Obligatory year's-end reflectiveness
The past year
Good: Paying debts long overdue, beginning the process of rebuilding, growing in ways I never imagined, ceasing consumption of animals, strengthening relationships with excellent people.
Bad: Putting off paying debts long overdue, allowing existing structures to crumble through entropy and neglect, stagnating through delay and distraction, continuing to eat terrible foods, weakening ties with family.
The coming year
Goals: Pay off more debt, improve attention to organization and structure, allocate more energy to maintaining habits than to starting new things, be more disciplined in diet choices, actively reach out to family despite our geographical and sometimes ideological distance.
Yeah, it's abstract. But the devil is in the details. Witness: of the 50-book list I created last year, I read precisely 1.5. (This is not to say I only read 1.5 books.) So, instead of ever-changing details, I shall fix my sight on the firmer, more abstract goals that can be met in less rigid, more creative ways than a list of specific things to do will ever be.
My hope is that with the help of my iPaq, I can manage my time a bit better. But I must never forget that in order for the iPaq and even the meds to be effective tools, I must use them well and not carelessly.
Good: Paying debts long overdue, beginning the process of rebuilding, growing in ways I never imagined, ceasing consumption of animals, strengthening relationships with excellent people.
Bad: Putting off paying debts long overdue, allowing existing structures to crumble through entropy and neglect, stagnating through delay and distraction, continuing to eat terrible foods, weakening ties with family.
The coming year
Goals: Pay off more debt, improve attention to organization and structure, allocate more energy to maintaining habits than to starting new things, be more disciplined in diet choices, actively reach out to family despite our geographical and sometimes ideological distance.
Yeah, it's abstract. But the devil is in the details. Witness: of the 50-book list I created last year, I read precisely 1.5. (This is not to say I only read 1.5 books.) So, instead of ever-changing details, I shall fix my sight on the firmer, more abstract goals that can be met in less rigid, more creative ways than a list of specific things to do will ever be.
My hope is that with the help of my iPaq, I can manage my time a bit better. But I must never forget that in order for the iPaq and even the meds to be effective tools, I must use them well and not carelessly.