I think since college I’ve worked on building habits: cleaning dishes, creating time-management systems, following through on projects, establishing five-year goals, and so on. My Myers-Briggs interpretation of this habit-forming is I’ve been working on my “J” qualities.
However, I think my personality and work flow is less “sequential.” I think fundamentally I like to spend a week learning about something, learn it/do it really well, and then I’m ready to move on to the next thing that pops into my head. I say this is part of my Myers-Briggs “NP” quality.
The two are at odds. My “NP” side inevitably creates dozens of half-finished, discarded products, which my “J” side feels guilty about. My “J” side wants me to wake up early and exercise every day, which demotivates me and makes me feel guilty about not doing. I track the habit carefully with GTD, to help appease my planning mind, but really I don’t want to do the same thing every day.
So, I guess I’m working on how to use the structure of “J” cooperatively with my “NP” dreamer side, and feel better about balancing the two.