Time To Come Clean! What's Your Biggest Flaw?

[onlybygrace]

Re: Time To Come Clean! What's Your Biggest Flaw?

Yeah, but OS is a different kind of breed. I've been to a lot of sports/gaming forums and most of them are just filled with no life teenagers. Here, we have a lot of well living accomplished/successful individuals and people of all different ages. People who are in College. People who are married. People with kids. People with great jobs. People who live in nice houses and drive nice cars. Etc. I guess I just wouldn't expect so many procrastinators, unmotivated, and lazy individuals on OS. But almost every person who's posted has this problem.

There always seems to be time to procrastinate...yet we tell everyone we've 'been so busy lately.'

Hogwash. RUBBISH, even!!!

[BurghFan]

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There always seems to be time to procrastinate...yet we tell everyone we've 'been so busy lately.'

Hogwash. RUBBISH, even!!!

But we have been busy . . .busy procratinating

[VTPack919]

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But we have been busy . . .busy procratinating

Its tough to continually invent ways to put things off. We deserve some credit. :wink:

[Bornindamecca]

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Time management. I've been improving the last year or so, and every step I take towards better time management increases my quality of life drastically. I've been using stopwatches and alarms on myself, and it's been working, but I have to continue to increase my consistency and diligence.

[24]

Re: Time To Come Clean! What's Your Biggest Flaw?

You're back already? Well that was a quick break. lol. Welcome back though, hope it did you well.

And we OSers seem to be a really procrastinating/unmotivating/lazy bunch of guys, eh?

the forum calls me in the night lol. i was browsing recently and as soon as i saw a Kobe Vs. Lebron thread i had to jump in before it got locked lol

[Sausage]

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My favorite sport is......boxing (ok close the thread now, nuff said).

I enjoy and have the ability to relax and lounge. Many relatives/friends find this odd. They call all exhausted and ask me what you doing, my response relaxing and enjoying my home. There response "must be nice", my response "give a try, you will enjoy life a bit more".

[slickdtc]

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I don't speak up when I'm being wronged. Like at work, there are a few people who will get on my case if I'm not running around, doing everything at 100 MPH... yet they'll sit around and be lazy and leave me to do everything. So why am I going to bust my *** and drain myself while you can work at your own pace or do things your own way? I've let one of my co-workers have it once or twice, but things haven't changed. Going to management won't do anything, and I don't want to be defiant, so I just keep my mouth shut, put my head down, and do my work. I just know in the back of my mind that it'll all come around, these people are going to get what's coming their way and I'm going to be rewarded for doing things the right way. I'll keep taking the hit, and then I'll move on to bigger and better things while these people waste away in their minimum wage positions.

So that kind of just turned in to a rant... sorry about that. The point was I'm not forceful enough, I guess I can be a bit of a pushover at first and by the time I decide to put my foot down, no one takes it serious.

And to add to this, I absolutely can not stand confrontation. I hate being the bad guy, and even though I know I'm right, I just can not stand to confront someone when they're acting up or doing something wrong. Heck, when I have done this recently, I get real shaken up and I don't want to come off as some emotional baby or something. I think I just care so much and I wish everyone would think more like me and just do things right and be positive and compassionate. But there's always someone who causes a problem and I don't understand why they would have to go and do that.

Ahhh, that felt good. I've been holding a bit of this in. I let it out and it didn't work, so I told myself I'd keep it in, but I don't know if that's going to work either because it might just end up in an explosion. It's tough taking the high road, doing things right and just feeling good about that on the inside even if you're getting **** on on the outside. One of those slogans they had in the hallways back in high school comes to mind: "Doing the cool thing is not always the right thing, and doing the right thing is not always the cool thing." I guess I've always been one to take the path less traveled...

[ScoobySnax]

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I have a tendency to put things off. Not in the procrastination way that people are mentioning but more so put it out of my thoughts as a way of not dealing with it. This has nothing to do with work,school, etc...

I also have problems with patience when it comes to learning or implied knowledge. I think that everyone should pick up new things fairly quickly and get irritated when someone doesn't know something I view as common knowledge.

Some of these things people listed are not flaws. Anything physical is not a flaw unless you count it as insecurity.

This. Nuff said.

[JBH3]

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Trust issues - I have a problem with giving anyone 100% of my trust. This is because I'm such an honest person, and I know how much people tend to lie. I'm suspicious of anyone I'm just meeting.

Major trust issues for me now that I have a 2 yr old son. Only trust him w/ immediate family, can't bring myself to trust a babyitter, and the result of which is not a lot of time for my wife and I to go out and enjoy each other.

- One procrastination activity is surfing the internet
- Surfing the internet can lead to discovery of cool websites and forums
- Discovery of cool forums leads to registration and posting
- Reading and posting on forums becomes new procrastination activity

Definitely a causal relationship there. Probably no coincidence that people who post a lot on message boards are procrastinaters.

