Excellent and precise piece.

To reiterate and expand somewhat:

1. Thinking backwards is how I write stories. I need to know where I'm going, and more importantly where the characters are going. The plot, characters, action, sub-plot(s), themes drive the story forward to the end. Useful in non-fiction formats as well. All finite games rely on reverse engineering... 2. and 5. Involve cultivating presence and observing either oneself if one is working on inward spiritual consciousness or an "outer" problem /task; 3. Skeptical or Observation perceptions rely on active, receptive attention. and states of neutrality. Intuitive decision-making on the outside or in inner "spiritual" matters needs to be cognitively and somactically cross-checked for assumptions and biased filters.; 4. Is Self-explanatory.