I'm doing 36 things
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17 months ago
Gordon Ramsey’s one, yummie and easy!
Happy MSc's Life List
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1. stop procrastinating
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2. spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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3. run a 10K
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4. get a job
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5. stop picking my skin
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6. make a daily "to do" list that I actually follow
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7. read War and Peace
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8. lose weight
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9. play the piano again
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10. eat less sugar
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11. take my friends and family gliding
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12. move in together
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13. go to the dentist
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14. try a sauna
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15. go swimming
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16. own a glider
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17. learn to parallel park
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18. learn to play the guitar
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19. become financially independent
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20. make a photo album
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21. buy new running shoes
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22. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
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23. get laser hair removal
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24. volunteer
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25. learn to windsurf
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26. learn Java
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27. learn CSS
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28. visit the Rijksmuseum
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29. give an awesome presentation
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30. stand up for those who can not stand up for themselves
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31. go cross country gliding
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32. go to the opera
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33. stop eating because I am bored
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34. learn PHP
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35. learn how to ask for help when I need it
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36. write a letter to my future self
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How I did it
It made me
happy, relieved 
How I did it: This was a long journey, and I might not be the best to give advice. Motivation has been lacking in my case but hey I finally got there. Also, I don;t want to blame my supervisors but they sure didn't help. Procrastinating made it take longer than I wished. I learned about time management. Read how I did it…
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Doing it
21 months ago
I am actually doing this. I’d recommend the methods from the book Do it Tomorrow… from Mark Forster.
I have a little planner with one day on one page. At the end of each day I want to make a list of things to do tomorrow. Under this list I draw a red line, indicating that this is my list for today, no need adding more stuff.The idea is that if things do turn up during the day I have 4 options to decide from
- It is urgent, I need to do it immediately: do it now
- It is pretty urgent, I need to do it today: write it down, under the red line and do it today
- It is important, I need to do it but not today: write it down on tomorrow’s list and do it tomorrow (or the first possible day)
- It is not important, I don’t need to do this: don’t do this.
When I finish a task on my list I cross it off.
This whole system is not a second nature to me (yet), but I am trying to stick with it. I am also trying to write down all kinds of stuff. I jott down ideas and and thoughts about things to do and when I actually make my list, I take a look at those.
I try to make a list that is representative for one day of work and therefore I aim to complete the list every day.
So far, pretty good, I’ll keep you posted.
BTW Posting my lists here is kina fun and I like peeking at others’ lists, but maybe liking it too much…That’s why I won’t post my list here anymore, as every time I do that, instead of doing items from my list I spend too much time on 43things
But I am keeping this goal up for now
