It resounds with two tiers:
1.) a. good-will to myself and others
b. writing
2.) a. travel
b. education/academia
| 1. |
write every day
4 entries . 3 cheers |
875 people |
| 2. |
practice yoga
2 entries . 2 cheers |
4,097 people |
| 3. |
manage my time more efficiently
1 entry . 2 cheers |
57 people |
| 4. |
meditate
2 entries . 2 cheers |
2,743 people |
| 5. |
get a golden snitch for my car antena
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 6. |
meet mark strand
1 entry |
1 person |
| 7. |
have sex on a beach
2 cheers |
75 people |
| 8. |
see the aurora borealis
2 cheers |
1,755 people |
| 9. |
Read Marcel Proust
1 cheer |
4 people |
| 10. |
detox for one weekend
2 cheers |
2 people |
| 11. |
do more cardio for my heart
3 entries |
1 person |
| 12. |
get a food processor
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1 person |
| 13. |
get my body on a uniform eat and sleep schedule again
|
1 person |
| 14. |
see my favorite people at one place at the same time
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1 person |
| 15. |
dance more often
1 cheer |
168 people |
| 16. |
transcend with grace into the next, elevated, stage of my life (i.e. stop clutching to the past in the present, crying like a baby)
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 17. |
have a smaller waist
1 entry |
4 people |
| 18. |
get enough money to pay off my old landlord, my last undergrad course, and a cheap plane ticket to Rome
1 cheer |
1 person |
| 19. |
Apply for a job on Elance
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1 person |
| 20. |
Figure out this Rome/study/visa/money situation
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1 person |
| 21. |
be dreamy
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1 person |
| 22. |
learn to be completely comfortable with being alright, with being strong
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1 person |
| 23. |
learn and try new vegetarian recipes
7 entries . 2 cheers |
1 person |
| 24. |
get (and keep!) living plants and flowers in my home :)
2 entries |
1 person |
| 25. |
get a good juicer
1 cheer |
2 people |
| 26. |
rethink life in a more positive way, for the betterment of everyone
2 entries . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 27. |
touch my palms to the ground
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 28. |
find true solitude, that being enveloping solace
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 29. |
enjoy carving (beautifully, positively) the quality of the day
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1 person |
| 30. |
pioneer
3 entries |
18 people |
| 31. |
learn italian
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5,717 people |
| 32. |
drink more water :)
1 entry . 1 cheer |
18,942 people |
| 33. |
finish reading Moliere's hilarious "The Misanthrope"
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1 person |
| 34. |
straighten out my financial situation
1 entry |
1 person |
| 35. |
be a travel writer, paid
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 36. |
live temporarily in Rome for the next academic "year"
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1 person |
| 37. |
Finish reading *The Miracle of Mindfulness* by Thich Nhat Hanh
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1 person |
How I did it: Well, I did two approx. 30 page papers; the first I was assigned last fall semester, and the second was from last spring semester. I started to think along Thoreau's line "how vain it is to sit down to write when you have not yet stood up to live", and got very intellectual, started only thinking about being a European expatriate, and became a terrible student. Then I got a reality check: I moved back home, to my parents. Afte… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I have reconnected; but I have also realized that its not just about reconnecting-- its about being able to ride the wave of the "eternal chord" once you reconnect to it. Read how I did it…
It resounds with two tiers:
1.) a. good-will to myself and others
b. writing
2.) a. travel
b. education/academia
I have “cleared” my heart from the junk, sort of like a Romantic oil change, and, hopefully, hearing it better!
I am currently reading Thich Naht Hanh’s book The Miracle of Mindfulness, which is helping to remind me how important the present moment is, and how to stay “in” (with consciousness) the present :)