All of these numbers can give you an idea of where you are and where you have been. Your Social Security Number isn’t likely to have changed, but your house or apartment number may have, as well as your zip code and your phone number.

EXERCISES:
1. What was your home phone number as a child, or what number did the family use as a ‘home phone’ number? (Most people don’t have a land-line number anymore. One parent’s phone may be used as the default ‘home phone number’). Reduce it to a single digit or master number. What does this number say about how your family communicated with others as a group? Reduce your current phone number to a single digit or master number. What does it say about how you communicate with others now?
2. Do the same thing with the street address number of your childhood home. Is it accurate about what home life was like for your family as a whole? Reduce your current street address number to a single digit or master number and if you live in an apartment building, your apartment number as well. How has home life changed for you now? Is your street address number or apartment number the same number as your home when you were a child, or is it different?
3. Reduce your Social Security Number, first to its component parts, then to a single digit or master number. Do these four numbers make sense to you in terms of what you seek to accomplish in this life?
4. If you know a company’s EIN number, reduce it to a pair of single digits or master numbers. What does it tell you about the company?
5. If you happen to know and recall the childhood and adulthood street addresses, or the childhood and adulthood phone numbers of someone, reduce those numbers to single digits or master numbers. Looking at these numbers, do they accurately reflect how this person’s communications style and home life has changed over the years?