12 Rules for Living

 I came across a few posts. 

 https://lisielilli.medium.com/12-rules-for-life-df3593099c3f

 https://www.natemeyvis.com/12-rules/

 Talking about coming up with your own 12 rules for living. I'm not too sure what mine are, but as I decide on them, I'll update this post.

 1. Try to do something hard every day. For a bit there I was taking cold showers, those are hard things. I think deciding *what is hard* is a challenge in and of itself, but I suppose I can try to do cold showers until they are easy :). (That makes it easier for me to do hard things without having to really try to figure it out).

2. Living without heartburn is magical, do not ever take that for granted, if you have heartburn finding a way to get rid of it (preferably) by improving your diet does two things, a) it changes your life for the better making sleep easier etc. b) likely....it's healthier. I have found eating apples and bell peppers helps my heartburn, so like eating that is way better than eating a Twinkie or something dumb lol.

 

3. Value your time. Decide what is important and don't let things take away your time when given the option.

4. Read books that change how you think for the better occasionally.

 5. Prune constantly. Prune stuff....by not pruning earlier and more often, we are constantly fighting with the deluge of consumerism.

6. Kids are the best and worst thing in the world. If you have em, I assume you know. They teach you about yourself in so many ways, and sometimes you might not like what you find out (this the worst thing about kids). If you have kids, prioritize them as much as you are able. Staying at work late is almost never worth it if it comes at the cost of missing time with your kids.

 7. Lead something, try to be the best you can be at it, learn from other leaders how to do it, etc.

7b. Invest in your community (with your time) not sure if this is 8 or 7b, for now it's just part of 7, but I think leading and community go hand in hand.

8. Invest in your retirement "health" account by working out, eating healthy, etc regularly. 

Right now it's new years eve, I will prob come back to this.

 

complexity

 I've been thinking a lot about complexity lately, what I don't know and can't decide is whether it's a permanent thing or not in my life.

Ok let's talk about complexity pain points.

1. Home lab/network/tech complexity. I host some stuff on my own, stuff breaks, I have to fix it or figure out why it isn't working. Case in point, I was using jellyfin at home, but it wasn't working with Roku, I could visit the webpage and it worked fine. Heck I could visit some other video files and it worked fine. It turns out a format I have been ripping my files in, is apparently suddenly 'less compatible' with Roku, or my network or something. Why don't I just stream Netflix/Hulu/Disney+ etc, and forget about it.

I could go deeper but I like to own my own stuff. so I buy a lot of DVDs and rip em, so I can watch stuff at home, and not rely on services with licensing agreements, etc. 

 

2. Financial. I won't get deep into this for obvious reasons, but I have too many accounts, but if I want to invest in way X, I have to have an account, same for Y and Z. 

I guess I could only have one account, but would I make as big of a return? Dunno. But complexity.

 3. Food. I'm picky, I'm sure Ive mentioned it before but I'm picky, we went out to eat last night (teppan style), but I don't like onions, mushrooms, and broccoli, so things are complicated ordering. I ended up paying for fried rice I wouldn't eat. And only got about half the vegetables I would normally get due to pickiness. 

How do I fix this? Dunno, pick only restaurants I don't have to modify what I'm eating? Fix my pickiness? (Maybe a new years resolution?)

 

4. Health. I think everyone says sleep is important, so get a ton of sleep, but if I get more sleep...I get more sleepy through the day, so do I sleep less? Will that affect my health? It would be nice to keep my sleep to a minimum so I can do things like work on projects, or even workout. Which also working out is complicated for me, I don't want to use certain apps so instead of getting a workout recommendation and following it, I kinda just do what I feel like, which is not ideal.

 

I'm sure there is more but I'll stop here. These are things I thinking about and wonder, do you dear reader think the same? How do you manage this complexity?