Scenario: your mother wants you to design the landscaping for her new house. She says you can do it however you like, and use whatever materials/flowers/plants/constructions that you want. How would you go about accomplishing this? What would be your first considerations? How would you choose which flowers/plants to use, and where to put each of them?
Ti:
<very interesting!>
Te:
I think you took a good stab at it. My thoughts:
First, define operating parameters:
What is the timeline? What is the budget? What is the desired level of effort, and where does this fit in priority to other things? How long do I have to do this? Then I'd need an overreaching mission statement: Why am I doing this, and what do I want to accomplish? All those questions are interlinked, as the amount of time I have may influence my overall objective, and vice versa.
Then I create a plan.
1) Understand
where I am now, aka understand the land. Walk through the area and create a diagram of the yard. Bonus points for a true to scale gridsheet.
2) Understand
where I want to go. This is where the above questions need to be answered.
3) Understand
how to get there. Aka, FEED ME DATA! This is where I'd start asking people I know (or at a landscaping shop) questions about what I need to do and what traps I need to be aware of. Once I have that info, I'd supplement that with internet searches, etc.
4) Put it all together into a plan. Using everything, I can then make decisions and turn my information into a step by step action plan.
5) Execute plan, analyze that things are going well, and make adjustments as necessary.
Another example of Te is how I'd use objective data to feed Fi. So if a statue cost $500, and I have an operating budget of $2,000, I ask myself, is this thing worth 25% of my total budget? If I purchased a less expensive $300 statue, what could I do with the extra $200? Fi then makes the subjective call.
Fi is used to answer the subjective questions above. For example:
Why am I doing this? Because my yard is a mess, and I want to be proud of my yard.
What do I want to accomplish? I'd want my yard to be 'relaxing' and 'welcoming'. Understated, with perhaps a couple of elements of flair to give it personality. ... at that point, Te would take over and gather information to discover what options are available, as Fi subjectively determines if each option works towards that goal.