I'm doing 43 things
For eating- Do a total detox through end of June. (which basically means eat perfectly)
For exercise- tennis, Jillian Michaels’ 30 day Shred video, Couch to 5k running program/app.
timps10's Life List
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1. become fluent in french
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2. lose 100 pounds
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3. Pay off all my debt quickly
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4. write my first novel
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5. get into Columbia University for graduate school
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6. Read the Robin Wright book on the Middle East that I've been trying to get to for years
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7. Clean out my Yahoo email
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8. Finish reading Kierkegaard A Very Short Introduction, which is too "very short" to be taking this long (!)
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10. play tennis twice a week this summer and truly improve while losing weight
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11. Learn to play Claire de Lune on the piano.
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12. throw or attend a fabulous pool party
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13. cook my own food
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14. Learn to cook
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15. read for an hour a day
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16. fit into my goal dress
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17. Concentrate, focus, and get things done rather than always being on a search for something bigger and better to strive for
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18. grow my hair to the middle of my back
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19. Read the Bible
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20. get a job
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21. read every book I own
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22. learn to sew already!
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23. Read the New Penguin History of the World
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24. Read Herzog by Saul Bellow
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25. Do NaNoWriMo
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26. Read 50 new books in 2013 by making some time to read each day.
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27. Pay off all my credit cards
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28. pay off my debt
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29. I really want my 30s to be different than my 20s- I want to live an elegant life. I want to begin the next tome of my own life. I want to make this the best decade of my life.
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30. Be at the emotional mercy of no-one
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31. Make my skin healthy again
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32. excel at math
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33. visit copenhagen
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34. learn statistics (read CIG to statistics cover to cover)
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35. Write a romantic comedy
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36. Make a 100 book reading list and then attack them one after the other
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37. read the 900 page UN water report.
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38. Play tennis with Gustavo Kuerten
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39. See Andy Murray at the US Open
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40. buy an amazing camera
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41. Become extremely familiar with the lives and contributions of Soren Kierkegaard and Bobby Kennedy
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42. Become highly familiar with the works of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov
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43. save
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How I did it
It made me
a happier person. 
How I did it: Well, it started with a truly awful weekend. From there, I had to reassess things, and came to the realization that you can't rely on others too much, or you're setting yourself up for sadness and disappointment, because the people in my life just don't care about each other the way they should.From there, I started working on just laughing and smiling and feeling alive because of me, not because 1,2,3 have worked out or because of someon… Read how I did it…
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How I did it: I really enjoyed visiting Las Vegas. I went Aug. 14-21, 2009. The casinos were great. I ate great food, especially a lot of Mexican food at places like Dos Caminos in The Palazzo. I went in search of the shi shi rich people's houses just outside of Vegas in Henderson and I went to a famous vegan donut shop with my vegan sister. Other than that, we swam, we went down to Arizona to visit the Grand Canyon and we went to casinos, casinos, cas… Read how I did it…
It made me
very happy
How I did it: Two things: First I just gave up on this goal and let it happen naturally. Second I said to myself- if I don't prioritize my life I'll never be a true success because i'll always be drawn in too many directions- so choose. And then I proceeded to trim down my lists of goals and interests to what's truly important. This time (as I've done this a billion times before) it just felt right. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
My current Life List really reflects what I want out of life, because I’m actually focusing on the things that matter now. I’m no longer focusing on the past or the future, as I used to. I just want to create a powerful present. Through a lot of life lessons, it’s become clear to me which priorities I really care about and want to spend my time on, and where I want my life to go, especially over the next year.
I used to categorize things into 2 categories, ‘hard work’ and ‘fun stuff’. I’ve realized those categories are reductionist and unhelpful. They don’t take a lot of the picture into consideration, and confuse me into thinking that I have to spend a lot of time on boring stuff. The truth is, instead, what I realized recently: I enjoy doing work when it’s something I care about. In fact, the way I feel my best is through focusing on the challenging things that really matter to me a great deal, not through lounging on the couch.
I’m not exactly a “doer”- that’s someone else- but I am definitely a “thinker”: I love thinking things through and my thoughts gravitate towards the projects that are central to my life. So I need to work on those projects!
One of those projects that truly matters to me is becoming fluent in french.
I’m working it back into my schedule and making time for it, from now on, and feel great about that!!
French is enormously time-consuming, so that part is a little tricky, but I’m working it out. I’ve already tossed the inconsequential things off my schedule. I just have to make time for the French, and plug it into moments when I don’t feel like doing some other important thing, or don’t have strict deadlines ahead of me. I think we have a plan!
I’m giving up the crap food and planning to exercise!!!I’ll keep up with writing how it goes on this site.
