To my father, who is [holy crap!] today.
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Love that last line!
You Are Not a Snob |
 In general, you’re a very open minded and kind person. There really isn’t a snobby bone in your body. You are very accepting. You’re not afraid to be who you are… you’re proud of your individuality. |
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Only One?
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You Are Imaginative |
 You are a creative, innovative person. You’re not afraid of great risks. Right now, you are seeking excitement and a bit of adventure in your life. You are drawn to people who are innocent and pure of heart. You feel like there is one major thing in your life that needs to be changed. You make a lot of course corrections in your life. Your first reaction is usually not your final verdict. |
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The Blahs Have It
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You Feel Like Winter |
 You’ve reached a point in your life where you need a lot of downtime. You need to rest, recuperate, and reevaluate. Give yourself this time. It’s possible that you’ve suffered some losses. Or maybe life just has you worn down. |
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Meow?
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You Are Like a Cat |
 You are independent and a bit stubborn. You are content to do your own thing. You are curious about the world but still an individual. You prefer to be a solo explorer. You enjoy your alone time, but you also like some quiet company from time to time. |
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No Wonder It Bruises Easily
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You Are Thin-Skinned |
 You are very sensitive, and quite often, too sensitive. You tend to take everything personally, and your feelings are often hurt. While it’s good to be sensitive, your thin-skin is making it hard for you to cope. |
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But Please Don’t Pahk Me
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You Are A Car |
 You’re the type of person who likes to do things your way. You’re a little stubborn. You’re very expressive and a true individual. You don’t like to compromise. You are a very private person. You value your alone time. |
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Flow
Life may be like a box of chocolates, but Flow is like a good cup of coffee.
Great post about a concept I’ve talked about before, which is central to some of the types of work I do, and not at all necessary to others. At the old business, it was a mix, where I could be anywhere doing anything and answer quick questions that might come up, put out proverbial fires, but frequently not need a flow state at all. That’s the drive-by stuff, the small stuff.
I’m perhaps more needy of it than some, and may even have a harder time achieving the state than some. It’s how I write the best, or at least the most painlessly productively. It’s how I do certain things that are oddly at both the especially creative and especially analytical ends of the theoretical spectrum that calls those distinctive.
I always need it more for the equivalent of loading a program into my head and wrapping my mind around it. Or more accurately, when there is more to load, or material that is less fresh.
I may as well have been a programmer. If I could scrape by for a while and have a lot of uninterrupted time, (re)learning to be one is high on my list of possibilities.
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Would you believe a Kaos freak?
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You Are 20% Control Freak |
 There’s no way you’re a control freak. You’re totally laid back – and able to take life as it comes. While you definitely have a healthy mental attitude, don’t get suckered into letting someone control you. |
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How Appropriate!
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You Are Blue |
 You are a philosophical and often inspired person. You are the master of ideas. You are open to many points of view. You believe that it’s important to communicate and not judge. You have a worldly perspective, and you’re always looking to broaden it. |
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This one was tough
I was expecting to come out “artistic,” and probably could have had I selected different competing answers. There were as many as three of four answers to some of the questions that would all have been equally or near equally valid options for me. In itself an oddity, no doubt.
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You Think Concretely |
 Your brain works best when you are able to see or visualize what you’re thinking about. You have an both an eye for detail and for the big picture. You study things carefully. You are in tune with all of your senses, and you think better with a clean workspace. |
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You are a bit of a perfectionist
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You Are Observant in Life |
 You are serious and stable. You are a bit of a perfectionist, and you like structure. You are happiest when you are inspired and creative. You like to live in the moment. You are sensitive and considerate. You are always putting other people’s needs before your own. You have found what you want in life and are quite content. You know a lot about yourself. |
His wife, who used to look up to him as a glamorous writer, begins to view him as an “unreliable employee.”
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Wow
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You’ve Been Neglecting Your Priorities |
 For you, primal needs like eating and sleeping are your top priorities. You don’t mind having things to get done… as long as they don’t pile up on you. You have trouble giving time to any of your priorities. You life is too busy and chaotic. You want money to be a high priority, but you don’t often get around to it. |
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Feeling Naked These Days
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You Are a Ring Finger |
 You are romantic, expressive, and hopeful. You see the best in everything. You are very artistic, and you see the world as your canvas. You are also drawn to the written word. Inventive and unique, you are often away in your own inner world. You get along well with: The Pinky Stay away from: The Index Finger |
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Marriage and Business
Balancing Marriage and Business
Slide into bed with an entrepreneur, and you wind up cuddling with his business. At a certain point, the entrepreneur’s spouse has to answer the question: Are you in or are you out? It is a question that surfaces in many forms over time. Are you in? In for as long as it takes this business to succeed? In for what is potentially a lifetime of financial risk? Or are you out? Out of patience, out of tolerance, out of your mind with stress and the bitterness of dreams deferred? The entrepreneur usually doesn’t pose the question overtly. Yet the spouse does answer it, by giving or withholding support, encouragement, warmth, and reassurance — the manifestations of love.
My single biggest “what if” involves having had a job rather than a business. Or having set out to close the business five years ago, or dump it on my partners, taking a “real job” instead, be it here or by being the one to relocate. In any event, it really is tough, not like simply having a job, even a relatively demanding one.
On another note, perhaps I couldn’t help being in business or flirting with the idea frequently, since tendency toward self-employment is genetic.
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Happy Birthday!
To Deb’s mother, Peggy.
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Not Nuanced, But Yeah
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You Couldn’t and Wouldn’t Cheat on Someone |
 Cheating is totally out of the question for you. There’s no way you’d do it. You take commitment very seriously. You would never go back on your word. And as far as cheaters go, you don’t want anything to do with them. |
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I Think They Mean “Pushover”
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You Are a Lover |
 You think that there’s no use in fighting, even if you know you’re right. No one wants to hear that they’re wrong, so you try your best to compromise. You have love in your heart for almost everyone. You focus on what you do have in common with people. |