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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘well, seeing how it starts on a Friday, 2016 may just turn out to be cool 12 months’

January 2, 2016 By

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No, I’m serial! It’s a near-scientific fact that Years that begin on a Friday are way, way cooler than, say a Year that starts on a Monday or a Wednesday. Ask anyone!

This is the first TToT of 2016. Which, as years to be alive in goes, is pretty damn cool. It is so far in the future. Growing up in the 1960s reading science fiction, I’m struck by the fact that most of the writers of that era, (1940s to 1960s, the so-called ‘Golden Age of Science Fiction’), when they needed to have a date for some future event, or maybe the setting for a time travel story, rarely left the 20th Century. Other than Yeager and Evans,* there seemed to be no need to imagine the 21st Century much beyond 2010. Anyway, I lost my train of thought… oh yeah, the future and how cool it is to be this far into it. That and the drive to self-improve oneself is on the minds of most of the people that I interact with, here in the ‘sphere. And there’s this, the TToT, I’m sure there must be a roger in the group who has the exact date of when Lizzi started this thing and that way, we could figure how long we’ve been at it… yearistically-speaking, of course.

To the Grat List!

1) this here bloghop here, the TToT. A lot of things can be said about the benefits of a regime of cultivating gratitude for the things of everyday life. All very true and, for the most part, already said better than I might. For me, the primary benefit is (to be found) in the continuity of the community that’s formed around this the TToT. The theme (of gratitude) is not particularly unique, in fact, to borrow an expression from an author that I enjoyed reading in the above referenced period of time, the field of gratitude blogs is so crowded that ‘you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one (gratitude blog)’.

2) Friday Night vidchat… always fun, even if the topic is dream-murder and flying (or, as some of us prefer, bounce-flying) you never know who might drop in… last night it was zoe and Denise, Lizzi and Kerri and it was a good chat

3) the Graviteers over at the Gravity Challenge: Christine, Val, Kristi, Lisa, Joy, Sarah and Lizzi (yes, she does get around!)

4) zoe’s  Six Sentence Story every Thursday, 1/2 writing exercise, 1/2 fun and 1/2 skills enhancement… you really need to join us

5) ‘Blogdominion‘ in Chapter 12 (due to hit the newsstands this Sunday)  in which, we visit with Tom and Cheri Fearing, Tom is getting what he things he needs to be a good husband and Cheri is worried that the news of a addition to the family might cause discord in the the-Family-that-wants-to-be and we’ll catch up with Maribeth Hartley as we learn the information that Sister Margaret Ryan has un-covered in the late Father Noonan’s Journal and Stephen Eddington is in Chicago visiting his mother and is called for a meeting with the new VP of IT Services who makes Stephen an offer that it might be unwise to refuse… meeting Anya Clarieaux certainly ratchets up the stakes for our young engineer…. join us this weekend for all this and more!

6) Phyllis for having the quality of self that sees that things like tree houses are easy to see in a context of being 5 to 13 years old, but to see how something like a tree house can manifest to an adult and have the will to see it brought into reality… v cool

7) Una dog. perfect. lifeform.

8) the SGV (the Seven Guard Virgins) the people like us (well maybe like some of us… no! not saying anything about anyone in particular, Dyanne!) who remind us that the beauty of this virtual world is that, while, by definition, we can be anyone to anyone, we must face a certain judgment on the purity of our motives and intention… and, I for one, know that the next-to-the newest GV totally is into me, I know I saw her smile at something I wrote last week. just sayin.

9) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) the BoSR/SBoR allows that the simplest standard of successful participation be recognized, i.e. it is not the number of items, the clarity of the description, it is not the turning lemons in to apple turnovers, it is not even the level of skill of the participant. It (this standard that is manifested by the existence of the SB0R/BoSR) recognizes that it is the participation, with good intent, that is the measure of success for a TT0T list.

10) 1.3  the first of the Secret Rules and the one that most symbolizes the difference between the TToT and most other exercises in gratitude. SR 1.3 states that the act of completing a TToT list is, in fact, a valid item for said List.

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TT-ho-ho-ho-T -the Wakefield Doctrine- the Christmas 2015 Tour

December 26, 2015 By

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This should be a fun list. (Early, and hopefully necessary* warning: no lifeforms were taken advantage of or otherwise surprised merely for the sake of dramatic and/or humorous effect).
Christmas this past week. One should be permitted to claim, by virtue of participation in such a 800 pound gorilla of holidays, the entire List of Ten Items, without having to type the words. But, that is not our way. Here, at the bloghop that Lizzi built, it is within the act of engagement, of participation that the benefits and values are to be found.

Did someone say, ‘Yeah, sure we’ve all seen the gif children swarming through the pages of ‘the Facebook’ like ants on a piece of cinnamon toast left on the patio in early summer, they’re everywhere. But…. but! where are the sharing of the Christmas canine?

1) Una’s Christmas 2015

2) the Wakefield Doctrine  because, well as my old Latin Teacher might have said, ‘sine qua non, binyon, sine qua non’

3)tree houses, which now have Chimes, which all X Chromates will tell you are essential to a proper domicile

4) the weather!! call me selfishly narrow-minded and insensitive to the future generations, what with their having to contend with rising sea level and such, but it’s great!

