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olivep

THE THINGS YOU DO TODAY WILL AFFECT YOUR TOMORROWS



I'm doing 42 things
  

olivep's Life List

  2. 1. Practice Mindfulness - Attend the buddhist centre for one year
    28 entries . 13 cheers     		1 person
  3. 2. Relearn my french before France trip
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  4. 3. Book my ticket to France in 2012
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  5. 4. Make My Garden Beautiful
    66 entries . 18 cheers     		17 people
  6. 5. Plant a Food Forest - fruit trees, vegies etc, poultry
    20 entries . 7 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. Maintain an excellent relationship with my sister
    8 entries . 2 cheers     		1 person
  8. 7. Make a living from art and gardening, and be able to travel too.
    23 entries . 38 cheers     		1 person
  9. 8. Build a dressing room.
    9 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person
  10. 9. Build an earth floor in my dressing room
    1 entry     		1 person
  11. 10. Make Lemon Sorbet (and other lemon based recipes)
    8 entries . 4 cheers     		1 person
  12. 11. Work on an original garden sculpture/furniture
    5 entries . 2 cheers     		1 person
  13. 12. Make things in Ferrocement - paving stones
    7 entries     		1 person
  14. 13. A food and art tour of france by bicycle in 2013
    1 entry     		1 person
  15. 14. Buy a garden mulching machine
    4 entries     		1 person
  16. 15. My travel plans for the next 20 years...
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  17. 16. Make money from my poultry, and garden produce
    8 entries     		1 person
  18. 17. Make amazing sculptures for my garden
    2 entries . 2 cheers     		1 person
  19. 18. Travel in 2012
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  20. 19. Cycle through Gujarat
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  21. 20. Go to Uluru
    2 entries . 5 cheers     		8 people
  22. 21. paint pictures
    1 entry     		44 people
  23. 22. Go Ballooning in Africa
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		1 person
  24. 23. know what truffles taste like...
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		6 people
  25. 24. Finish building a house in the next 10 years, start it within two years
    10 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person
  26. 25. Eat at a really famous restaurant such as Tetsuya's
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. build a website
    4 entries . 1 cheer     		654 people
  28. 27. Go to New York
    2 entries . 11 cheers     		1,974 people
  29. 28. Focus on painting during the wet seasons
    		1 person
  30. 29. Cycle through Africa
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  31. 30. Reign in my overexpenditure - currently about $2000 i think.
    1 entry     		1 person
  32. 31. Start another business and make a ton of money from it
    2 entries     		1 person
  33. 32. Set up my caravan and kitchen before the wet sets in
    2 entries     		1 person
  34. 33. Sail or Kayak in the Whitsundays
    2 entries . 12 cheers     		1 person
  35. 34. Cycle around the Mediterranean
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		2 people
  36. 35. Ride a Penny Farthing without falling off
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  37. 36. Cuddle a koala
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  38. 37. Cycle in the Pelopponese for one month and then island hop for one month
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  39. 38. Cycling in china for three months
    		1 person
  40. 39. Go on a walking journey
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  41. 40. Have an exhibition
    8 entries . 8 cheers     		22 people
  42. 41. Find a partner - before i reach 50
    15 entries . 21 cheers     		1 person
  43. 42. Make a list of 43 lessons life has taught me
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How I did it
How to my Next Holiday...Cycling in WA in May 2011
It took me
2 months
It made me
skinny

How I did it: I flew to Darwin, then headed south to Katherine, turned west towards Kununurra where there was a fork in teh road. I took the southern fork westwards and came back east on the northern fork. Not wanting to cover the same ground i organised a lift back form K to almost in Darwin where i got dropped off so i could do a bit in a national park before heading back to Darwin.  Read how I did it…

Jul 29, 01:23PM PDT | 1 comment | 2 cheers


How to get up at 6am and start work in the mornings
It took me
6 months
It made me
pleased

How I did it: Ok, let me say that i haven't achieved exactly the goal as stated but i have become more of a morning person. I usually get up before 8am and i am much more active. There are probably two main things that have helped me. a) choosing an activity that i really want to do and feel i can do. Its within my ability and resources to do this activity on a regular basis.- mine is gardening. I have a large garden and i am into it. I am growing… Read how I did it…

Mar 09, 2011, 12:45AM PST | 2 comments | 2 cheers


How to get Fit & Stay Fit
It took me
6 months
It made me

How I did it: Periodically i go on a cycling journey, or take up running but now I am gardening and its easy to stay fit. Other jobs that work for keeping fit are waitressing and cleaning. All these are much better than the gym. They are free and don't cost you anything. Sometimes you get paid as well.  Read how I did it…

Oct 31, 2010, 05:58PM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


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Recent entries
paint pictures
Untitled

I’ve done one picture. Its very simple and its in a blank space on the back wall of my caravan. I like it. I know its not important but its a place to start and i must not let my lack of talent or skill stop me from learning and progressing.

At hte moment i can’t do much because i have so much else to do that its urgent and while its not too hot and i am able to do those things, i need to do them. The idea of painting was to have something good to do when it was too hot to work in the garden.

Feb 03, 07:14PM PST | 0 comments


Practice Mindfulness - Attend the buddhist centre for one year (read all 28 entries…)
10 Vipassana retreat

I just did this in January. It was excellent. You pay by donation and the organisation is worldwide so its easy for anyone to have a go if you want to start learnign how to meditate this is quite a good place to start but so long as you don’t think it ends there.

Anyway, it was a very good experience for me. Though i am somewhat annoyed with myself at hte moment for not meditating daily.

Feb 03, 07:11PM PST | 0 comments


Make a list of 43 lessons life has taught me (read all 21 entries…)
If you've got a nice piece of land, you can have a nice place to live

you don’t need a lot of money to build a nice place to live. Its the land that counts. Its a good idea to buy a big enough piece of land. Ours is one hectare. This is enough to make one feel not closed in by other people, to not have too much negative input from neighbours, though it can still happen.

I currenlty live in a little van and as i live in the tropics i’m building an outdoor living space to go along iwht it. The van is just a bedroom. The costs of doing this have been very very low. Although i have to admit that because my father has a lot of tools, that’s been a great saving.

Always look for secondhand stuff. Its only rich people who should pay full price for things. The rest of us can get excellent value from low price seconds and freebies.

Having less money to play with makes you creative and you can come up with something original and comfortable. Of course it helps to have the time to work on your project.

But i’d much rather do this than work in a job and then spend all of that money so that someone else can do the work on my house.

Dec 16, 11:05PM PST | 0 comments


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