6. Jonathan Livingston Seagull pointed out that every negative thought becomes an energetic chain around our necks and part of who we are. To break chain, join a happy flock of seagulls at a church or spiritual study group with a clear focus on "reason for season." AA and NA groups also celebrate holidays with personal and spiritual clarity.

7. The bright red cardinal cheers everyone with his color and verve. Be a light unto world and you will attract light to yourself as well.

8. Love little chickadees running and shrieking with holiday abandon. This is easier to appreciate if you sit on Santa's lap and pull his/her beard. Empathy opens to love for these little birds, who are typically small, busy and cute.

9. Shy away like a tender sparrow from family gossip. Your quick, bright optimism will shift conversation to happier themes and teach your children well.

10. The four-and-twenty blackbirds sang when pie was opened--not when cook put them in it! Sweets and overeating are customary, but too much of a good thing is not a good thing. Be in your body, with every bite, and put down your fork when it's time to do so. Eat healthy and well!

11. When people are clucking like chickens about state of world, don't embroil yourself in barnyard pecking. Walk between positive and negative worlds of duality by being rooster crowing at dawn of awakening on our planet. It is as real as you make it.

12. The dove of peace is only a meditation away, especially as year comes to a close. Remember to spend quiet time reviewing events of 2003 and to set your intentions for 2004, in order to materialize what you want and need to feel happy, whole and free (which, technically, you already are). It's not just Nov. 8-23 Harmonic Concordance that brings us to light, it's also new birth celebrated at Christmastime and on December 31. May you soar on golden wings of light through this and every year!

The only ENFJ participant uses Outlook® combined with a Palm V®. She likes ability to set recurring meetings and dates like birthdays, organize a list of tasks and memos by category, flag email for follow up, and set reminders. Other benefits she enjoys include only having to handle paper when she chooses to print something, and Palm®'s compactness. On downside, she mentions Palm's fragility and risk of losing data.

Individuals with preferences for iNtuition and Thinking also reported using a wide variety of time management tools.

All of ENTJ's who participated in this survey reported using a combination of paper and electronic systems. One prints her own calendar from MS Outlook® on Day-Timer® computer paper (Desk size, 7-hole punched) and uses several of Day-Timer® accessories that are available. Another uses a combination of "brain power, paper calendar and electronic organizer".

ENTP's reported a distinct preference for portable electronic systems. One found a Palm Pilot® to be effective because she could sync it with her computer, but no longer has technology available to her. She has had little success with paper calendars. Another uses a Palm Zire71® with Palm Desktop® system. The features she considers most important are color screen, ability to take hand-written notes, and alarms and snooze buttons. She found that a paper planner was too much trouble to carry around.

INTJ's, on other hand, showed a preference for paper-based planners. One stated a reluctance “to go Blackberry® route” because she likes to flip ahead to whole weeks of appointments and to staple information to pages in preparation for various events.

As no INTP's responded to survey, I will share following quotation from Larry Demarest’s Out of Time:

INTP's tend to be conceptual planners – their plans being neither specific nor fully developed. They work in blocks of time, and what gets written down may be sketchy and seem incomplete. INTPs are not likely to use planning categories, structure, or systems provided by manufacturer of an organizer (unless it somehow happened to make good sense to a particular individual). Like many other aspects of life, most INTP's will find their own way of planning and organizing. (Though, this may not be typical, one INTP reported using three calendars – two electronic and one hard copy).

As I found with my previous surveys on organizing and time management, not many people with preferences for Sensing and Perceiving responded. It may be that as action-oriented, spontaneous individuals, they are not likely to be interested in doing Internet surveys or in topic of time management itself.

In fact, only SP respondent, an ISTP, said about time management, “I think those words do not go together for my type.” She uses a thin 2-year monthly at-a glance calendar, and writes appointments with a time and an initial e.g. 5-T, which is enough to remind her. She puts labels of frequently called names, addresses, and numbers in back and keeps a paper clip at front to attach temporary notes.

In Out of Time, Larry Demarest states that ISFP's keep track of what needs to be done in a variety of different ways. Some use popular calendars and organizers while others attend to due dates and plan for priorities, leaving considerable leeway to be flexible and spontaneous about remaining work.

Demarest also states that many ESTP's don’t use a calendar or planner and that those who do tend to use them selectively. For example, one reported using a planner for work but not for his social or personal life. Another records only important activities for each day. Some think and work in terms of chunks of time rather than hour-by-hour. ESTP's also report using electronic calendars and organizers.

ESFP's keep track of their work, according to Demarest, in a variety of ways, ranging from prevalent, more formal systems and computer calendars to relying on reminders from team members and keeping a simple to-do list or a mental list.

Before new year arrives, take some time to evaluate your current time management system, and if it’s not working for you, consider what other people of your personality type find effective. If you’ve never taken Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, maybe it’s time that you discovered many ways that a deeper understanding of yourself can benefit you, both personally and professionally.

Although there are many online assessments claiming to be same as MBTI®, best way to understand your personality type is to take an official MBTI® instrument from a professional who has met standards necessary to be "qualified" to administer test.

Further Reading Out of Time: How Sixteen Types Manage Their Time and Work by Larry Demarest LifeTypes by Sandra Krebs Hirsch & Jean Kummerow