I'm doing 40 things
There is an interesting book I just found called When to Speak and When to Shut Up
It is religiously based, but is still sage reading for the non-religious.
Symbology101's Life List
-
1. move to California
1 entry . 3 cheers1,099 people -
2. tone up and exercise more
1 entry . 2 cheers28 people -
3. spread the word that 'door hinge' does kind of rhyme with 'orange'
5 cheers39 people -
4. develop better posture
2 entries . 3 cheers78 people -
5. Get a digital SLR camera
2 cheers702 people -
6. Get a PhD in Psychology
1 entry . 7 cheers109 people -
7. meet interesting people
1 entry354 people -
8. get a motorcycle
1 entry . 2 cheers384 people -
9. improve my character
1 cheer28 people -
10. Make people laugh.
4 cheers599 people -
11. study philosophy
2 cheers354 people -
12. Make Austin the top city on 43 things
1 entry14 people -
13. Curb the cynical, sarcastic pessimist inside me
4 cheers39 people -
14. make love in the rain
1 entry . 1 cheer2,055 people -
15. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
1 cheer7,549 people -
16. robotics engineering
8 people -
17. Learn Aikido
2 cheers367 people -
18. Go skydiving
7,727 people -
19. build a house with habitat for humanity
5 cheers311 people -
20. see the northern lights
1 cheer18,963 people -
21. keep a plant alive
44 people -
22. Take more pictures
15,356 people -
23. learn to identify the constellations
1 cheer85 people -
24. become a good leader
11 people -
25. Learn to surf
8,071 people -
26. learn to SCUBA dive
1 cheer2,718 people -
27. buy a house with the ocean view
1 cheer4 people -
28. Sky Dive
2,594 people -
29. learn hypnotism. Use only for the forces of good.
2 cheers238 people -
30. think before i speak
1 entry600 people -
31. celebrate discardia on a regular basis
2 people -
32. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
1,040 people -
33. Jump out of a perfectly good airplane
1 cheer52 people -
34. Swim with dolphins
1 entry8,208 people -
35. Underpromise and Overdeliver
105 people -
36. make love in a planetarium
1 entry1 person -
37. prepare for graduate school
2 people -
38. visit all the Paris locations of the film Amélie
1 cheer88 people -
39. learn more about philosophy and psychology and their relationships
2 entries . 3 cheers2 people -
40. Go to sleep at 10 or earlier every night for a week
123 people
How I did it
It made me
A better person 
How I did it: I got my first Personal Digital Assistant (a Kyocera 6035) as an award for work around 1998. Through the years I would enter quotes that I liked. Over the last 13 or so years I managed to figure out quite a few things about myself based on the subjects I like to collect. I really like conundrums. Especially ones that are recursive (refer to themselves) "I hate quotations."- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I'd like to… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
I have 1460 entries in my palm pilot at last count. That includes some new additions from Amy Taylor’s book list! Can’t get em all (thoughts), but I sure have alot. And it makes it wonderful to cross reference thoughts, books, ideas, quotes, who-knows-what about what…
Oh and hundreds of pictures captured of my life as it happens. Just pull it out of my pocket and snap picture recorded.
All that and a cell phone too!
And so worth it!
Seagulls, sail boats, dolphins, crashing waves, rolling waves, breaking waves, silent waves, waves that take 2 feet of sand away, waves that bring the sand back, waves that crest over the top of the dune you are standing on
Waves that bring the surfers in, waves that roll them under, waves that spike as they pass the prior wave reflecting off the beach, foamy waves, crystal clear waves, waves reflecting the moonlight
