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Could I Be A Control Freak?

by Kim on November 14th, 2006

I don’t know what this illness of mine is called, but I think I need help. I think it’s technical name is overly-prepared-hyper-itis.

Another way to look at it is what I like to call “mental shopping”. In other words, a project comes up, and the ultimate due date could be 3 months away — I immediately start to plan…I collect articles, photos, start writing copy and the worst, I start to share my thoughts with people.

I’ll put together a gigantic note or production table, which shows every possible scenario, the back-up scenario and the if all else fails scenario.

What usually happens is — while I’m thinking about how clever I was to get everything so organized — no one has taken the time to digest what I’ve communicated.

I’ll get a note from someone who asks, astonishingly (to me), did we talk about this? What that means is for someone like me who is already light years ahead of the initial project — and on to another — is I have to stop dead in my tracks and re-educate everyone.

I once read that Aquarians (me) get very agitated when people don’t get what they are saying or if their ideas are not understood. I can see that.

But I wonder what makes me so driven to put emphasis on every chronological detail…it’s not like I have the world’s neatest sock drawer…but I must say, you do NOT want to be with me when I pack a suitcase.

I think the answer may lie in this need to think through people’s problems…to avoid chaos? Oooh, which could be a trust thing? I don’t know…but I noticed a chart I sent someone wasn’t color-coded in a clear way.

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