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Sunday TToT the Wakefield Doctrine (what is the opposite of a ‘wordless TToT’? that’s correct! overly-specific, personal ad hominae statements)

February 23, 2014 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

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(…lol you shoulda seen what I just deleted! It was a ‘set up’ for my list, about 502 words…and that was just the intro. The best way I can characterize it? When I re-read it, I couldn’t understand it, and even allowing for a fever (which, at times is not the worst thing to afflict a co-host), I could not, for the life of me, follow along. I’m mentioning this because, though I deleted the intro, the majority of what follows came out of that introduction.)

This Week I am grateful for, to, about, in regards to, in reflection upon and any other syntax that makes sense, the following:

1) Lizzi, in her Post yesterday, mentioned ‘time and blogs and the person who is affected by the both’:

“And it’s not to do with obligation, because I know I can think of Ten Things, easy-peasy. It’s about the writing, and not showing up here with just a list and nowt else (though I know if I want to, I can totally do that – it’s my freakin’ hop, after all).”
My immediate reaction: ‘hey! I was there when you started to use the whole gratitude list thing. And it wasn’t the format for a very popular bloghop. It was your effort to pull yourself out of a dangerous place (one that all clarks are all too familiar with) and it was, in part, your determination to ‘follow the instructions’ that came with the Use Gratitude to Transform Your Life. What impressed me then, and a part of the reason that I’m still here, is I saw what it took for you to write a gratitude Post…just because you believed that it would help you get through the thing that you were getting through…. no blog hops, a handful of fans/readers…just your determination.

2) so, this past Friday on the video chat? we were talking and Denise (girlieontheedge) was having technical difficulties and we all discussed the problem and concluded that perhaps if she simply shut off her computer and signed back on it might help, and we all agreed and then we talked about whether that would (interrupted by bad audio) and about 10 minutes into this conversation we all agree that she would the next time it really got bad, that she would probably try the sign off thing and Christine signed-in. As we all greeted her, it became apparent that Christine had connections issues as well and I said, “Hey Christine, if you discon……CLICK!!!”   We were all still laughing when she signed back on…god! I’m grateful for the scotts I know…

3)  Dyanne, well because if I ever found myself on the Titantic with Dyanne, as we left our cabin for dinner, I am certain she would say, ‘clark, don’t even think about leaving this room without your lifejacket!

4) Michelle is, of course, our resident roger, and therefore plays an invaluable role in …perspectivising the situation

5) a ‘sharp angle Close’ in which all objections of the prospect are eliminated but one and the salesperson will ask, “if I can show you how you are a scott, will you buy a TankDoc?”

6) youtube!  totally grateful for it… for reasons that are no longer apparent (because I threw away about 502 words from the initial draft that would have made today’s musical selection appear, if not obvious, then at least not, ‘what the hell? nice tune but…how did we get from cooking shows to the Emperor Concerto?’

7) I expect to be grateful for everyone’s suggestion that the next time I do Wakefield Doctrine clothes that I include tank tops… now, I realize that anything I say in this regards would only ‘work’ if I bring out my scottian aspect… only problem is, this damn cold is already messing with my ‘filters’ and careening down the blog highway as I am, the prospect of cranking up my scottian worldview (so to speak) leaves me….well excited, interested and so not likely to try, at least this morning

8) I’d like to return to Lizzi’s concern (as expressed in her Post yesterday) briefly and say: clarks, for all of our creativity, often over-look the value of shifting our perspective…just a bit, rather than believe that we have to build a whole new thing… that’s about all I can say in this public a forum

9) the Wakefield Doctrine… it’s just so much fun when people demonstrate/illustrate the characteristics of the three worldviews

10) Jean (at Beading and Reading) for being my Muse for understanding how to have italics available in Comments…. Christine!!!   use this: <i>the word you want to be in italics, obviously</i>   no spaces or anything

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clarkscottroger About clarkscottroger
Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

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  1. Lizzi R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    hoping against hope that I possibly perhaps made it FRIST

  2. Lizzi R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 12:17 pm

    Well, overlook or forget entirely. But I’ll try to shift. And feedback was encouraging if not…slightly hollow-sounding to the ears at times. Either I really AM *that* fabulous (which we all know isn’t true, and at some point I’ll be found out) or I have a very agreeable set of groupies. And it does my friends no credit to call them that. None at all.

