Choose happiness more often.

...and needs to sharpened up if I want to have steps to follow to make any progress. Onto the back burner until things stabilize after the move to the UK. Then I’ll reformulate later on.

the secret of this is saying no sometimes. Or saying it ever. One reason I remain a poor student-type in spite of having pretty marketable skills is that I volunteer too much and give too much to charities (through automatic debit so I forget I’m doing it). World Vision for example. Thing is they’re all good causes and I don’t want to stop….however someone told me something yesterday (one of my bosses where i volunteer): like a good doctor, stop taking new patients. Good idea. It’s not like I’m not gaining a lot personally from this stuff, but I spend between 10 and 20 hours a week volunteering for different places and man, the opportunity cost is adding up for if I’d used that time to work. Trying to learn something here. I did my taxes last week and the charitable donation part made me go “holy $#*%” ! when i added it up. Anyways all this to say I think I have to recenter myself and rebudget and tell insistent volunteer-seeking people to take a hike more often. Spa weekend on the horizon I think! :)