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5)Bogdominion  Chapter 11  on it’s way!  (Spoiler Alert!  Maribeth gives Sister Margaret a ride to the Convent from O’Hare… lets just say there were no shenanigans….at the airport!  We catch up with Stephen Eddington, who’s in town to visit with his elderly mother but finds himself in a surprise meeting with the new Head of Omni Corp’s IT Services Division and there’s something funny going on at corporate, although, if you ask Steve about this guy’s secretary, don’t expect him to laugh! All that and a Alice Willoughby confides in her mom about something that’ s scaring her.)

6)leftovers are so integral to the proper enjoyment of holiday meals…. so, lets think of this, Item 6, as being your favorite Grat Item of the entire year…whatever it might be

7)my co-hostinae: Christine and Lisa and Kristi and Kristi and Sarah and Michelle and Dyanne and zoe and… Lizzi

8)the Graviteers!  this is truly one of the most remarkable things of the 2015 year… christine, kristi, val, lisa, joy (yells and whistles, (the high-pitched type of whistle that only scotts can do…make or female) in the back of the audience or school yard…) sarah and lizzi  You are the Champions!

9)oh yeah!  that new frontier in bad holiday behavior?? we all know, that my wrapping skills are the worst among Y Chromians at least in North America… but  but! this year I’ve raised the bar. First let me describe my ‘home office’, which is the back bedroom in our house. It’s nice because a) it’s a good sized room and 2) there are windows that look out into the woods… very peaceful like, and, it also serves as a Guest Room on the occasion we have house guests. In any event, right next to my desk are the two closets that you expect in a bedroom. They’re used by Phyllis for over-flow and off season clothing storage. So you can image my surprise when glance at the closet what should I see but a price tag at the end of a string dangling from a sleeve! …now I’ve spent a lot of time talking about how astute and totally perspective those who come here   more than once are…so I need not go into detail as to what came to mind when I saw the perfect present in the closet!  I. Am. King. of Present. Givers!! (do your own visual of me as Leonardo and we’ll call it even.

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10)SBoR/BoSR  SR 1.3

*of course I discussed it…after Christmas morning, but before post

 

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 17, 2015 By

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damn! I just realized that I forgot to start this post at my office, as I always do. It has been, of late my way…. nothing much, just an intro, maybe some word yeast and then tomorrow morning it’ll be ‘Alex? I’d like Six Sentence Stories for $500.00, please!’ But here I am at home and, while this part of the process is necessary, it’s my …..’warmup’, I’ve grown accustomed to typing at work.  Good thing I’m not a roger, otherwise this would bother me much more than this. Wait a minute, who am I kidding, if I was a roger, I wouldn’t have forgotten. And, if I had forgotten, I would either have gotten back in my car or I would’ve decided to change everything about how I write zoe’s little, ‘so you think you can write’ challenge and declare this new way, ‘the only Way I can write a Six Sentence Story‘.

damn! close one!

Prompt word of this week’s Six Sentence Story is ‘Range’

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He had been running long enough to lose the panic, though not long enough to be out of danger.

It started with a walk, the path of which intersected an area that he knew, even as he tightened the laces on his shoes, with some prescient echo from the future, like the scent of a saber tooth tiger to a Lower Paleolithic ancestor, that he was running, yet not caught, brought none of the relief he always felt, youthfully fleeing these same dangers.
He knew that he was being pursued, that was never in doubt.
How much of his heart was in his role of successfully fleeing prey, therein was the new thing, and without giving shape or form this this feeling, he knew that it held the seed of his capture and defeat.

…he reached the point where the certainty that he was out of range  had grown to the point where he began the debate of the question, to look back or speed up, this consideration always gave nearly as much pleasure as the act that followed.

He felt a touch.

 

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘lets get this here week started!’

December 14, 2015 By

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(lol… no! wait! I’m sure there’s a mature and reasonable explanation for today’s Post photo!)

…nah, nothing I can think of, other than it reminds me of the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)  The idea of picking a photo or image and letting that prompt me to write a Post goes way back to the beginning of this blog. Kinda fun, actually. And….and! in ways, not nearly as disturbing as when I write the Post first and then pick whatever image that jumps off the page at me. More often than you might think, some underlying theme of the Post manages to influence my fairly un-deliberate decision process. Actually what’s more disturbing is when a theme that I’m unaware of (at least consciously unaware of) becomes dominant because of the image.

hey! speaking of TAT and the Wakefield Doctrine, get a load of this:

“…(Henry A.) Morgan and (Christiana D) Murray decided on the final set of pictures, Series D, which remains in use today. Although she was given first authorship on the first published paper about the TAT in 1935, Morgan did not receive authorship credit on the final published instrument. Reportedly, her role in the creation of the TAT was primarily in the selection and editing of the images, but due to the primacy of the name on the original publication the majority of written inquiries about the TAT were addressed to her; since most of these letters included questions that she could not answer, she requested that her name be removed from future authorship. ” (from wikipedia)

Anyone out there care to tell us the predominant worldview of our Ms. Murray?  lol  yeah, I know!  too easy!

