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Most of the things that cross my mind are cliche and I know from experience I would not actually find them all that satisfying. It's possible that I would keep

• moron4hire 12y ago
  I did an exercise one time in which I had to write down, in as much detail, my "ideal" day. The exercise was structured around a conceit that there was a magical genie who would grant you everything you wanted, but only if you could describe it in detail, and only in the detail that you describe it. I found it helpful. I learned a lot about what I want from it. It took me a while to finish and ended up being several pages long. It helped when I realized that the trick is to describe lifestyle, not possessions obtained or goals achieved. That's really the important thing. I realized that most of the goals I had created were vague, barely thought-through assumptions that would supposedly make that lifestyle possible. But those two things aren't really connected. So now, I do some freelancing for 20 hours a week and the rest of the week is mine. I've achieved 80% of my lifestyle goals and it was mostly about rearranging the things I already had in my life. I spend the rest of the week working on projects that will hopefully get me the other 20%.