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Momentum,
I think you`re right that a schedule (relative to work tasks) does tend to be more priority based. It`s, I think, that work schedules so often are made up of tasks someone else has dictated, or the business realities demand.

It`s why I think a To-Do list should remain personal, being associated with our own "me time," and personal life, whereas a schedule would apply to working time. It`s an interesting distinction, and one I`d never paid much attention to in the past.

Apropo being self-sufficient:

For whatever reason and the things I`ve chosen to do in my life, I`ve never found mentors. My father taught me a great deal about business, although he had a bit of an attitude. I found a few musicians in the music industry who were willing or able to help, but other than that, I`ve just never met anyone who could be a guiding force over more than a very short moment.

Instead, I`ve taken advantage of boards like these, where anyone on Earth can join and nobody knows anyone. As such, it`s as close to both completely objective feedback and also looking in a mirror as I`ve ever seen.

The result is that I`ve had to learn how to go it alone, and that`s where my interest in "process" has always continued. Not only do I have to figure out how to do things on my own, I`m fascinated in the eventual solution, how it showed up, how well it works, and if it would work for anyone other than myself. To a great extent, it`s why I`ve become a philosopher or writer.

Oddly enough, when I went about defining the term "depend," it took a long time to find the opposite---the antonym. I believe the best one is self-sufficient, but I`m still working on that one. (It might better be self-reliant.)

I find it interesting that someone such as yourself would not have a guiding person in his life given that you seem to love learning from other.  You also have a great attitude towards risk vs reward and failure so taking criticism doesn`t seem to effect you negatively.  I am curious as to what causes those mentoring relationships to end so fast with little positive effect?  Could it be something on a subconscious level that you haven`t defined or discovered yet? 

Well on another note I tried to help you define "depend" via search engine and found that the word "rely" pops up a lot.  So instead of "self-sufficient" it may be slightly more appropriate to use "self-reliant."  These are just my thoughts and I did find it tuff figure out a good one word antonym.

Depend and rely are to very different words, also for a different thread.

In terms of mentoring, most people don`t seem to see where I`m going with projects, ideas, arguments, or whatever, unless I write them out (or speak them) in all the necessary detail first. My main influence, philosophically, is Ayn Rand. So I suppose she would be a mentor, although I never met her.

I suppose mentoring to mean someone in a particular field who has a wealth of experience as to what works, doesn`t work, and how to develop skills and technique. In music, writing, and other arts, where the idea is to be unique, there really isn`t such a call for mentoring. Instead, when someone is young, there`s a need for a teacher in skills. Later, there may be a need for a "patron." But a mentor? Not so much.