I'm doing 35 things
After letting my blog go inactive for around a year I was amazed to find out that a well known simplicity blogger has me listed in her blogroll. I was blown away that my blog had made such a big impression upon her. I’m guessing it was my last 3 posts that were a series of deeper reflections upon the 100 Things Challenge. Regardless looking over them now I am less than happy about those posts and the others. So I have decided to blank slate my blog by burning its digital contents to the ground. I will than go through my local archives of the posts from when I wrote them on my computer and rewrite and further refine what I think are the best of the posts from the first time around. So out of the ashes of the old a new blog will rise with higher quality content. I will then more seriously embark upon blogging more often with the absolute minimum of once a week if not more often. This time things will be different as I now have a wider goal in mind to start a writing business on the side. Yet in order to be able to effectively market ebooks, one has to be able to prove that you can produce quality content to others before they will be willing to spend money on your best work in the form of ebooks.
Celtic Christian's Life List
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1. ┌────────── Life Values ──────────┐
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2. live with no boundaries between the sacred and the secular
4 entries . 169 cheers7 people -
3. Be the mystic I want to be
2 entries . 103 cheers3 people -
4. Drink tea in mindfulness
4 entries . 92 cheers1 person -
5. simplify my life and material possessions
5 entries . 78 cheers2 people -
6. make the most of my 30s
8 entries . 80 cheers30 people -
7. overcome my struggle with compulsive binge eating
9 entries . 57 cheers1 person -
8. ┌───────── Long Term ─────────┐
16 cheers4 people -
9. Post regular weight updates until I reach and maintain my goal weight for at least a year
44 entries . 22 cheers1 person -
10. become ordained
5 entries . 59 cheers5 people -
11. Buy a kilt
3 entries . 105 cheers37 people -
12. Write a book and get it published
2 entries . 67 cheers486 people -
13. swim under a waterfall
2 entries . 137 cheers166 people -
14. take the 100 things challenge
3 entries . 35 cheers24 people -
15. ┌────────── Reading ──────────┐
16 cheers1 person -
16. Read the entire Bible in 2013
3 team members . 26 entries . 15 cheers3 people -
17. read at least 30 books in 2013
23 entries . 14 cheers1 person -
18. Read Dostoievski's Crime and Punishment
37 cheers2 people -
19. Read Chekhov's short stories
20 cheers2 people -
20. Read through William Barclay's Daily Study Bible series
1 entry . 11 cheers1 person -
21. read at least 43 of the World's 100 Greatest Books
4 team members . 23 entries . 42 cheers4 people -
22. Read Rich Christians In An Age Of Hunger by Ronald J. Sider
12 cheers1 person -
23. read and study the Philokalia
1 entry . 9 cheers1 person -
24. Reread my Paulo Coelho books and take notes on them this time
1 entry . 9 cheers1 person -
25. ┌────────── Mid Term ──────────┐
10 cheers2 people -
26. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)
112 entries . 27 cheers359 people -
27. Post periodic updates about what I am doing to make progress on my goals
10 entries . 16 cheers1 person -
28. clean my desk (for real this time)
7 entries . 37 cheers2 people -
29. Simplify my computer
7 entries . 36 cheers0 people -
30. Declutter my computer files
6 entries . 19 cheers2 people -
31. keep a commonplace book
5 entries . 17 cheers13 people -
32. become an early riser
2 entries . 40 cheers234 people -
33. declutter my pictures
1 entry . 7 cheers1 person -
34. restart my blog
1 entry . 3 cheers3 people -
35. finish all the tea on my tea shelf
6 entries . 14 cheers1 person
How I did it: The most important task to complete is not the actual work of scanning but the work that takes up the most time is sorting through the papers to figure out what was worth scanning. The goal of scanning documents is to digitize the hard copy only papers that matter the most, but in order to make progress in the right direction you want to move forward. Simply translating a pile of paper clutter into digital clutter on your hard… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I used a computer program to generate a month reading schedule that took chapter length into consideration. Each day for the month I slowly read through the day's reading aloud as a prayer to God while taking in the beauty of the Hebrew poetry in the process. Read how I did it…
This past week I’m starting to realize that I think it is evening eating after dinner that is doing me the most harm in my lack of ability to lose weight. So in the week to come my goal is to aim to not eat anything after dinner and see what affect that has on the scale.
Current Weight: 285 pounds
Lost This Week: -0.5 pounds
Total Lost: 7 pounds
Starting Weight: 292 pounds
Take an honest look at your life and what you are surrounded with both materially and immaterially … now ask yourself what is it that I truly need most in my current situation and why?
