Hi folks! Welcome to Monday!

Actually, I can still hardly believe that it's June. In fact, yesterday was exactly two months away from my 44th birthday. I cannot believe how fast the time has passed.

To tell the truth, I had so many things that I had intended to finish way before now and just haven't gotten around to them. Mostly because I thought that I had more time that I actually did. I should have been more aware because when one gets to their 30's, they realize that time passes quite quickly - something that when we are in our childhood and our teens that we are not experienced enough to know.

For the most part, I really have no regrets. Mostly because regretting things is useless. Time has passed and so one must take responsibility for the way their life has gone so far. However, I do wonder when it will be that I become smarter with money and when I will actually "grow up". The trouble is that I have so many good people looking out after me - especially my mom - so while I have all of these wise tidbits about life and nature, I am actually still just a really old kid. Perhaps I've just had it too easy.

Anyway, I guess I've just come to the conclusion that I have to follow through on things and stop just flitting my way through life. I have to redevelop the skills I've had in past on setting goals and completing them. That way, I can stop being so hard on myself...

Have a great week everyone. I'm going to do my best to do the same.

Okay, so since I wrote this, I was taking a much closer read of Phil Gardner's multi-faceted site and came across a personality test that I took the time to complete. It pretty much fits into why it's so tough for me to get things done sometimes. It appears that I am an Idealist.

Here's what the test results said:

Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.

Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.

Idealists are rare, making up between 20 and 25 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

Hmmm....