Speaking of fun on a Monday morning, Chapter 9 of ‘Blogdominion‘ is out and live and ready for your readification!  If there’s anyone out there who has not yet read this here serial here, I would totally owe you one, (I don’t know… maybe be a character in the story at some point? intrigue me), if you would read the story from Start to Finish and write a short review in the site (jukepop). If that’s more than you have the available time for, a comment about what you enjoy and what (if anything) you find confusing about the story would have me eternally in your debt.

the Wakefield Doctrine is described as a tool that can help us better understand the people in our lives. Well, it’s true. It can also help us understand ourselves better than we already do. Of course, this requires us to identify our own predominant worldview. How challenging this process is has everything to do with a person’s predominant worldview (and/or their secondary aspect), but I think, this early Monday morning, I’m going to be somewhat coy and not reveal the quick ‘n easy approach to determining your personality type.*

As to using the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine as you venture out into your world this Monday in December? Know the characteristics of the three worldviews by heart, observe the people you come into contact with and ask yourself this very simple question, “how does this person relate themselves to the world around them? as a(n) Outsider(clark) would…all mumbly, aggressively deferential and full of un-realistic hope? or as would a Predator(scott) fast-moving, fast reacting, hungry for life to the point of eating everything/anything, even that which makes them sick, because the appetite is point, life is for living, or (perhaps) this person relates themselves to the world around them as would a Herd Member(roger) so certain, so sure in the fact that the world makes sense, if only enough people are brought together and there is no greater value than to demonstrate the Right Way for all to access.

like that

 

*experienced Readers and DownSprings are now nodding and saying, ‘yeah, and those New Readers don’t realize that their own response to this holding back could answer the question, in and of itself’

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘come on, who out there doesn’t think kindly of Tuesday, the most innocuous of weekdays!’

November 17, 2015 By

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Well, yeah, with a subtitle like today’s, you’d have every right in the world to think, ‘heck! that’s good enough for me… thanks! Wakefield Doctrine!’

…but wait! there’s more! (if there is any Reader out there who did not see that coming, please write a Comment, I’d love to hear your opinion of the rest of this here Post here).

Blogdominion’ Chapter 5  is on the shelf…. or, being a serialized novel, would that be more properly, ‘is available’. I did, as a young clark, watch Saturday morning serials such as ‘Flash Gordon’. Each episode would end with what is referred to as ‘a cliff-hanger’. So if you would be so kind as to go and read the story (Prologue and Chapters 1-5) and let me know what you think of the series. Not just that you like it, though, if that’s all, then, as we say at ‘the Gravity Challenge’, ‘I’ll take it!’  I would welcome any reaction or impressions of the characters and the (developing plot).

Hey! How cool is that? I’m actually writing a Post asking Readers to go read something I wrote. That, Ladies and Gentleman, is the Wakefield Doctrine at it’s finest.

The Wakefield Doctrine is not only coolest, most fun way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives, it is also a very good tool for self-improving yourself. The reason this is true, (the part about being good for self-development), is that when most of us identify a need to change something about ourselves, (could be anything: elimination of bad habits, change in appearance, acquiring some longed for strengths), what almost inevitably happens is that we think that we have to learn something new, change our behavior in new and novel ways, and generally act differently. No! not necessary!  (here’s why)

the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that we all live in, what is best described as, a personal reality (aka worldview), and the Wakefield Doctrine holds that there are three characteristic worldviews that everyone finds themselves waking up to each morning, (i.e. predominant worldview, aka personality type):

  1. the reality of the Outsider (clarks) where from the day we became aware of ourselfs we have been trying to: a)hide our difference and 2)learn to be the way it seems everyone have learned to be, real and normal and self-accepting
  2. the life of the Predator (scotts) simple, dynamic, un-fettered by introspection, living to live…. loudly!
  3. the world of the Herd Member (rogers): certain and related, (related to the Herd which, in turn, conveys a sense of belonging that transcends locale and situational differences), for a roger, the Herd is always there, it just not not necessarily show itself

…ok, still with me? Now one of the under-lying principles of the Doctrine is that we are all born with the potential to find ourselves in any of these three realities and we always find one to grow up in, but we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’.
In other words, I have access to the world of the Predator and the world of the Herd Member. (In fact, the Doctrine allows that sometimes we have a more highly developed ‘secondary aspect’ and that shows in our behavior from time to time, but that’s a whole ‘nother Post.)

The thing of it is, when I decide I need to change or self-improve, it’s not like I have to learn something that is totally new, un-natural or inconsistent with who I am! All I have to do is find, in my case, the target behavior as it’s manifested in my scottian or my rogerian aspect.

OK! I’ve officially lost myself in this Post.  lol  so I’ll leave it right here. The truth of the matter is, most of the Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine know the Doctrine nearly as well as I do!  So, any questions as to why the Wakefield Doctrine is so helpful for self-improvement?

 

 

 

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