Crushing The Block

September 11th, 2012. Taipei, Taiwan. Dante Coffee in Guting. 8:34AM

My inbox. Oh, I don't really like that subject line. Well, click it --

I hate to push back yet again, but I can hardly get anything done right now. Let me finish UI + client project first.

Also, my concentration is complete shit. This money thing still fucks me up.

And then, epiphany strikes, the lights come on, the darkness recedes, and all is clear.

A Simple, Yet Astoundingly Useful Self-Diagnostic Tool

"Energy   /Morale   /Health   /Creativity   /Intelligence   /Focus   ---Confusion   /Anxiety   /Restlessness"

There you go. That's my "Moment-by-Moment Ratings." Whenever I'm feeling off, I run through it. Here's earlier tonight:

--> Current rankings: Energy  6 /Morale  6 /Health  8 /Creativity 4  /Intelligence 5  /Focus 2  ---Confusion 2  /Anxiety 2  /Restlessness 9. Avg: 5.2 positive, 3 negative

It's on a 1 to 10 scale. I copy/paste the blank one, and fill it out. The six "Positive" categories relate to how energetic I feel, how motivated I feel and how I rank my morale and outlook in general, how healthy I feel at that moment, how creative I feel (in an innovating / inventing / "breaking new ground" way), and how smart I feel (more related to number-crunching and raw processing ability... I don't drink any more, but when I did -- three glasses of red wine might have taken my creativity up, and intelligence down).