 I'm doing 38 things |
| 1. |
Walk as much of the Great Wall of China as I can.
1 entry |
1 person |
| 2. |
Manage my ADHD better.
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2 people |
| 3. |
Marry the right person for me
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1 person |
| 4. |
Control my finances.
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14 people |
| 5. |
Have a home in California.
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2 people |
| 6. |
Find my Dad.
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1,071 people |
| 7. |
Learn Jeet Kun Do.
1 entry |
8 people |
| 8. |
Climb a mountain.
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1,765 people |
| 9. |
Charter a yacht.
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4 people |
| 10. |
Go to Nice France.
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1 person |
| 11. |
Buy a Dodge Challenger.
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3 people |
| 12. |
Get a passport.
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1,757 people |
| 13. |
Learn that I have to focus on my life instead of everyone else's all the time.
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 14. |
Learn how to surf.
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797 people |
| 15. |
Climb to the crash site of F-16 I crewed in the USAF with pilot from Arizona.
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1 person |
| 16. |
Work with an anti human trafficking org to save some kids from the sex trade.
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1 person |
| 17. |
Sponsor a child through World Vision.
1 entry |
25 people |
| 18. |
Focus on aligning my spending with my values.
1 entry |
1 person |
| 19. |
Own a plane.
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35 people |
| 20. |
Become financially independent.
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5,471 people |
| 21. |
Rebuild the home I lost in Martha's Vineyard
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1 person |
| 22. |
Become a pilot
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343 people |
| 23. |
Have four children (Noah, Emma, Josh & Zoe)
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1 person |
| 24. |
Have a vocation that Inspires & motivates my spirit
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1 person |
| 25. |
Get completely debt free
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1 person |
| 26. |
Be a coach for the University of Michigan football team
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1 person |
| 27. |
Travel somewhere new, near of far, once a month
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 28. |
Get washboard abs & get some dental work.
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1 person |
| 29. |
Own a large piece of green California coastal land.
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1 person |
| 30. |
Take a trip as travel companions with Morgan Freeman.
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1 person |
| 31. |
Learn to play guitar.
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4,315 people |
| 32. |
Learn to speak Mandarin.
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82 people |
| 33. |
Learn to speak Spanish.
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2,417 people |
| 34. |
Live a holy life.
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3 people |
| 35. |
Run a marathon.
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10,562 people |
| 36. |
Go to Malta.
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23 people |
| 37. |
Go to Amalfi.
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2 people |
| 38. |
paraglide
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210 people |
This article was written by my beautiful sister Grace at the Wall Street Journal. A quote from on of the interviewees became a 43things goal for me. True testatment to how we can affect people the world over with a sentence. Which spurns the question…...”How will your personal testimony affect the people of the world?”
http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/01/02/the-smart-cookies-on-how-to-make-more-dough-in-2009/
I feel like I have been blessed to live in the circumstances that I do here in America. The freedoms we take for granted, the richness of our opportunities & resources has given birth to an idea I would like to “adopt”.
I should be able to adopt one child through an NGO like World Vision or Christian Children’s Fund for each bedroom in the house I own. I want to make this tradition in my family. If you can afford a 4 bedroom house then you can afford to sponsor 4 children who don’t have one.
Keeping the right perspective about life for other people in the world forces open the tightly clenched fist of consumerism to give back to the greater good of humanity.
My sister’s birthday was last night. She turned 30, and when I called her to sing happy birthday she told me something that was so simple in its appointment…..so fundamentally integral to life that I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. She said that before she moved to New York, our little brother Sam, said to her: “If you’re really moving to New York, then act like it”. Even now it makes me laugh a little. If you’re going to do something…....act like it. And I’m the oldest! I love them both. Little brother, keep your head down we’ll see you when you get back to the US. Grace, congrats on the job at the WSJ, a writer you are, writing you do. I’m going to act like it & move to California. You both make my life better & I love you.
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