Image: precious ground flowers overshadowed by tree. Sunshine needed.

Original title: [15]strategic areas!!receiv`enough”sunshine”

“Sunshine” means time, laser energy including absorbency, patience. Sunshine has no expectation.

Pattern — I get preoccupied with emailing/meet-up, personal finance ,,, and neglect some strategic areas.

Q: What I feel is important but not receiving enough sustained “laser” focus i.e. mental energy:

• — strategic areas:
• localSys
• C++ critical mass maintenance,
• driving practice
• ( the obvious items as of 2021: flexibility; strength; )
• — short-term items also needs sunshine, though not the focus of this blogpost.
• more standing at home
• lasik

— emails left in inbox + blog pages left open in my browser tabs … receive more sunshine.
Similarly, paper under my 玻璃板

I have physical radiators such as palm-sized display holder

— too much sunshine on these items below. Note this is a high-level list featuring some low-level examples.

• land grab alerts in all my laptops !
• mechanical pencils
• light bulb optimization
• disposable batteries .. separation of used vs new
• per finance
  • reduce monthly exp tracking?
  • FWD insurance?
  • credit monitoring, due to emails from B@A, CreditKarma etc
• friend sharing
  • meet-up is most time-consuming. Always prefer jogging.
  • slow down email

— The quadrants .. the important-non-urgent need more sunshine; the urgent-unimportant gets too much sunshine.

Compared to me, my cohort tend to have busier day jobs, sometimes more dependents .. and tend get swamped in the “sunshine low ground” in terms of wellness, parenting etc.

— Sunshine is a scarce resource. The real scarce resource is time+absorbency, not money. How do I trade money for time?

• capture the power surge (blog)
• pay to reduce commute
• git-blog on laptop
• use outside tutors, and reduce facetime?

— sunshine+patience
When giving more “sunshine”, it’s often unwise to expect (slow but) visible improvement

Sunshine is necessary but insufficient condition. You often need patience to wait for a long time to see some improvement.Wee need patience to see the absorbency growing stronger.

Also, you need to spot/notice and celebrate every small (even if temporary) improvement in your kids or yourself.
— Q: In which area do you give much-needed sunshine but majority of your peers don’t bother to?
The question asks me to name where I give sunshine, so it’s impossible to surprise myself, but I will still try to name unsung heroes.

• driving experience review
• tech Dram refresh
• career longevity + healthy longevity
• flexibility
• Eng and Ch vocab
• current income? Not really “much-needed”
• exp recon
• tax-like expenses