I post a lot, do not procrastinate, and am highly productive at work. Exception to the OS rule maybe...:wink:

I don't speak up when I'm being wronged. Like at work, there are a few people who will get on my case if I'm not running around, doing everything at 100 MPH... yet they'll sit around and be lazy and leave me to do everything. So why am I going to bust my *** and drain myself while you can work at your own pace or do things your own way? I've let one of my co-workers have it once or twice, but things haven't changed. Going to management won't do anything, and I don't want to be defiant, so I just keep my mouth shut, put my head down, and do my work. I just know in the back of my mind that it'll all come around, these people are going to get what's coming their way and I'm going to be rewarded for doing things the right way. I'll keep taking the hit, and then I'll move on to bigger and better things while these people waste away in their minimum wage positions.

Don't make this mistake. You sound like good guy, and people...when threatened, will do whatever it takes to get themselves out of a situation. If you don't document it w/ your boss, regardless of what action they decide to take or not take, you're setting yourself for being railroaded. You seem like a good guy, so I'd hate to see you get the short end of the stick because someone can talk their way out of a situation better than you.

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I'm super duper judgemental. I try to balance it w/ not being hypocritical since hypocrisy is a HUGE pet peave of mine. In addition, I always have an opinion and am usually pretty set in it being (what I think) is a pretty definitive idea (see what I mean lol), and this I'm sure quite a few have come across on the boards.

[MassNole]

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I procrastinate way too much...

This.

[ScoobySnax]

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I don't speak up when I'm being wronged. Like at work, there are a few people who will get on my case if I'm not running around, doing everything at 100 MPH... yet they'll sit around and be lazy and leave me to do everything. So why am I going to bust my *** and drain myself while you can work at your own pace or do things your own way? I've let one of my co-workers have it once or twice, but things haven't changed. Going to management won't do anything, and I don't want to be defiant, so I just keep my mouth shut, put my head down, and do my work. I just know in the back of my mind that it'll all come around, these people are going to get what's coming their way and I'm going to be rewarded for doing things the right way. I'll keep taking the hit, and then I'll move on to bigger and better things while these people waste away in their minimum wage positions.

So that kind of just turned in to a rant... sorry about that. The point was I'm not forceful enough, I guess I can be a bit of a pushover at first and by the time I decide to put my foot down, no one takes it serious.

And to add to this, I absolutely can not stand confrontation. I hate being the bad guy, and even though I know I'm right, I just can not stand to confront someone when they're acting up or doing something wrong. Heck, when I have done this recently, I get real shaken up and I don't want to come off as some emotional baby or something. I think I just care so much and I wish everyone would think more like me and just do things right and be positive and compassionate. But there's always someone who causes a problem and I don't understand why they would have to go and do that.

Ahhh, that felt good. I've been holding a bit of this in. I let it out and it didn't work, so I told myself I'd keep it in, but I don't know if that's going to work either because it might just end up in an explosion. It's tough taking the high road, doing things right and just feeling good about that on the inside even if you're getting **** on on the outside. One of those slogans they had in the hallways back in high school comes to mind: "Doing the cool thing is not always the right thing, and doing the right thing is not always the cool thing." I guess I've always been one to take the path less traveled...

I have a hard time with this as well. Actually, this is probably my biggest flaw. I have a hard time speaking up in general, especially if my opinion is outnumbered. For instance, if my co-workers say I want Taco Cabana for lunch and I'm not feeling it, I'll just begrudgingly go along with it instead of saying that I don't want it. I'm tired of feeling like a bitch for not speaking up. I just can't do it for some reason. It's a lot different if someone is trying to harm my family. I have no problem at all speaking up then.

Also, I've always felt that I had to make sure I was well recieved by people. The fact is, I can't control if people like me or not. I just wish that for once I didn't give a **** about how people felt about me.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

Re: Time To Come Clean! What's Your Biggest Flaw?

I eat my peas one at a time.

[legendkiller5]

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Some of these things people listed are not flaws. Anything physical is not a flaw unless you count it as insecurity.

For me personally, it's more of a mental thing. Unrealistic expectations, maybe? Trying to be a perfectionist? And I think it may be a insecurity issue, too. I used to be a bad shooter, so when I miss a few shots shooting around in public, I feel like it makes other people think I'm horrible when they see that I've missed two three pointers in a row or something like that.

I'm always comparing myself to much better athletes (football and basketball) who get paid millions to do a job for whatever reason.

^ And the pea thing: That ish would annoy me to no end.

[stewaat]

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I can't multi-task and this leads to ignoring the girlfriend mid-sentence and it's very noticeable.

However we both LOL

[Sandman42]

Re: Time To Come Clean! What's Your Biggest Flaw?

Procrastination.

There's some other ones, but I'll put it off until later.