Comments on: The Complete Flake’s Guide to Getting Things Done

By: Emily Rose

Emily Rose — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:01:35 +0000

I totally get this, I am a flake and a darn good one, I have started making progress towards my goals most recently and it feels really good, but I still always find other things to put off until later, and end up doing them at te last minute. But I figure, embrace it, go with it, the things get done when they are supposed to. So I just started implementing more deadlines for myself and things get done. But not too many deadlines, yeah i have a million and one projects I want to do, but I put the majority of them onto the back burner because now is just not the right time for them and I can do them later. It also kind makes me feel good to have things on my list that I can go do when i finish the ones I am working on, I’m never for want of something to do. It makes me confused when people talk about being bored.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:35:20 +0000

A great GTD article. I guess I must admit I am a flake. Been denying it for many years, yet, somehow I this clears things up some. It really is a lot of work Getting Things Done!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:37:01 +0000

I’m a flake. I remember years ago an old man came into the car shop where my stepdad had me scraping paint off of a car and he sized me up and said in a simple flat voice: “Alex, you’re a flake”. I was wounded but I didn’t even know what that was. Was he saying that I’m like a flake of paint, not real, not worth anything? Of course what he meant was that I am not worth anything to someone who wants to use me to get something done, which is actually good! But it was his tone I didn’t like. Of course I didn’t really know that what being a flake means is that I’m not even useful TO MYSELF. So all these years later I notice I have a student in my class who has the attention span of a spider monkey and totally does goofball stuff that is totally inappropriate at random, answers other students’ questions but can’t answer the questions I give him and I then I see that old man coming out of my subconscious telling me to tell him that he is a flake. I then feel rage because I still am not sure what a flake is. I come online and search. Damn, I’m a flake. I know everything that should be done in my life but I am a damned STONE when it comes to doing the drudgework. I have a MASSIVELY inert motivational system all at odds with a totally inspired vision for every facet of my life. I have studied myself and tried to change everything: psychocybernetics, motivational psychology, meditation, drill sergeant-like severity, externalization of memory and process, decluttering and simplifying, reducing everything to some experiential essence so that I can make sure that I choose the most compatible means to an end rather than merely a symbolic one which won’t do, etc etc etc.

I’m looking at this and saying to myself… here we go again, something else that won’t work. But even so, there is something here that rings true. The subconscious is VERY intelligent, and it is protecting me. I don’t have to beat myself up over that. Just have to be honest with it, like you do with your shadow-side in Jungian psychology. I have to ask it what it is really trying to do/not do, let me do /not let me do. Commune with it in some kind of really primal way. Finally I am going to have to admit that I won’t disgrace myself anymore by doing what I don’t feel like doing, and that I always do what I feel like doing when I’m true to myself, so all I really have to do is be true to myself. The other side of a flake is a person who is true to himself and nothing else. Just gotta flip this coin…

By: Rikk

Rikk — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:03:19 +0000

“Way of the Flake” – love this Sonia! And I am completely a Flake. The name is much more elegant, in it’s own flakey way, than a Myers Briggs or other style label.

And knowing that you’re a Flake too gives me hope. You’ll be getting affirmative replies to this post for years to come… Thanks for writing it!

By: angua

angua — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:27:26 +0000

Fellow flakes,
I cannot tell you ho comforting this blog was for me. I am not alone. I have wrestled with flakiness all my life, now maybe I can stop beating myself up about it. Lol. Fabulously useful I will print it and read it every day

By: Paula Lee Bright

Paula Lee Bright — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:19:22 +0000

This post has made me happier than anything has in a long while! At last I see myself clearly. I’m a freakin’ flake. That’s all that’s wrong with me. If I proceed with my two businesses in the manner described, I’ll get it done.

Because ain’t NOBODY works harder than me once I’m going. Once I know what to do. Once my path is clear. Whoohoo! Life begins anew. All I can say is, “Thank heavens for Sonia Simone.” YEHAAA!
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By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:26:43 +0000

Ouch…nothing like a morning gut-punch to put a lifetime of chasing faster, shinier, brighter into perspective. Always intent on changing the world, rarely accomplish more than changing my pants. I will lower my white flag and pivot now…after I get some orange juice.

Thanks a lot for this post. Illuminating.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:39:03 +0000

Ok. I think I just found a way out of Writer’s Block, and it’s not going to cost me a fortune in analyst fees. Thank You!

By: Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 03:42:28 +0000

You rock! I just gotta say that….oh look a squirrel…. where was I? Oh, the post.
You write like I think and THAT keeps me engaged. Keep it up, I’m hooked!

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