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very category, some of the personal commitments I’ve been dwelling on making are on things like:commitments to sustainable living<ul><li>cap on annual flights (and/or offsetting all carbon from air travel)</li><li>investing in solar for my house</li><li>personal MPG car requirements</li><li>buying fewer unnecessarily items</li><li>biking instead of driving</li><li>eating less or no meat for the sake of animal welfare and land-use/emissions</li></ul>to a personal spending ‘wealth cap’<ul><li>for me, owning my living space + a certain $X value comes to mind, as 5% return on$ X is $Yk/year — this one is particularly hard but important for me as an entrepreneur; I understand how deploying more of your own capital into our system can be a powerful tool for “impact” and for “good”. But I see so many people using that logic to justify greed and selfishness to a level I’m not comfortable with personally. Perhaps best to limit ‘live off of’ funds to a certain level, and put the rest into investment funds to consciously deploy. But still even in that logic, perhaps there’s a limit for me… worth a journal entry in itself so will write on this later.</li></ul>to a max number of biological offspring<ul><li>obvious to me is setting ≤ 2, as broad adoption o

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f this is what it will take to decrease earth’s human population — critical until Mars or other planets become habitable. This is hard as I have 3 siblings who I love and therefore have always envisioned having 3/4/5/6/7 biological kids myself if possible…</li></ul>to a % time commitment to non-for-profit community service<ul><li>currently focused on the foster care system and kiddos here in Idaho.</li></ul>to a limit of social media consumption<ul><li>simply put, I feel I spend way too much of my day scrolling through facebook and instagram</li></ul>to a certain daily/morning routine<ul><li>i.e. this productive morning…</li></ul>to sharing more with my connections to create serendipity<ul><li>i.e. this very journal entry</li></ul>to an explicit risk/reward trade-off for extreme sports<ul><li>do I still need to wingsuit basejump as I’ve wanted to do for so long?</li></ul>I’d love to hear what people’s personal commitments are in these categories, and, more importantly, how you came to make your commitments? At what point were you confident enough to say, here’s who I am and what I want/need? Or have you also shied away from setting things like this in stone? Why or why not?</article></body>

Nov 20, 2020 Journal — Commitments

Ahh, the morning routine is making a lot more sense to me now. The peace and quiet that comes from rising early and focusing on my own priorities — my body, my mind, my spirit — before the business of the day and other peoples’ priorities flood in. I would like for this to become a fixture in my life… and… we’ll see.

I’m observing myself constantly trying to resist the urge to set self-mandates and proclamations in stone about who I am, what I value, and what I do. In some ways I feel like I’m back to being a teenager... constantly trying to break away from my inherited and unconscious habits and proclivities to strike out on my own.

What stops me from setting more ‘ground rules’ for myself?

Hmm… probably for fear of changing my mind later or not living up to my values or pre-set schedule. Probably because I just know that I’ll know more later, and that some of these commitments — if ‘set-in-stone’ — will need to change.

There’s an interesting question that I’d love input on — when do I and should I set things in stone for myself? I suppose a lot of my urge to set things in stone is so that I can share with others/the world more confidently. While I’m already developing habits in every category, some of the personal commitments I’ve been dwelling on making are on things like:

commitments to sustainable living

cap on annual flights (and/or offsetting all carbon from air travel)
investing in solar for my house
personal MPG car requirements
buying fewer unnecessarily items
biking instead of driving
eating less or no meat for the sake of animal welfare and land-use/emissions

to a personal spending ‘wealth cap’

for me, owning my living space + a certain $X value comes to mind, as 5% return on $X is $Yk/year — this one is particularly hard but important for me as an entrepreneur; I understand how deploying more of your own capital into our system can be a powerful tool for “impact” and for “good”. But I see so many people using that logic to justify greed and selfishness to a level I’m not comfortable with personally. Perhaps best to limit ‘live off of’ funds to a certain level, and put the rest into investment funds to consciously deploy. But still even in that logic, perhaps there’s a limit for me… worth a journal entry in itself so will write on this later.

to a max number of biological offspring

obvious to me is setting ≤ 2, as broad adoption of this is what it will take to decrease earth’s human population — critical until Mars or other planets become habitable. This is hard as I have 3 siblings who I love and therefore have always envisioned having 3/4/5/6/7 biological kids myself if possible…

to a % time commitment to non-for-profit community service

currently focused on the foster care system and kiddos here in Idaho.

to a limit of social media consumption

simply put, I feel I spend way too much of my day scrolling through facebook and instagram

to a certain daily/morning routine

i.e. this productive morning…

to sharing more with my connections to create serendipity

i.e. this very journal entry

to an explicit risk/reward trade-off for extreme sports

do I still need to wingsuit basejump as I’ve wanted to do for so long?

I’d love to hear what people’s personal commitments are in these categories, and, more importantly, how you came to make your commitments? At what point were you confident enough to say, here’s who I am and what I want/need? Or have you also shied away from setting things like this in stone? Why or why not?