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July 13, 2005
Visualizing Success 
So, not surprisingly, I was not early for work today. Sigh. I was unable to wake up, and then I websurfed, which is like a snooze-button for me—I can waste so much time. Yikes.
One of the things I wasted time on was this thread on Ask Metafilter:
You're married or single, have no kids, hold a regular job and are out of school. So what do you do in the evenings after work?
I'm not looking for a new hobby per se, just trying to figure out what my peers spend their time on after the work day is done. These post work evenings of nothing to do but fiddle around with one of too many hobbies, zone out infront of the TV, and end up drinking a bit too much are starting to get to me.
It hit a big chord for me because I feel like my evenings get wasted a lot of the time. TV, websurfing, and beer. Sigh. So I guess this means I should figure out what I want to be doing, rather than just falling into the couch.
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I'm listening to Getting Things DONE now. As I do this while I work, I'm just listening to parts of it repeatedly, hoping that some will percolate through my destroyed brain cells. One thing that David Allen mentions is visualizing success. To reach a goal, you need to know what that goal will look like. Right now, I'm feeling rather diffuse and squishy, in recovery from the last super-stressful work period. What would success look like?
I did some visualizations for the Gorge Marathon and that worked out pretty good.
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This whole picture-taking thing has kinda taken me by surprise. I love taking pictures. And strangely enough, I am suddenly getting all these (okay, 2 or 3 over the space of as many weeks) Portland bicyclist contacts on flickr. It's so totally cool! And I am so totally not worthy. It makes me all very excited.
In related news, a few weeks ago, I bought a tiny digital camera. It was cheap, and it is super small. You know, because my regular digital camera (which fits into my tiny purse) was too big. I recognized the absurdity of that when, the other day, Sweetie and I were going scootering, and I slipped my regular digital camera into my pocket. The regular digital camera fits in my pocket.
My original digital camera, the Mavica, fit in no pocket. The thing could be used as a weapon. So this is all rather absurd.
Anyways, new tiny camera takes lousy pictures. What surprises me is that I thought it wouldn't. You know, take lousy pictures. I still need to figure out all the features on the damn thing, but my press-the-button pictures are all out of focus, and have weird discolorations. I can't imagine I'll put really much more effort into it than that, so perhaps it's time to see if it can find a better home.
But the pictures don't look too bad if you look at them really small. Here's a pic of the new addition to my beloved pink bicycle, now with chrome™—I think it's quite stylish.
Oh, and 17 minutes today. Damn I love riding that bike though!
Oh, on the way in, I saw another Electra rider. She was on a mint-green Hawaii cruiser! Swwweeeeeeet! Wonderful color, wonderful bike.
Posted at July 13, 2005
Comments
i wonder what everybody said that they do after work? i struggle with that sometimes, although i bet most people do. hmmmmm.
Posted by: brent at July 13, 2005 5:28 PM