That is a very difficult question.  Often it is coming up with a great idea, but that is only half the challenge.  The other half is turning that idea into something that is truely useful to someone else.  Most of the time this takes the form of writing and documenting software to perform some task.

On reading the question I thought of writing an email to a you man I spoke to yesterday who had just been made redudundant from work, and came to me keen to get all the projects he was working on prior to leaving his job.  An attitude like that is so rare, that I wrote to him, honouring him, and offering any assistance I can  as referee or otherwise.
His attitude to family, community and life is exemplary.

In a very real sense we are whomever we choose to be.
In another sense, we are each infinitely capable, infinitely flexible, products of evolution by natural selection operating in at least two domains; with holographic brains that intergrate patterns from all levels of our environment.

We are capable of choosing love and responsibility, but most often don't.

Time we moved the locus of control inside, and kept it there; and started making consistent choices for the benefit of all.

A successful game of Golf - and no I didn't - had a shocker - Net 80.

At the times of greatest discomfort.
When things seemed to be falling apart, when I look back on them with the benefit of hindsight, these were the times of greatest growth for me.  These were the times when either I fell back into old patterns, or used the stimulus to move ahead into new patterns - lessons either way.
So many of them - from a tongue tied childhood, through to my first wife leaving me because of my arrogance, to deaths of friends and family, to all sort of embarasments and failures.Not easy, and I am what I am as a result.As Rumi said - he who would be purified must endure burning.
No sign of them stopping!

A couple of major themes running this week; creating a great marriage, and creating sustainable fisheries management.

Lots of enquiry with my wife, about where joy and bliss lie for each of us, and how we can more effectively create that together.

In fisheries many things happening.  Major restructuring in the Ministry of Fisheries seeing most of the regional offices losing the policy people - which in one sense is a major backward step.  Policy work being centralised in Wellington.  A new fisheries Minister stamping his authority - he seems results oriented, which could be powerful; it just remains to be seen how accessable he is to ideas from outside the bureaucratic system - which could be problematic.  Two days in dunedin last week at a fisheries conference, two days this week in Wellington - off before dawn tomorrow morning.  Big discussions last night and this evening with recreational fisheries repsresentatives.

Tomorrow will see what the intuition throws together.
My wife and I head off together to a fisheries conference - a few get away hours amongst some intense networking and information flow.

All sorts of places.  I'll talk to almost anyone.  In large measure it doesn't seem to matter very much who I talk to, but the act of talking to someone else allows me to sort the issue out for myself.
Most often, in the act of talking to someone else about what is concerning me, a solution becomes obvious to me.
Now it is clear to me that in almost all cases there are an infinite number of possible solutions to any given problem, and most of them will work for a time, before they bring about another issue that requires further thought and action by someone.
Such seems to be the nature of life.
Infinite possibility seems to inspire infinite creativity.

At home.
I work from home.
I am most comfortable here - with my wife & family and chores.
It takes something for me to leave home, to go out in the world for any reason.

For a big part of me, the thought of going out in the world and making enough disturbance to create the vision for humanity described in www.solnx.org is about the most uncomfortable thing imaginable - and it appears that it needs to be done.

Yes - sometimes.
In my more enlightened moments it is clear to me that anything I see in anyone else is just a reflection of things I have experienced in myself - logcal when one thinks about it.
In my less enlightened moments, I think that what I see in others really is in the other, rather than in myself - always a good test of awareness levels ;)

In my more enlightened moments I deny nothing, I accept everything, and I choose the path atht seems to me to deliver greatest contribution.
In my less enlightened moments I try to pretend that I am not an arrogant a*shole who thinks he might be able to know and do everything.

Being is such an interesting process.
There appears to be an infinite possible array of probability functions available for action.  Choice allows me to skew the probability function of future actions to one side or another (or tighten or loosen the distribution), in any of the infinitely available options - any but not all.

I can choose anything.  I cannot do everything.

An interesting aspect of reality and creativity.

Arohanui

The most enlightened and contributing me I can manage to create, having as much fun and as many new experiences as possible along the way.
Seems like I could make that an infinite journey - no possible end in sight.

Many places.

Exploration.
Creativity.
Love.
Acceptance.
Compassion.
Abundance.
Fairness.

I am probably most sensitive about the idea of fairness.

