I'm doing 38 things
Jessicavstheworld's Life List
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1. Read Les Miserables in French
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2. Visit Antarctica
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3. Go to outer space
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4. Take a cooking class
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5. Find an outlet for my creativity
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6. Own a complete set of R.E.M. albums
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7. Run a marathon
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8. Write a cookbook
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9. Become a morning person
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10. Buy a plane ticket at the airport
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11. Become fluent in a foreign language
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12. Travel to every continent
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13. Make peace with my mother
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14. Make peace with myself
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15. Learn to sew
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16. Read all the books I own
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17. Dive with sharks
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18. Hike the appalachian trail
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19. Be more organized
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20. touch a whale
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21. Live in the Netherlands
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22. Find a career I love
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23. Live somewhere in Africa
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24. See a cave painting
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25. Kiss an Australian
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26. Collect artwork
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27. Stop procrastinating
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28. Give back
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29. Spend time with my family
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30. listen to live music
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31. Have no regrets
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32. Make a speech
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33. Get in shape
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34. Take more pictures
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35. Take the Trans-Siberian railroad
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36. Bike to work
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37. Meet the President
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38. Go skinny dipping
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How I did it: I started going on these business trips where I knew no one. I figured that it was silly to order unhealthy room service just because I was too scared to eat out alone. So finally I just did it. At first I spent the entire time texting my friends so I didn't feel like I was by myself. But then I looked down the bar and saw everyone else was doing the same thing. How sad, I thought, to go out to dinner with your phone. So I stopped bringin… Read how I did it…
How I did it: This was really hard. I'd say the two key elements were not caring what other people thought and learning to think of my life as a ticking clock... you only get so much time, right? I'm still not a huge risk taker, but using these two ideas I was able to both do some things I ordinarily wouldn't have done and laugh at myself if it didn't work out. Read how I did it…
How I did it: The key for me was to make it easy and interesting. I took a 32oz plastic beer stein I'd had from college, washed it out, and put it on my desk at work. The novelty of having a beer mug on my desk kept it there---it was more like a nostalgic desk toy. Then, I filled it with water first thing every morning and left it on my desk. Since I'm a bit ADD, when I would look around for something to distract me I started picking up the water glass… Read how I did it…
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