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Sammie

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Sammie's Life List

  1. 1. Make a positive and specific daily pledge to take at least one action on my goals
    7 entries . 42 cheers     		1 person
  2. 2. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
    38 entries . 9 cheers     		1,224 people
  3. 3. get rid of my bicycle
    2 entries . 12 cheers     		1 person
  4. 4. get rid of unnecessary possessions
    5 entries . 43 cheers     		794 people
  5. 5. Organize and de-clutter my house room by room
    5 entries . 49 cheers     		107 people
  6. 6. make a beautiful, inviting, uplifting home
    2 entries . 31 cheers     		23 people
  7. 7. build 100 lenses on Squidoo
    4 entries . 8 cheers     		3 people
  8. 8. Build a useful Freeware App
    2 entries . 48 cheers     		5 people
  9. 9. complete NaNoWriMo this year
    5 entries . 39 cheers     		25 people
  10. 10. convert my backyard into an outdoor room
    3 entries . 70 cheers     		5 people
  11. 11. create an exercise playlist for my ipod
    47 cheers     		7 people
  12. 12. create new fitness goals and stick with them
    26 cheers     		1 person
  13. 13. lose 6 kilos
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		15 people
  14. 14. Take a wander through Roma Street Parklands
    1 cheer     		1 person
  15. 15. take 43 photos of 43 places within 43 minutes of where I live
    10 entries . 15 cheers     		89 people
  16. 16. cultivate hydrangeas in our garden
    58 cheers     		1 person
  17. 17. grow sunflowers
    1 entry . 90 cheers     		49 people
  18. 18. fill my ideas book
    2 entries . 65 cheers     		1 person
  19. 19. go on a cruise
    1 entry . 14 cheers     		3,888 people
  20. 20. Have a one word resolution for 2009
    2 entries . 7 cheers     		24 people
  21. 21. have a picnic on the beach at sunrise
    3 team members . 1 entry . 29 cheers     		11 people
  22. 22. open my own bookstore
    71 cheers     		81 people
  23. 23. Make a cloth doll
    12 cheers     		11 people
  24. 24. make a mini quilt
    20 cheers     		1 person
  25. 25. knit a hat
    4 entries . 12 cheers     		105 people
  26. 26. knit a scarf
    31 cheers     		502 people
  27. 27. Crochet a baby blanket.
    1 entry . 22 cheers     		54 people
  28. 28. own and carry a monogrammed handkerchief
    15 cheers     		2 people
  29. 29. plan a Girls Lunch Date
    31 cheers     		3 people
  30. 30. create a book of interesting journaling prompts and exercises
    32 cheers     		1 person
  31. 31. write one journal prompt per day for a month
    5 cheers     		1 person
  32. 32. leave a letter in a library book for someone to find
    33 cheers     		196 people
  33. 33. open a savings account for my son
    2 cheers     		1 person
  34. 34. decorate a room for my son
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		2 people
  35. 35. Make a five year plan for myself and for my family by June of 2009.
    3 entries     		2 people
  36. 36. plan four family holidays over the next twelve months
    3 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  37. 37. Develop 1K per month in passive income.
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		1 person
  38. 38. Sew Something
    1 cheer     		38 people
  39. 39. Make a Control Journal
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		21 people
  40. 40. write in my journal every day for a month
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		2 people

How I did it
How to order the 43Things book (and tell the world while I'm at it)
It took me
7 days
It made me
happy

How I did it: I ordered the book from fishpond.com.au because it worked out cheaper here in Australia. Fishpond also take PayPal, so the purchase was really easy.The book is great. It's small format, but very thick and feels very substantial in your hand. There are so many ideas in there that I think it will take me a while to go through the whole book. While it's probably true that most of the content can be found on the site, I really love that I can… Read how I did it…

Mar 26, 10:09PM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


How to watch the sunrise
It took me
1 day
It made me
Calm

How I did it: Over the last couple of weeks I have spent some very special early morning moments watching the sunrise while nursing my new baby son. It's very soothing to sit quietly and watch the stars fade and the sky lighten from that first faint blue tinge to full sunshiney daylight.Not too hard a goal to achieve - just find out what time sunrise is where you are, set an alarm and find somewhere nice to watch the event :) Read how I did it…

Feb 07, 07:29PM PST | 2 comments | 9 cheers


How to post a photo to the Flickr What's In Your Bag? group
It took me
1 day
It made me
laugh

How I did it: Just emptied my bag out, arranged the contents around it and took a photo.Once I had a good photo, I uploaded it to my Flickr account and added tags and notes to it. I then submitted it to the What's In Your Bag? photo pool. Read how I did it…

Jan 03, 02:00AM PST | 0 comments | 1 cheer


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Recent entries
find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year (read all 38 entries…)
Day 52 - Tuesday 3 days ago
Today’s happiness:
  1. An absolutely wonderful trip to take Jag up to see his great-grandparents. Pa is 86 and Ma is 84. They loved the visit and our cheeky little man really put on the charm with lots of grins and giggles. He even demonstrated his “almost-crawling” technique for a very impressed Ma and demolished a serve of pureed pears while trying to use the spoon himself. Love our little man!

Jun 30, 05:55AM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments


find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year (read all 38 entries…)
Days 50 & 51 - Sunday & Monday 4 days ago
Sunday’s happiness:
  1. A huge sleep-in, and then waking to Jag patting my cheek and looking at me with big blue eyes and a cheeky grin.
  2. Cooked dinner and it went so smoothly I had to check that I wasn’t dreaming – usually I’m so kitchenly-challenged :)
Monday’s happiness:
  1. A relaxing late lunch and a chat at Casual Coffee with Tez and Jag. We’d just found the most perfect set of little boy curtains for Jag’s room.
  2. A couple of emails back and forth with Restless tonight – great to touch base with a good friend after a few busy weeks.

Jun 29, 04:24AM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments


write in my journal every day for a month (read all 2 entries…)
First week down 6 days ago

This is working great as a reminder. The first seven days have gone past and I have written every single day. Some entries are really short, but there’s a couple of “War and Peace” efforts in there too :)

I’ve been really conscious of writing about what Jag’s up to and also just daily stuff that’s happening around him. Even only a week later it’s eye-opening to go back and re-read what we’ve been up to this week.

Jun 27, 09:43PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


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