This is my spirituality. I get more satisfaction from this goal than from everything else in my life. I want to be as close to reality as I possibly can be. I want to understand.
keithg's Life List
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1. Understand
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2. Help my dying Grandfather and support my family
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3. Work for a feeling of achievement for 21 days straight
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4. Sleep 8 hours every night for 21 days straight
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5. Get my driver's license
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6. Get into a reasonable weight range.
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7. Turn a strength-building exercise routine into a habit
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8. Become very fit
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9. Get into a habit of doing exercise everyday
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10. meet new people
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11. be more social
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12. Learn tricks to remember new names.
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13. be more self disciplined
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14. Get to know a senior citizen.
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15. Shave my head
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16. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
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17. Identify 100 things that make me happy.
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18. Graduate from college
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19. Become Financially Independent
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20. Learn to play the piano
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21. Do something new every month for a year
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22. get a tattoo that has a significant meaning
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23. Practice writing backwards for 21 days straight
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24. Practice reading upside-down for 21 days straight
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25. Visit a Synagogue.
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26. Get an 'A' in my logic class
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27. Understand how to form habits
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28. Improve my posture for 21 days straight
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29. Read all the books in my house that I haven't read without buying any new ones
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30. Learn to speak, read, and write in Spanish
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31. Learn to speak, read, and write in Esperanto
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32. Learn about Quakerism
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How I did it: I went to Pandora.com and filled it with any song from any genre (purposefully varied genres) of music so that it would play random new music that I may like. I never gave thumbs down (unless the songs involved literal screaming) and only thumbed UP songs I liked so that it wouldn't exclude any genre. Over time I became more familiar with the sounds of different genres and they grew on me! Now my mind is more open when i… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I spent time reading discussions on the internet from the perspective of different perspectives of LGBQ people trying to get inside their head. I read articles online explaining different perspectives on the controversial topics of sexuality. Read how I did it…
I have a bad habit of buying books, reading partway into them, and then setting them aside and moving to another. Rinse wash and repeat. I’m going to read everything worth reading in my house before I spend another cent on a book.
So I was thinking about this a few minutes ago, and I found some good blog posts about this topic:
http://www.rickcecil.com/2005/09/14/developing-social-interaction-skills/
That post links to other good blog posts.
