Jimbo37

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I'm doing 38 things
 

Jimbo37's Life List

  1. 1. Live in gratitude & be happy even if the rest of the things on this list never happen
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    59 people
  2. 2. work because I like to, not because I have to
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    3,238 people
  3. 3. lose 100 pounds
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    1,568 people
  4. 4. submit my writing for publication
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    29 people
  5. 5. sell, give way or throw away 111 things I don't need any more
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    2 people
  6. 6. implement GTD
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    449 people
  7. 7. Tear down my garage and build a 12 seat theatre
    2 team members . 13 entries . 26 cheers
    2 people
  8. 8. finish more knitting projects
    47 team members . 2 entries . 13 cheers
    137 people
  9. 9. improve my health
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    211 people
  10. 10. do a one-handed push-up
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    76 people
  11. 11. Run a mile without stopping
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    262 people
  12. 12. Learn Japanese
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    8,604 people
  13. 13. finish writing my book
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    377 people
  14. 14. play the cello more
    4 entries . 18 cheers
    8 people
  15. 15. memorize some poetry
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    24 people
  16. 16. Get my PhD
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    656 people
  17. 17. finish the quilt i started
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    18 people
  18. 18. get a tattoo that has a significant meaning
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    636 people
  19. 19. get a rabbit
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    39 people
  20. 20. Learn to spin wool
    4 entries . 9 cheers
    90 people
  21. 21. Run a 5k race
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    145 people
  22. 22. build an excellent piece of furniture out of wood
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    100 people
  23. 23. get better at DDR
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    188 people
  24. 24. Create a personal recipe book
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    497 people
  25. 25. Send random postcards
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    14 people
  26. 26. Ride my motorcycle more
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    28 people
  27. 27. Learn to take apart my Harley down to the bolts and re-assemble it blindfolded
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    1 person
  28. 28. catalogue and organize my library
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    34 people
  29. 29. make a pinhole camera
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    116 people
  30. 30. read all of Plato's dialogues
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    12 people
  31. 31. learn to make stained glass
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    132 people
  32. 32. Read Faust in German
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    11 people
  33. 33. Write 10 songs
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    8 people
  34. 34. walk on stilts
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    38 people
  35. 35. use "this spot" as a holding ground for those goals ON HOLD.
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    1 person
  36. 36. hike the appalachian trail
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    1,440 people
  37. 37. Buy nothing new for a year
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    13 people
  38. 38. Eat food thoughtfully and appreciate every mouthful
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    2 people
Recent entries
implement GTD (read all 6 entries…)
I can't believe I've been struggling with this for so long 1 month ago

I’ve settled into a relatively productive rut that’s not truly GTD compliant but generally works for me.

- a pack of 3×5 cards and a pen go with me constantly for immediate capture;

- I’m using the application “Things” (beta, for Mac) to track projects and such. This app will require purchase in October and I’m still deciding whether it’s the best tool. They keep fixing things and adding features so it might be. The only thing that would make it better is if I could enter from multiple workstations… I think that’s at least a potential of their app due to it’s file structure but I don’t think it’s implemented yet.

- I have absolutely no mechanism for weekly review though. I just am doing all the immediate tasks with no larger picture – or actually, the larger picture remains only implicit;

- The work table I have at home is a shameful mess. There are “in” boxes there somewhere!

- the worst confession is that currently, I store my “work” lists on my work computer and my “home” lists on my home computer. For the most part, this works because both contexts are physically and functionally separate but when I’m entering info for “home” sometimes I remember items for work and vice versa.



read 10 books/year (read all 4 entries…)
Still more 1 month ago

I can’t remember all of what I’ve been reading recently so I’ll just mention the highlights. I’m half way through “Let the Right One In” a charming vampire novel by Lindqvuist. It’s been made into a movie and I want to read the book before I see the film.

Before that it was “Daughter of Hounds” by Caitlyn Kiernan which was simply magnificent, though it would make more sense to folks probably if they knew what some of those characters had done previously in the novels “Threshold” and “Low Red Moon.” Kiernan is a wonderful horror writer who’s been likened to H.P.Lovecraft but I find her work far more rich.

Next up, I’m hoping to read a few of the Ian Fleming James Bond series for a course I’m helping to teach. I read some of the series as a kid but it struck me that spy novels have a moral vacuum in their worldview at least as opposed to the mystery novels I was also reading at the time. It’ll be interesting to see how they read as an adult.

Hmmm. Seems like this goal is done.



submit my writing for publication (read all 9 entries…)
Continuing... 1 month ago

Since last I wrote, I’ve submitted two more stories. One I’ve already received a “No Thank You” on and the other one I’m still awaiting response. I’ve got another story just about ready to go too. I always want to have at least one mss “in the mail.”

I discovered two very useful resources: duotrope.com and ralan.org (I hope I have those URLs correct) They’re on-line lists of markets for writing. Both of these are weighted toward speculative fiction though they include other publications as well. What I love is the immediacy. They track the actual response rates of each magazine as well as the current status. It used to be as much effort figuring out who to send something to as it was writing the piece in the first place.



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