John Paul




I'm doing 42 things
 

John Paul's Life List

  1. 1. help advance progressive causes
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    17 people
  2. 2. live in the moment
    8 cheers
    1,861 people
  3. 3. Learn MySQL
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    381 people
  4. 4. be more compassionate
    4 cheers
    211 people
  5. 5. find a spiritual community
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    13 people
  6. 6. Make new friends
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    12,210 people
  7. 7. become a gay rights activist
    24 cheers
    11 people
  8. 8. live simply
    10 cheers
    3,207 people
  9. 9. see more live music
    7 cheers
    653 people
  10. 10. work for myself
    3 cheers
    431 people
  11. 11. write a book
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    24,937 people
  12. 12. get married
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    17,865 people
  13. 13. travel to europe
    4 cheers
    2,125 people
  14. 14. play the piano more
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    225 people
  15. 15. paint my foyer and all upstairs rooms
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  16. 16. convert the world to macintosh
    6 cheers
    14 people
  17. 17. learn yoga or Zen sitting
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    1 person
  18. 18. Save money
    2 cheers
    14,211 people
  19. 19. Give a guy a bouquet of flowers
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    8 people
  20. 20. read Henry James
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    3 people
  21. 21. Read Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    84 people
  22. 22. drink absinthe
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    709 people
  23. 23. Take more photos
    3 cheers
    3,368 people
  24. 24. become a Wikipedia contributor
    4 cheers
    218 people
  25. 25. Remember that "There is no spoon"
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    57 people
  26. 26. Quit my job
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1,154 people
  27. 27. live passionately
    3 cheers
    5,543 people
  28. 28. Visit San Francisco
    7 cheers
    307 people
  29. 29. Live on the beach
    4 cheers
    530 people
  30. 30. Rollerblade more
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    54 people
  31. 31. get in better shape
    2 cheers
    809 people
  32. 32. see the beauty in others
    7 cheers
    2 people
  33. 33. perform at an open mic night
    6 cheers
    44 people
  34. 34. Learn Actionscript 2.0
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    85 people
  35. 35. speak truth to power
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    7 people
  36. 36. build a wooden bed frame
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    232 people
  37. 37. join a team
    18 team members . 5 entries . 1 cheer
    17 people
  38. 38. Give 1000 cheers
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    184 people
  39. 39. teach my cat, Rufus, NOT to type
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    1 person
  40. 40. compose my own music
    4 cheers
    83 people
  41. 41. carpe diem
    6 cheers
    567 people
  42. 42. keep in touch with old friends
    3 cheers
    1,424 people
Recent entries
Give 1000 cheers
Almost 3 years ago

halfway there.



add a short-term goal to my list
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.



weed my garden (read all 2 entries…)
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.



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