Tricks For Perceivers: ORGANISATION AND TIME MANAGEMENT

Tricks for Perceivers: ORGANISATION AND TIME MANAGEMENT

The basis of the first part of this post is that perceivers are most content when they can do stuff whenever they feel like doing them. The idea is therefore to trick your mind into thinking you feel like doing it instead of it being forced. Here’s how you can do that:

1. Change the To Do title to Would Like To Do/Could Do/May Do or something along those lines, whatever you heart desires Though this doesn’t particularly work for me it could for you so I threw it in there. It’s pretty self explanatory - it helps you perceive the tasks as if they’re desired instead of demanded.

2. Switch location (and keep switching it) As long at the place you’re doing the task at is giving you that feeling of novelty that makes you a little bit excited, that’s great. Once it gets too familiar, however, switch it. It doesn’t have to be a drastic change, it just has to be a different place - e.g. a different room, a different table at a library, the opposite side of the table that gives you a slightly different view, different cafe… I wouldn’t change the location until it feels too familiar though because this nevertheless is about keeping the interest higher while still primarily focusing on the task.

3. Work when you otherwise wouldn’t I sometimes wake up at 5 am to study for an hour and a half before I head to school. This is not because I’d enjoy waking up early since I generally love staying up pretty late but because if you decide to do something at a time that’s unusual for you, you’ll probably feel ahead of the game and as if you have your life put together. It’s literally just about putting yourself in the mood for being productive.

4. Play pretend Actually getting ready, dressing into professional clothes or something cozy yet still put together and everything that goes along with that doesn’t only make you appear like you’re a productive and organised individual, it also makes you feel that way which will likely boost your motivation.

However, you’re still a perceiver, so… How to not go crazy:

5. Schedule the “no schedule” time Make it long enough so it actually feels like you have some time without any limitations regarding what to do and when to do it. This is especially important when you have hectic schedules. It may seem inconvenient and as if you’re wasting your time if you do that during the hectic week but if you keep following insane schedules for too long you’ll eventually burn out and end up throwing away even more time. Make it possible so that one afternoon or whichever long enough part of the day in the midst of all the crazy days you’ll have nothing scheduled.

6. Don’t plan, visualise  Visualising allows you to imagine how you could spend your time in the future. This doesn’t put on the pressure to follow a strict schedule but it still makes you loosely determine what should be done the next day and when approximately. For me writing down a To Do list can be somewhat cool as long as I make it visually appealing but following it is a huge motivation drainer. So if I know that there are things that have to be done that already demand much attention and focus (e.g. studying), I avoid writing anything down, I stick to just having a loose schedule in my head.

7. The general rule When there are things scheduled for you, do not overschedule in the free time that’s left for you. When there’s little to nothing scheduled for you, schedule stuff for yourself to stay productive but only make 1 or 2 things per day strict. And not long. Add other stuff on the go.

8. Understand when you can work for a short time and when you just have to keep going to finish whatever you have to do  Generally perceivers handle quicker and shorter tasks much easierly than the lengthy ones but sometimes you cannot avoid the long study sessions unless you planned ahead to avoid studying one day before the exam… but that’s less likely I’d say. Some people suggest to take breaks but beware of falling into a void of distractions and end up searching up for like an hour (or more) some random things that suddenly become so interesting. Once you stop doing the boring task and allow yourself to do something more fun you have to trick yourself into following a schedule all over again and that’s a pain. If I know I have a very focus-oriented busy day ahead of me I’ll prepare mentally the day before and just try to make the best of it, avoiding the breaks as much as possible.

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The “friend zone” and unrequited love are not the same thing. Unrequited love is, “I love you, you don’t love me in that same way, I am sad about that.” The “friend zone” is, “I love you, you don’t love me in that same way, you have therefore wronged me.”

Unrequited love is, “My unilateral crush is my problem.” The “friend zone” is, “My unilateral crush is your problem.”

List of books everyone should read

Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

The Parasol Protectorate and Custard Protocol series by Gail Carriger

The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvatar 

The Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan

The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

Regency Romance books by Georgette Heyer

The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series by Douglas Adams

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Hello! I’m an ENTP, and over the past year or so I’ve noticed my general energy and enthusiasm for life has steadily declined. I tend to get lost overusing my Ne to consider pointless, fictitious scenarios rather than paying attention to what goes on in real life. I would like to regain some degree of passion and have more energy. I realize that with dominant Ne I will always be a bit distracted, but I feel like my lack of energy to do ANYTHING is unusual. Any advice on breaking the funk?

Oh gosh.

This is a problem all the ENXPs I know (myself included) struggle with a lot, but I’m not sure what causes it in each of us rather than inertia and … laziness. See, Ne is the easiest function for you (and the rest of us) to use, which means taking your ideas and making them reality requires lower function interaction… that often involves hard work / analytical skills / follow-through… in other words, thinking functions and inferior Si.

This same inferior Si can cause issues by making you get stuck in a rut, fear you are wasting your life, not living up to your full potential, or that life will never change – the non-creative times in your life will cause you to fear the fog will never left, that you will fail on epic levels. The imbalance between Ne (new and exciting possibilities and ideas) and Si (learning from past mistakes and attending to details) can be… bad.

The myth that Ne-doms never do anything or finish anything is a stereotype; light a big enough fire under a Ne-dom (by choice or necessity) and they can and will get projects done, out of their own desire to see their ideas brought into the real world – that’s a healthy Ne-dom in action: make my ideas real.

Typically, Ne-doms find energy in something they feel passionate about – if you have steadily experienced a decrease in passion over the last year or so, it means somewhere along the way you lost your idealism and/or enthusiasm for whatever you were aiming toward. In other words, maybe you were going to medical school and all excited about that and found out a year in that it’s hard and detail-driven and you don’t like it near as much as you thought… so your passion waned and your energy alongside it.

The cure is to find something that energizes and excites you, which can push you to pursue it with energy instead of lapsing into dreaming and not doing.

A couple of things to remember, in general:

How you start your day matters. Your brain is a computer that has a limited amount of time to boot up in the morning – and how you choose to let it boot up will impact its mental coherency for the rest of the day. People who hit the snooze button and enter a half-sleep cycle fight lethargy the rest of the day; people who choose not to engage their mind and set a mentality of ‘start work’ find it harder to stay focused or get motivated; but the people who get up promptly and create a plan for the day often get a lot done.

When I heard about this, I legit thought that it was idiotic, so I decided to test it over a couple of weeks and monitor my mental process. The days I get right up and do something productive (write reviews, answer e-mails, even write on a book), I feel more alert / motivated for the entire rest of the day; and the days I lay around in bed, only chat with my friends, or watch Netflix before breakfast… forget it, I often have to ‘force’ myself to take action the rest of the day.

Set reasonable goals and reward yourself. If you have nothing to look forward to on the other end, why do it? Give your mind and body what it wants – something beyond a sense of accomplishment.

Exercise. N types tend to think a lot and move not so much. If you lack energy, exercise… it will build your stamina and give you more physical energy. :)

Good luck!

- ENFP Mod