Guiding Questions

What do I hope to achieve, here?

Whether I’m traveling or holding still for a while, asking myself why I’m where I am and what ambitions I have for my time in that place helps ground me and reminds me to establish some foundational tenets and rough routines for my time there: however much time that might be.

Thus, if I’m living in Prague for four months, I may make explicit my desire to see the local architecture, eat the local food, and finish writing the book I’ve been working on.

Such elucidatio...