Organization

I really need to work on mine.  At school, at home, in terms of hobbies, everywhere. 

When I focus on it, I can usually power through just about anything that interests me.  So I should stop dabbling around with stuff and just focus on one or two things, then complete them.

It struck me, on reading the Magicians, that I had fallen into something of a Quentin pattern with my entertainments.  I always expected the next one to -really- make me happy.  But normally I did not have the time or the ability to actually try them all.  The recent combination of vacation/injury let me do so - and nothing really seemed to work.

But you have to put some time into things to see a reward.  Is reading a book for twenty minutes, or forty, nearly as rewarding as finishing it?  How about 20 minutes of an RPG?  Part of the reward is the pay-off for the focus you put into it.  Especially the way my mind works, liking to mull over things and digest them.

Jumping from thing to thing in 20-30 minute bursts just doesn't work very well.  Reading RPG stuff you never, deep down, expect to run, doesn't work very well either.

Diving into a book, reading it enthusaistically, and finishing it has been more effective.  Picking the right book is important, too, but my brain is pretty self-sorting.  If I don't really like it, I won't come back to it.