Quilnmous

disappeared for awhile and hopes to return a stronger person.



I'm doing 43 things
 

Quilnmous's Life List

  1. 1. obtain another job
    3 entries . 21 cheers
    1 person
  2. 2. write a hit song
    29 cheers
    144 people
  3. 3. make my computer work for me
    7 entries . 17 cheers
    1 person
  4. 4. shift over to my creative career
    2 entries . 28 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. find something I feel good blogging about, and then blog about it
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. drink more water
    3 entries . 12 cheers
    18,982 people
  7. 7. learn how to speak Brazilian Portuguese
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    2 people
  8. 8. watch all Six Feet Under episodes
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    1,063 people
  9. 9. clean my apartment
    3 entries . 10 cheers
    371 people
  10. 10. whiten my teeth
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    2,066 people
  11. 11. learn how to use this website better
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    2 people
  12. 12. learn Taiko drumming
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    38 people
  13. 13. be a better piano player
    13 cheers
    12 people
  14. 14. list 100 things for which I am grateful
    6 entries . 14 cheers
    9 people
  15. 15. learn more about my digital camera
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    3 people
  16. 16. watch High School Musical
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    793 people
  17. 17. master the law of attraction in 2008
    10 cheers
    1 person
  18. 18. learn about AI
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    3 people
  19. 19. start planning my graphic novel
    12 cheers
    1 person
  20. 20. write more often
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    449 people
  21. 21. get paid to write or blog
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. find someone special and share a kiss
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. figure out if there is an easy way to find people who have never been cheered on "43 Things" so I can try to cheer them more often
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. exercise more often
    9 cheers
    409 people
  25. 25. make eye contact more often
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    30 people
  26. 26. post random thoughts
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    22 people
  27. 27. visit Boston again
    2 cheers
    8 people
  28. 28. give 1000 cheers by December 31
    6 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  29. 29. contribute something to Wikipedia
    4 cheers
    21 people
  30. 30. be authentic - believe in myself
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    3 people
  31. 31. push to make the 43 Things site more mobile-friendly
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  32. 32. ride Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris
    2 cheers
    2 people
  33. 33. make electronic music
    6 cheers
    167 people
  34. 34. accept that less is more
    2 entries . 7 cheers
    1 person
  35. 35. watch USC win a 12th Football National Championship
    3 team members . 3 entries . 1 cheer
    3 people
  36. 36. ride in a hot air balloon
    5 cheers
    1,983 people
  37. 37. strike a balance on my to do list
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. create a mash up song
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    122 people
  39. 39. donate again, this time at a larger level
    6 cheers
    1 person
  40. 40. get more organized
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    425 people
  41. 41. watch The Wizard of Oz while playing Dark Side of the Moon
    6 cheers
    7 people
  42. 42. find out who my heroes are
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    2 people
  43. 43. create a website for my father's side of the family
    4 cheers
    1 person
Recent entries
learn about AI
It was a good reminder while it lasted 13 months ago

Several years ago, I thought this was going to my pet project and the direction I would take my career in. But since then, there are so many more interesting things that I would rather learn about, and then there is a whole other direction to steer my career towards.

So now, this is only an interest I would like to reconnect with, at some point in my life. But apparently I have to make room for the 43 most pressing goal ideas right now, and this is not one of them. So I am going to drop this goal for now. Someday, I shall return to it, but I’d like to work on other things right now.



find out who my heroes are
My first hero 13 months ago

When I listed this goal, I thought about famous people and I thought about fictional characters. At the time, none stood out in my mind, so that is why I hadn’t made an entry yet.

Tonight, I started thinking about taskmasters who are good at accomplishing their long term goals. And one name came immediately to mind: KashaBunny. Her ability to juggle different detailed tasks, as reported in her account here on 43 Things, is just amazing. She has wrapped up a major educational accomplishment as one phase of her life, while finishing off a whole slew of medium-term and other long-term goals.

I understand that this strength of hers sometimes gets to her, and leaves her feeling a bit uneasy with the void of planned business (pronounced “busy-ness”). But I see it as a great strength, and I admire her so much for how good she is at it.

I’m not sure how she does it. She will report that she has 10 things to do. Then the next day she is down to 8 things. Then the next day down to 7. And I’m thinking, that’s 3 months in my book of working to get things done, and she did it in 3 days. But I do know that she will take little life-breaks, to refresh herself for another session of achievements. And I get the sense that she is successful at finishing things by working hard, applying her will and determination, all the while maintaining a strong sense of direction toward her goal (kind of like a marathon runner must visualize in order to get to the finish line).

So I will use her as an inspiration to me, to accomplish my goals in life – short-, medium-, and long-term. And I sense that she will be cheering me on. Thanks, KashaBunny.



give 1000 cheers by December 31 (read all 6 entries…)
Apologies to the uncheered (a/k/a I fell off the wagon) 14 months ago

This is an entry I began under “strike a balance on my to do list” goal. I am continuing the train of thought to this goal now.

So in an effort to seek balance in the things I was doing on a day-to-day basis, I found that I needed to back off of using this site. (Yes, the many people who have listed “spend less time on the internet” and “spend less time being addicted to 43 Things” can relate to this.) So about five days ago, I decided to accomplish other things – I kept saying I will get to 43 Things later. And when bedtime rolled up, and just as I was about to log onto 43 Things (as well as accomplish a couple other tasks that would keep me up for another three hours), I had to remind myself that “less is more” (my current mantra and another goal listed here) and “just do it,” in my case, the Nike mantra for going to bed.

And then another day rolled around without 43 Things. And then another. And then another.

I had managed to accomplish a lot of tasks in that time. But now I was not being true to my goal. Once again, I had an imbalance – I was not allowing myself a little time to spend here on 43 Things, which is important to me.

And it is important to me not merely because I am trying to achieve 43 things (which is what several of those tasks I was otherwise accomplishing when I was not on this site had been about). It is important to me because I ended up depriving myself of cheering people on regularly, which is an activity, a task, that is a meaningful one to me.

So…I apologize to the uncheered, to those I owe cheers to, and to those who, because I’ve lost several potential cheers these past few days, will be uncheered for now. (Thus spawning the philosophical question: If a potential cheer is lost by not logging in to 43 Things, did that cheer ever really exist?)



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