From Gus – The Possibility Hunter

I reviewed my values this week, thanks to three pieces of inspiration.

Christian D. Larson’s, ‘Optimist Creed’ calls for optimists to promise “to be so strong that nothing can disturb their peace of mind” and to “talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person they meet.” Ironically, these two big asks gave me a pessimistic view of being an optimist.

Peter C of ‘I Will Change Your Life.com’ provided a challenge: write your own eulogy. The idea is to discover how you want to be remembered, and therefore what you truly value. I plan to live forever – I may not be a Larson-defined optimist, but you may detect some optimism here.

Finally, I discovered Stephen Colbert’s ‘truthiness’ which describes things that a person claims to know intuitively, instinctively, or “from the gut” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or actual facts.

So, with these three bits of wisdom I wrote my own eulocreed.

It’s part eulogy, part creed and chock-a-block with truthiness.

I suggest you try writing your own: what is truthy to you? How do you want to be remembered? And what values are instinctively yours?