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Stephen Frick's Life List
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1. Glorify God and enjoy him forever
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2. love and educate my children in a God-honoring way
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3. Be a great husband
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4. Save money
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5. become debt free
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6. be more focused
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7. Memorize Scripture
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8. loose Weight
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9. get in shape
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10. Clean My House and Keep It Clean
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11. write more love letters
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12. Sell stuff on ebay
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13. Become a better programmer
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14. Help my wife start a buisness
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15. organize my stamp collection
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16. write a documentary
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17. build my own house
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18. make a home inventory
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19. Start my own business
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20. learn Latin
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21. Collect 30 First Day Covers
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22. fix my car
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23. go to my high school reunion
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24. Read Aristotle
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25. Raise chickens
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26. be more frugal
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27. read st. augustine's "confessions"
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28. $50/month income from my prosper.com investments.
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29. Read Web design for ROI by Lance Loveday & Sandra Niehaus
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30. Read Getting Things Done by David Allen
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31. Read Search Egine Marketing, INc. by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt
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32. learn seo
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33. Excellent customer service
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34. List only the things I plan to do
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How I did it: The CEO of my company introduced me to GTD or "Getting Things Done" by David Allan. I had been using 43things for years, and never realized that the concept came from this book. I read through the book and realized I had a very bad system for organization, and I would rely on my memory to keep things in order, and thus I would fail and nothing would be in order. In the GTD methodology you create a system to keep th… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I started knowing only a little bit about my mother's side of the family and a little bit about my father's side. Of course I knew all my close relatives, but I didn't know the extended family members. I mapped this information together and visited with my grandmother. She pulled a book off the shelf which was a family history with her father (my great grand father). With this book I was able to build out a h… Read how I did it…
My wife and I have struggled to save, pinch pennies (which is really hard when your not employed) to make the Baby Step of saving $1000 in emergency savings. With Christmas, and the blessings of friends and family we have the $1000 and are going to put it into a savings account on Monday!!! I guess I can say we’ve made this one goal, but now the next goal for savings is to have 4-6 months of money put aside. Thanks Dave Ramsey, we are on our way to living like no one else..
Still waiting for Prosper.com to open up lending again. They are completely frozen, and I can’t bid on any new loans.
