Postponed post

If it isn’t incredibly clear I have abandoned my goals until after Thanksgiving due to travel and general failure for the goals to be feasible. However, they will return once I get back to Burlington, Vermont.

Prague/Budapest has been awesome and John was definitely a good choice as a companion for the trip. Now that I know about google travel’s explore section, travelling cheaply will be much easier. There are round-trip flights from Boston to many places (even nonstop) for less than $400. Combine that with couch-surfing or livingsocial/groupon deals and I’ll be set!

Back to other goals (since travelling to new country IS a goal)…

As some people know I try to use a point system to determine things I should do. I don’t usually flat out calculate numbers because of how long it would take but I weigh them appropriately enough. The categories are: Health/Fitness; Education/Knowledge; and Social. In regards to importance; Health and Education are very close but Education still trumps it and, of course, Social is really the lowest right now. There are definitely times when fitness and education are ‘impossible’. That is, I am completely out of it but not tired (if I was tired then I could ‘sleep’ for ‘Health’) then sometimes I can engage in a social act that would otherwise be out of the question. Additionally, there are intermediate categories, such as creativity. Creativity, for me, is usually lumped into ‘Social’ but it can be involved in both ‘Health’ or ‘Knowledge’. For instance, diagraming the physiology of a fruit fly has some knowledge points whereas drawing ‘for relief’ (rejuvenation) might be Health related. As I mentioned, though, this is most often a ‘Social’ behavior and I am nearly obligated to give my ‘art’ away to complete it.

I’ll try to clarify my decisions throughout the day to make the pattern more clear in the future. This exercise will help me focus a lot more, since this decision-making regime requires that I be self-conscious and such focus.

Until then!