Ben




I'm doing 38 things
 

Ben's Life List

  1. 1. give something
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    1 person
  2. 2. swim regularly
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    238 people
  3. 3. Learn Portuguese
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    872 people
  4. 4. Take more pictures
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    12,422 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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    51 people
  6. 6. let go, jump in
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    3 people
  7. 7. stop rushing
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    14 people
  8. 8. focus
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    374 people
  9. 9. floss
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    159 people
  10. 10. Early to bed, Early to rise
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    97 people
  11. 11. declutter my life
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    420 people
  12. 12. make a smaller ecological footprint
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    1,016 people
  13. 13. get out of debt
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    8,843 people
  14. 14. 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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    82 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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    19 people
  17. 17. experience new things
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    19 people
  18. 18. live for now
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    4 people
  19. 19. Write a will
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    703 people
  20. 20. write a song
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    3,398 people
  21. 21. learn to dance
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    5,271 people
  22. 22. Learn to play the piano
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    6,051 people
  23. 23. discover more good music
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    116 people
  24. 24. go to more concerts
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    2,135 people
  25. 25. see Sufjan Stevens live
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    80 people
  26. 26. see Radiohead live
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    161 people
  27. 27. watch the IMDB.com Top 250 movies
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    296 people
  28. 28. Spend a night in the ice hotel
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    4 people
  29. 29. see the northern lights
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    14,284 people
  30. 30. go sailing
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    553 people
  31. 31. Taste the cuisine of 43 cultures, from 43 locations
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    1 person
  32. 32. make my way round the entire coast of the Mediterranean
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    1 person
  33. 33. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)
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    294 people
  34. 34. update my CV
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    39 people
  35. 35. design my own home
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    254 people
  36. 36. Read more
    6,230 people
  37. 37. "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
  38. 38. Find the hidden 43 Things store
    14 people
Recent entries
give something
I've not written here for a long time. 2 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. 1 year 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…)


digitize my grandfather's slides, then upload them to Flickr (read all 5 entries…)
Yes, it was worth doing. 1 year ago

I miss my grandfather.

I got an email from someone on flickr today. They are setting up a stall to sell retro photos of camper vans. They asked me if they could sell prints of the pictures taken by my grandfather. I said I was happy with that and wished them best of luck.

I hope they sell, it’s nice to know that the pictures that Gramps took will give enjoyment to other people.

A while ago i got a large copy of my avatar picture printed off, the one of the camper van in the mountins. It’s in the hallway of my flat.


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