Big Rocks, Little Rocks...

Today was an interesting one.

I learned how to manage time by considering it as a resource. Paid for by the good folks that sign my paycheck, it was a 7 hour event, where the motivational speaker narrated the tale of rocks in glass pots and explained to us the best way to say no when you in fact mean no, not a chance, nada, never in a million years.

I never thought myself to be so negligent about my time, and I never knew how easy it is to waste it; and from what I came to realize, if your life IS time, then I suck at life. I really do.

I'm currently looking to my right, and I see the pile of games that have not yet been fully digested. Nevermind chewed. It is like a pyre, upon which the pious completists will burn my corpse once they finish stoning it to death. And be sure that they WILL finish stoning it. These completists are never fully satisfied until the task at hand is done. But I have a slim chance at life : I can use what I have learned today to reduce that mountainous heap to rubble. It is very well within my grasp to use the techniques that are now mine and plan my whole year with gaming "rocks".

You see, the rocks represent the thing that you care about, and these big fellas must be placed carefully in order to become priorities, since they represent the stuff that you care about and...

Alright, I won't bore you with this stuff. Let's just say that said rocks are fucking big and heavy and you can hide behind them when those bastards start getting all paleolithic on your ass.

Anyway, the idea is to make sure I devote specific chunks of time, in advance, to certain titles and finaly be done with them. Using an agenda for the purpose of efficient gaming. I'll probably apply these new weirding ways on this remunerated labor of mine as well, but let's just say that work isn't one of the "bigger rocks" in the garden of Roger...

Now it's time to play!

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