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fpoe

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1. Set up productive habits to replace lazy habits
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2. have a successful business by the time I finish college
2 cheers 1 person
3. get a job I like that pays well
1 entry . 1 cheer 1 person
4. stop grinding my teeth
2 cheers 78 people
5. do a vipassana meditation retreat
5 cheers 63 people
6. travel the world
2 cheers 21,061 people
7. work in a foreign country
4 cheers 107 people
8. pass the DALF
2 cheers 6 people
9. get a scholarship
2 cheers 477 people
10. Get a PhD
1 cheer 2,972 people
11. have better posture
8,066 people
12. reach financial freedom
1 cheer 11 people
13. consolidate and minimize my material possessions, as profitably as possible
1 entry . 1 cheer 1 person
14. get published
3 cheers 2,188 people
15. Read every page of the Norton Anthology of Poetry
1 entry . 3 cheers 10 people
16. finish one book every week
1 entry 4 people

17.

buy and read every title in "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" : Read dozens of major works of literature, poetry, and philosophy over the next forty years.
2 entries

12 people

18. publish a book of poetry by 2010
1 person
19. Become an expert on something obscure
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20. make meditation and creative visualization daily practices
3 cheers 32 people

21.

question each expenditure of time and/or money, as often as possible, asking myself, "Does this choice make me closer to or more distant from who and what I want to be?"
3 team members . 4 cheers

21 people

22. Live in a Buddhist temple for at least 6 months
1 entry . 1 cheer 17 people
23. do yoga every day for a month
1 cheer 7 people
24. develop my psychic abilities
3 cheers 260 people
25. celebrate my accomplishments, including the most incremental
3 people
26. improve my appearance
252 people
27. love without sentimental attachment
1 person
28. wool-gather mindfully
1 entry 1 person
29. experiment with polyphasic sleep
2 people
30. become an expert at memorizing songs
1 person
31. overcome my fear of performing
1 person
32. Be a camp counselor
43 people
33. traverse 6 continents by land
1 person
34. learn to cook a meal from each country I live in
1 entry . 1 cheer 1 person
35. visit all 50 states, all 7 continents, and at least 100 countries
4 people
36. Pass the 2008 JLPT 3
1 person
37. learn to walk without pain
1 person
38. try "brain gym"
1 person

Recent entries

learn to cook a meal from each country I live in

and cook it well. Mastery is the idea here, not breadth, not doing it once and forgetting about it.

By “live in,” I mean for a month or more. I’m already 2 meals behind!

I don’t travel for culinary reasons, but I believe that skills (and friends) are the best souvenirs.

Nov 02, 2007, 04:30PM PDT | 0 comments

write a poem every day for a month

Fantastic experience

I actually did this for about 3 months. Some days I’d write more than one. It was a few years ago, and I’m not uite sure where any of those poems are anymore, but the ones I remember are mostly surreal, in a comic way.

This practice worked wonders both for my writing, and for my confidence in myself as a poet.

Oct 10, 2007, 12:48AM PDT | 2 comments

stop eating out

It’s not like I do this much as it is. I’ve had some lazy weeks lately when I’ve put off going to the grocery store, with no good excuse what.so.ever.

Jun 26, 2007, 11:39AM PDT | 0 comments

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