Usually - I am with Dave Shearon here - setting up a positive portfolio type work space and time works. However moving between 2 or 3 computers in different locations in snatches of time really throws a spanner in the works. I believe each of us has a preferred mode of learning and doing; unfortunately the world we work in does not always defer to our preferences.

Dana, great catch - we always learn as we go. Those of us who write without learning may be missing out on the wonder of the ever evolving self which incidently is THE outcome - not the article nor the readers’ reception.

My birthday would have been better if I had hit SEND the night before. That’s the price I paid. Work first play later is harder on self-control than play first sleep later. Jon Haidt’s Elephant reigns and the Rider either suffers passively or plays along.

C’est la vie!
Sulynn

I believe “Get-It-Out-the-Door” is a sub-strength of Persistence, meaning, finishing what one starts. However, Get-It-Out-the-Door implies something more. Many people finish what they start, but they often take a lifetime to do it and often their works are only recognized posthumously, such as French painter Paul Gauguin.

Wherever people have work to finish or a product to get out, there is a tension between making it better and getting it done (Becker, 1986). People with the sub-strength “Get-It-Out-the-Door” are able to strike a balance between producing high quality work and knowing when things are good enough. A “Get-It-Out-the-Door” person knows when to say, “It’s ready. I could work on this for another five hours (or five years), but I’m proud of the state it is in now and I’m ready to get it out the door.”

Sulynn, it sounds like you have enough content to write your blogs for the next year! Love, Margaret

Happy Birthday to you! Thanks for a fast-paced laugh!

Sulynn, you’re also modest because you are able to do so many things in your life, and do them well. We know that there is not a lot of idle time in your life!

Have a wonderful week!

Warm Regards,

David

You gave me the gift of a big laugh. How did we ever finish a capstone project together? But … things do happen, last minutes do arrive, and it will soon be in print.

It’s for me to mention the upside of your Myers-Briggs Perceiving “P” preference . When some of us with the Judging “J” preference get our minds set on something, sometimes we just don’t want to see when something better comes along. So somewhere between us is Aristotle’s expert mean, the perfect point between deficit & excess.

Happy Birthday!
K