Having done the Landmark Forum, and having completed most of the courses offered by Landmark, and assisted on about 40 forums and about 20 advanced courses, in all capacities; I have gained an empathy with just about everyone.   Having been short, fat and tounge tied as a child, and teased by all and sundry, has given me a certain empathy with others, even if I am now 6'2" and reasonably eloquent of speech.

I have studied many disciplines, and many cultures, and now find myself in what is essentially a "post cultural" mindset - in which I can see the necessity for culture to exist, as part of the development of an individual, and I can also see that any individual can grow beyond the constraints of culture.

Similarly in the field of economics, I can see that free market economies have led to the greatest development of the human condition, and at the same time, there are many with low level awareness that are using economic tools to dominate and constrain human potential.

There is need of a consciousness that sees free markets and cultures as tools that empower individual development, and not simply ends within themselves.

It is time that we bought about transformation in our education systems, into something that encourages and empowers individuals to their greatest potential, rather than something that dumbs most of us down to be tools of an economic system seen as an end in itself.

I applaud the moves to conscious capitalism, and we need to move to the next level - beyond even that worthy goal.

I guess I am most sensitive about us all caring for each other and for all other life, at the same time as we grant all others the complete freedom to do the same in their own way.   If that seems contradictory, then you're not there yet.  Don't give up - keep on your own path of personal development.

So many.
From the big bang come all the sub atomic particles of my atoms and molecules, and all the photons of the light that sustains us, and essentially all the energy that powers life.

From exploding stars come all the elements heavier than helium, that make up most of my body, most of this planet we live on.

So much has happened on this planet that leaves it's legacy in me.

From the collision of the Mars sized planet with Earth about 4 billion years ago that left us with the legacy of a moon, our day length, and plate techtonics, giving us the land one which we live.  The early moon was much closer, and the early earth spun much faster - 4 billion years ago a day was 6 hours long, and the moon one 15th the distance that it is now - giving tides 100m high, sweeping in and out over lava fields every 3 hours - the heating and cooling of which probably powered the replication of the first neucleic acids, in the oceans derived from the millions of comets that crashed into the early earth.

Over 4 billion years, the moon moved further away, and the earth rotation slowed, both things driven by tidal forces.  Over the same period life slowly developed in complexity ,and slowly change the chemistry of the earth.

In every cell of my body is the legacy of those early neuclic acids, and the legacy of much of the early evolution.  Every cell in my body is made up of what was essentially a cooperative group of organisms, which now show as mitchondria and a neucleus, with protein synthesis powered by ribosomes made from RNA.

The legacy of evolution, both slow development by evolution by natural selection and periodic punctuated equilibria due to comet and meteor strike, roving continents, and massive volcanism.

So many cycles, on so many levels.

In all of this, one species of naked ape developed the ability to stand and use their freed hands to make complex tools, and their brains developed the ability to handle symbolic language.

Evolution had supplied these apes with an amazing brain, that is capable of holograhpically processing information, thus creating linkages between similar concepts, and deriving new concepts from perceptions.

After a slow process of memetic evolution (that some call "culture" in the widest sense), humanity developed language to the point that some individuals started declaring their own self awareness - through a process of making themselves wrong, after having been taught a concept of right.wrong or good/evil or good/bad, and the rules that went with the concept.

Now almost all human beings go through the process of declaring their self awareness into being.

Over the last 10,000 years many individuals have had major conceptual leaps in the way they view the world.  Many traditions have grown from these intuitions, that have lead to many cultures as we know them.

Over the last few hundred years some individuals have broken free from cultural conditioning, and have started to view the world around them in ways that most of their fellows do not.  One of the greatest of these was Charles Darwin, whose idea about evolution started many field of exploration.  One of the greatest since has been Richard Dawkins, whose book "Selfish Gene" offers a way of viewing existence that can form the basis of a complete reframing of our model of existence.

Since reading Dawkins 30 years ago, I have been reading and exploring many great traditions, religous and otherwise, and reframing their essential truths into the new framework.

Thus I have legacies from Judaic thought, Christian thought, Muslem thought, Buddhist thought, atheist thought, anarchist thought, ......

My life is so empowered, by the millions of individuals who have contributed in their many ways to the technical and social and conceptual world in which I find myself so privileged to live, that I wish I could send messages of gratitude back through time to so many.

So many legacies.....................

So much to be grateful for.........

Yes & No.
In a situation where I see a clear injustice then I find it easy to assert myself, but where there is no clear injustice, then my compassion for others often stops me asserting my own interests.
If someone is clearly bullying someone else, then I will stand strongly against them.
If it is more subtle, then my response can match subtlety.

