I'm doing 41 things
Time is ticking… I still want to have a “rest of my life” to spend with the woman who no longer wears socks.
I’ve had the obligatory moping period after my still-beating heart was ripped from my chest and fed to the penguins by a certain young lady from a very cold place. Don’t get me wrong, it was the romance of a life-time; snorkling on tropical islands, vintage car tours of boutique vineyards and home-cooked meals with ocean-sunsets. Just didn’t end well. Didn’t end well at all.
So I’ve been keeping to myself since Christmas and knuckling down to my least pleasant goals… getting out of debt and planning for a career change. I’m almost ready to close the book on those two things so I’m feeling ready to branch out a bit. Time to find a girl.
harryflies's Life List
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1. learn to play slide guitar
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2. write my first song and record it
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3. get out of debt
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4. travel
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5. finish the couch-to-5k program
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6. live on a yacht
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7. get better at speaking in public
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8. roadtrip across the USA
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9. run the new york marathon
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10. practice and promote sustainable living
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11. learn German
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12. learn french
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13. learn spanish
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14. go hiking in Canada
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15. swim with dolphins
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16. practice and promote environmental conservation
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17. cycle around Great Britain
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18. support fair trade
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19. learn about the stock market
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20. run a marathon
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21. see the northern lights
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22. hike the Great Wall of China
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23. go on an archaeology dig
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24. build furniture
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25. build a wicked hat collection
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26. play funk
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27. build a photo-journal of stencil art I find
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28. get my pay errors corrected
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29. build a recording studio
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30. know how to solve a rubik's cube
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31. learn how to play "Duelling Banjos" and take all comers
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32. make my own T-shirts
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33. enjoy Fall 2007 by having one new and fulfilling experience in October, November, and December
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34. Get my teeth straightened
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35. be an adventurer
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36. fly
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37. perform solo at the Club
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38. get into a Masters program
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39. have another ebay "garage sale"
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40. use my time wisely
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41. find a beautiful woman and woo her socks off!
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How I did it: Sort through all the unwanted "stuff" and build 3 piles... sell, donate and trash. The most laborious part was the selling. I decided to use Ebay. It gets things sold but it takes a lot of time to write the listings, take photos, package the items and respond to emails from buyers.Towards the end, a lot of stuff shifted from the "sell" to "donate" category. Read how I did it…
Playing music
love and love-making
adventures
more love-making
education and professional development
dancing
The title says it all. I’ve been working part-time lately and yet my extra free time is getting pissed away on pointless things.
I’ve taken a small step today in saving some time. I took my swimming gear with me to work so I could go straight to the pool after work instead of going home first. This is a tiny step, but its in the right direction.
Since I had waaaay too much caffeine earlier this evening I’m going to brain-storm some time-saving measures that I can take to make my life smoother and more efficient.
1. Iron all of my work-clothes in one session, once a week and have them ready and waiting in my closet.
2. Fold all of the clothes and put them away as soon as they are dry.
3. Keep my swimming gear in my back-pack 24/7. Have a spare towel to put in the back-pack while the wet one is drying. Swap towels after each use.
4. Always cook enough for dinner so there are left-overs for lunch the next day… saves time and money, which ultimately saves time.
5. Get up early and… DO SOMETHING!!! (still thinking exactly what I hope to achieve here).
6. Keep a diary to avoid missing deadlines and appointments and important dates, like birthdays and weddings.
7. Make plans for the known and upcoming public holidays and vacation time… 5 weeks till my month’s paid leave… still no plans!
8. Get regular decent sleep so all that time exercising isn’t gone to waste.
9. Find a decent bookshop so I don’t waste time milling around in the same pathetic shop that stocks nothing but the most predictable “best-seller” novels by the same 20 or so authors that banged out the 20 best-selling books that are unsurprisingly similar to the last books they wrote. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed a couple of John Grisham novels back in the mid-1990’s but really… I don’t blame the guy though… if you’re on a good thing, right? (does caffeine make you irritable?)
