You Might Be an Overachiever if…

  1. You set up a blog as a way of recovering from being an overachiever
  2. When you see an error in grading on a paper for which you earned an A, you bring it to the instructor’s attention even though you have a 99.5% average in class.
  3. You think you are perfect.  (via Twitter @TheoHayes)
  4. You are thinking really hard about the BEST thing to add to this list.
  5. You can make a list of 10 things to prove you are NOT an overachiever.
  6. You ignore signs of hunger, thirst, and fatigue….on a regular basis…to just finish, “This one little part.”
  7. You go all day with no bathroom break.
  8. You don’t even notice you just went all day with no bathroom break.
  9. You understand your work emails better than your personal emails. (via Twitter @eep13)
  10. You are the first to update a discussion board.  And then tweet about it.
  11. You take notes from 5 different instructors, combine them, and study them all.
  12. You learn to write with both hands because a co-worker is ambidextrous.
  13. You stay up all night to work on something new you learned — just because it’s “fun.”
  14. You show up to a holiday party an hour early to be sure you aren’t late.
  15. You actually put “Relax by the fire and drink coffee” on your To Do List.
  16. Your New Year’s Resolution is “Don’t set any New Year’s Resolutions this year.”
  17. You don’t let others win the theophy when you’ve got one too many. (via @ iPenginBrijhe)
  18. You are up at 5 am on a Friday thinking about achieving…anything! (via @KellyAMadison)
  19. You have more than one car on blocks in your yard :) (via @ohal)
  20. You delete tweets [or status updates] with typos and resend corrected versions. (via @andilinks)
  21. You backup your website once a day (via Phil at Godaddy.com)
  22. You create a bumper sticker 4 your car to put over your kid’s honor roll one? (via @wordsdonewrite)
  23. You had the perfect reply to this just the other day & now you can’t think of it so u pretend you didn’t see the prompt. EEK! (via @bwlight)
  24. You are enrolled full-time in college and think you are doing “nothing.”

Do you have any quips to add? If so — send me an email or leave a comment and I will add it.  OVERACHIEVERS UNITE!

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