I'm doing 42 things
Almost
3 years ago
halfway there.
John Paul's Life List
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1. help advance progressive causes
1 entry . 17 cheers17 people -
2. live in the moment
8 cheers1,861 people -
3. Learn MySQL
1 entry . 7 cheers381 people -
4. be more compassionate
4 cheers211 people -
5. find a spiritual community
1 entry . 9 cheers13 people -
6. Make new friends
1 entry . 9 cheers12,210 people -
7. become a gay rights activist
24 cheers11 people -
8. live simply
10 cheers3,207 people -
9. see more live music
7 cheers653 people -
10. work for myself
3 cheers431 people -
11. write a book
1 entry . 1 cheer24,937 people -
12. get married
1 entry . 5 cheers17,865 people -
13. travel to europe
4 cheers2,125 people -
14. play the piano more
1 entry . 4 cheers225 people -
15. paint my foyer and all upstairs rooms
2 entries . 1 cheer1 person -
16. convert the world to macintosh
6 cheers14 people -
17. learn yoga or Zen sitting
1 entry . 3 cheers1 person -
18. Save money
2 cheers14,211 people -
19. Give a guy a bouquet of flowers
1 entry . 7 cheers8 people -
20. read Henry James
2 entries . 1 cheer3 people -
21. Read Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
1 entry . 4 cheers84 people -
22. drink absinthe
1 entry . 3 cheers709 people -
23. Take more photos
3 cheers3,368 people -
24. become a Wikipedia contributor
4 cheers218 people -
25. Remember that "There is no spoon"
1 entry . 6 cheers57 people -
26. Quit my job
1 entry . 1 cheer1,154 people -
27. live passionately
3 cheers5,543 people -
28. Visit San Francisco
7 cheers307 people -
29. Live on the beach
4 cheers530 people -
30. Rollerblade more
1 entry . 5 cheers54 people -
31. get in better shape
2 cheers809 people -
32. see the beauty in others
7 cheers2 people -
33. perform at an open mic night
6 cheers44 people -
34. Learn Actionscript 2.0
5 entries . 1 cheer85 people -
35. speak truth to power
3 entries . 5 cheers7 people -
36. build a wooden bed frame
1 entry . 1 cheer232 people -
37. join a team
18 team members . 5 entries . 1 cheer17 people -
38. Give 1000 cheers
1 entry . 3 cheers184 people -
39. teach my cat, Rufus, NOT to type
1 entry . 9 cheers1 person -
40. compose my own music
4 cheers83 people -
41. carpe diem
6 cheers567 people -
42. keep in touch with old friends
3 cheers1,424 people
Recent entries
I want to check things off
3 years ago
Goals that seek to define my life and purpose are personally valuable beyond measure. For such goals, I would love to find time to write little entries on a regular basis about how I have lived up to this goal—lived by my values.
The initial attractiveness of listing goals is the potential for checking them off as done. “Buy a can of paint.” “Check.”
“Be more compassionate,” on the other hand, is a goal for striving, and for checking myself to see how I’m doing with that. I expect never to check it off of my list, until I, myself, am done.
I suspect the dual nature of goals points out a structural issue for the Robots (I’m starting to really like those guys), but I don’t have any better suggestions for them than what I’ve seen already. A “not achieved,” “progress,” “partially achieved” way to retire a goal is a good start. Being able to say “a little bit worth it,” however that’s stated, would also be helpful.
It’s often hard to just delete a goal, whatever it’s status, but to be able to change focus onto new goals, and also keep the site dynamic, the ability to move things to the “completed” column, at whatever state of completion would be a good thing.
Ok, so maybe it wasn't me
3 years ago
It’s November and the few weeds remaining seem puny and shriveled. Now the problem will be next season when those that were allowed to set seed come back with a vengeance!
In the metaphorical sense of the goal, I’ve still got some work to do.
