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	<title>Comments on: Consistently successful careers stem from consistent personal decisions</title>
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		<title>By: Diana Evans</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diana Evans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This post is my favorite.</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If your sex life/relationship was what it should be, he wouldn&#039;t give a damn about your tan (or lack thereof).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If your sex life/relationship was what it should be, he wouldn&#039;t give a damn about your tan (or lack thereof).</p>
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		<title>By: Shadab Malik</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shadab Malik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>your story makes me think i too am inconsistent. thanks for reminding. is there an &#039;inconsistent revival program&#039; somewhere?
btw, that was really like a thriller saga : )
however, you can be thankful to be connected to sooo many good people here just because you have been inconsistent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>your story makes me think i too am inconsistent. thanks for reminding. is there an &#039;inconsistent revival program&#039; somewhere?<br />
btw, that was really like a thriller saga : )<br />
however, you can be thankful to be connected to sooo many good people here just because you have been inconsistent.</p>
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		<title>By: Kim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think all the inconsistency haters should relax with the insults because you&#039;re probably making more money, have achieved more of your goals, and had more challenging and fulfilling experiences than many of them. 

I often attribute my inconsistency to being a Gemini. Famous Geminis are often movie stars or artists....careers that thrive on inconsistency. Kennedy is my one saving grace but we all knonw about his inconsistent extramarital relationship with Marilyn Monroe...another Gemini. 

But I don&#039;t want to be a starving artist or a coked out celebrity. I want to be a serial social entrepreneur who starts all sorts of interesting business ventures throughout her life. I love reading entries like these because they let me know that no astrological sign or accusation of being flighty, fickle, and well...inconsistent, will stop me from being as fabulously driven as you. 

Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think all the inconsistency haters should relax with the insults because you&#039;re probably making more money, have achieved more of your goals, and had more challenging and fulfilling experiences than many of them. </p>
<p>I often attribute my inconsistency to being a Gemini. Famous Geminis are often movie stars or artists&#8230;.careers that thrive on inconsistency. Kennedy is my one saving grace but we all knonw about his inconsistent extramarital relationship with Marilyn Monroe&#8230;another Gemini. </p>
<p>But I don&#039;t want to be a starving artist or a coked out celebrity. I want to be a serial social entrepreneur who starts all sorts of interesting business ventures throughout her life. I love reading entries like these because they let me know that no astrological sign or accusation of being flighty, fickle, and well&#8230;inconsistent, will stop me from being as fabulously driven as you. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: bigwig</title>
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		<dc:creator>bigwig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Penelope -

In general, I&#039;d guess you&#039;d be attractive to ENTP&#039;s.  Over the years you&#039;ve demonstrated a high degree of competence (our most admired and sought after trait).  It took me 3+ years after my divorce to feel on top of life again.  The highly competent part of you will feel like the &quot;majority owner&quot; again someday.  Sooner than later when you just decide to make it so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Penelope -</p>
<p>In general, I&#039;d guess you&#039;d be attractive to ENTP&#039;s.  Over the years you&#039;ve demonstrated a high degree of competence (our most admired and sought after trait).  It took me 3+ years after my divorce to feel on top of life again.  The highly competent part of you will feel like the &#034;majority owner&#034; again someday.  Sooner than later when you just decide to make it so.</p>
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		<title>By: Theresa/oakbeat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Theresa/oakbeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Penelope - from my (albeit limited) observations of you, your work, your talks, your entries - you are so consistent. Are you serious? As evidenced by your following, your identity and your brand. In order to have a personal brand as you do, one needs to be consistent in a way where people will agree about you and identify you through consistent attributes, which you have strongly established. 

It sounds like you need a better personal assistant. You seem too busy to be juggling all of that by yourself. Do you actually have time to research which tanning methods and local services are good? And someone should be keeping track of your making your radio show, etc. And if your life is in your Blackberry, someone should be backing it up. Your time seems way too spread thin that you can be doing all these things and do them without a hitch - that&#039;s not inconsistency, that&#039;s just human (which, don&#039;t forget, is one of your consistent traits - you are very human, er meaning, real).

