Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Out “there”, where you the Reader exists, chances are that at this present moment, you are going to work or waiting for the bus to school (or leaving the dorm for breakfast before your first class) or having coffee before starting the day keeping the household healthy and happy for babies and children.
Today’s Post, we offer one single bit of advice (technically three single bits of advice) to you that will make a difference to you at some point in your day today. Your day will be better because of it.
clarks: make one List of the things you need to do today, (spend no more than 10 minutes on that list) and then…. put the List away. Put it in a place where it will sit until the end of the day. Do not put it among the things you will carry with you throughout the day, do not save a copy (if you are using a computer either print the list and put away or if not printing the list save it to the desktop on the computer.) Now go out and do everything you think you need to do just as if it were the only thing on your List.
(At the end of the day you may look at the list and write us a Comment).
scotts: make one List of the things you think that other people ( your family, your boss, your workers) would be happy to see you do today. Take that List with you today. Check it constantly. When you see the opportunity to do anything on that List, do it. And (this is important) do not tell anyone about your List or about the things you do.
(At the end of the day you may tear up the List and write us a Comment).
rogers: make one List today of the things that you know you have to do, but really hate the thought of doing. Give this List to whoever is the ‘most’ Significant Other in your life at the present time. In the course of the day, contact this person and ask them to read you the List. Try to do at least one of the things that this person reads to you. Keep the List to yourself (and your significant other) do not tell anyone else.
(At the end of the day, ask your Significant Other if there is anything left on the list….and write us a Comment).
OK people!! There it is from the Wakefield Doctrine to you. A better day….
…don’t forget to write that damn Comment at the end of the day.
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A Clark here… Out of the seven things on my list (one of which was ‘chores’), I completed 5. One item was completely untouched today and the other, my tools broke while I was working on it.
BTW, does anyone have a stationary belt sander I could borrow to complete a pine-wood derby car, before tomorrow even? *Ugh* Didn’t think so. :/
“Chores”. One thing never left off of a clark’s list.
Go ahead Mr. Progenitor clark. Tell us why :D
P.S. Can’t help on the sander but damn! aren’t tools marvelous! Hey Molly! You’re going to modify the derby car to allow for skis right? lol
Send us a pic of you wearing your Wakefield Doctrine hat sitting in the derby car claiming all that winter wonderland!
LOL. I clearly remember a scenario from my own Boy Scout days; my dad taking my little yellow pinewood derby car and drilling into the body, and then filling the driil hole with mercury from broken thermometers. It was heavier than the other cars, and I won second place. Terrible example to set for little kids. But I always wondered how the first-place kid’s father managed his. He just had that guilty-as-hell look. I still have that little trophy.
I suspect Dad may have been a closet scott?….not that there’s anything wrong with that.
damn! (how many adults will die of mercury poisoning as a result of SBD car enhancement?) our generation with fathers with Popular Mechanics and Popular Science in hand….god bless the children with scottian parents… “Hey Tommie..we can save weight if we don’t bother with actual brakes! use your hands!
My dad talked about using mercury in the cars. He said the hole had to long, so that the mercury could shift and increase the car’s forward momentum.
So what is it with clarks and chores?
Hello the Wakefield Doctrine ^_^
So out of 8 tasks on my to-do list that I wrote yesterday evening, I accomplished 7,5…
Taking a walk was rendered quite unpleasant by the constant rain and icy wind, so I stayed inside… to no one’s surprise. Then I had written that I should catch up with my diary’s entries… catching up meaning that I have 2 days in time that I have not written about… but instead of catching up with these, I wrote today’s entry – hence the 0,5 task accomplished. The chores of course are all done but for the vacuum cleaning which was not on the list so I am safe :P.
Still waiting for the explanation about the chores though…
(“…psst! hey are they still out there? …. still asking for the explanation/rationale for the advice from yesterday’s Post? damn… you know how….difficu (no)…challeng…(not it either)….scary? (yeah thats it!, scary!)
oh hi! I didn’t see you come in! The why of the chores? Actually it will help to separate the chores from the Lists.
