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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly participation in the Ten Things of Thankful(TTOT) bloghop. Founded in 1934, it is among the longest continually published grat blogs.

The premise is simple. Execution, sadly is, like much of life, once the rounded landscape of childhood is left behind, more complicated.

1) Phyllis (with the remote, stage left, getting Una’s favorite Sunday morning show on)

2) Una (appreciating excellent dirt moving)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) work. Well, actually, the grat in this case is the experience of seeing the benefit of the time spent writing these weekly posts. I have a new client. Institutional clients, such as this one, places an emphasis on paperwork and documentation. Fine, am used to, familiar-with, dare-I-say, possessed of a certain skill level in such work. As I was finishing the first phase, involving a set of steps I’ve completed countless times over the years, I stopped, ‘Just to be on the safe side, what-say we read the email instructions. (In our defense, there is a commonality among clients in this type of work, the forms look basically the same, the online platform used very the same). So I read. Then I re-read* Son of a gun! While as familiar as expected there was a new wrinkle buried in the the instructions.

Bullet dodged. And the thought came, ‘Hey! That there’s a Grat Item fer sure!’ And so this Item. (Good example, too, of the fundamental approach to change, self-improvement etc. Practice noticing successful instances of the desired new behavior, strategy.

6) Hypo Grat: whether it is impatience, a false confidence in distinguishing between habit and procedure or plain old laziness, we have come to the conclusion that the old saw** about ‘Measure twice, cut once’ is as valuable in matters of the mind as in affairs dé carpentré.

7) thanks out to Nick for the inspirationing music vids (from the black in his Six)

8) something, something

9) Kristi for remembering to remind us to link-back our TToTs (Seeing how we’re into a later posting than previously the habit)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules)

* See Grat Six ‘Hypo Grat’

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