Pursuit of Happiness: Mental Well-Being

[serenissima]

I am responsible for my own happiness. It falls to me to provide myself with comfort and entertainment.

For entertainment, this year I will get out of the house more:

• There's a gaming group that meets at least monthly, a half hour drive away. (Thank you Meetup.com.) Cost: nominal.
  
• The aquarium society also meets monthly and is also within a half hour drive. Cost: $20/year.
  
• There's a ski club that will be making bus trips to go skiing practically every weekend this winter. Cost: $65 a trip; not sure about equipment rental.
  
• There's another Meetup group offering free cultural outings in the bustling megalopolis where I work. Cost: only gas & parking.

For comfort, this year I will make an extra effort to keep a clean apartment:

• No more leaving dirty dishes in the sink for days at a time. I'll do at least a little dishwashing every evening that there is some to be done, even if I don't wash them all.
  
• I will go through my mail as I get it and file anything that needs filing as I get it.
  
• I will rid myself of accumulations of "useful items" such as glass jars, corrugated cardboard boxes, plastic containers from food and dry cleaners' wire hangers at least bi-monthly.
  
• I will rip out the useful pages from my magazine, file them in a binder according to topic, and throw out the magazine once I'm done reading it.
  
• I will spend at least half an hour every weekend picking up clutter.

That's a start. Let's see how that goes for a few weeks.

Comments

[purrzah.livejournal.com]

Nice set of goals. Let us know how you do as time goes by. :)

As far as clutter items... would hand-made thank you gifts from people you've never met in person count? ;)

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Only if I toss it on the couch and leave it there to collect dust. :) Clutter (for the purpose of this journal entry) is stuff that is not put in its proper place but is left where it happens to fall. Sometimes the proper place is the trash, but not always.

[gregstoll.livejournal.com]

Ooh, these are good ideas. Good luck in following them!