Chris Faddis

It may cool off tonight

chrisforutah — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:12:38 +0000

Happiness 101

chrisforutah — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:04:08 +0000

Positives:
1 Clear brisk mornings, looking got sunglasses to drive.
2 proactive medical care follow up monitoring without crisis symptoms.
3 smart phones to make data and information available from my pocket.

Spin it:
Reading emails and news while cooling my heels for 2 hours in the clinic. Productivity can progress in spite of poor planning and management.

Goals long term:
200 familiar connections
Goals short term:
Complete refinish of wood floors

Happiness 101

chrisforutah — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:30:20 +0000

Long term goal: 200 contacts familiar on a first name basis.

Short term goal: finish sanding triplex floors

Positives
1 quiet mornings and watching the world wake up
2 the healthy ache after sanding the floors for a couple of hours
3 meeting interesting people at the happiness social

Spin
The snow blower didn’t work saturday. It started and ran great yesterday.

Selling in a competitive market.

chrisforutah — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:01:06 +0000

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=1018319868&ids=cjkOd3oMej4MciMUdzwVcjcUcj0Nb34Vdj0TcjkNc34Ie38RejwTcj4MciMOcjkSdP0Qcj0N&aag=true&freq=weekly&trk=eml-tod2-b-ttl-3&ut=1zlnKfpvax6541&_mSplash=1

Happiness 101 Oct 15

chrisforutah — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Long term goal; 200 friends and connections with people. First-name, conversational relationships.
Short term goal: touch and exchange with 3 established people connections per day, start 2 new people connections per day, study 15 minutes per day.

Positive 1 people taking time and energy on a beautiful Saturday to support their hard of hearing brothers and sisters

Positive 2 people taking the time and energy to organize a walk for hearing to publicize support groups for the deaf and hard of hearing

Positive 3 twitter feeds that can provide humor and ispirartion at any time

Negative, people who talk trash when they may be feeling guilty about their own behavior.

Spin the negative. If my actions,words,and deeds are positive, honest, and supportive I will not be tempted to hide in negativity.

Happiness 101 Oct 12 2011

chrisforutah — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:02:16 +0000

Long Term Goal: 200 contacts and friends familiar enough to converse on a first name basis and touched frequently enough to maintain current life status.

Short Term Goal: touch 3 familiar contacts per day; initiate 2 new contacts per day; study for 30 minutes per day

Positive : I spent a couple of days over the weekend helping a family member work on a roof modification for a new addition and repair of the old roof. I have physically recovered in only one down day. That’s better physical recovery than I had been expecting. My body has not completely abandoned me.

Positive: I was able to take my father and a sons family out to the ranch, the BQ. It was nice to be able to visit the place, renew the memories both positive and negative and to introduce the piece of ground to one of my kids.

Positive: My son came over to help his brother with the roofing project even when he didn’t really want to help. It’s good to see the kids be able to work together even when it isn’t convenient.

A negative: Housing found repairs needed for one rental.

Spin the negative: The repairs that are needed are not overwhelming. They are cosmetic rather that structural or immediate hazards.

The housing inspections gives, ‘piece of mind’, to our renters that the property is sound and in livable condition.

It gets easier to predict the failure points of the housing inspections.

Happiness 101 oct 8

chrisforutah — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:41:01 +0000

Long term goal: 200 active mo contacts first name basis current knowledge

Short term goal: touch 3 current contacts; start 2 new contacts; study 15 minutes per day.

Positive: getting too live where we have changing seasons

Positive: working with kids to support their project

Positive: getting to support my wifes connections to her family.

Spin one: driving visiting relatives from the air port to evanston allows me to interact at my choosing on my best behavior, making my wife less uncomfortable. That’s good for our relationship.

Happiness 101 August 24, 2011

chrisforutah — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:25:46 +0000

Long term goal: 200 contacts familiar enough to conduct an exchange on a first name basis including family knowledge and current interests.

Short term goal: 3 established contacts, (AN, CE, JF), 2 new contacts (AH, JS), study one new topic, (Happiness blog mentions)

Positives:

My magna listing is getting shown at least once a week.

I got over to Sunset to stain most of the fence on the east side. The wood was so dry that it soaked up two gallons of stain like a frat boy at a kegger.

Karen went to her walk for hearing meeting without asking me to go.

Negative:

A closing agent for a title company tried to snake the title work for a listing after talking to the seller. She would have had a more convincing argument if she either knew the sellers name, or had spent the 30 seconds it takes to look it up. (Note to self, If I trying to snake business from someone else, spend at least a minute doing some homework.)

Twisted negative:

I learned another way to not represent myself when dealing with people.

Happiness 101 August 23, 2011

chrisforutah — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:31:43 +0000

Long Term Goal : 200 contacts familiar enough to engage on a first name basis.

Short Term Goal: Touch 3 established contacts, establish 2 new contacts, study 1 new topic.

Positives:

1. Davis County Fair. Going to the Davis county fair was like going to the rural county fairs of my childhood. From the fried stuff to the splash dog entertainment, including the cheesy carnival rides.

2. Shooting clay pigeons as a family group. Each of us shooting and taking turns and playing together in joy.

3. Grandma powdering the first clay pigeon.

Negative:

Karen has had to return to teaching school this week.

Twisted Negative:

Karen and I have more to talk about each day, It is interesting to watch her evaluate and modify her approaches as she reaches different daily hurdles with struggling kids, administrators, teachers and parents. I often marvel at her persistence and ingenuity.

Happiness 101 july 24, 2011

chrisforutah — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:57:12 +0000

Long term goal
Form first name conversational contacts with 200 people

Short term goal
Savor family experiences

Positives
1 people found and rettuned dog who ran away from fireworks
2 we successfully dog set the naughty dog
3 hiked with scott stephanie and katrina to the 29 th street falls

Spin
Probability may suggest that the finder of the missing dog was the only person we gave contact info to?
People get an opportunity to do the right thing