{"id":40,"date":"2010-09-16T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/wp\/2010\/09\/16\/structured_fanciful\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:57:06","slug":"structured_fanciful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/2010\/09\/structured_fanciful\/","title":{"rendered":"Structured Fanciful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 30px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;npa=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=loveproductions&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&amp;asins=0316067164\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have been a fan of trying to define myself for years.  I so closely identified with my ISTJ-ness (Meyer-Briggs) that I created a blog version of the test (<a href=\"http:\/\/bloginality.love-productions.com\/\">bloginality<\/a>).  It just makes me feel more firm in myself when I understand ME.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why I was surprised when Tara made the suggestion to me that defining myself would help my business.  (Seriously, her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraswiger.com\/index.php\/help\/personal\/ideastorming-magic\/\">ideastorming<\/a> *is* magic, if you need some help, she&#8217;s your girl!)  Idea being, if I knew more about myself, I could sell to my Right People better.  <\/p>\n<p>Enter the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316067164?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=loveproductions&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0316067164\">Style Statement: Live by Your Own Design<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=loveproductions&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316067164\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  After reading through the text portion of the book, I spent the last week just going over the worksheets and writing in my little black composition book every evening.  When the questions got hard to answer, I set it down and waited until I was inspired again.  I wrote a lot of words that I associated with myself.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I came up with a result that resonates with me, and gives me a style to enhance how I already dress, communicate, and express my personality and my business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 200%; text-align:center;\"><strong>Structured Fanciful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>That means that 80% of my personality follows the guiding principle of Structured, and the other 20% (or creative portion) of my personality is Fanciful. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Structured was really a no brainer, once I saw the word and the synonyms, it captured my orderly-ness, my love for architectural elements that are lined up, and my need to have lists that follow the pattern of the previous lists.<\/p>\n<p>Fanciful was a little harder.  My tagline of &#8220;giggly geeky girl&#8221; had me wanting to capture the girly-ness but without calling myself Feminine (which has a lot of nurturing associated with it) or Romantic (true, but not quite encapsulating it all) or Designed (which seems to imply fashionable and trendy, where I have my own flow).  Once I saw the word Fanciful and looked it up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesaurus.com\/browse\/fanciful\">thesaurus<\/a>, it fit.  <\/p>\n<p>What will I do with this information?  It will be my guiding principle when creating for <a href=\"http:\/\/kadyellebee.etsy.com\">the kadyellebee shop<\/a>&#8230; but I think I&#8217;ve already followed this look without knowing it!  Just embracing it seems so natural now, making lists with curlies in the sidebar <em>(and using words like &#8220;sidebar&#8221; \ud83d\ude09 )<\/em> are ME, and making it my standard is okay.<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself a moment to consider what your guiding principle is.  Trust me, it&#8217;s  a fun ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a fan of trying to define myself for years. I so closely identified with my ISTJ-ness (Meyer-Briggs) that I created a blog version of the test (bloginality). 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