I'm doing 41 things
12. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
13. Why Is God Laughing?, Deepak Chopra
14. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
15. How to Make Big Money In Your Own Small Business, Jeffrey J. Fox
16. Unfinished Business, James Van Praagh
17. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, Reif Larsen
18. The Buddha’s Diamonds, Carolyn Marsden & Thay Phap Niem
19. Flight from the Dark, Joe Dever & Gary Chalk
20. Fire on the Water, Joe Dever & Gary Chalk
21. The Caverns of Kalte, Joe Dever & Gary Chalk
TopazWolf's Life List
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1. attend a japanese tea ceremony
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2. go camping
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3. Play Team Fortress
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4. Visit the Chopra Center
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5. visit a museum
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6. make more friends
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7. buy a wacom tablet
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8. Buy an alphasmart
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9. visit Bruce Lee's grave
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10. Design an original Halloween costume
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11. learn about digital photography
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12. Photograph ancient ruins
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13. Sketch ancient ruins in a sketchbook
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14. Get on Let's Make A Deal
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15. Learn to play a musical instrument
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16. make a terrarium
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17. Enroll in an art class
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18. organize my closet
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19. participate in an archaeological excavation
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20. Refine my writing skill daily
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21. improve my communication skill
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22. make a web comic
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23. become a cartoonist
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24. go ghost hunting
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25. Practice drawing daily.
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26. enroll in a writing class.
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27. learn 3 new recipes
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28. Publish a novel
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29. read 50 books in a year
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30. learn jeet kune do
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31. Do NaNoWriMo
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32. Write a novel in 30 days in Paris, France
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33. design a video game
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34. Learn how to speak and read French
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35. Teach myself how to juggle
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36. enter a writing contest
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37. find my dream job
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38. brew my own mead
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39. Become a member of a writers guild.
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40. climb the Eiffel Tower
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41. start a side business
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How I did it
It made me
Empowered 
How I did it: Earlier this year, I had felt overwhelmed by a lot of things that I felt were beyond my control. I felt that I had no direction in my life, I was extremely unhappy, and my negative attitude and self-talk were making things worse.My intention was to become unstuck and reduce stress.I found my old college text book on managing stress and chose to take a suggestion from the epilogue of the book in creating my own stress management program.Ta… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Rolled up my sleeves and got to work for the past couple of days.
Donation, garage sales, toss it out, etc.
I’m glad to clear out things I know I’ll never use or wear.
I caught myself feeling agitated and anxious today after I got a phone call from work to cover something. The word “no” seems to be an alien concept to certain people.
The only appropriate thing I can do is go to work and just get it over with. If I look at it another way, at least I can put food on the table. I just have to remind myself that I have a job, but I am not my job. But certain people disagree…
It’s because of moments like these that I am glad that I can pause and reflect on what got me so flustered in the first place and make a new choice. Got to keep my emotions in check.