All god’s chilluns gots chores…it is the agency of the assignment of the chores and the organization of the doing of the chores that was at the center of my thinking yesterday…
There is an interesting juxtaposition among all three personality types on the issue of chores and chores lists:
clarks: like to know things and (want to believe) that there is a way of ordering the world that will a) ensure their success and 2) we believe that while chores, in and of themselves are kinda useless, as participation in the real world with real people it is important…which circles back to ‘a’
rogers: like Lists and they totally like chores …seriously, go up to a roger and ask this question (about chores) and the roger will hear what you say as “hey, roger what do you think of your heartbeat?…tell us do you have a favorite bodily function or are they all favorites….
they likes their chores….I remember the following, which is a true story and the progenitor roger can verify it: back in the day, the roger was moving from one house to another and the due to work schedules the main moving day fell to a Saturday. I went to the his house (to help) and the first thing from roger was, “Hey I can’t hang out, I’m really busy* I’m moving today and I have to get all this laundry done first”
True story.
scotts: they believe that they are so action oriented that a list would be superfluous, they will do chores…real fast or until something more interesting/fun shows up and then they will do the chores even faster….
(“…no, I don’t want to look, are they smiling or getting mad?”)
Interesting explanation. I’m not sure what I think of it.
I mentioned chores, because I use the Sidetracked Home Executive (SHE) method for keeping house… It is a box of 3×5 cards with a separate job listed on each card. I arrange them in a practical order in the evening, and then just work through them the next day, and there was NO WAY I was going to rewrite them all down yesterday!
Usually, I write extra things that need to be done on scrap pieces of paper and stick them in my box, then throw the paper out when the job is done/appointment kept. Yesterday, I made the list, as suggested, instead. It works too.
I don’t tend to do many lists, I can relate to the story about laundry is always done on Saturday morning. Maybe because the chores are so engrained, there is no need for lists.
Now about the pine wood derby. I had to look up the heaviest liquid (lauric acid) and the heaviest metal (lead at a amu of 207 is slightly greater than mercury at 200).
I think the best technique would be to melt the lead on the kitchen stove then to pour it into the drilled holes. :)
…’you been told’
(Honey? where are you taking the stove? It’s almost time for dinner… )
A side note:
I used to work at a metal finishing company where I would melt lead in a saucepan on the kitchen stove in the company kitchen – not the safest job I ever had.
Okay… still on the chores things ’cause I never actually melted lead on my stove :) I put the chores on the to-do-list; they are always the first to come down on such a list – although I admit, since I last was in school I had not do one (list) – Anyhow, writing the chores down are making the chores mandatory for me because otherwise I’d only do what I like to do and what actually fulfils my “word junkie” head. The slight twist – if twist there is – is that even if the chores are first on the list, they are last to be done during the day… oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that not everything I’ve done yesterday was actually on the to-do-list.
a) ensure their success
Now, to conclude on the chores subject…
it is true however that a chore like tidying up my study is a way to guaranty my success… a room that is in order will help me think better, faster, understand better what I read and so on… no hindering to the absorption of words & derivatives. So Clark, notion a) “agreed”! :)
2) we believe that while chores, in and of themselves are kinda useless, as participation in the real world with real people it is important
I failed to see how… but I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on that one :D
That’s all folks!
I can totally relate to Claire’s comment about the room being in order. That would completely motivate me to be able to do other stuff, as opposed to having to be beaten like a rented mule.
Last Sunday, apparently all the planets were in alignment with Pisces, Virgo, and the cell tower on Rt. 295, because the unthinkable happened; I had my house to myself for 3 hours. Christmas decorations had to be dissembled and stored, but once that was done, the ensuing clean, open space triggered a burst of activity. I dared to shut off the Perpetual TV…and play music. Wonderful, inspiring, sweet, sweet music.
While listening to Bach, Mozart, Michael Schenker and Iron Maiden, and doing long-overdue A/B comparisons between my Advent Legacies and Polk Audio monitors, I did 3 full loads of laundry and ironed 12 shirts for work.
So now we know what that mule is thinking about when he’s out there plowing the back forty;
a) Bach really is the creator of Western music as we know it.
b) Mozart was incredible, but probably an insufferable brat.
c) Schenker just kills everybody, as illustrated by the smooth midrange in Polk Audio products.
d) Advents have such great bass extension that you don’t even need a sub, and McBrain and Harris are the best rythym section on the planet. On all nine planets…
Oh wait, I forgot…on all eight planets.
I miss Pluto. Mules believe in an ordered universe, and taking a planet away just screws up everything.
lol
(who the hell was it who got rid of Pluto….and what right did he/she/them have to do that?)
…porr fuckin Goofy