It never ceases to amaze me how different my husband and I are.
One of us is the SUPER planner - makes lists, plans ahead, constantly looks towards the future, comes up with strategies and game plans, makes sure the event or task is completed, makes more goals, tries to get things done as quickly as possible. This person has the calendars color coordinated and meals planned for the whole month. Yep that's me.
My husband on the other hand has no real motivation to get things done on a timely manner what so ever. He blogged that he does better with a more tightly time table. He blames it on the fact that he can't make decisions and therefore when you're under pressure you have to make the decision. He owns up to his procrastination and is trying to get better.
Even though we have our many differences we balance each other out nicely. I am clearly and extrovert whereas, he is completely an introvert.
But I found that even though we are both different in how we execute things ... we both can feel super stressed. I start to get overwhelmed even sad when I don't have something planned. When the vacation I planned for 6 months is over and I have nothing more to plan or do. The other issue with trying to always be on the go (other than getting burned out) is getting bored and easily distracted.
My husband on the other hand gets stressed out when he's waited to the last minute and there are problems in completing the task. Things he didn't factor in to the equation and the little things that no one could've really seen. He knows often times if he started the task a little sooner he would have the time to work out all those bugs. He always seems to have the 'bugs' too.
So together we try and figure out good balances of doing things NOW and LATER. I need to be more spontaneous and my husband needs to be a bit more organized... We'll get there.
One of us is the SUPER planner - makes lists, plans ahead, constantly looks towards the future, comes up with strategies and game plans, makes sure the event or task is completed, makes more goals, tries to get things done as quickly as possible. This person has the calendars color coordinated and meals planned for the whole month. Yep that's me.
My husband on the other hand has no real motivation to get things done on a timely manner what so ever. He blogged that he does better with a more tightly time table. He blames it on the fact that he can't make decisions and therefore when you're under pressure you have to make the decision. He owns up to his procrastination and is trying to get better.
Even though we have our many differences we balance each other out nicely. I am clearly and extrovert whereas, he is completely an introvert.
But I found that even though we are both different in how we execute things ... we both can feel super stressed. I start to get overwhelmed even sad when I don't have something planned. When the vacation I planned for 6 months is over and I have nothing more to plan or do. The other issue with trying to always be on the go (other than getting burned out) is getting bored and easily distracted.
My husband on the other hand gets stressed out when he's waited to the last minute and there are problems in completing the task. Things he didn't factor in to the equation and the little things that no one could've really seen. He knows often times if he started the task a little sooner he would have the time to work out all those bugs. He always seems to have the 'bugs' too.
So together we try and figure out good balances of doing things NOW and LATER. I need to be more spontaneous and my husband needs to be a bit more organized... We'll get there.
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