Tag Archives: enneagram 4

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  Are you making life harder than it needs to be?

  Posted on June 9, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  Yesterday, I had an epiphany. Over coffee (as usual). Have you had a bad day that, on the face of it, didn’t really need to be horrible?  Do you notice that setting an intention for the day changes how you approach the day? Bonus Questions Particularly for Enneagram Fours: Are you a “coffee snob”? (Or [...]

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  Thinking about what fits. And what doesn’t.

  Posted on March 10, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention

  Being a unique person who doesn’t quite fit in well can be a beautiful thing. But there’s another way to think about fit–what fits in your life and what doesn’t.

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  The Glorious Freedom of Not Having to Make a Decision

  Posted on January 12, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention

  I’m resistant to making certain tasks more routine, scheduled and automatic because it feels like a restriction to my freedom. It’s not. There is a glorious freedom in not having to make a hundred decisions.

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  It’s all in the quality of construction.

  Posted on July 27, 2009 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  I’m not a huge fan of personal drama, believe it or not. That said, it somehow seems to find me anyway.  In great abundance, at times. Don’t get me wrong–as a younger woman, I was every bit the melodramatic enneagram 4 drama queen.  Personal drama serves a purpose.  It can be a lovely distraction from [...]

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  The Real Problem with Being “High Maintenance”

  Posted on November 18, 2008 by Kat French in managing attention

  A while back I wrote a post on being “high maintenance,”  in which I promised two things: first, that I was going to work on getting back into proper habits for self-care, and second, that I was going to blog about it weekly. Well, I have at least followed through on the first, if not [...]

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