re-tag, categorize, and prioritize my 43things

After a hiatus from 43things, I have to do this one all over.

It isn’t that I don’t want to get many of these goals done. I just need to reprioritize and figure out what I can get done with in a reasonable amount of time.

This weekends sub goal, remove the 2008 resolution tag from all of my goals and adding the 2009 resolution tag if I am going to keep it.

1. organize my projects
2. eat healthier
3. write more letters
4. Read one book a month one book a month
5. meditate regularly
6. make a zine
7. get my finances in order
8. write short stories
9. finish my projects
10. expand my vocabulary
11. swim in the ocean
12. keep my apartment clean
13. do my taxes
14. organize my desk
15. stretch every day
16. update my site
17. plan a vacation
18. create my own font
19. contribute sounds to freesound
20. Pay off all of my credit card debt
21. write at least one short story every week
22. make and send my own circle journals
23. lose 15lbs
24. update my 43things at least once a week
25. use a calendar to stay organized
26. update my address book with all of my contacts
27. give away 50 things I don’t need
28. Be vegan for a year
29. Create no new clutter
30. write one poem a month
31. Create 3 audio essays
32. Record 1 audio drama
33. Create a would like to own list
34. Thin out my stuff
35. Create a book of thought experiments
36. Create memory guides and agents
37. Update and consolidate my journals once a week!
38. Honor my stuff!
39. re-tag, categorize, and prioritize my 43things
40. have a media fast

I am removing any resolution tag, except for the current one. If I don’t, they show up as the largest tag in my meta-tag list.
The easiest way to remove a particular tag and keep the data is to create a webpage or 43things entry with links to each of the goals, and then manually remove the tags.

1. eat healthier
2. write more letters
3. clean my apartment
4. live healthier
5. walk
6. Read one book a month
7. learn yoga
8. meditate regularly
9. make a zine
10. become a better person
11. start a cult
12. get my finances in order
13. get broadband
14. keep my apartment clean
15. patent an invention
16. Set up a wireless network at home
17. organize my desk
18. stretch every day
19. create a piece of art
20. loose 20 lbs
21. update my site
22. Pay my taxes
23. send postcards
24. Pay off all of my credit card debt
25. write at least one short story every week
26. Write a novel in a month
27. make and send my own circle journals
28. go vegan for a month
29. fill out my FAFSA
30. create a home page
31. update my 43things at least once a week
32. use a calendar to stay organized
33. update my address book with all of my contacts
34. give away 50 things I don’t need
35. Submit my writing (publications or contests) at least 12 times this year.
36. Create no new clutter
37. Back up my data regularly
38. vacation in San Francisco
39. write one poem a month
40. claim an education
41. Find 43 goals to post on 43things.
42. Organize my data with DevonThink.
43. Live life like an art piece!
44. Create 3 audio essays.
45. Record 1 audio drama.
46. Create a would like to own list.
47. Thin out my stuff.
48. Create a book of thought experiments.
49. Create memory guides and agents.
50. Update and consolidate my journals once a week!
51. Honor my stuff!
52. Add meta tags to all of my 43things
53. Take my donations (un-needed stuff) to the a non-profit thrifts tore.
54. Make a list of unfinished projects.
55. Get student loans
56. Reactivate my FirstClass account
57. Claim my education

1. Find 43 goals to post on 43things

The major categories are primary tags.
There are 7 primary categories, shown below.

RED text indicates top 2 tags.
GREEN indicates both the total # of goals as well as a way to tag this years goals.

This shows me that I have a real need to focus on organization and I want to focus on creativity, but likely I should just clear the majority of creative goals out and focus on other things.

Working on this goals has helped me figure out what I think is important. It confirmed that my 43things specific goals are the least important, as they should be. There was a shock. I thought that education and health would be more important, and it turns out that they aren’t. This isn’t a bad thing, but it is something unexpected.

Working on this goals has helped me figure out what I think is important. It confirmed that my 43things specific goals are the least important, as they should be. There was a shock. I thought that education and health would be more important, and it turns out that they aren’t. This isn’t a bad thing, but it is something unexpected.

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Note: Tags in boldface are macro categories.

Note: Tags in GREEN were just added to the list.

Note: Tags in BLUE are not germane any more.

Note: Tags in RED need removed.

My goals all fall into 7 general areas:

meta – (over arching/43things specific goals)

meta lifestyle – life long goals that seem to cross all categories.

organization

creativity

education

finances

health

1.) Add consistent and uniform meta tags
2.) Figure out what the over arching areas that I am trying to focus on.
3.) Prioritize my list
4.) Determine if it can be completed with in the next 3 months, next year, or is a life long goal.
5.) Write an entry for each one of my goals.
6.) Thin my goals list down.