2010: present, aware and contented...starting my journey in contentment and personal informatics

2009 has been a really high and really low kinda year.
Highs of the election of Obama and the hope he inspired, lows of the crisis and its impact on my friends, my SO and even on me, lucky enough to have a job but type to worry anyways kind of gal.
In my highs: I remember starting the year by a nomination for an award at work, going back to France in June and spending quality time revisiting my country, hanging out with friends and family, then Burning Man, Decompression, Halloween at the Ghost Ship, my first Kayak experience, camping at Cherry Lake, that surfing lesson on my Birthday, the Japanese punk-rock show that same night, running my first half-marathon, music music music, Leonard Cohen, Bonnie Prince Billy, Rusko...just hanging out at my house with my purring machines, my friends and my guy and really enjoying it...finishing the year surrounded by friends in beautiful Yosemite, and also just the plain highs of walking/driving/biking/running in my city and taking in its energy and its beauty.
It's really interesting in one way how my Twitter, Sonic Living and my Flickr stream are a great living memories of these high and lows, (actually mostly of my highs) and how happy I am to have been documenting them so that I can reflect on how overall awesome of a life I have... if I ever dare to forget.
Side note: which is why Twitter needs to give me access to my full history, this is the closest thing I have to a living journal nowadays.

Continuing on that thread of documenting your life, I have been totally fascinated by the reports Feltron publish every year...beautiful visualization of all types of facts about his life in data. If I could do it for myself, what kind of patters would I find? What would I want to improve, what would I be satisfy with?

This year, my key resolutions are:
* to be more present and contented,
* to remember regularly to be grateful for what I have hence the documentation
*to work on some goals I set for my self: continue running (realized there were a strong correlation with feeling present and subsequently satisfied and running), talk to strangers more (one of my fear), be greener (I feel I could do much better), plan for more nature time (also correlate well with me feeling contended), live music (also so important for my sanity), be more connected with my community be it my friends & family but also other vegetarians, animal lovers, universal health care believers....and finally something I worked on last year but want to continue working on -> to fear less and try more.

As part of this process, I am going to attempt at documenting my life more this year beyond Twitter and Flickr. Some of this tracking will be done manually (trying Daytum and beta.metrics.com) but I also hope I will be able to automatize some of it. One simple area is to track my running activities where I can automatically track my runs and my progress with Nike+ and Runkeeper, but I will also look at my overall health, my sleep level (aka as no insomnia tonight = win) with Fitbit, my trips planned, my footprint...

Excited by the journey and what I will discover along the way