I'm doing 43 things
Made it this week.
10 hours ago
Very good to have done this…and now this coming week, I can do it again, but I think I’m going to make a new more detailed goal.
Hummingbird Medicine's Life List
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1. ---by the winter solstice---
1 cheer1 person -
3. Live by my own code
5 entries . 22 cheers1 person -
4. quit living in chaos
6 entries . 16 cheers1 person -
5. meditate at least 10 times a week - at least 5 rounds of fire breath and 5 rounds of zazen
1 person -
6. hit the books
4 entries . 14 cheers1 person -
7. clean up my house and keep it clean
10 entries . 5 cheers490 people -
8. finish developing my sketch
1 entry . 9 cheers1 person -
9. use my wetsuit to swim in the ocean
2 entries . 17 cheers1 person -
10. put stuff back on this list that I temporarily marked "I give up" to make room for more immediate new goals and gather up new goal ideas here
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person -
11. ---by Spring 2010 (as defined by cross-quarter points, February 5, 2010)---
1 cheer1 person -
12. live in consciousness of The Secret Things of God - the *real* "Law of Attraction"!
2 entries . 11 cheers1 person -
13. be iron like a lion in Zion :)
7 entries . 3 cheers1 person -
14. stand in integrity/stand like a warrior
12 entries . 30 cheers2 people -
15. stop using my intelligence to cool off interactions and make myself distant
2 cheers1 person -
16. relax and play
16 cheers1 person -
17. let my wackyness run wild
1 entry . 11 cheers1 person -
18. ---by the vernal equinox of 2010---
1 cheer1 person -
19. notice nature
6 entries . 41 cheers2 people -
20. get a tattoo
12 cheers20,304 people -
21. braid my hair
1 cheer21 people -
22. ---by the end of fall 2010 (as defined by cross-quarter points - November 6, 2010)
1 person -
23. win
1 entry . 8 cheers182 people -
24. camp
6 entries . 13 cheers59 people -
25. get ready to travel
1 entry . 6 cheers1 person -
26. replace the broken dishes
1 cheer1 person -
27. ---ongoing/long term---
4 cheers1 person -
28. identify the kind of people I want to have enter or increase their involvement in my life next and then make it happen
6 entries . 3 cheers1 person -
29. remodel my socialization
8 entries . 1 cheer1 person -
31. requalify success and take my own path
4 entries . 17 cheers1 person -
32. provide beautifully for myself and the family I'm creating
12 entries . 9 cheers1 person -
33. be an ascetic briefly
9 entries . 2 cheers1 person -
35. ---one day---
1 cheer2 people -
36. proudly display my heirlooms
3 cheers1 person -
37. depend on another woman and not be let down
6 cheers1 person -
38. meet my pen pals
13 cheers4 people -
39. know the whole catalog of works by my favorite composer
4 cheers1 person -
40. perform my favorite album
6 cheers1 person -
41. sew
4 cheers185 people -
42. buy my dream machine
3 cheers1 person -
43. be a comic book hero
11 cheers1 person
How I did it
It made me
more mindful. 
How I did it: I've come to see two things since I started working on this: first off, I really am very low-emissions communication-wise. I haven't even caught myself on the verge of anything inappropriate but a handful of times and they were the kind of impulses that I successfully recognize and control all the time. Secondly, one incident earlier this month reminded me of nature's little backup plan: on the very, very rare occasion that I … Read how I did it…
It made me
happy
How I did it: I waited to see when I had enough money to buy the rather expensive hardware (somewhere around $100) and then discovered I didn't have the proper tools to install it myself. The first shop I called wanted to charge me hundreds of bucks I needed for food and rent and silly things like that, but the next one said, "well, would a budget of $50 work for you?" Uh, yeah!My armoire looks BEAUTIFUL, better than when I first got it.&nb… Read how I did it…
It made me
happy
How I did it: Well I just decided I was sick of not doing something I wanted to do. I spent about ten or fifteen minutes doing it at a time and then a Buddhist friend of mine visited and I started doing an hour at a time with him and I just feel a heck of a lot better. I don't want to stop. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
The chaos doesn't stop.
1 day ago
I am forever…
-getting hurt
-becoming exhausted
-fielding bad news
-running five minutes late, no matter how early I get up or how carefully I plan and prepare in advance
-thinking of things when I can neither do them nor even write them down
-losing something
-having something break on me
-thinking of something else I should’ve grabbed before leaving the house
And I still can’t find a stupid pair of pants when I want them. (After searching for an hour I finally found them – in one of those “special places where I’ll have no chance to lose them because they’re right in front of me.”)
Sometimes I wonder if there’s any point at all.
