Tag: Personal Development

Part of my personal development is to just put my emotions aside and get things done, outside of my perfectionistic nature, which is very unproductive, being that I don’t start until I have an idea of what the perfect outcome is, and once I’ve started, not feeling complete until it has been done in the […]

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“Your alarm goes off. You hit snooze. 10 minutes goes by. Your alarm goes off again. You hit snooze. Again. One hour and several grunts, groans, and snooze smashes later, and you’re beating yourself for being lazy. You drag your ass out of bed. You look around to see your laundry is in a heap […]

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I have a history of becoming offended by things. The buzzword of the last few years is “triggered”, where something read online gives us that hit of negative emotion (anger, sadness, righteous indignance, and so on) and we feel compelled to blast that emotion outwards with the intent of making the other person “fix” it. […]

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In the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I’m an ISTJ. ISTJs are not inherently very emotionally adept (having our introverted feeling function [Fi] at the tertiary level), but I like to think that I’ve put a lot of energy into developing my emotional intelligence, and as such, probably have more EQ than most of those of my […]

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Being very introverted and an overthinking type, I’ve had the tendency to convince myself that things can be put off because I haven’t thought it through enough or haven’t determined the “perfect” course of action in order to actually do anything yet. So of course, I end up procrastinating, and end up f***ing hating myself […]

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I get it. It’s hard to actually do things, because the probability of failure in something which you have very little experience is non-trivial. So we go ahead and read the blogs, listen to the podcasts. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Suddenly, BAM, you find yourself triggered by something. Maybe an off-handed comment by a co-worker, or a […]

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