• Self/Internal
  • Understanding yourself
    • Keep a journal, reread what you've written monthly/quarterly to see patterns.
    • know your core values (e.g. innovate)
    • Mindmap for 10 minutes every other day. You'll see connections you didn't even know.
  • Goals
    • review who you want to be weekly
    • before going to bed and first thing in the morning review what you'd like to acheive the next day.
  • Emotions
    • are transient. So no matter how horrible you feel at any given moment, think back and remember that you didn't always feel like this, and in a day, week, month you'll be back to normal.
    • moods are based both in physiology and psychology,physiology gets first dibs.
      • checklist
        • enough regular quality sleep?
        • not enough sunlight
        • enough exercise? (3+hrs a week cardio)
        • eating to much when not hungry
        • drinking soda '9diet in particular)
        • core values being met?
        • not enough progress in goals
        • value conflicts
    • Fun
      • travel to another country every other year
      • learn to play at least 2 music instruments.
      • take a class in either sculpting, welding or stone sculpture
      • try 2 new activities a year for at least a month.
  • Sexuality
    • recommended reading.
    • www.multiples.com
    • eso ISBN: 0446677620
  • Health
    • Diet/ Longevity
      • Diet and disease are highly related.
      • the less processed the better
      • you've only got one brain, avoid impact activities,
      • get some musician hearing plugs if you go to concerts regularly. - hearing doen't repair itself.
      • eat Essental Fatty Acid (or fish)
      • juice fast 3 times a year to detoxify.
    • Sleep
      • your body is a machine. Interrupt it's rhythms and you will pay for it.
    • Exercise
      • cardio is more important than mass.
      • find people that like to do what you do (hike, workout, dance, rockclimb, run)
• External
  • Social
    • Friends - make time for them
    • Family
    • Love
      • find a partner who will want to make you a better man
      • love isn't always enough for long term relationship
    • take cooking lessons., learn to prepare food for both yourself and 8-12 people. It comes in handy at parties, and when your on your own (impresses dates too!)
    • Learn to social dance (swing and some latin) to get comfortable with your body and that of another.
    • take improv comedy lessons to work on ability to improvise and free associate (useful for smalltalk)
    • Love / Relationships (Deleted)
  • World
    • Things to anticipate
      • by 2030-2050 desktop computers will be smarter than humans
      • water shortages are expected in several parts of the world, this will bring about wars
      • you will live in times marked by increasing change, turbulence.
      • every10 years or so there will be another health epidemic (e.g. bird flu).
      • we are entering a period of increased climate change (more storms)
  • Work
    • look at a mix of what pays well (look at hotjobs etc), and what meets your core values.
  • Finances
    • interest. credit cards are evil, it costs you between $20-$100 a month, or $250- $1200 a year - over the course of a year wouldn't you have rather spent that money on something fun instead of giving it away?
    • a house loan at the end of life will typically cost 2x as much as the purchase price, e.g. $500K home, on a 20 year lease will spend $500K on interest.
    • gizmos/technology is cool, but they lose value *extremely* quickly. a) generally it's easier to skip a generation, or as they are on their way out. b) ebay, froogle, pricewatch are your friends.
    • absolute hedges with either large puts
    • New Cars lose 154766154f their value when driven off the lot. Try buying last years model.