Ben




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Ben's Life List

  1. 1. give something
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    1 person
  2. 2. swim regularly
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    268 people
  3. 3. Learn Portuguese
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    1,054 people
  4. 4. Take more pictures
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    14,327 people
  5. 5. every week we set each other challenges of things to take pics of!? And then we post them on here!
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    40 people
  6. 6. let go, jump in
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    2 people
  7. 7. stop rushing
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    16 people
  8. 8. focus
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    419 people
  9. 9. floss
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    183 people
  10. 10. Early to bed, Early to rise
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  11. 11. declutter my life
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    527 people
  12. 12. make a smaller ecological footprint
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    1,042 people
  13. 13. ask why so many people want to 'have', 'get' and 'buy' instead of 'be', 'do', 'learn' and 'know', and perhaps make a few people stop and think about it
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    87 people
  14. 14. get out of debt
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    11,042 people
  15. 15. Remind myself that communicating via text is no substitute for face to face contact
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    1 person
  16. 16. Revise my goals and make them: specific, measurable,realistic and time bound.
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  17. 17. experience new things
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    23 people
  18. 18. live for now
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    4 people
  19. 19. Write a will
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    774 people
  20. 20. write a song
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    4,219 people
  21. 21. learn to dance
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    6,587 people
  22. 22. Learn to play the piano
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    7,465 people
  23. 23. discover more good music
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    125 people
  24. 24. go to more concerts
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    2,537 people
  25. 25. see Sufjan Stevens live
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    84 people
  26. 26. watch the IMDB.com Top 250 movies
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    339 people
  27. 27. Spend a night in the ice hotel
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    7 people
  28. 28. see the northern lights
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    16,929 people
  29. 29. go sailing
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    651 people
  30. 30. Taste the cuisine of 43 cultures, from 43 locations
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    1 person
  31. 31. make my way round the entire coast of the Mediterranean
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    1 person
  32. 32. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)
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    330 people
  33. 33. update my CV
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    63 people
  34. 34. design my own home
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    302 people
  35. 35. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" - Kurt Vonnegut
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    1 person
  36. 36. Read more
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  37. 37. Find the hidden 43 Things store
    14 people
Recent entries
Remind myself that communicating via text is no substitute for face to face contact (read all 2 entries…)
There is no subsitute for face to face contact. 10 months ago

I sent someone a txt yesterday, it was full of things that I sincerely wanted to say, be clear about.

But, one of the problems with me is that I am scared, I hide behind humour, people end up misunderstanding me, my real intentions and I don’t realize that.

This last year, I thought I was being very clear about how I felt about something.

turns out I wasn’t,
turns out I should have said more,
I should have been brave,
I should have stood up for myself
and the situation I was in.

Life can be lonely sometimes.



give something
I've not written here for a long time. 18 months ago

I’ve had this thing in the back of my mind for a while now. I stopped writing here a over a year ago, well, actually I just stopped writing. I miss it. I need to write to compose my thoughts. Writing helps me form an opinion, takes the storm of thoughts in my head and gives them some structure. I’m off to bed, good night.



get out of debt
Keep track of Money. 2 years ago

A year ago, I gave up on ever clearing my name from debt, i never thought it was possible, but things have changed.

Selling my house helped pay off a sizable chunk, I rent now. I got burnt by early payment redemption fees though, the mortgage company charged my eight thousand pounds to pay off early. – Not nice.

I plan to clear my remaining debt by Feb 2008

This site has been useful: http://www.wesabe.com it’s an online money manager.

It’s only just started, in the FAQ they mention 43things as inspiration. It lets you tag your purchases. I recommend giving it a go. It’s free, I don’t know how they are making money from the service.

In a fun way it’s shown me where all my money goes. The other users of the site have listed a number of cool money saving tips too.


Oh, also, i’m not sure if I should promote online spending on this goal, but, hay, it may save a bit of money for those of you in the UK, two sites that you might find useful:

http://www.quidco.com free to sign up, and they offer discounts on a number of online shops and services.

and

http://www.hotukdeals.com/main.html – lists special offers for uk online shopping sites. (I found my £179 wii via this site, when every where else was out of stock…)



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