing all the different countries that blog visitors come from. To give you all a glimpse into where your fellow readers are located, here’s a list of the countries home to at least 5,000 blog visitors this past year. I cut the list off at 5,000 simply for the sake of length (if I included countries with at least 1,000 visitors, for example, the list would be over 50 countries long).

  1. United States
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Canada
  4. India
  5. Australia
  6. Philippines
  7. Germany
  8. Brazil
  9. Indonesia
  10. Singapore
  11. South Africa
  12. Italy
  13. France
  14. Poland
  15. Turkey
  16. Mexico
  17. Netherlands

Thank you so much to everyone all around the world who’s reading and commenting on my blog! I hope this next year is full of blessings for you.

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2020 On My Blog: A Year-End Review In Top 10 Lists

2020 On My Blog: A Year-End Review In Top 10 Lists

Marissa

With 2020 finally behind us, I’m continuing my tradition of taking a look back on the blogging part of my year. It was a crazy year in so many ways, but apparently there was one bright side: 2020 was good for blog traffic. Like An Anchor received almost 300,000 more views last year than in 2019, so thank you all for reading so much!

Posts With The Most Traffic

This year, my posts about fictional characters’ personality types took over the list of my top 10 most popular posts. Also, my article about being strong in the Lord (which has always been my most popular Christian post) made the top 10 this year. I suppose it was a topic that people felt was particularly relevant in 2020.

  1. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate To If You’re An INFP (published 4/15/2019)
  2. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate To If You’re An INTP (published 4/1/2019)
  3. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships (published 11/11/2017)
  4. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate to If You’re An INTJ (published 1/14/2019)
  5. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate to If You’re An ENTP (published 12/10/2018)
  6. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate to If You’re An ENFJ (published 6/17/2019)
  7. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate to If You’re An ENFP (published 3/4/2019)
  8. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord? (12/16/2017)
  9. INFJ Dark Side (published 3/31/2014)
  10. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate to If You’re An ISFP (published 6/3/2019)

Top 2020 Posts

All of the posts that got the most traffic on my blog last year were published before 2020. Of the new posts I published, these 10 were the most popular.

  1. The Enneagram Types As Fictional Characters
  2. Myers-Briggs Types of the Characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender — Azula, Iroh, Mai, Ty Lee, and Zuko
  3. How Do I Know If I’m an INTP or an INFP?
  4. Myers-Briggs Types of the Characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender — Aang, Katara, Sokka, Suki, and Toph
  5. 10 Things That INFPs Find Extremely Annoying
  6. 10 Things That INFJs Find Extremely Annoying
  7. Need Something New to Do? Here’s What Hobby You Should Try Based on Your Myers-Briggs® Type
  8. 10 Things That INTPs Find Extremely Annoying
  9. 10 Things That INTJs Find Extremely Annoying
  10. How Do I Know If I’m an INFJ or an INTJ?

Top Christian Posts

My Myers-Briggs® posts are popular enough that they push most posts on other topics out of the top 10 for the year. Quite a large number of visitors come to my blog for the Christian content, though, so I thought those posts deserved a special mention. Here are the Christian-themed posts that saw the most traffic in 2020.

  1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?
  2. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
  3. Mercy and Truth Meet Together: INFJ Christians
  4. In The Secret Place: The Promises of Psalm 91
  5. As For Me, I Will Serve The Lord: INTJ Christians
  6. That Which Every Joint Supplies: INFP Christians
  7. Reasons to Pray: Building Relationship With God
  8. To Seek And Search Out By Wisdom: INTP Christians
  9. All Your Heart, Mind, and Soul: ENFP Christians
  10. Letting God Define You

Countries My Visitors Call Home

Instead of doing a top 10 list this year, I’ve included every country that’s home to at least 5,000 of my visitors. There are also dozens more countries not on this list–too many for one short blog post. I can’t tell you how much I love looking at the stats and seeing so many different flags listed next to the views that WordPress tracks.

2020 On My Blog: A Year-End Review In Top 10 Lists
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  1. United States
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Canada
  4. Australia
  5. India
  6. Germany
  7. Philippines
  8. Indonesia
  9. Singapore
  10. France
  11. Poland
  12. Italy
  13. South Africa
  14. Malaysia
  15. Netherlands
  16. Turkey
  17. Mexico
  18. South Korea
  19. Spain
  20. Russia
  21. Sweden

Thank you so much to everyone all around the world who’s reading and commenting on my blog! May this next year be one full of blessings for all of you.

