It’s been a reading holiday for me it seems! In addition to numerous blog posts that i regularly ‘consume’, i’ve managed to put away two books this holiday season as well, but that’s not what my post is about though.

A new blog i discovered yesterday was Remarkable Communication, written by Sonia Simone. The specific post which caught my attention was “The Complete Flake’s Guide to Getting Things Done“. Now, i realize that i have a somewhat acute case of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) particularly when i’m not coding, but i never thought that there would be another way to classifify this behaviour.

Simone, very succintly, calls people like me ‘flakes’. but what are people like me?

“Are you smart and motivated and passionate, and have lots of cool things you’d like to get done, but somehow when it comes to doing them, you just . . . don’t?

Are you great at ideas but lousy at execution? Talk a good game but don’t get any results? Spend a lot of time thinking about where you want to go, but not much time actually moving your ass down the road that would take you there?”

Yup, that sounds like me. Wo hoo! i’m a flake! So i’m off to start a new way to getting things done (of which i did precious few today btw)… like writing a bit more! and getting a new theme on this place!