Now that I’ve identified an additional shortcoming in my set of 2012 resolutions and established a new framework to fix it, it is time to further detail my resolve. Also I am inverting my modified Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs because a foundation must come first.

I’ve also generated a mission statement for my mini happiness project:

Pursue my happiness by being attentive to my vitality, my wife and home and by creating an atmosphere of growth in the pursuit of writing.

Vitality

Resolutions

• Drink a litre of water every day
• Wake up before the alarm
• Exercise daily
• Restrict myself to two cups of coffee a day
• Weigh myself daily

Goals

• Lose 10lbs

Strategic Outcome

• Increase my energy

Home

Resolutions

• Do kitchen clean up every night – Don’t procrastinate
• Set the coffee pot auto start every week night
• Complete one thing from the backlog task list every day
• Make the bed everyday
• Buy my wife a romantic gift every month

Goals

• Keep a structured, tidy living space and a jubilant wife

Strategic Outcome

• Increase my happiness

The Element

Resolutions

• Write everyday (Journal, Blog, or a Project)
• Read everyday
• Read one page of the dictionary every night

Goals

• Promote and maintain Exploring-Art.com
• Distribute 100 Exploring-Art.com business cards before the end of the year
• Starting immediately personalize every Exploring-Art.com “publicize” tweet
• Get published in another format
• Take Creative Writing 100 @ Uvic next year
• Find my tribe

Strategic Outcome

• Increase the quality of my writing

Conclusion

From time to time I’ll post an update to how I’m doing living up to my new mission: Pursue my happiness by being attentive to my vitality, my wife and home and by creating an atmosphere of growth in the pursuit of writing. I believe this concludes my rumination from reading The Happiness Project. Exploring-Art.com will now return to it’s regularly scheduled posts.