    So, O Guru – what would you suggest for the shift?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      February 23, 2014 at 10:19 pm

      Lizzi

      nothing immediately obvious, (all of us clarks having gone through this and totally, for the most part, wiped it from our memories, in that we are not all that different from the other two)…but align with the others of your peer…at times like this, it is often a good temporary strategy to devote yourself to discovering that which the others around you seek the most (for themselves) and do all that you can do to bring that about, without… (the tricky part) their necessarily being aware of your efforts…

  3. bethteliho says:
    February 23, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    I’m totally trying the italics things right now Did it work? I’ll have to wait and see. And yay to YouTube.
    Tank tops. Yes.

  4. bethteliho says:
    February 23, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    IT WORKED. Freakin’ genius! I love it.

  5. zoe says:
    February 23, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    I got nuthin….as I am not a tank top nor italics girl…I am so on w lizzis post yesterday. ..struggle w that costantly….all or none clarkiness keeps defying a simple shift…feel better fever man…

  6. jny_jeanpretty says:
    February 23, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    you ROCK!!! !!!! jean !!! xoxoxoxox!!!! get all better, OK?

  7. christine says:
    February 23, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    While you all baffle me, I enjoy the clarks I know. I completely missed the entire Denise debacle and how it related to me. :)

  8. jny_jeanpretty says:
    February 23, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    SO YOU WERE TEASING ME ALL ALONG??? WHEN I TOLD YOU I WAS NAIVE?
    dear Steve Martin, it is Glenn Headley here. I will GET you for this!!!… You won’t know when or where,,,but I WILL GET YOU BACK!!! Trouble in River city!!!! jehnay! oooooooooooh!!!

  9. jny_jeanpretty says:
    February 23, 2014 at 5:31 pm

    tu m’enbete royalement!
    translate THAT! in your face!!@!

    • zoe says:
      February 23, 2014 at 5:43 pm

      I know what that means…. did I miss something? talking about naïve!

      • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
        February 23, 2014 at 5:48 pm

        lets us sit up in this tree (yossarian Catch-22) and watch

        • zoe says:
          February 23, 2014 at 5:59 pm

          Im watchin but I still don’t get it… but it seems best that way… so Im good. I forgot all about Yossarian…read that soooooo long ago… your pool of referential info. continues to amaze me…

  10. jny_jeanpretty says:
    February 23, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    like this: tu m’embête!!! and then the rest!!! ooooooooh!
    I was trying to be polite because I thought you were HALLUCINATING– HEY, FOOL ME ONCE— and you know the rest!!!

  11. Lizzi R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    *BANG!*

    She winds up well, that Jny – there’s a teeny-tiny key riiiiiiiiiiiiiight there in the middle of her back….

    Christine, whatevs dude. Not like you wanted to know anyway, right?

    I see my Beth figured it out all by herself ;)

  12. Achieving Clarity says:
    February 23, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    This blog is so educational!

  13. Katia says:
    February 23, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    First of all sorry about the fever and hope it is old news now. I can totally relate, though, to reading something you wrote and going “huh? Did that come out of me? Do I know these words?”. It happened to me with some university papers.

    I can’t quite find the words I want to use (it’s nearing at 8 pm after a very long day and my brain just shut down) but I thought it speaks very highly of you that you so much of your discussion today was in praise of others and used as an attempt to encourage. That’s noble, dude.

    I was also blown away by this very astute observation: “clarks, for all of our creativity, often over-look the value of shifting our perspective…just a bit, rather than believe that we have to build a whole new thing…” WOW.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      February 23, 2014 at 10:28 pm

      Katia

      …thank you.

      …so that kinda stacks the returns in the clark-column for you (it is always amazing to me, how the fundamental assumptions for clarks are simple to )us and nearly un-perceievable for the other two)… I’m still thinking roger for the spouse. (not that it matters! it is, for none of us to say, they are this and those others are that…however it’s kind of the fun of this thing, ya know?

  14. Kristi says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    I’m so glad you explained that italics thing. All the posts are filled with italics in the comments, and roger me was feeling so clark-like. Now I’m back in the herd!

  15. Denise says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    This was a great post. Great commentation. Wine or no wine:)

  16. clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
    February 24, 2014 at 6:30 am

    that stuff is Lizzi succeeding in using strikethroughs a much sought after art!

  17. findingninee says:
    February 24, 2014 at 10:49 am

    It’s like a new secret rule, using italics in comments now, eh? Sweet! And sorry to hear about the fever. If I ever go on a cruise, remind me to take Dyanne, because reminding me to wear a life jacket to dinner seems like a valuable thing in a cruise-mate. I’ll buy a DocTank and you don’t even have to show me that I’m a secondary Scott. Oh and wow to the Clarks and shifting perspective thing and yeah, totally, I get that. For real.