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jaguthin




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  2. 1. Bike from the top of New Hampshire back home.
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  3. 2. Buy a Zen Alarm Clock
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  4. 3. Finish building Shrimp Boat model.
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  5. 4. Finish building Hodad model.
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  6. 5. Finish building Covered Wagon model
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  7. 6. Post a rules of the house.
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  8. 7. Learn to juggle
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  9. 8. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
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  10. 9. Make homemade soda.
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  11. 10. Create "Who I am as a possibility" plaque
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  12. 11. Take voice lessons.
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  13. 12. Learn to dance
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  14. 13. Get my daughter back and raise her with love.
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  15. 14. Retire by 45
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  16. 15. Incorporate exercise into my daily life
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  17. 16. Remove "should" and "should have" from my working vocabulary. Encourage others to do the same.
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  18. 17. Buy and learn to play the strum stick.
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  19. 18. Visit Prague
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  20. 19. Save $2500
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  21. 20. Finish web page.
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  22. 21. Read every Kurt Vonnegut book there is.
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  23. 22. Get rid of everything in my life that I don't want or need.
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  24. 23. Clean off my bookshelf.
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  25. 24. Learn to speak and read German.
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  26. 25. Camp for a week by myself.
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  27. 26. Take the duck tour.
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  28. 27. Make 2009 relationship free.
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  29. 28. Hike all the Peaks of the White Mountains.
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  30. 29. Join toastmasters.
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  31. 30. Hike the Monadnock Sunappee Greenway trail.
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  32. 31. Clean out the basement.
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  33. 32. Make a walking stick.
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  34. 33. Draw!!!
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  35. 34. Grow bamboo!
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  36. 35. Make 250,000 dollars per year with my business.
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  37. 36. Buy a piece of land.
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  38. 37. Volunteer with suicide hotline.
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  39. 38. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
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  40. 39. Take guitar lessons.
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  41. 40. Buy a House
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How I did it
How to stay off IM for one week.
It took me
1 week
It made me
free

How I did it: So, since I decided to stay off IM I have: Finished the book I was reading, Read another, started a third, got all four laptops that were on my workbench taken care of. Cleared up some work tickets. Did all the dishes. Did all the laundry and put it away. Have started work on the new file server, cleaned up the bedroom/office ... Read how I did it…

Oct 13, 04:44PM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


How to pay off eye surgery.
It took me
1 year
It made me
Freer

How I did it: My minimum payment was some ridiculously low amount, but I had to have the sucker paid off by a certain date in order to avoid interest.  I jacked the payment as high as I could go and made that payment religiously. I had it auto withdraw from my account as well. Now, it is paid off and I have an extra $300.00 a month to go toward other things Read how I did it…

Oct 08, 09:07AM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer


How to pay off credit card
It took me
6 months
It made me
In control

How I did it: The truth is, I didn't actually pay it off. Nor will I. I have simply shifted things so that I can build my credit. Instead of making a payment to this card and buying groceries, instead I use the card to buy groceries and then use that money to pay the card. I simply make sure that I am paying more each month than I am actually using. The payments are high, what gets charged gets paid off each month, and eventually, there will not be an … Read how I did it…

Oct 05, 01:30PM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer


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Buy a House (read all 4 entries…)
Took my second look yesterday 3 days ago

And I think the house will do the job. It is not perfect by any means. The bathroom is placed in a most awkward place, between two of the bedrooms. There is no regular heat in the basement just a couple of space heater and there is some weird faux stone paneling on the porch. Also, lots of unfinished drywall in the basement rooms, but … for the price, it would be worth it to get in there and with time, spruce it up, or .. in a few years, rent this one and buy something else. The main thing is to stop throwing money away on rent and to have a place to live with my boy and my two girls. Then, maybe it can be the beginning of my new real estate empire. Mwahhahahaahhahaha.

Nov 24, 06:24AM PST | 0 comments


Clean off my bookshelf. (read all 13 entries…)
Only ten left 4 days ago

after I finish the book I just started. I am averaging about a book a week. I hope to continue that.

Nov 22, 06:08PM PST | 0 comments


Clean off my bookshelf. (read all 13 entries…)
Half way there 1 week ago

As of today, I have read 25 books since creating this goal. Now that is twenty five books on the shelf to be cleaned, not in total. In total there are many more. Where it was packed with them, there is now a good 18 inches of clean space. Half empty. I don’t expect I will finish it this year, but by spring of next year I will. Then, maybe I will have saved enough for an amazon.com shopping trip and can start making progress on my Kurt Vonnegut goal.

Nice to have the downtime.

Nov 15, 08:34AM PST | 0 comments


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design clothes own an SLR camera learn to play chopin's fantasie impromptu Have Kids get my relationship back on track ride an elephant Stop biting my cuticles Become TEFL qualified do pilates panoraMa wants to learn to play squash run more often see the northern lights grow my own vegetables Watch all episodes of "The Simpsons" ever made. pay off my car Win the powerball play sims online for free Make a movie Stop War ktcreole wants to learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals Sell my paintings swim regularly work for vogue magazine Play Poker read the satanic bible online Start and maintain a Price Book chloeeee wants to Keep my room clean Fly First Class
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