The Good Life - 04/02/2023 - Picking a day to retire *
Yumiko and I enjoyed some very good talks yesterday, at lunchtime, and while shopping, and when walking the dogs. The talk was over timing, picking a schedule for when we will each check out of our current life paradigm and into something new. This isn’t just another move, but a wholesale shift in who we are, stepping down from our current primary roles as parents and into new identities of our own choosing. Put that way, the potential shift seems daunting, as we’re both desperately out of practice becoming something new, mom and dad being all we’ve really been and know how to be.
But time won’t wait for us to act or decide, and will instead ossify us into whatever tableau we live during the next decade. This time now is our best, and possibly last, opportunity to act to satisfy whatever latent dreams we still hold before death wipes us both to dust and soon forgotten memory. This isn’t a time to delay or pretend we can wait and decide tomorrow. So for me, I choose December 16th, 2024 as my last day of work. It’s a Monday, and a very good day to begin.
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The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://lnkd.in/gFgfGmY6
OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly
PRINCIPLES: 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle
12. Principle of Family 13. Public Speaking 14. Temperance 15. Life Will Not Go Well 16. The Horror Show 17. That Which Must Be Borne 18. The Feast of Offal 19. Distraction 20. Agency and The Great Indifference 21. The Best Seat in the House 22. The Restless Man 23. The Path of Wildness 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 26. Sin and Damnation 27. Complete Oblivion 28. The Season of Philosophy
29. Scriptwriting 30. Bullseye Aim 31. The Uphill Climb 32. Arena and Utility 33. Nothing IS enough 34. The Principle of Fun
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My name is Kurt Bell.
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