newenglander3




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newenglander3's Life List

  1. 1. Keep in touch with people
    185 people
  2. 2. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it
    31 people
  3. 3. Write down my personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
    5 people
  4. 4. Become a Certified Master Chef
    3 people
  5. 5. start scrapbooking
    188 people
  6. 6. Study Martial Arts
    41 people
  7. 7. Learn Swordsmanship
    50 people
  8. 8. Master Anime
    2 people
  9. 9. Learn to play the flute, the harp, the harpsichord and the xylophone
    1 person
  10. 10. Take up camping and go to 43 camp sites
    1 person
  11. 11. become a tolkien expert
    2 people
  12. 12. Keep a list of 43 things in 24 towns in Southeastern New England
    1 person
  13. 13. Work on 100 ways to live peacefully
    1 entry
    1 person
  14. 14. Read 5 newspapers every day
    1 person
  15. 15. live passionately
    5,579 people
  16. 16. Write 43 letters and mail out 43 random cards to people.
    1 person
  17. 17. Read every childrens and junior book in my town library and keep a log book.
    1 person
  18. 18. Read every work by and about C.S. Lewis
    1 person
  19. 19. Become a Robert Frost scholar
    1 person
  20. 20. Be frugal and mindful of my finances
    2 people
  21. 21. Attend 43 Fairs, Festivals and Feasts in 2008
    1 person
  22. 22. Organize Myself
    61 people
  23. 23. Work on 10 fundraisers this year.
    1 person
  24. 24. Volunteer for 10 organizations
    1 person
  25. 25. Find 43 ways to save the environment
    1 person
  26. 26. Find 100 ways to live simply
    1 person
  27. 27. print my digital photos and organize them all
    25 people
  28. 28. start my own company
    889 people
  29. 29. own a business
    357 people
  30. 30. Work on 10 Research Projects
    1 person
  31. 31. Become a Benedictine Oblate
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    1 person
  32. 32. Learn antique restoration
    2 people
  33. 33. become an antiques appraiser
    2 people
  34. 34. Join the SCA
    31 people
  35. 35. Become a member of 5 Professional Organizations
    1 person
  36. 36. go to more museums
    116 people
  37. 37. publish in a peer-review journal
    6 people
  38. 38. Go to writer's conferences
    2 people
  39. 39. go to library conferences and workshops
    3 people
  40. 40. Listen to a different piece of music each day of the year.
    1 person
Recent entries
Work on 100 ways to live peacefully
100 ways to live peacefully! 1 year ago
  • Be generous with your smiles.
  • Be kind.
  • Respect the Earth.
  • Walk in a forest.
  • Plant a tree.
  • Contemplate a mountain.
  • Protect the Earth.
  • Live simply.
  • Help feed the hungry.
  • Erase a border in your mind.
  • Teach peace to children.
  • Read Chief Seattle’s Letter to the President.
  • Be honest.
  • Demand honesty from your government.
  • Think about consequences.
  • Commit yourself to nonviolence.
  • Support nonviolent solutions to global problems.
  • Speak up for a healthy planet.
  • Demand reductions in military expenditures.
  • Be fair.
  • Pledge allegiance to the Earth and to its varied life forms.
  • Think for yourself.
  • Ask questions.
  • Recognize your unique potential.
  • Join an organization working for peace.
  • Be less materialistic.
  • Be more loving.
  • Empower others to work for peace.
  • Oppose all weapons of mass destruction.
  • Support equality.
  • Speak out for a nuclear weapons-free world.
  • Support a Department of Peace.
  • Listen to your heart.
  • Help the poor.
  • Fight against militarism.
  • Study the lives of peace heroes.
  • Help create a community peace park or garden.
  • Commemorate the International Day of Peace.
  • Help strengthen the United Nations.
  • Support the International Criminal Court.
  • Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Advance the rights of future generations.
  • Be a voice for the voiceless.
  • Join an action alert network.
  • Be forgiving.
  • Laugh more.
  • Play with a child.
  • Support education and the arts over weapons.
  • Help educate the next generation to be compassionate.
  • Take personal responsibility for creating a better world.
  • Sing.
  • Write a poem.
  • Organize a church service on the theme of peace.
  • Learn about another culture.
  • Help someone.
  • Support the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
  • Oppose the arms trade.
  • Clear your mind.
  • Breathe deeply.
  • Sip tea.
  • Express your views on peace to government officials.
  • Fight for the environment.
  • Celebrate Earth Day.
  • Think like an astronaut, recognizing that we have only one Earth.
  • Be constructive.
  • Let someone else go first.
  • Plant seeds of peace.
  • Work in a garden.
  • Change a potential enemy into a friend.
  • Be positive.
  • Share.
  • Be a good neighbor.
  • Send a note of appreciation.
  • Tell your friends how much they matter.
  • Say “I love you” more.
  • Don’t tolerate prejudice.
  • Demand more from your elected officials.
  • Walk by the ocean, a river, or a lake.
  • Recognize that all humans have the right to peace.
  • Respect the dignity of each person.
  • Be a leader in the struggle for human decency.
  • Be a friend.
  • Send sunflowers to world leaders, and call for a world free of nuclear weapons.
  • Oppose technologies that harm the environment.
  • Lose an argument to a loved one.
  • Value diversity.
  • Walk softly on the Earth.
  • Appreciate the power of the sun.
  • Speak out for global disarmament.
  • Support a democratic order.
  • Teach non-violence by example.
  • Remember that “No man is an Island.”
  • Spend time in nature.
  • Boycott war toys.
  • Be thankful for the miracle of life.
  • Seek harmony with nature.
  • Remind your leaders that peace matters.
  • Oppose violence in television programming for children.
  • Listen to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
  • Celebrate peace.



 

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