# Self-Audit
> How do you spend your time? 

- [ ] Sleeping
- [ ] Making food
- [ ] Brewing
- [ ] Recording podcast
- [ ] Listening to podcasts
- [ ] Reading philosophy
- [ ] Contemplative prayer
- [ ] Liturgy of the hours
- [ ] Driving
- [ ] Mechanism Design
- [ ] Furniture Design
- [ ] Drawing
- [ ] Creating content marketing
- [ ] Shooting video
- [ ] Machining
- [ ] Welding
- [ ] Woodworking
- [ ] Programming
- [ ] Debating theology
- [ ] Stargazing
- [ ] Nature-gazing
- [ ] Writing business plans
- [ ] Journaling
- [ ] Cleaning my room
- [ ] Cleaning the shop
- [ ] Making home improvements
- [ ] Making shop improvements
- [ ] Writing blog posts
- [ ] Being interrupted (Deb)
- [ ] Adoration
- [ ] Driving a tractor / monitoring a machine
- [ ] Performing engineering calculations
- [ ] Running a business meeting
- [ ] Business development / strategy
- [ ] Teaching students in a class
- [ ] 1:1 or 1:2 mentoring
- [ ] Giving talks / lectures
- [ ] Creating web content
- [ ] Planting
- [ ] Negotiating
- [ ] Repairing equipment
- [ ] Watching cinema
- [ ] Buying things
- [ ] Taking photos
- [ ] Playing sports, hiking, etc.
- [ ] Singing folk songs

# Top 10 Likes
- Listening to podcasts
> Because I get to hear amazing new ideas that I could integrate into my life, or which help me see the world in new beautiful ways!

- Mechanism Design
> Because I get to be clever and come up with neat solutions.
> Because this is a competency.
> Because I get to make something JUST RIGHT AND PERFECT
> Because I can get in flow

- Naturegazing
> Because I get to see something beautiful with God's creation.
> Because nature reveals truths that are the same all the way up and down.

- Making shop improvements
> Because then I don't have to do sucky stuff anymore. It's investing in the future in a real tangible way.

- 1:2 mentoring
> Because I get to grow some people, not only in skill, but in their virtue and attitudes as well.
> Because I get to refine my understanding of something.

- Giving talks and lectures
> Because I get to synthesize and put together new ideas in fresh ways that maybe hadn't been thought about before.
> Because I can get in flow
> Because I can get in a rhythm with other people

- Singing folk songs
> Because I can get in flow
> Because I am competent
> Because I can assume a high status social position

- Playing sports, hiking, etc.
> Because I get to be more competent with my body
> Because I get to interact with God's creation
> Because I can get in flow

- Fabrication
> Because I'm competent in it
> Because I get to partake in creation - ACTIVELY

- Drawing
> Because I'm improving at it
> Because I get to partake in creation - ACTIVELY
> Because I get to make something JUST RIGHT
> Because I get to make something that JUST SHIPS
> Because I can get in flow

- Optimizing a process
> Because I get to make something JUST RIGHT
> Because there is a tangible sense of accomplishment
> Because I get to learn something in depth


# Top 10 Dislikes
- Running a business meeting
> Because I have to deal with people and their inanities
> Because this meeting could've been an email. Or collaborative document.

- Negotiating
> Because I can't read your mind.
> Because there's no room for error or revision.
> Because I'm bad at it.
> Because there's always a sense that it could be better.
> Because I'm afraid of making a mistake

- Being interrupted
> Because my focus is blocked

- Teaching students in a class
> Because they're stupid and just keeping us all behind

- Creating web content
> Because it takes far longer than I think it should

- Repairing equipment
> Because it takes far longer than I think it should

- Listening to people's days
> Because it takes far longer than I think it should
> Because I'm honestly not that interested, usually
> Because they should just know how to solve their problems right???

- Sleeping / cuddling
> Just not interested?
> There's better things to do?

- Cleaning
> Because it takes far longer than I think it should
> Because it just keeps happening
> Because spaces are poorly designed
> I do like the satisfaction of having cleaned though

# Analyze

> I like being competent and getting more competent
> I like seeing the beauty and truth of Creation
> I like making things JUST RIGHT
> I like working with my hands and creating things
> I like flow
> I like to develop and work with others - if we're 100% on the same ship heading the same direction. I do not want to have to convince you though.

> A lot of things take longer than I think they should and it's frustrating
> I don't like when I'm not already onboard with someone and I'm not sure what to do when it's the case.

# Imagine
> What occupations fit these characteristics? DO NOT CONSTRAIN YOURSELF TO ANYTHING

- Shop teacher
- Craftsman
- Technical director / CTO / Lead designer
- Surgeon
- Architect
- Solopreneur
- Professor
- Coach
- Destroy All *HARDWARE* (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog)