Out of Time
18 months ago
Well I didn’t get it done – too much to do today, and it’s 12/31, so maybe next year
| 1. |
Open an Orange CD ladder
5 entries |
1 person |
| 2. |
identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
5 entries . 1 cheer |
6,881 people |
| 3. |
take better care of my teeth
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585 people |
| 4. |
have a financial plan for the future
1 cheer |
9 people |
| 5. |
Travel to Brazil
1 cheer |
117 people |
| 6. |
Get a PhD
1 entry |
2,682 people |
| 7. |
save 6 months of living expenses
1 cheer |
68 people |
| 8. |
be more organized
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3,163 people |
| 9. |
lose 100 pounds
1 entry |
1,714 people |
| 10. |
learn capoeira
1 cheer |
614 people |
| 11. |
keep my car clean
1 cheer |
365 people |
| 12. |
get published in The New Yorker
2 cheers |
55 people |
| 13. |
go to Greece
1 cheer |
883 people |
| 14. |
make more eye contact
1 cheer |
260 people |
| 15. |
implement GTD
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456 people |
| 16. |
publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
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416 people |
| 17. |
live in New York City for one year
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58 people |
| 18. |
make a short film
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600 people |
| 19. |
run photos of people I know through forensic age-progression software
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2,698 people |
| 20. |
Get all my mp3's properly tagged
1 cheer |
517 people |
| 21. |
read all the books I haven't read that are sitting on my bookshelf
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293 people |
| 22. |
Take one picture a day as a way to document my life
1 cheer |
799 people |
| 23. |
Build out my entire neighborhood on 43 Places
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6 people |
| 24. |
go to the Redwood forest
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25 people |
| 25. |
stop being such a lazyass and get back in touch with my long-distance friends already.
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3 people |
| 26. |
Try Couch Surfing at least once!
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2 people |
| 27. |
start a blog
1 cheer |
912 people |
| 28. |
integrate my Sidekick 2 into my daily life
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1 person |
| 29. |
Finalize and update my MCSE
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1 person |
| 30. |
Practice being more self-compassionate
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 31. |
have nothing in my house that I do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful
1 cheer |
54 people |
| 32. |
read every book by L. M. Alcott
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2 people |
| 33. |
create a soundtrack to my life
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87 people |
| 34. |
glamourbomb someone
1 entry |
25 people |
| 35. |
bring my lunch to work.
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164 people |
| 36. |
Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
1 cheer |
544 people |
| 37. |
Photo inventory all my stuff
1 entry . 1 cheer |
2 people |
| 38. |
Read all the books on the BBC Big Read Top 100
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221 people |
| 39. |
Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess
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49 people |
| 40. |
make 2008 MY year of victory !
1 entry |
11 people |
| 41. |
make 43 different kinds of soup
1 cheer |
1 person |
Well I didn’t get it done – too much to do today, and it’s 12/31, so maybe next year
This is it.
I’m getting old.
Stiff.
Tired.
Fat.
Scared.
This is ridiculous. I see people who quite frankly I wonder sometimes how they even got out of grammar school making great lives for themselves – and I realize – what about me? I don’t begrudge them – I want to emulate them.
I’m facing the great existential crisis – I want to come out the other side as a winner, not a victim.
A marathon?
A new job?
A lover? A life of studied celibacy?
Who knows – I just know I want it.