I get the weekend off, which probably sounds like a pretty odd statement. Still, as our team is in the midst of deadlines, it\u2019ll be a nice reprieve from the past few Saturdays when most of us have been in the office (and pretty busy).<\/p>\n
Midst is a bit of a funny word to pronounce.<\/p>\n
When I was a kid, free time seemed so great. I waited until the weekend or for a day with a light amount of homework to get some precious free time. It\u2019d be a treat to have it \u2013 an ephemeral time when anything was possible.<\/p>\n
Somewhere along the way, I became a lot more indecisive. Now free time brings with it the impending question: what should I do? And it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have enough things to do. It\u2019s that I have too many.<\/p>\n
That, combined with the fact that it\u2019s harder to arrange activities with friends than it was in elementary school (when my parents would take care of all that!) means that I often don\u2019t end up doing much.<\/p>\n
There are video and board games I want to play, movies I want to see, skills I want to learn, places I want to eat at, TV I want to watch, and chores I should do. Because there are so many things I can<\/em> do, I usually end up taking the path of least resistance. If I get in the car, I\u2019ll have to make another decision \u2013 where to go? \u2013 so I end up usually sitting on the couch and watching something that I\u2019ve recorded. This doesn\u2019t make me unhappy; after all, that was one of the things I wanted to do in the first place.<\/p>\n Still, it sometimes makes me feel defeated. Don\u2019t I have better<\/em> things to do? Shouldn\u2019t I be practicing my new guitar or cleaning the litter box or making dinner or going out and discovering new places in our neighborhood?<\/p>\n So, I need to do two things. First, I need to prevent myself from second-guessing my choices. If I choose to order a pizza and watch the next cycle of America\u2019s Next Top Model with Katie, I should enjoy it. I should relish<\/em> the terrible dialogue that comes out of Tyra\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n Second, I should take a page from what I do at work fairly often and make decisions. I\u2019ve made choices that impact millions of Sims players; I\u2019m perfectly capable of deciding whether we eat dinner at home or out.<\/p>\n