learn how to use 43 Things

...ok, so I have an idea of how to organize my 43 things to suit me better…so I think I should put a limit to max 3 things outside the basics that I should focus on for a time period or until they are done; those I can put as the top 3…then, I can put the basics – which are gonna be: sleep, eat, clean the house, exercise, keep in touch with friends, work,. I think those are in general the absolute essentials, so they should be immediately after the top priorities; then I can have the inspired stuff, like a trip to botswana or the northern lights…hmmm…so I need to re-organize it again, I suppose…

eh well, I just brain-washed myself with reading law of attraction stuff for about an hour…and…I remembered that the key is not to interfere with the universe when you want something. I don’t know the best way to achieve something – the universe does! Like, I may think that the bbc course is the way to learn french, but it’s just an online course, learning french is the point, actually not even learning, the point is expressing myself, communicating with people in french, reading french poetry, litarture in original…so…I think I will stick to having broad goals…I really need to change my mindset from a to-do list to more loa kind of doing it because there simply isn’s enough time to do all the things I want to do. For example, the universe has helped me with the german language stuff by pointing me to a house where all my neighbors are speaking german – I mean I can connect with people and practice German, who wants to read the silly love novels anyways? So yeah, better to have the big picture thinking, it is not up to me to decide how things are to happen, I just have to want them and more so want them for a good reason.

I just changed a few of my goals to be more tangible items, such as changed learn french to complete the bbc course. This makes it easier to cross things off as done, however, I feel like I am losing perspective on the big picture. Plus most people list goals very broadly – e.g. I am the only one completing the bbc french course, however about 8000 people are learning french. So if I have the broader terms I can connect more with others. So I think it would be really really really nice, if 43 things allowed for listing goals as major headings and then underneath subheadings, kind of to have learn french as a major goal and then below to be able to add some action items and to record my progress on each one of them, for example, do the bbc course, speak to people in frenc, read french books and so on…

I want the old 43 thnings back….this one is really weird and I can’t see many of the goals at once…can I customize this?

I think 43 things has really been a great tool recently for me. I have been posting a lot lately and it has really been very very very helpful because otherwise I used to have many of these things constantly on my mind. I am just beginning to realize how much easier it is to dump everything out in writing and then slowly deal with it rather than try to work it out inside my brain. I wish I had tried this one with my academic work. Anyways, I have really been very happy with having all my thoughts about goals written down and stored in a reasonably easy to find and navigate way, so I can refer to them when I want to rather than have them pop up inside my head when I am doing something else. I am finding it easier to focus now. The only thing is that I tend to get distracted from time to time, but I hope that will pass as I get more and more familiar with the site.

I think 43 things is not working very well for me because I am not able to define things, that I can easily tick off. I think I have listed mostly habits, which are quite difficult to be considered “done”. I was very inspired when I saw some entries, which were very specific – yet related to habits, such as do 100 sit-ups for 100 consecutive days. I think re-phrasing my things in a similar way would work better for me. The thing is, I am not sure if I can change the names of the things and keep the previous entries or I can only start with new ones and will need to erase all the content related to the old ones?

I feel like my list is sooo boring. Like I’ve got it all wrong. Like I am some obsessed control freak, who only worries about when to go to sleep and if there’s enough calcium in my food. I just realized that I want my 43 things to be about DREAMS! BIG HUGE FUN DREAMS that would make my life beautiful, interesting, fun and meaningful when they come true (because they will come true!). Good that I added my dream of experiencing Japan. But still – three goals all about sleep? So maybe the problem is not that nothing interesting is happening, but rather that I don’t want anything interesting to happen. Why am I hiding behind some stupid daily routine things that normal people don’t even think about. I’d better gat a life soon :).