Life Satisfaction Index for 2009.
Last week I was in Mississippi to attend a baby shower for my sister, and while there I spent some time at Sweet Peppers Deli leeching off their WiFi and downloading some large QuickTime files for addition into a Keynote deck I was compiling.
After checking Facebook and whatnot, I was left watching the file progress bar slowly creep along. I got to thinking about the Life Satisfaction Index post I wrote a couple of years ago. I thought it might be fun to update it with new data.
A quick recap of what I’m doing here: I decided to rate the following aspects of my life from 1-10 on a bi-annual basis:
- My Work — general satisfaction with the work I do, i.e. “Do I feel that it is worthwhile?”
- Where I Work — based on the building, my co-workers, and the atmosphere in which I was working.
- My Life — This was a tough one, but is primarily based on relationships I was in plus financial situation divided by the square root of my social life.
- Where I Live — My physical residence compounded with my satisfaction with the city I live(d) in.
Here’s the updated graph for 2009:
Wow. What a change.
Things have really been looking up over the past couple of years. Of course, it’s easy to attribute the upswing in every category. We bought our first house a couple of years ago, right around the same time that Nathan was born. I’m working at a fantastic agency and have been promoted into a position that fits me more perfectly than any other before.
Let’s look at the average:
Looks like the LSI is at 8.5 right now. I think I’m good with that. It’s unrealistic to think that I could get everything to a 10. What do you think your numbers would be?