When I was in college, I learned about &quot;Heart Motives.&quot; There are a zillion different &quot;personality indicators&quot; (including the Myers-Briggs you mention). This one seems to focus on motives of why people do what they do. For each category, there is a &quot;success&quot; type and a &quot;failure&quot; type (not in the least bit meaning positive or negative). So like, Love Me-success, Love Me-failure, Like Me-success, Like Me-failure, etc. And then there is the Perfect Me. As to describe the perfectionist, type-A, one would think. But to my surprise - the Perfect Me-failure is consistent and routine in their lives. Basically, the type that crosses every T and dots every I because they don&#039;t want to drop the ball. Seamlessness is their goal. Failure is unforgivable. Perfect Me-successes, on the other hand, are inconsistent. They are consistent in only one thing - trying to learn different things, expand their horizons, change careers, jobs, make mistakes and learn from them, grow. The Perfect Me-success can never be &quot;consistent&quot; in terms of systemic and routine, because if they are, then they would never grow. They are always in a different place, with different people, exposing themselves to different senses. But, they are consistent. They are consistent in character, and in growth. As evidenced by the ease in which people can identify them from a personality crowd.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Penelope &#8211; from my (albeit limited) observations of you, your work, your talks, your entries &#8211; you are so consistent. Are you serious? As evidenced by your following, your identity and your brand. In order to have a personal brand as you do, one needs to be consistent in a way where people will agree about you and identify you through consistent attributes, which you have strongly established. </p>
<p>It sounds like you need a better personal assistant. You seem too busy to be juggling all of that by yourself. Do you actually have time to research which tanning methods and local services are good? And someone should be keeping track of your making your radio show, etc. And if your life is in your Blackberry, someone should be backing it up. Your time seems way too spread thin that you can be doing all these things and do them without a hitch &#8211; that&#039;s not inconsistency, that&#039;s just human (which, don&#039;t forget, is one of your consistent traits &#8211; you are very human, er meaning, real).</p>
<p>When I was in college, I learned about &#034;Heart Motives.&#034; There are a zillion different &#034;personality indicators&#034; (including the Myers-Briggs you mention). This one seems to focus on motives of why people do what they do. For each category, there is a &#034;success&#034; type and a &#034;failure&#034; type (not in the least bit meaning positive or negative). So like, Love Me-success, Love Me-failure, Like Me-success, Like Me-failure, etc. And then there is the Perfect Me. As to describe the perfectionist, type-A, one would think. But to my surprise &#8211; the Perfect Me-failure is consistent and routine in their lives. Basically, the type that crosses every T and dots every I because they don&#039;t want to drop the ball. Seamlessness is their goal. Failure is unforgivable. Perfect Me-successes, on the other hand, are inconsistent. They are consistent in only one thing &#8211; trying to learn different things, expand their horizons, change careers, jobs, make mistakes and learn from them, grow. The Perfect Me-success can never be &#034;consistent&#034; in terms of systemic and routine, because if they are, then they would never grow. They are always in a different place, with different people, exposing themselves to different senses. But, they are consistent. They are consistent in character, and in growth. As evidenced by the ease in which people can identify them from a personality crowd.</p>
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		<title>By: Beth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whether it&#039;s your blog or your tweets, it&#039;s all about the sex, that&#039;s what it boils down to.  Maslow was right, baby!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whether it&#039;s your blog or your tweets, it&#039;s all about the sex, that&#039;s what it boils down to.  Maslow was right, baby!</p>
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		<title>By: Ulyana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ulyana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Goodness, reading that made very nervous.  I&#039;d lose it, I think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Goodness, reading that made very nervous.  I&#039;d lose it, I think.</p>
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		<title>By: Amber Warren</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amber Warren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I actually laughed out loud with this post. You&#039;re hilarious. It&#039;s ok to change your mind if you decide something isn&#039;t right for you (like the tan). Changing your mind and trusting your instincts is just smart. And you (and I) have freckles. People like us will never be tan and that&#039;s ok; you shouldn&#039;t have to pretend to be anything different from what you are. People like you for you. Obviously.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I actually laughed out loud with this post. You&#039;re hilarious. It&#039;s ok to change your mind if you decide something isn&#039;t right for you (like the tan). Changing your mind and trusting your instincts is just smart. And you (and I) have freckles. People like us will never be tan and that&#039;s ok; you shouldn&#039;t have to pretend to be anything different from what you are. People like you for you. Obviously.</p>
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		<title>By: david rees</title>
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		<dc:creator>david rees</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a couple things:

Most of the &quot;type&quot; systems hold that your type does not change. You gain better access to other functions as you mature and it becomes easier to access other functions.

A persons type is a very high level profile and it is not reasonable to expect that you can ascertain things like how &quot;high maintainance&quot; a person is. Even among those who type as ENTP, there is a very broad range of individuals from loser geeks to electrical engineers to actors to sales people to special forces operatives. We all have different levels of empathy, ambition, social awareness, and other personal interests, talents and strengths. 

The most prominent feature of the ENTP is &quot;extraverted intuition&quot; but this manifests in so many different ways. A lot of ENTPs have long strings of short relationships due to their need for novelty - I have been married for 15 years and I am not even 40 yet. 

We are all unique individuals - just like everyone else.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a couple things:</p>
<p>Most of the &#034;type&#034; systems hold that your type does not change. You gain better access to other functions as you mature and it becomes easier to access other functions.</p>
<p>A persons type is a very high level profile and it is not reasonable to expect that you can ascertain things like how &#034;high maintainance&#034; a person is. Even among those who type as ENTP, there is a very broad range of individuals from loser geeks to electrical engineers to actors to sales people to special forces operatives. We all have different levels of empathy, ambition, social awareness, and other personal interests, talents and strengths. </p>
<p>The most prominent feature of the ENTP is &#034;extraverted intuition&#034; but this manifests in so many different ways. A lot of ENTPs have long strings of short relationships due to their need for novelty &#8211; I have been married for 15 years and I am not even 40 yet. </p>
<p>We are all unique individuals &#8211; just like everyone else.</p>
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