Our lives are a mix of choosing for ourselves and circumstances outside of our choice. So as I think about designing and living my best life, I am aware that I only have so much power in this regard. With the power I have, what will I choose.
Loving care and generosity to my friends and family
I truly love helping and being there for those I love. I hope to continue to make that a reality in my life.
Celebration
Celebration brings joy to life. I want to be present and participatory in planning and carrying out meaningful celebrations.
Garden
The garden is my peace place in so many ways.
Teaching
I enjoy teaching especially when I'm in an environment that allows me to do my best teaching work.
Warm welcoming home
I love creating and living in a place that is warm and welcoming for me and others.
Travel and adventure
I love to see and experience new places with those I love.
Simplicity
I love the fact that living a simple life buys me more time and energy for the people, activities and events that I most cherish in life.
Health
Physical and mental health is most important when it comes to living a good life.
Care
I want to lovingly care for others and I desire to be around those who want to care for me too.
Actions over words
I want to rely more on actions than words in life.
Appreciation and respect
I want to appreciate the good people, actions, and events around me and I want to build and demonstrate respect for the good people and events around me too.
Nature
I want to respect and care for nature in ways that I can.
Good leadership
I want to support humane, positive, loving leadership in the ways that I can.
No hate or prejudice
I want to work against hate and prejudice in myself, others, and the greater community as that does no one any good.
Peace
I want to work for peace in ways that I can.
Knowledge, skill, expertise
I want to build my knowledge, skill, and expertise in ways that I can and then use those abilities in positive ways.
Positive routine
I want to establish the kind of routine that leads to as much of an automatic good living as possible.
Onward.