I don't like the idea of surrender to anything.
I acknowledge the requirement to accept all that is.
I accept that both my ability to love and my creativity are deeply connected to the infinite, though it seems probable to me that the infinite is without intention.
I am realistic enough to know that it is pointless to try and swim upstream if the current is flowing downstream faster than I can swim, in such cases it is most effective to swim acorss current until one is free of the current, then resume the intended direction.  I do not consider this surrender, merely acceptance of what is so.
To me surrender would be to give up intention.
That does not seem either ethical or wise.
If my intention is in service of self and other, and life itself, then I am unlikely to surrender.

What an unanswerable question.
I have no doubt there are many, and I am committed to hunting them down, one by one, and bringing them to awareness.
Yet another good excuse to stay around a few thousand years ;)

That it produce results that are of benefit to all.
That I find the strength to choose happiness in the face of whatever circumstances arise.

That I find opportunity to be of service to others.

How do you look so happy and fulfilled?

Kissing and cuddling with my wife before we go to sleep.

My own voice.
People tell me the sound of my voice is OK, but I cannot seem to etiehr hit or hold a note with it.   What I hear and what others hear seems to be quite different.
I can tell when others are in tune, but not myself.

Doing quite well with peace in my life, by bringing acceptance to all that is present.

Sometimes I would like to be able to do more.

Sometimes I think doing less would bring more peace.

Accepting that both of these will happen from time to time is a form of acceptance.

The greatest peace comes from being in integrity with my deepest intuitions.

Seeing where I do not keep my word, or honour my word, without making myself wrong - just committing to doing better next time.

Bringing as much love as I can find to all situations.

Being vigilant for the idea that I actually know anything about anyone or anything else - in absolute terms.  That is keepig open the possibility (probability) that what I think is so just aint so.  As a friend used to say in his laconic southern Californian way - "I don't know!"  Not knowing creates a space for being informed - knowing shuts the door to new informationa nd new ideas.

All these things I "know" and all I practice imperfectly.

I guess it all comes down to being vigilant and being compassionate.

This proved an interesting question.
I wrote a big answer - then pressed post without copying it, and lost the lot.
Trying again.
Many things.
Giving full commitment to eliminating poverty and extending lifespans through www.solnx.org
Spending more time with my wife and daughter
Spending more time with my son
Finishing tidying up the trees I cut down over summer.
Finishing the extensions to the house.
Tidying up the garage.
Topping the trees on the section.
Felling the Marcocarpas on the eastern boundary of our section.
Practicing for the 36 hole golf tournament I'm playing Sunday
Coding the integration of a report generator into my main software package.
Coding a website to record individual assessments of the state of our fisheries, plus actual recreational catch.
Updating the cashbook system to full windows printing capability.
Completing the productivity partner software.
Painting the roof.
Getting the old 4WD ready for sale.
Getting the campervan ready for sale.
Going fishing,
Getting my pilots licence current.
Finishing reading the 20 or so books I'm part way through.
Calling people to ask for their support to run as President of the NZ Recreational Fishing Council.
Complete the modelling work I have been working on for the Gisborne Crayfish fishery.
Calling both the Minister of Fisheries, and the CEO of the Ministry of Fisheries and talking to them personally about what I am seeing the Gisborne data.
Doing yoga every day.
Going for a decent bike ride at least 4 days a week.
Walking the dogs.
Completing the book I am writing.
.............. and on it goes

How to extend lifespans indefinitely.

Here in this universe, currently on planet Earth, currently in Kaikoura, currently in my home in Maui Street.

I belong to life.
I love my wife and children.
I love fellowship, and being of service.
I belong to life itself.

I'm exploring the universe, both in the physical and the infinite space of the possible.

Fairly soon I need to perfect a method of extending lifespans indefinitely, to give me some chance of seeing any significant fraction of the infinite spaces available.

After that, I'll just take the path that seems to offer the greatest joy.
With a bit of luck, I will have my beloved wife along for the journey, and meet a raft of other wonderful people along the way.

Perhaps I can offer some creative service along the way.

I would happily accept $30B toward extending lifespans and empowering everyone with their own personalised means of production.

On the other dimension of the question, I think I am able to accept all that is - even the possibility that there is no meaning in life, other than that we as individuals choose to give it.