And that’s all she wrote

Final few hours and I’ve stockpiled 62 Caches, representing an average of 124 items, nice way to start the week.  In-game success superficially making up for real-life failures.

Exotic x 5
Classified x 2
Combat Assignment x 2
Crafting x 1
Field Proficiency x 39
Superior Strike x 13
10,000 Global Events Credits
Tom Clancy’s The Division – What’s in it for me?
Tom Clancy’s The Division™ Open up

Finding the space to think

The time for winter planning is perfect as the European heatwave sends most of us into a flurry seeking shade and coolness.  It’s like trying to find the perfect Snipers nest in midst of a massive battle or trying to filter out the social media noise to find the data you actually need.

Important but not urgent

For me, these are the toughest things to work on

Last Will and and Testament
Winter preparation during the Summer
Summer preparation during the Winter
Credential management (passwords and log-ins)
Log reviews
Back-up testing
Blue Sky Thinking – 15 minutes from my house

Cheesing it

Minimum effort for maximum gain is the basic formula for any investor.  Specialist areas like Dark Web, Cryptocurrency and The Division attract mavericks running routines that do just that.  At the moment, I’m investing a fair amount of time running easy missions (rinse and repeat cycles) on The Division Global Event to earn points to buy classified gear and it’s paying off nicely.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – rinse and repeat

Cryptocurrency efforts have been thinned by real-life challenges and Dark Web is basically ignored for now.  IRL the 90+°F daily heat wave is messing up my balance but I’m still going to focus on a Christmas escape to Florida this year, nuff planning needed.

Planning for the End-game

With many of critical ventures in progress, I’ve decided to backpedal and consider my end-games.  What am I actually trying to achieve and when?  Painting the end-game has served me well in the past but it’s not quite a routine habit as I’m pulled into new, interesting situations and often move forward on sheer enthusiasm.

Everything that has a beginning has an end

Defining the end is something I think we naturally avoid, end of life for devices is usually clearly identified by the manufacturer.  The vendor will have a specific future date when they will no longer support the hardware or software and you are on your own “when” it fails.

End of actual Life is seldom contemplated as we hate to consider our own mortality, and Last Will and Testaments are pushed to the bottom of our do-lists until we are told by a medical professional to “put our affairs” in order.

I haven’t worked out how to face this positively but will give myself some time to look at what I’m doing now and write my end-games by 1-Sept 2018.

 

Applying an End of life Care approach to Projects