Goals:
I want to meaningfully articulate something. Somehow I've been able to get by with this goal – no real definition for what to articulate, or how to articulate it. The idea of articulation is attractive.
Articulating New Year's resolutions has been more meaningful to me than articulating the path to the goals. Paths can be articulated by self-help how-to guides.
My New Year's resolution is to articulate resolutions.
It is my firm belief that priorities come from within. This isn't a researched stance – just intuition, but it will work for this purpose. When I wake up I tend to take a shower or eat breakfast, or drink some water, or something else routine. I do occasionally immediately jump to work, but only when I went to bed thinking, "I have to do this when I wake up." During the day, my tasks aren't based so much on defined priority; I jump to task because something catches my fancy.
My cat interrupts me. His interruptions are high priority. He bites, he scratches, and I don't want to antagonize him more than he is already. This is the closest I come to interruption based tasking, as I hear others speak of their tasking. When I prioritize my distractions they become more than just interruptions; they are the new task. Interruption based tasking seems like unbiased task switching – the ADHD tasking algorithm.
Certainly unmotivated task switching exists – that is my default mode. Browsing Reddit and wading through downloads saturate my default mode. I lump checking email and social networks into that, since those activities only become tasks in any meaningful sense when I do something more than drone through. Similarly, refilling my tea or coffee is an integral part of my default mode. When I become too agitated with boredom I quickly finish my cup, go to the kitchen, and refill. It refreshes me.
Tea refill time is the most decisive prioritizing moment in my day.
I have refilled my cup at least six times today.
