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If it can't be made into playtime, don't bother. You won't do well anyway if it feels like work or like something you're being forced to do against your will.
This is only so much true, because I know, that I'm trying to play Jedi Mind Tricks on me. In the end it is work, whether you love doing it or not. And at the point where you are doing something you love and you recognize it is still work you just don't love it anymore and it could be really anything else instead.
What could work, is that if I get money from somewhere and don't know to which of my activities it is related. In this case I would be truly free in doing what I want and it won't feel like work at all.
Motivation sounds too much like a goal or plan.
Outch, I think you hit a soft spot here. I think at some point you have to overcome your Pness, especially true for me, as I'm in the deep 90s with my P, and get mor J'ish. It is hard to hit invisible targets, isn't it? (Well you could hit them, in the end it is just a function of weapon size I guess. ^^)
I will give you one example. Some years ago I decided to learn japanese, just for the fun of it. I got into courses at University and did really well. Then someday I noticed that with this knowledge I would come one of my dreamjobs significantly closer. (Nintendo has their european Headquarter about 500m from my current place, and I'm really into games, gaming and would really love to work there. They are constantly looking for people able to speak japanese for all different kind of jobs.) But the moment I realised that a real plan emerges from that I stopped doing it. I totally dropped japanese from one second to the other and sabotaged that dreaded "PLAN".
I just realized I did this when writing these lines. OK, this does not surprise me, that is how things have been forever for me.
You could call that stupid or whatever, but that is just the way it is. Like Jenocide says it is just a way of life.
Entropie mentions it is just
entropie said:
an excuse for everything more serious requiring dedication.
I hear that A LOT from my wife (INTJ, although she got a lot more P'ish since she knows me, lol).
I think there is some truth in it as well. For me it is really easy to abandon something because I know I'm able to pick up anything new of similar interest for me in the blink of an eye.
But I don't know if I should give into this. I have been able to resist the urge for the constant new in my relationship. This has been somewhat easy, as we are soulmates and she is able to constantly surprise me. But nevertheless it is a struggle every now and then, because there are just too many interesting women out there, and I'm really flirty. But in the case of my relationship I really feel that being consistent is worth it.
I think it might as well be for working. I'm just so unsecure about it. Underestimating myself much?
End of text. Avatar starers you can stop now