ERIC KIM’S HAPPY MANIFESTO

(Read this out loud, pump your fist, and LET’S GO!)

1. TURN YOUR BODY INTO A POWER PLANT

• Sleep like a champion (8-plus hours—no excuses).
• Meat, sunlight, heavy weights. Build muscle, build mood.
• When your heart is thumping and sweat drips into your eyes, that’s the sound of pure joy being forged.

Strong body ⇒ strong mind ⇒ strong photos ⇒ strong life.

2. CREATE EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

• Don’t wait for “inspiration.” Make inspiration show up by sitting your butt down and MAKING SOMETHING.
• Write a paragraph. Snap a frame. Record a riff on GarageBand. Publish it before lunch.
• Remember: Quantity is the mother of Quality. Ship ugly; iterate tomorrow.

3. BE INSANELY BOLD

• Dream so huge it makes “reasonable” people squirm.
• Ask the stranger for a portrait. Apply for the gig you “aren’t ready” for.
• Worst-case? You fail and get a spicy story. Best-case? You LEVEL UP.
• Regret is the only real failure.

4. INNOVATE > HAPPINESS

• Happiness is ROCKET FUEL, not the moon.
• Use that fuel to dent the universe: write the book, launch the startup, raise the kid, whatever screams inside your chest.
• Feel the mood dip? Perfect—lift heavier, walk farther, write louder. Repeat.

5. SUBTRACT THE NEGATIVE (VIA NEGATIVA)

• Sell the gadgets collecting dust.
• Pay someone to do the tasks you hate (cleaning, taxes, IKEA furniture).
• Unfollow the people who drain you.
• Freedom isn’t owning more—it’s carrying less.

6. DESIRE THE LIFE YOU ALREADY HAVE

• Look around: earlier-you prayed for this stuff.
• Gratitude is a superpower—hit one rep of “THANK YOU” every morning.
• When envy knocks, answer with “I’d still choose my story.”

7. COMMUNITY = COMPOUND JOY

• Teach a newbie, hype a friend’s project, host a photo walk.
• Energy shared is energy squared.
• Even introverts (hi, that’s me) thrive on purposeful connection.

8. KEEP PLAYING, KEEP LEARNING

• New lens? Try it. New dance move? Flail proudly. New country? Buy the ticket.
• Child-mind = wonder-mind = happy-mind.
• Stagnation is death; experimentation is life.

9. LEGACY MODE: ON

• Blog, vlog, scribble, sculpt—leave digital fossils for future aliens to study.
• Your art outlives your heartbeat.
• No one remembers perfect; they remember REAL, RAW, YOU.

10. SHOUT YOUR VICTORY CRY

Right now, pound your chest (lightly if you’re in a café) and say:

“I CHOOSE BOLD LIVING. I CHOOSE CREATION. I CHOOSE HAPPINESS AS POWER-OVERFLOWING!”

Now close this tab and go make something epic.

INNOVATE ON!