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Ken Chen

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Ken Chen's Life List

  2. 1. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
    17 entries . 9 cheers     		743 people
  3. 2. Practice the Code Kata guidelines
    7 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  4. 3. Complete "The Artist's Way"
    3 entries . 9 cheers     		389 people
  5. 4. hAVE tHE bODY oF a gREEK gOD
    11 entries . 9 cheers     		5 people
  6. 5. Dedicate time to the Mckee foundation
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. Start a blog on web resources for volunteering
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  8. 7. Become a Nabuur project manager
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  9. 8. Complete a Nabuur task every week
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  10. 9. Hit the gym everyday
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  11. 10. Spent more time doing outdoor activities the weekends
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  12. 11. Go Vegan every other week until december
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  13. 12. Have 20 new customers at Hegemon every month.
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  14. 13. Date a new woman every week
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  15. 14. Network every other week
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  16. 15. Start a blog to showcase my work experience
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  17. 16. Research a change of career before march
    1 cheer     		1 person
  18. 17. Cultivate my creativity and express it
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  19. 18. Dedicate an hour every day to self-introspection
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1 person
  20. 19. Practice a martial art
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  21. 20. Meditate and practice Yoga
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  22. 21. I want to be financially free by end of 2009
    3 cheers     		4 people
  23. 22. Develop a Vision Statement & Goal Plan for my Life
    1 cheer     		63 people
  24. 23. pretend I have a small mortgage, and get saving!!
    1 entry     		3 people
  25. 24. Create 43 pieces of art inspired by 43Thingers
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  26. 25. have a successful business
    1 cheer     		79 people
  27. 26. design a tarot deck
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  28. 27. Photograph 43 cats
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  29. 28. spend time with knowledgable, interesting people and learn from them
    1 cheer     		9 people
  30. 29. Be shockingly productive
    1 cheer     		50 people
  31. 30. Photograph things with letters on them to spell out my name
    1 cheer     		78 people
  32. 31. be an artist everyday
    2 cheers     		26 people
  33. 32. leave everything a little better than i found it
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  34. 33. Do the Couch to 5k running plan
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  35. 34. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
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  36. 35. Live in gratitude & be happy even if the rest of the things on this list never happen
    2 cheers     		70 people
  37. 36. Commission and install a custom-made library wall
    2 cheers     		2 people
  38. 37. design an amazing garden this summer
    1 cheer     		1 person
  39. 38. Progressively clean sweep my immediate environment
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  40. 39. make wild, passionate, crazy love
    2 cheers     		40 people
  41. 40. Hand out one business card a day
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  42. 41. Get a massage at least once a month
    1 cheer     		5 people
  43. 42. be more mindful of my money
    		4 people

How I did it
How to have guests over every month
It took me
1 month
It made me

How I did it: Subscribed to the Couchsurfing website. And started to host guests that were traveling trough my country. I'd hosted around 40 from many parts of the world. Read how I did it…

Oct 01, 03:11PM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


How to prepare my CV before january ends
It took me
4 months
It made me

How I did it: I couldn't find my old CV. I started from scratch using the generic CV we use at the office to submit as part of project documentation.Then I did some research, the new CV should reflect what I'm looking on a prospect employers, so I made more emphasis on my role in every main project I took part. Also put a section with all the technical background. Read how I did it…

May 07, 06:02AM PDT | 0 comments


How to record all the books i read
It took me
3 months
It made me

How I did it: There's a website called weRead, it has a facebook application (called back then iread). It really makes you easy to look for the books you have read and mark them as readed, reading, wanting to read, won't read, also allows you to chuck books to your friends, leave comments, tags and ratings.Downside, there's no way to get that data back to you for other purpouses. Read how I did it…

Apr 08, 05:42AM PDT | 1 comment | 2 cheers


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Recent entries
Answer this 7 questions every saturday for a month. (read all 7 entries…)
Update 2009 november 11 1 week ago

1. What did I fail?
Last year: Achieving a compromise between every me
Today status: To foresee the consequences of a good deed and how it may affect negatively some.
2. What am I resisting?
Last year: Choices, choices on people, on love, on profession, on familly on myself
Today satus: Sorted out most of the choices that scared me. Now I’m just with one left, a choice of partner.
3. What did I do well?
Last year: Work
Today status: Put in order my life one day at a time.
4. What can I do better?
Last year: Persistence
Today status: Productivity at work. Demand more and deliver more.
5. Were you the person you want to be during the past year?
Last year: Sometimes yes, sometimes no
Today status: Yes.
6. Did I get closer to achieving my short, medium, and long-term goals?
Last year:
Short: Achieved
Medium: Somewhere mid february the events I put in motion past year would reach it intended conclusion.
Long term: I’m still aiming for the godhead.

Today Status:
Short: Working on it.
Medium: Attained
Long term: I’m still aiming for the godhead.
7. What am I grateful for?
Last year: One of the most challenging years I’d had, friends, 43things

Today status: Being loved for two wonderful humans, the closer relationship with mother, new and old friends showing up, facebook and twitter, new job, more time to unravel myself, challenging stuff ahead.

Today Status:

Nov 11, 01:47PM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments


pretend I have a small mortgage, and get saving!!
USD $300 1 week ago

This is the amount of “payment” I’ll be doing to my “Savings-account-impersonating-a-mini-mortgage” twice a month.

Hope I can go trough.

Nov 11, 01:40PM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments


hAVE tHE bODY oF a gREEK gOD (read all 11 entries…)
Second week going daily to the gym... 3 months ago

1. Paid 4 months in advance.
2. Rented a locker and have everything I need there (So I don’t have an excuse for not going)
3. Go at lunch time
4. Go after work
5. Planning to go before work too.

Went from 220 to 210 and now 214. Muscular mass? not sure, but I’m growing bulkier fast.

Aug 06, 03:45PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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play poker for free change the world get my parent's trust back Invest learn the Cleveland shuffle learn to Charleston go to synagogue more often live somewhere else grasshopa wants to be a vegetarian exercise every morning Create a personal recipe book be 1337 love and be loved in return Symbient32 wants to fall out of love speak my mind be more punctual watch Saw 1 & 2 stop eating meat move out of my parents' house stop being so judgemental Worry less. Take the Real Age Test Be more green improve my IQ learn to speak English fluently ritualdisgrace wants to Take more pictures exercise regularly not hate stupid people
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