Identity Crisis

What's your identity?

Does your identity fall into any of the 6 TDF patterns, 9 Enneagram of personality, 12 Horoscope Signs, 12 Chinese Zodiac signs, 5 Elements, chinese eight-word, or any combination of these?

What if you don't find any? Even worse, what if you find yourself in many of these? Does that make you a freak? And if you are so lucky that you can find a single pattern that represents your true identity, should you celebrate?

Unlike other living things, humans are highly complex creatures. An attempt to stereotype humans is trying to over-simplifying it, and simply denying the fact that humans are intelligent beings. It will get the job done, but it does not fully represent the reality.

This is not to say that studies and findings of identity or personality types are without statistical truth or academic value. But ignoring the possibility of mixed identities and personalities, and blindly categorizing ourselves to a single classification is simply too naive.

Are you a Rooster, a Scorpio, a DTF, a FTD-TFD-DFT, an Asserter, or all of them? If the latter is the answer, then that already proved no single classification best describes your identity. Your identity will be better represented by a combination of the above and the more the better.

The best answer lies within you. You should know better than anyone else for only you truly know yourself inside and out.

Nowaday

Nowadays, life is so predictable.  It is so typical that every single day is the same.  Work and Life have now joined-up, work is life and life is work.  Luckily, my life is all about having fun.

Looking into the past weeks, my typical day goes like this:

(*) Work out meeting agendas in the head

Rehearse next day meetings and workshops (in the head, of course)

Rehearse next day presentations (in the h..., ok, you got the idea)

Rehearse Q&A sessions... dreaming up difficult questions people will ask, and funny answers I will give... It's like watching a comedy movie...  fun stuff

Go through the inbox in my head,

'Draft' answers in my head,

Play out different scenarios that will come up in the next work day... IMH

Twist and turn (physically, no shouting)

Smile, laugh, snore (not too loud, I hope), mumble, yell

Repeat  (*) 2-3 times

(#) Hear the sound of the alarm at, well, a couple hours too soon than I wished

Pick up the clock, turn off the alarm, reset the alarm, turn on the alarm, put the clock back to its place.

Repeat (*) 1-2 times

Repeat (#) 3-4 times

Smash the alarm clock.

Get up, do the toilet routines, shower, iron clothes, get dressed, drink water, take medicine, pack up notebook, keys and badges

Run for the car

Forgot the keys.. and lunch bag, go back inside

Really running for the car

Drive, listen to music

Check Blackberry

(@) Scan and reply 50 mails

Yawn ... x 78 times

Repeat (*)

Conference call at 8am.. damn

Make the call, listen in, raise tough questions that nobody can answer, turn blackberry on mute and LOL, turn off mute, answer the question myself: "Hey, I've got an idea..."

Racing thru the streets of RVB

Got caught speeding, pullover, salute to RCMP, thank you for the ticket, and ... RUN

Got to office late, park at P4, still yawning

Arrive Level 2, speed to office, hook up notebook and turn it on,

Freshen up, pick up coffee from pantry

Take a sip.

Wake up. Repeat (*)

Attend meeting (Repeat * and @)

Got caught by colleague for budget questions

Meet with boss (Repeat * and @)

Interrupted by big boss for budget questions

Chair meeting (Repeat * and @)

Lunch... well... fill up the stomach (Repeat * and @)

Bob: "Dude, do you have a minute?"

Attend meeting (Repeat * and @), yawn, running out of patience

Coffee

Facilitate workshop (Repeat * and @), change agenda, go crazy on the board

Boss: "Dude, I need an update in 5 minutes"

Join conference call with HK colleague (Repeat * and @)

R: "Can we talk before you go?"

1-on-1 with staff (Repeat @).  Rescheduled.

Brain dead.  Reboot.

Boss: "Hey, let's do 1-on-1 before I go!"

Dude: "Sure!"

Repeat @

Return to desk, pack up notebook.

Run... stopping by R and say "Don't work TOO late!!"

Drive home,

Debrief meetings and workshops, cracked a few laughs, Repeat @

Plan to finish a few office tasks at home

Got home,

Set up notebook, damn... left the power adaptor at work...

Get comfortable, eat, watch TV, surf net, facebook, gmail, hotmail, msn, cnn, apple, yahoo finance, blog, wash, yawn, surf net, facebook, msn, blog, yawn...

Determined to wake up at 4am to do the work

Set the alarm clock

Go to bed

BTW, I prefer to start my day in my dream.