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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2007, 05:07:46 PM »
They key there is to be reasonable about what you put on your list.  I've put way too many things on the list and I get discouraged every time.    Now I try to put only the things I really think I can get done.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2007, 05:09:27 PM »
Quote from: Chris on November 19, 2007, 11:21:02 AM
This maybe a little late, but how about a dry-erase board in an easy to see area that has a "To do" list on it this way it's there until you finish it. I personally like to keep lists of things that I have to get done and then cross them off when I'm done. I don't really feel 'complete" until it's done.

That's not a bad idea. I've got two of those types of boards in my office. Think I'll start using them.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2007, 05:35:44 PM »
Quote from: Detta on November 20, 2007, 05:07:46 PM
They key there is to be reasonable about what you put on your list.  I've put way too many things on the list and I get discouraged every time.    Now I try to put only the things I really think I can get done.

Ditto. I find myself overwhelmed sometimes with how many tasks I need to complete. I'm trying to work it down to a select few that I know I can accomplish.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2007, 01:21:37 AM »

I never got to the first item on my to do list:

1.  Make a to do list
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #29 on: December 05, 2007, 11:41:06 AM »
Quote from: danadane on November 07, 2007, 11:57:42 AM
I agree with the judge here...and to be honest sometimes you just have to figure out what's going to work for you, all on your own.  Another interesting thing is taking a personality test.  Sounds cliche' but if you answer honestly it can at the very least open your eyes to some new perspectives on how you handle life.  I'm not talking about some garbage e-mode half ass test either, take the Myers-Briggs.

That's interesting, we had a unit on that in my Career Development class- evaluating our decision-making patterns.  Also, our prof had us take the Srong Interest Inventory, the Myers-Briggs, and something else I forget what, and then evaluate how the results/tests will be important in helping our clients.

Mostly I see that as a time killer though.  My Myers-Briggs result was ENFJ.  I stand by my list making/taking regular breaks to do other work and to relax a bit.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2007, 12:45:51 PM »
ENTP over here, apparently Q is one also.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2007, 04:56:53 PM »
I'm ENTP and the wife is an ENFJ.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2007, 06:46:02 PM »
I'm an ENTJ whether I like it or not.  For a time, when I was younger, I attempted to resist that, but anymore I not only give in to it, I have embraced it.

Life has been a lot easier for me since I have done so.  Particularly since I learned this little tidbit that that website sums up so eloquently:

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"Unequivocating" expresses the resoluteness of the ENTJ's dominant function. Clarity of convictions endows these Thinkers with a knack for debate, or wanting knack, a penchant for argument. The light and heat generated by Thinking at the helm can be impressive; perhaps even overwhelming. Experience teaches many ENTJs that restraint may often be the better part of valor, lest one find oneself victorious but alone.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #33 on: December 14, 2007, 07:35:40 PM »
I was summoned for jury duty this week but got myself excused. When on of the lawyers asked me "Is there any reason why I wouldn't want to have you on the jury?" I responded "Yes, actually. I have the attention span of a gnat." The judge then asked when I was going to apply to Law School.

Anyways, apparently I'm ISFJ according to some online test I just took. As much as the concept of this being a Protector Guardian* sounds nice and noble, I really don't see myself as identifying with any of the examples they use.

*http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=2&c=protector
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2007, 02:29:33 PM »
Wow, we're exact opposites.  I haven't met many ISFJs.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2007, 08:39:50 PM »
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #36 on: December 18, 2007, 04:58:02 PM »
Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on December 05, 2007, 12:45:51 PM
ENTP over here, apparently Q is one also.

Q from Star Trek or Bond?   :-D
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2007, 04:59:22 PM »
INTJ on MTBI test.
Frickin' mastermind.
Girlfriend's an ENTJ.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2007, 06:57:28 PM »
Quote from: Anyanka_was_framed on December 18, 2007, 04:58:02 PM
Q from Star Trek or Bond?   :-D

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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2007, 08:08:36 PM »
http://typelogic.com/intj.html

Apparently, I'm like BOTH Hannibal Lector and Clarice Starling.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2007, 08:16:20 PM »
The real question is what would these results translate to in terms of what D&D class we'd be?

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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2007, 08:21:39 PM »
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2007, 08:49:14 PM »
Quote from: pbsaurus on December 18, 2007, 06:57:28 PM
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #43 on: December 18, 2007, 08:50:02 PM »
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #44 on: December 18, 2007, 08:57:58 PM »
I'm also the Mastermind (INTJ).  What surprises me is that for the first time (to my knowledge) Demo and I got different results.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #45 on: December 18, 2007, 09:42:55 PM »
Quote from: Vespertine on December 18, 2007, 08:57:58 PM
I'm also the Mastermind (INTJ).  What surprises me is that for the first time (to my knowledge) Demo and I got different results.

Are you and he brother/sister or something? Or just really good cyber-friends?
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #46 on: December 18, 2007, 10:31:09 PM »
Quote from: Twizted on December 18, 2007, 09:42:55 PM
Are you and he brother/sister or something? Or just really good cyber-friends?
They are the same person logging in with 2 different screen names.  You really don't pay attention, do you?

Can you figure out my other persona on here?  It's not difficult.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #47 on: December 18, 2007, 11:04:27 PM »
I used to post as Evonus but I tired of repeating myself.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #48 on: December 19, 2007, 01:22:43 AM »
I was secretly... never mind.
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Re: How do you stay motivated?
« Reply #49 on: December 21, 2007, 03:13:33 AM »
My handle before this one was thunder3davis.
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