keep track of my morale in relation to how much I sleep, drink, and eat

Anyone that wants to do this with me can now do so on the slowly growing public Morale-O-Meter that I put together a while ago. Right now, 50-70 people are updating their morale on a daily basis… and people seem to be enjoying it!

It looks something like that, and the full explanation on how it works is here. It’ll be updated daily over on my blog.

A while ago, I got tempted into tracking too many things, and was trying to build a scientific body of evidence in order to help me find what leads to happiness based on my behaviors. Unfortunately, all of that made the barrier to actually keeping track of this stuff too high, and I gave up. So now I simplified it back down, and made a pretty graph, and am again excited about it. What will I learn? Probably nothing. At the very least it is a good reminder to myself that I drink way too much. But that may change soon with my Back To Health program. We’ll see, I guess.

I have noticed that I need enough of certain things to keep my mood normal: water, food, sleep, fresh air and sunlight. Lack of them will make less energetic and/or more crumpy than I would normally be.