This item creates a dangerous paradox
4 years ago
What are you supposed to do with this goal when you reach 43 items? You can’t leave it on your list as unfinished, but if you mark it as finished, you suddenly have only 42 items.
| 1. |
Find new (to me) music I love
3 entries . 5 cheers |
106 people |
| 2. |
re-learn how to play the piano
2 cheers |
125 people |
| 3. |
play more ddr
1 entry . 4 cheers |
32 people |
| 4. |
play tennis again
2 cheers |
97 people |
| 5. |
lose weight
1 cheer |
36,282 people |
| 6. |
Read all the books in my "must read" pile
3 cheers |
1,104 people |
| 7. |
keep in better touch with friends & family
1 cheer |
270 people |
| 8. |
Learn to say no
1 cheer |
1,062 people |
| 9. |
Make and manage promises like my life depends on it
2 cheers |
7 people |
| 10. |
Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do
|
2,361 people |
| 11. |
have more friends
|
805 people |
| 12. |
learn to drive
1 cheer |
6,117 people |
| 13. |
learn how to cook
2 cheers |
1,475 people |
| 14. |
have a girlfriend
2 cheers |
302 people |
| 15. |
Cut down on porn
1 entry |
5 people |
| 16. |
not have any secrets
|
7 people |
| 17. |
Get more sleep
|
4,124 people |
| 18. |
Be more efficient when working
|
599 people |
| 19. |
stop procrastinating
|
26,916 people |
| 20. |
stop wasting time
1 entry . 2 cheers |
3,555 people |
| 21. |
Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
1 cheer |
5,506 people |
| 22. |
Return phone messages & emails in a timely fashion
1 cheer |
56 people |
| 23. |
Finish what I start
|
3,821 people |
| 24. |
Finish designing that website
|
67 people |
| 25. |
Clean up my computer's desktop
1 cheer |
146 people |
| 26. |
find work I'm passionate about
2 cheers |
958 people |
| 27. |
read Garey and Johnson
|
2 people |
| 28. |
publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
|
413 people |
| 29. |
Spread firefox
1 cheer |
30 people |
| 30. |
Convert all of my friends to Firefox
|
1 person |
| 31. |
witness the end of IE
|
741 people |
| 32. |
make better backups
|
44 people |
| 33. |
Start using SVN.
2 cheers |
131 people |
| 34. |
use more open-source software
2 cheers |
2 people |
| 35. |
work for google
3 cheers |
395 people |
| 36. |
blog more often
2 entries . 2 cheers |
393 people |
| 37. |
Watch a space shuttle launch
|
957 people |
| 38. |
visit New Zealand
|
1,408 people |
| 39. |
start my own religion
2 cheers |
81 people |
| 40. |
Steal an iPod
3 cheers |
32 people |
| 41. |
Fix 43 Firefox bugs in 43 days
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 42. |
Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op
|
180 people |
What are you supposed to do with this goal when you reach 43 items? You can’t leave it on your list as unfinished, but if you mark it as finished, you suddenly have only 42 items.
18 posts between April 29th and May 5th! I blogged about user scripts, promoted DreamHost, and answered several “Ask Jesse” questions.
I wrote a Greasemonkey script to make it easier to rearrange my 43 Things. I grouped the items into categories like “personal” and “geeky” rather than ranking them by importance.