Simplest Thing

Context: want to have a Meaningful Life while keeping your sanity

for Fractally Generative Pattern Language:

Context: want to have a Meaningful Life while keeping your sanity

Forces

• standards/expectations keep rising - job performance (whether DayJob or Free Agent), Raising Kids, House Keeping/Cooking
• Value Driven/Principle Based Life Style management approaches (Stephen Covey, etc.) recognize the need for top-down planning to keep your time from being frittered away, but don't help you pick those priorities very well.

Solution

• Pick 1-2 things that are really worth investing time/energy/Passion into, to Focus on, get Flow State in, to "Win".
  • BigPicture: Personal Philosophy, Transcendentals, WellBeing, Hero's Journey, Purpose, (My Calling)...
    • Derek Sivers: Why are you doing?
      • the worst thing in life would be a death-bed regret that you’ve spent your life pursuing what someone said you should want, instead of what you really want.
      • whatever you decide, you need to optimize for that, and be willing to let go of the others.
      • Once you realize it and admit it, you need to pursue it.
      • Use it as your compass and optimize your life around it. Let the other goals be secondary.
  • translating into plans: Effective Entrepreneur, Thinking In Bets, Bottleneck, Working Backwards
  • a Small Tribe to help you
  • micro: Keystone Habits, Playful, Bright-Eyed And Bushy-Tailed
• Say No to lots of things, esp if they create an implicit ongoing Commitments.
  • buying stuff - you have to store it, clean it, maintain it, fix it, move it....
  • Having Kids unless you're all-in - doing it half-assed is bad mojo
• lower your standards/expectations/drag down to "Good Enough" for everything else - Less Bullshit Living - do the Simplest Thing that could possibly work
  • consider variety of tasks/tactics, pick best ROI (Pareto Principle, BottleNeck), be clear on what's at the top of your personal To-Do List
  • see Personal Finance and Physical Fitness
  • beware giving up your Agency for someone else's Management
  • give other people the same opportunity

aka Resilient Living (Resilience), Agile Living, Gnarly Living (Gnarly), Generative Living (Generative), Conscious Living (Conscious Culture), Mindful Living (Mindfulness), Rich Living, Lean Family

Could a CoachBot help?

Umbrella Game Rule/brand for lots of my activities

• One Man Show Lean Startup I'm starting: Family Financial Future
  • how I built it: WebpyForSimplestThing
• Raising Reality Hackers

whatever's Good Enough

Software Development Game Rule: WikiWikiWeb:DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork