+++ title = “07” date = 2019 +++ There are many phases to a cold. For example: the raw and sore throat that makes you want to turn off swallowing for a while the faint cough that precedes the onslaught the drippy nose faucet that turns on and off the blockage that seems to only occur in one nostril, that can be controlled with gravity or turning your head to the side in bed the aches and the pains the way it starts hurting to blow your nose because of how raw the skin inside is the endless coughing fits that persist weeks after the actual virus goes away Which is my least favorite?

I came up with this idea years ago, and others have also written about it. In the Getting Things Done methodology, the way that we work is by collecting all the junk in our lives into a list called “Inbox.” Once we collect everything, from the tasks that require a few minutes of time, to larger and more gargantuan tasks like buying a house or writing a thesis, we can then do the step of GTD known as processing.

+++ title = “07” date = 2019 +++ Here’s a helpful distinction. When is something a task, and when is it a practicing a habit? The first thing to understand is every small action we take is a task. From brushing our teeth, to taking out the trash, to writing a thesis… all are either a task or composed of tasks. Taking out the trash might decompose into one task (take it out).

In a clothing store in Wyoming in 1999, I was confronted by clothing for the first on my own. My mom had purchased almost every piece of clothing that I owned, and now, on my first cross country trip by myself, I was in a clothing store and able to try out whatever I wanted. There were all sorts of clothes. Cool looking button downs, khakis, hats, everything. It was kind of liberating, at the age of 14, to be able to go through a clothing rack and for the first time, decide what I wanted.

+++ title = “07” date = 2019 +++ When I noticed that my car’s dashboard calendar was off I tried to adjust it. It was off by a year in the past. When I tried to adjust it, I found it only went up to 2018 – pressing the forward button one more time set me back to 1999. The manufacturer had not considered a world in which this car would still be in use after 2018.