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Happy Good Friday! Long weekends are always nice. I think I might pop back to Niagara for a few days, say hello to a few special people and then hop along on my merry way since I had such a lovely time last weekend. I’ve been sick these past couple of days. I even took Tuesday and Wednesday off because it hurt to talk. I’m starting to feel a tad better and I am hoping that by tomorrow I’ll be good to go.

I booked my vacation off for the end of this month. Its a much needed break to just STOP everything I am doing and do something else for a week. I’ll be heading to San Francisco with two of my best buddies from back in my engineering days, when I was a young pup eager to take on the world. By the way, for anybody living in Toronto flying anywhere in the United States, let me give you some advice. Fly out of Buffalo. Cheapest flight from Toronto to San Fran was $450. From Buffalo, only $219. Yes you read that right, less than half. Its crazy!!

Lately I’ve been going way too overdrive. I’ve been all give give give energy without replenishing any energy back and that is really not something to be sustained for long periods of time. Perhaps my body getting sick is trying to tell me something. That’s why the end of the month will be the start of a new beginning. First, I’m going to knock the GMAT out of the way. Its been nagging me for farrr too long. I’m ready. I’ve been putting in my time, and I will be peaking soon. Once that is out of the way, off I go to San Francisco. Simultaneously, as I’ve been planning my San Fran trip, I have also been planning a trip to Peru. It looks like we have dates set for mid August. I’ll be doing mostly outdoorsy stuff, like going on a 4 day hike on the Inca trail into the ancient city of Machu Picchu, as well as visiting some mountains and rain forests and the like. That trip will be mostly with my friends from Ottawa.

Once I return from my trip from San Fran, I plan to do a lot of reading.  I have so many books collecting dust on my book shelf and that is so unfortunate.  I also plan on starting P90X as soon as I get back and will continue to do it for the full 90 days.  Maybe I’ll tweet about my experiences with it.  This summer I also plan on doing some fun side projects that I am looking forward to learning and grinding through.  Mostly web related, mostly for fun.

Other news:  I switched hosting providers.  I’m with a better, more reputable, faster provider now so that is pretty awesome.  Also, I broke my phone.  I was trying to hack it with Android but failed miserably.  After I restored my phone back to Windows Mobile, it has a really rough time connecting to the network.  Lol whoops, my bad.  So I’m stuck with a tough choice right now.  Do I want to get a new phone, in which case I would probably want the Iphone or an Android phone (on my maybe list of things to do would be to develop a mobile app) or do I ax the phone altogether as part of my lifestyle experiments?  Its a tough choice, but if I was a betting man I would say I would get a phone.

Finally, I likely won’t be updating any more frequently this month then I have been.  Its just a crazy month, but an important one so I still need to keep my priorities aligned and stay focused.

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”If I want to be as successful as I want to be, I have to be thinking about it all the time.” – Michael Phelps

I used to believe that multitasking was the way to go. I could juggle 7 or 8 things at a time and felt I was being rather productive. I still do this from time to time, however its not my method of choice. I prefer single tasking now. Complete focus on what is in front of me. With complete focus, you actually get more done with single tasking. Not only that, but what has been accomplished has been accomplished better then if you were to multi task. Also, with multitasking, the focus is divided and there is the tendency to do too much at once. Focusing let’s you achieve what’s important, not everything.

There is only so much time and energy we have in a day. Thus, we have to choose appropriately. This is extremely important in whether or not you’ll succeed or fail. If you lose focus while doing something chances are it won’t be done as effectively. Whether you’re playing a video game, reading a book, working out, cooking, without hyper focus on the subject at hand it just won’t be as good. We live in an age like no other in the history of mankind. We have too many distractions. We have meetings which take up time, we have phone calls which take up time, we have emails to respond to, as well as text messages, as well as instant messages, as well as wallposts, as well as snail mail. Each one of those slowly sucks up your time, some take immediate attention, others can have delayed response times. All of it distracts you from focusing on what’s important! However, if you can focus on what’s important, you can seriously turn into a jedi master at what you are focusing on. It’s a matter of trimming the fat and finding what’s important to you, and then going forward with that.