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Introduction

Have you ever woken up on a fine, misty morning?  Have you ever sat up and seen the sun filter through the wisps, and wondered, "Wow!  I wish my life was like this moment all the time?"  An then you get up, make a cup of coffee, bundle up in a warm jacket, and sit outside on the cement just watching the sunrise.

I have, but not as often as I'd like.  And I'd like to change that.

So this is not an introduction to my life story.  It's a mission statement.  

Here's the plan:

Maximize long term happiness by identifying things I like doing and doing more of them, and removing things I don't like doing (or transforming them.)

Bleck!  That's not actionable!  Make it actionable!

Identifying things I like doing and doing more of them = Try out lots of hobbies, produce cool stuff, and learn new skills.  I'm talking learning to draw, knitting sweaters, and hiking mountains!

 Removing things I don't like (or transforming them) = Getting better at my job, reducing the amount of time I spend in useless meetings, learning new software engineering techniques and languages.  Find new ways to add value to everyone involved.

They say you can't measure what you don't track.  Today is Saturday, May 13th, 2017.  Here are three goals I have for this year (arbitrarily picked out of thin air according to my values.)

1. Walk 1000 miles this year.
2. Read 20 books this year.
3. Learn to cook perfect eggs every time.  (Seriously, this one has been frustrating me for a while.)

This is a lifestyle / lifestyle building blog.  The real purpose is to document a lot of lifestyle experiments and see which ones make me happiest, become long term parts of my life, and are repeatable.


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