Priorities

04/30/15

I haven't done proper thinking about my priorities in a long while. I mean, I've talked about stuff I want to work on and stuff, but even that wasn't an all-encompassing look at my priorities.

So, what are the first things that come to mind here?

1. Social Connections
2. Work
3. Accomplishments
4. Learning
5. Play
6. Reading

That I first thought of social connections (well, the first thought was family, but the word family implies the blood relations beyond other relations, which I consider just as important. Further, "Social Connections" more deeply describes what I want out of family, and it's easier to describe the value. Other people provide me with perspectives, experience, and insight I simply do not have, and they do it in an incredibly efficient manner.

So, like, chatting on the node.js (or now io.js, I suppose) IRC would fall under "Social Connections". The meetups I am starting to attend more regularly would also fall under this label.

And, of course, quality time with friends and family would also fall under this label.

I think this gets the least amount of quality application over all my other priorities (except maybe accomplishments). Part of that may be my introvert core, as social stuff is super draining for me, but it might also be because I just haven't given proper thought to scheduling it properly.

Really, scheduling in general is falling apart and I may need to spend some quality time coming up with strats there. Perhaps development on my productivity extension may help there.

Work is an obvious priority. It provides the fuel that I burn towards other priorities, and I also want to provide value in return. I want to do a good job.

Accomplishments are really important to me. I want to talk about what I've done, not what I want to do or what I think I could do. It really provides evidence of what I could do in the future, too. It would really help ground my reality and my potential.

Better accomplishment definition and tracking would be of great use to me, I think.

Play is something that I seem to either do a lot of, or nothing at all. Finding a happy middle-ground is hard, and I think in the long run that either extreme or switching between extremes are not sustainable alternatives.

Again, it seems like a scheduling issue. If I made a schedule and stuck to it, it seems likely I would get considerably more out of the experience.

I guess what this is boiling down to is... I should devote some time to a good time budget planning session.