I'm doing 25 things
- Make sure you always have some reading with you, either a book, paper, magazine, or an e-reader/tablet. Having a PDF which you can email around, add to Dropbox etc. lets you read whenever you are at a computer, on a ipad/iphone etc.
- If you catch public transport, try to read then.
- Read the contents, and skim the index of any books you are reading, then do a quick skim/speed read of the text. If you are reading a PDF, you can get Acrobat to flip through the pages real quick automatically. I do this a few times, as fast as I can, then settle down to read in more detail
- Take breaks every 45mins or so
- Write notes, highlight, mindmap, as you read, but don’t worry too much about following a strict form, just doodle as you go. You’ll want to go back an rewrite more formal notes or mind maps to reinforce your studying anyway.
Paul Cushworth's Life List
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1. learn kung fu
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2. Take up parkour
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3. Try out 43 Things
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4. increase my income
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5. network more with people
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6. Get more sleep
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7. have better posture
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8. study more
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9. Practice Yoga
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10. see the northern lights
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11. hug more trees
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12. go to the gym regularly
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13. learn to drive like Jason Bourne
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14. go hiking more often
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15. learn free running
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16. go to New York
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17. be able to do chin ups
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18. save money
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19. do more study
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20. live in the wilderness
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21. Design and build my own house
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22. stretch more
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23. write a blog
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24. learn to touch type
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25. drink more water
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I’ve made a fair bit of progress on this goal, but more to go. I’m making more use of technology, but still need to follow up with firming the relationships in the ‘real world
Steps I’ve taken
- Updated my LinkedIn profile, and added connections, especially with vendors etc. for work
- Become more active on Twitter
- Experimenting with FourSquare, and Sonar.me (awesome btw)
- Create additional basic profiles on about.me, and flavours.me
Just rediscovered 43things after a random email appeared in my inbox. Well, in the spirit of 43things, I thought I’d update some of my ‘things’ after 3 years.
So I bought a NAS, only recently though. Seagate GoFlex Home – very happy so far, works out of the box, but you can also pretty easily connect to it and muck around if hacking and linux is your thing.
