I'm doing 35 things
However.
Before zen: chop wood and carry water.
After zen: chop wood and carry water.
Or as Yoda would say: go and get on with it (and collect the laundry and get a receipt).
Fishcat's Life List
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1. Write a book
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2. Write 8 000 words in August
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3. Choose health challenge rules for September
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4. Read for half an hour most days this month
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5. Use up everything in my weekly fruit and veg box in August
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6. Succeed at the August health challenge
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7. Not go more than fifty pounds overdrawn in August
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8. Lose two pounds (weight not money) in August
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9. Get the steamer down from That Shelf
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10. Decorate hallway next month
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11. Eat oily fish at least twice a week in August.
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12. No more than one cup of cocoa per day in August
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13. Read 6 books in August
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14. Go for a walk or take a turn on my exercise bike most days in August
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15. Read 2 of my old unfinished books in August
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16. Set up Dropbox for my documents
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17. Back up my computer
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18. Buy a little milk jug so I can use it with the teapot and it will look nice
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19. Start my new book journal
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20. Start a scrapbook
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21. Organize my DVDs (by putting them on shelves!)
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22. Switch to skimmed milk in lattes for the rest of this year
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23. Sort books into those 'to keep' and 'to give away'
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24. De-bobble my giant cardigan-coat and brown sweater for the autumn
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25. Finish sewing my owl cushion
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26. Sort my cut-out recipes into a folder
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27. Listen to more music.
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28. Use up more of my older teas
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29. Get my list down to no more than 30 things at a time!
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30. Buy a new bag this autumn
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31. Lower my blood pressure this year.
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32. Contribute 5 books to BookCrossing this year
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33. Buy a new duvet this year!
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34. Write the first half of my book.
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35. Succeed at the 750 Words August Challenge
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36. Remember to congratulate myself for what I achieve this month, rather than rushing on to the next thing
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How I did it
It made me
accomplished 
How I did it: I opened the Food Doctor recipe book and adapted the simplest tofu sauce, which also sounded good. I made it with lemon juice, tofu, red pesto and a bit of stock. (I'm not sure there were meant to be quite so many tofu lumps in it.) I had it with fish. Read how I did it…
It made me
Liberated
How I did it: Took a bag with a little rug, pens and notebook to the little park round the corner. Looked suspiciously at the grass then laid the blanket out. Drew a little picture of a baby hitting its comatose mother over the head with a rattle while a small dog sat beside them. Wrote down what people said as they went past. E.g. "You can have cream and ice cream with it if you want to." Read how I did it…
It made me
Satisfied
How I did it: By buying four plastic tubs and sorting out all the stuff I was keeping into them, while trying not to get too hung up on whether things were going in the 'right' box.It still took a while though... Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
Have written quite a lot, but don’t know if I’m just compiling more and more unwieldy and miscellaneous material.
One issue is it’s quite hard for me to really see this is a completed project, because (or partly because) it’s dragged on so long and has gone through so many different versions. (Ie the less I see it as a finished project, the less able I am to think in terms of the practical steps involved in turning it into one.)
The only way to continue is to … er, continue … but the longer it goes on, the catch is, the harder it is to have faith in continuing.
Also I’m having other distractions at the moment which I’m getting anxious will derail whatever daily practice I have managed to establish.
It’s more helpful when I focus on what I have actually managed to achieve, but that’s challenging when I haven’t got as far or as fast as I’d like.