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10 Things That INFPs Find Extremely Annoying

10 Things That INFPs Find Extremely Annoying

Marissa

Have you ever wondered why something you thought wasn’t a big deal annoyed your INFP friend? Or why you, as an INFP, find certain things other people don’t even seem to notice the most irritating part of your day?

The Myers-Briggs® types are a tool for talking about how our minds work. They describe the mental processes that we use most comfortably, and these “functions” come together in unique ways for each personality type. Because of the special way our brains operate, each personality type has different things that they typically find annoying.

Of course, even if a group of people share a personality type there will still be plenty of individual differences. For example, some INFPs might not have a big problem with people who make assumptions about them or others. In general, though, most INFPs are going to find the 10 things on this list extremely irritating.

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1) Inauthentic People

This is the first point mentioned in a video made by an INFP from the UK titled “Things That Really Annoy INFPs.” It’d be a good video to watch if you’re interested in the subject of this post. Because INFPs place such a high value on authenticity in themselves they also find  a lack of authenticity annoying in others. In fact, Personality Hacker’s nickname for an INFP’s preferred cognitive function of Introverted Feeling is “Authenticity.”

INFPs tend to approach the world from the inside-out (as do introverts in general). One thing I found very interesting about this video is the INFP who made it said that she thinks INFPs are annoyed when they see in other people things that they fear or don’t like in themselves. It’s not just that INFPs are annoyed with people who are inauthentic and hypocritical (though that’s definitely the case). They’re also annoyed when the inauthenticity of others forces them to confront something inside them that doesn’t match-up with the authentic version of themselves that they want to be. Read more →

10 Things That INTPs Find Extremely Annoying

10 Things That INTPs Find Extremely Annoying

Marissa

Have you ever noticed that something you thought wasn’t a big deal annoyed your INTP friend? Or maybe you, as an INTP, have realized that you find certain things that don’t seem to bother other people incredibly irritating?

The Myers-Briggs® personality types are a tool for talking about how peoples’ minds work. They describe the mental processes that we use most comfortably, and these “functions” come together in unique ways for each personality type. Because of the special way our brains operate, each type has different things that they typically find annoying.

Of course, even if a group of people share a personality type there will still be plenty of individual differences between them. Some INTPs might, for example, see social norms as a necessary evil rather than something that really annoys them. In general, though, most INTPs are going to find the 10 things on this list extremely irritating.

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1) Beliefs That Don’t Make Sense

INTPs have a deeply rooted desire for things to make sense to them. If they have to spend much time around people who hold beliefs that the INTP thinks are nonsensical it’s going to quickly become annoying. An INTP’s favorite mental function is called Introverted Thinking, and they spend most of their lives honing it to sort new information by what does and doesn’t make sense within their framework for how the world works. While they may delight in pointing out an idea’s logical errors, they’ll still be annoyed by people stubbornly clinging to beliefs that make no logical sense.

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2) Rules That Don’t Make Sense

I imagine INTPs are the sort of people who, as children, asked “Why?” often enough to exasperate every adult they knew. Even as adults, INTPs want to know the reason behind rules, traditions, and social expectations. And if there is no reason (or if the reason is something like, “we’ve just always done it this way”) then don’t expect INTPs to be happy about being told they need to follow those rules. Read more →

10 Things That INFJs Find Extremely Annoying

10 Things That INFJs Find Extremely Annoying

Marissa

Have you wondered why something you thought was perfectly innocent annoyed your INFJ friend? Or why you, as an INFJ, find certain things that other people either like or don’t care about the most vexing part of your day?

Myers-Briggs® personality types are a tool for talking about how our minds work. It’s a description of the mental processes that we use most comfortably, which come together in unique ways for each personality type. Because of the special way our brains are “hardwired” to function, each type has different things that they typically find annoying.

Of course, even if a group of people share a personality type there are going to be plenty of individual differences between them. Some INFJs might, for example, might have an easy time adapting to change or won’t care that much if someone interrupts them. In general, though, most INFJs are going to find the 10 things on this list extremely irritating.

10 Things That INFJs Find Extremely Annoying | LikeAnAnchor.com
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1) Deceit and Hypocrisy

One of the top reasons INFJs leave relationships or organizations (like churches) is because they get fed up with lying and hypocrisy. I put these two things together because they effect INFJs in very similar ways. Whether someone is directly lying to them or putting on a show of being something they’re not, an INFJ is likely to pick up on on the deceitful attitude quickly. It’s irritating, it breaks trust, and it drives INFJs away from the people who do it. Read more →