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In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk about the struggles Perceivers have with schedules.
In this podcast you’ll find:
- Scrum Board
- Schedule vs. rhythm
- Judgers create the schedule first then the rhythm comes from the schedule
- But for perceivers, we suspect the rhythm comes first, and the schedule evolves around it
- Perceivers can get unrealistic about how much they can get done at any given time, so they struggle with sticking to a schedule.
- They will abandon schedules because they never seem to work.
- When you have an extraverted Judging function higher up in your stack, it is easier for you to keep track of what is happening over a long period of time.
- EPs fixation is unfettered freedom, so schedules can feel like life has no color.
- They may unconsciously sabotage a schedule to maintain their freedom.
- Judgers put a schedule to paper, and it becomes their motivation.
- To check it off the to-do list.
- Perceivers hate To-Do lists.
- Schedules facilitate you to do the things you want to do.
- All of us have stuff we don’t want to do, but it’s the best way to get something done.
- Perceivers – Make peace with your schedule.
- Schedules don’t have to hurt.
- Find what works for you and craft your schedule around it.
- Schedules are a platform for opportunity.
- When you are trying to figure something out, you aren’t sure which rules you can break.
- So, Perceivers may often look more militant about maintaining schedules than Judgers because they don’t know how to adapt if something goes wrong with their schedule.
- Perceivers can tend to forget what they accomplish, too.
- Celebrate the things you accomplish.
- Create anchor events for yourself that are non-negotiable then fit the other things around the anchor events.
- Anchor events may not happen until you find your rhythm.
- Perceivers – Make peace with the schedule and go with the rhythms of your life.
- Go to bed at a decent time, so you have more energy to accomplish things.
- Drink plenty of water
- Exercise
- Eat nutritious food
- Put your shoes on every day
- Judgers need to make sure they don’t have too much energy sapping things in their schedule
- When they were designing Disneyland, there was a patch of grass people kept cutting through, so Disney told them to pave it and create a path.
- Judgers create this Stay off the Grass situation and force themselves into a schedule that isn’t energy efficient.
- Judgers – make sure you aren’t wasting time and effort by shoe-horning yourself into a schedule that is too arduous.
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As a fellow INFJ I can totally relate to everything you have said here. Especially “Perceivers are definitely more like “The journey is it’s own reward” whereas I am ALL ABOUT plotting out my next destination and then getting there. When my car gets hi-jacked for too long I start to feel like I will never get “there” and then I feel sad and useless.” This explains a situation that I have been having in my life lately where things are not going according to the original plan and I feel like I will never get to the ending point and am feeling distrustful of the process. Also explains why on other personality tests I struggled so much to answer the questions about planning and staying organized because in some parts of my life I am highly organized, but in other areas I am more go with the flow. I was mistyped so many times by other online tests, but the descriptions never quite fit me so I went through a time of “who am I and where do I fit” until I finally figured out that I am an INFJ. The test on personality hacker accurately typed me btw, so thank you Joel and Antonia for your accuracy. I love this online community and appreciate the encouragement and ability to develop my Ni and see it’s strengths and also to learn to set up boundaries with my Fe instead of being the people pleaser that I was raised to be. I have finally found people who get me.
Thank you for the idea of anchor points (infp).
This is me. I’m saving this to refer back to when I get lost in scheduling again!
I’m an INFP and I totally relate to P types being militant in keeping schedules, and staying organized generally. I’m afraid that if I let anything slip it will be a slippery slope and all the discipline I have built to keep my ADHD at bay will collapse.
Part of the stuggle I have as a P is not having a good gauge of how long things will take. I head up a department and have to provide input to the larger team on overall timing. I’m feel like, “How do I know how long it will take, I’m not a psychic!” I do my best but always feel like there’s a huge clock ticking at me.
I love the idea of defining anchor events and making sure to carve out time for creativity. That’s definitely something I’ve been lacking.