I'm doing 25 things
I am trying to take a new perspective on being envious of others. Instead of filling my head with negative thoughts, I will instead grow up and LEARN from this person. They are living their life in a way I want to and am upset that I am not; so the more I learn from people living how I want to be, the closer I can get to living that way too!
lintacious's Life List
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1. be debt free by the time i'm 30
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2. Don't worry about it until it happens
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3. don't let others control my life
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4. do the stuff i enjoy. don't do the stuff i don't.
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5. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
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6. discover what i care about and only get upset when those values are being compromised, instead of flipping out over every little thing
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7. calm the fuck down
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8. punch anxiety in the face
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9. stop the negative patterns that recur in my family
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10. run a 5K in under 30 minutes
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11. sell baked goods
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12. build a CSS Zen Garden style sheet
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13. be known
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14. go to SXSW
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15. witness the end of IE
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16. Learn to drive a stick shift
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17. rid myself of envy
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18. enjoy my life
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19. Be on The Amazing Race
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20. live on Guam for a year
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21. live in seattle
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22. swim in jellyfish lake
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23. climb mt. fuji
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24. visit the Salar de Uyuni
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25. Go to Easter Island
79 people
How I did it
It made me
Conflicted 
How I did it: This is tricky. I spent four years of my life working my butt off during college to prove to my family that I could make it. Well, I survived and was/am successful.However, once I graduated, two things happened:1) No one really cared. I told myself, "i have to prove them wrong" but my family didn't really care if i succeeded or failed. No one was placing bets. It didn't affect them. So while I was very pleased with myself, the… Read how I did it…
It made me 
How I did it: I made sacrifices. I hadn't realized that when saying "good things" that this is extremely subjective. There were things that were supposed to be good, so I clung on to them and waited for the good; for fear that losing it would be a bad decision. Waiting for "the good" is, well, never a good thing. Read how I did it…
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