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

(from the most excellent movie): “Work, work, work!”

What will everyone be wearing this Spring?

Take a look at what they have worn in the Past!

But enough frivolity!  Today is Monday (the unwelcome sexual overtures of the Workweek), a day that we endure, trying to re-establish the status and position that we believed we had achieved last Friday, but through long (and unpleasant) experience, we are on guard that our memory may be playing unpleasant tricks on us (again!) and so we enter (stage right) in the role of: salesman, accountant, entrepreneur, homemaker, Teacher, scientist, deep sea diver,  guidance counselor, homeschool teacher, mechanic, carpenter, scallop fisherman, artist and writer…. cautiously but (as) forcibly as possible.  So, seeing as this is the Wakefield Doctrine, what is the like attitude of the three personality types, on this fine Monday Morning?

• clarks: don’t look too closely, but don’t hide, you really do have the skills, it’s just that sometimes (alright, a lot of the times), you are so concerned with doing things right that you are constantly double-checking your work and your processes, which is not good, but the worse thing you do? (are you really ready for this?) the worst thing you can do is believe that you need external validation and that your work, your efforts, the things that you do for your family are somehow legitimate only when someone else gives their stamp of approval…. stop that shit
• scotts: hurry and hurry… you and Babe Ruth* you know that it’s important to get everything done carefully and correctly, but how the hell does the mess you leave behind (in the process of: doing a report, fixing the carburetor, teaching the kids the history of the United States, buying the groceries), have anything to do with the quality of your finished product?  how?  they never have a good answer, do they… something about reproducibility or consistent quality, yeah, right!  that’s from those who walk around and observe and do something maybe once and they have the nerve to tell you how to do your job!
• rogers: you’re at home, all is right with the world, if only the workweek was 7 days long, you’d be happy (provided they let you get paid for your rogerian expression**, like that’s gonna happen!) but you know that no one appreciates how hard you work, not only are you expected to do your own work but they don’t understand that sometimes it is more important to bring to the attentions of your superiors how much improvement your ‘fellow’ workers could use, after all, it’s not like you work in a vacuum (though you know that would be tres cool, a spacesuit and those cool remote control thingies… work is the expression of the inept, you know that and all you need to do is get those people who sign your pay check to know it too!

Friends of the Doctrine  Z to A (but in reverse) Week 2!!!

Lizzi   as is only appropriate the first Post of the week in this imaginary place is:   a Fable

zoe:  the Truth about Angel is our friend zoe’s  information Post this Monday:  F is about those feathers (here Mary don’t fight so much)

Jean:  hey everyone!! it’s Mushroom Munday!!!  and jean brought enough for everyone!

Dyanne:  she tends to run a little late, be sure to check back in the afternoon  (you know, I was just thinking, ‘it’s worth the wait’… ) our Miz Dyanne’s contribution…no, I don’t want to diminish the….er  impact  just go here and read!

Michelle (sorry, we missed you last week)   still working on syncing this thing…hey  lets start with this one!

* you know, how he struck out more than anybody at the time, the basic scottian view of ya gotta swing or you ain’t never gonna hit it

** rogerian expression is a very interesting aspect of the rogerian worldview, it is seen when what the person does is their statement of standing (in the world)…. ask a roger!