"Jim," I said to a friend and colleague at work, "something really wonderful happened this morning. More often than not, when I attempt a gold-rated Sudoku, I give up before I manage to solve it. But this morning—"
"What do you mean, a gold-rated Sudoku?"
I explained that different suppliers use different rating systems for easy, moderate, hard. "There's the 1-2-3-4 rating system, for example, and the bronze-silver-gold system."
Jim nodded his understanding.
"Anyway, this morning I did this gold-rated Sudoku about as quickly as I've ever done a bronze or a 1."
I said, "Now, I figure that this means one of two things."
"At least," Jim said.
"Right. It means either that they mis-categorized the Sudoku, and it was really a bronze, or—" I made fists, drew up my arms, and wiggled my body like a football player after scoring a touchdown. "Or I'm really clicking today!"
"And, of course, you're going to go with the second possibility."
"You know I am, Jim. How empowering that is! If that's what it means, then today I can succeed in my most difficult tasks, I can—"
"But doesn't this call for you to carefully consider which difficult task you ought to focus on? You don't want to waste today's brilliance on a relatively unimportant goal."
"Jim! You're a brilliant consultant! Of course, you're right."
"Maybe you shouldn't be here at work today. Maybe you should—"
"Maybe I should look at my life goals and choose something that could make a much bigger difference in my life than anything I might do here at work today?"
"Exactly."
Is it true, then, as it appears, that producing a self-satisfying daily blog post might be one of my main life goals?
the life goals graphic... too funny...
ReplyDeleteYes, and thematically apt, given some of my own apparent life goals (improving my Sudoku-solving technique, blogging, watching movies and TV programs, adding entries to my list of books read,...).
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