If I live out my script according to the Until pattern, my motto in life is: “I can’t have fun until I have finished my work.” They believe that “something good can’t happen until something less good has been finished.”

1. Until Script

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Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Until Script
If I live out my script
according to the Until
pattern, my motto in life is:
“I can’t have fun until I have
finished my work.” They
believe that “something
good can’t happen until
something less good has
been finished.”

4. Until Script
Examples
– I have to understand myself
fully before I can change.
– Life begins at forty.
– After I retire, I will be able to
travel.
– My reward is in the next
world.

5. Until Script
Like all the process themes,
the Until process is lived
out both short term and
long term. Jonathan
believes : “Once the
children grow up and leave,
I will have time to relax and
do all the things I have been
waiting to do.”

6. Until Script
Day by day as he waits for
his lifetime Until, he lives
out the same pattern over
shorter life spans. He says
to his wife: “ OK, I will come
and have a drink with you
but just wait a minute until
I have finished washing the
dishes.”

7. Until Script
Jonathan shows the Until
pattern even in the
structure of the sentences
he uses. Frequently, he will
put in a parenthesis. He
says things like : “I told my
wife – and mind you, I said
the same to my daughter
only yesterday – that we
have to do something
about the house.”

8. Until Script
He interrupts himself in
mid sentence to put in the
extra thought. With this
sentence pattern,
Jonathan is reflecting the
Until belief : “I have to
cover everything before I
can finish.”

9. Until Script
The Greek hero Hercules
had an Until script. Before
he could be promoted to
become a demi god, he had
to complete a set of
arduous tasks – not least of
which was cleaning a
mountain of manure out of
king’s stables.

10. References

11. Thank You

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