The time has come for now to withdraw our wedding money from Kiva. 179 loans later, we’ve had a chance to make a substantial difference, and I look forward to starting to feed back into Kiva when we’ve had a chance to get our 4-member family finances flowing.
GenerationA's Life List
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1. Become a better driver
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2. Stop swearing
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3. Run 10k
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4. Not feel Swamped
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5. Keep my house Clean
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6. Learn to Cook
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7. Get my business in order
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8. Become a published author
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9. Change my eating habits
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10. Start You Tubing
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11. Read Jung's Collected Works
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12. Become a better Chess player
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13. photograph plants and identify them
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14. Create a computer Game
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15. Practice Yoga Regularly
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16. Take pictures
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17. Write music
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18. Record my own album
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19. Re-learn Hebrew
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20. Do "The Artist's Way"
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21. Make my dream office
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22. Learn to draw
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23. Make a living with my creativity
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24. Disprove Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
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25. Get my Master's Degree
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26. Get to know my Parents better
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27. Read the Zohar
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28. Play more music with my Dad
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29. Do Biofeedback Regularly
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30. Learn Arabic
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31. Learn to dance
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32. Write a TV Series
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33. Decrypt the Enochian Squares
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34. Be a Jedi
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35. Learn to Bake Bread
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36. have multiple streams of passive income
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37. Find 100 "43 things" Goals that I've already done
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How I did it: Currently, I do this in three ways:- Primarily, I work as CTO for a company that produces amazing educational video games that not only teach but encourage students to become active in civics.- I also help maintain and expand a small collection of websites that help people find access to all the free help and resources that are available in their regions.- Finally, I'm slowly starting work as a consensus facilitator and community consulta… Read how I did it…
Facilitation, Consensus, Conflict Resolution, Tarot, Kaballah – I’ve been workshopping up a storm this past year!
I hope to continue to do workshops, but can certainly say I’ve gotten to the point where teaching them is within my comfort zone, and I’ve got a reasonable trickle of folks asking me to teach workshops, or interested in coming any time I teach one.
Some day I hope to include this more as part of how I make my living, but right now I’m loving my other work enough to want to put my focus there instead.
My current life isn’t going to give much room for further swordwork for a while. Looking back though, I’d consider this goal completed though. I’m an adequate fighter with a Longsword, know a few skills with a Rapier, and have had the honour of learning from and fighting some of BC’s finest swordsmen. Many thanks to Fecht Club (Shane & Ben), Academy Duello’s tournaments (SO many skilled, gracious and knowledgeable fighters there willing to help, teach and share their passion for the craft.
Some day I hope to work on my Spanish Rapier and Longsword more, but for now I’ll put down my blade and bring my focus to other goals.
