I was looking for an example of a journal entry to send to Emily, and that prompted me to go through the public_html/journal directory and move all of that into this new home page setup.

The last file left in the directory is called "todo" and contains:

When have I been happiest in my life? When have I been the least happy in my life?
What's a good process for identifying parts of myself that I want to improve?
What's a good process for setting daily goals?

I find some humor in having a list of unfinished introspections to do. But looking at the questions now, almost 4 years later, I can see that they're not the easiest questions. I didn't know at the time when I've been happiest in my life (or least happy) because of the whimsies of memory. The reason I had that on the list (I do remember this) was that I was trying to come up with some goals at the time, and I figured that thinking about what made me happy or unhappy would have given me some ideas.

The other two questions are obviously also directed at goal setting. But I still don't have any good algorithmic answers to either of them. How do you make creativity or decision making more predictable? Can you?