Comments on: How to Use Your Time Personality to Increase Writing Productivity https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/ A Blog On Writing Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: gini https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-129048 Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:52:44 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-129048 I took the test and found I was fairly balanced among all 3 perspectives, with future being slightly higher and present being slightly lower. So now I'm really confused! One thing I didn't like about the test: the graph (I know, you said to ignore it!) "is simply our idea of what an ideal time perspective looks like. We have included it, so you can have an indication of how to improve your time perspective." That really rubbed me the wrong way. What makes them arbiters of what your orientation should be? Aren't we supposed to learn from our past so we can work in the present to bring about our desired future? OK, done ranting.
Knowing what your orientation is, is very useful and understanding how to work with it rather than against it is invaluable. Your concise descriptions of the various orientations had me saying, "Yup! That's me!" (yes, all of them. Go figure!) So now what I need to do is make a plan, finish what I've started, and take time off more frequently than I think I should. Seriously, all of those things are truly appropriate for me. Great post that will help many get on track.

]]> By: Sherry Ficklin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-129025 Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:58:21 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-129025 I'm a present hedonist with a secondary Future perspective lol. Sounds about right!

]]> By: colleen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128977 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 06:22:47 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128977 In reply to Debbie Herbert.

I know that feeling, Debbie. Can we ever get away from the guilt? Argh!

]]> By: Debbie Herbert https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128976 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 04:05:34 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128976 I was future oriented. I made a conscious effort this summer to have lots of downtime. I'm glad I did it, but often I felt guilty for not working harder. Something to work on! Thanks, Colleen.

]]> By: kalifornicationx.wordpress.com https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128947 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:04:11 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128947 While I'm by no means a believer of star signs, this on the other hand I do find to hold some value. There's truth to this as it implies human nature, and reading this while thinking about others, I see how this can be applied to the way they make decisions.
That being said I do believe it's possible to shift from one time personality to another depending on the situation in question, with a dominant time personality shadowing the majority of them. Outside influences will aways have an affect on our behaviour. It's the reason we change.

]]> By: How to Use Your Time Personality to Increase Writing Productivity – From the Writers in the Storm blog | Author Don Massenzio https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128946 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:39:54 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128946 […] Read the rest of this post HERE. […]

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128945 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:49:27 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128945 In reply to Meg Wolfe.

Meg, with the sticktoitiveness of a future time personality, I have no doubt you will!

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128944 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 05:26:04 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128944 In reply to colleen.

I think that's excellent advice, Colleen!

]]> By: colleen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128942 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 03:09:30 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128942 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

I talk about this quite a bit in the book, Jenny, as I was in the same boat for a long time (and still have to be careful about it). I'll have a post over on WW tomorrow on dealing with the day job, but it's so easy to make the job a priority because it keeps a roof over our heads and that hits us where survival lives. For me personally, I got tired of investing the best of myself in everyone else's dreams but my own. At some point "making meaning" in our lives becomes more of a priority, and for most of us writing is how we do that. I think regularly imagining how you'll feel when you're 80 helps!

]]> By: colleen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/09/how-to-use-your-time-personality-to-increase-writing-productivity/#comment-128941 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 03:04:49 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32188#comment-128941 In reply to dholcomb1.

Oh definitely, Denise! We must focus on those positives! :O)

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