What makes you happy? What is your American Dream?
pinoceros: satisfying my needs is happiness. simplify: skip the bars and the drama, ditch the time-sucking girlfriends – and the time-sucking guys, too, quit the day job, learn to cook "peasant food" from every part of the world. within two months of making the above changes, i went from spending to saving, eating better, coding better, and playing better.Then there are some seasonal things that increase my joy:Winter through spring
* average five hours of snowboarding a day
* average five hours of programming a daySummer through fall
* average five hours of surfing, kayaking, hiking, and/or fishing a day
* average five hours of programming a dayI try to block my days into ten hours of activity. Figure eight hours of sleep a night, that leaves me with six hours I can spend however I want. Some of that gets used up getting to snow and surf spots, or (blech) on-site, but a lot of it is spent doing small things that lead to happiness: such as yard work, house cleaning, chatting with neighbors, teaching my old dog new tricks, strolling, making music alone or with others.