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  1. 1. be more organized
    3,154 people
  2. 2. Have a totally different life by this time next year
    984 people
  3. 3. go to museums in Chicago
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    8 people
  4. 4. reach and maintain a healthy weight
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    5 people
  5. 5. Exercise at least 3 times a week
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    217 people
  6. 6. stick to a budget
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  7. 7. determine my own life philosophy
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  8. 8. Celebrate being single while I'm single
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    38 people
  9. 9. get better at speaking in public
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    307 people
  10. 10. Put my photos in albums
    105 people
  11. 11. stop homophobia
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  12. 12. Own my own place
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    82 people
  13. 13. stop worrying so much about what i look like
    3 entries . 21 cheers
    41 people
  14. 14. identify 101 things that make me happy
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  15. 15. make real friends that share my interests
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    271 people
  16. 16. Payoff my credit card debt
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    6 people
  17. 17. build a new wardrobe
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    21 people
  18. 18. Take a cooking class
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    672 people
  19. 19. Host a dinner party
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    347 people
  20. 20. improve my Spanish speaking ability
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    2 people
  21. 21. Create the life I want to live
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    74 people
  22. 22. learn how to make cocktails
    17 people
  23. 23. eat vegetarian for a week
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  24. 24. ask someone out on a date
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    12 people
  25. 25. Learn neat ways to do my hair
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  26. 26. recover from co-dependency
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    10 people
  27. 27. go hiking
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    567 people
  28. 28. stand up for myself
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    868 people
  29. 29. Learn to be less critical of myself and others.
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    44 people
  30. 30. Do something...anything in the fight against RACISM
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    11 people
  31. 31. Leave flowers on Zora Neale Hurston's grave
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    7 people
  32. 32. Make a list of 43 things I know very little about, & then learn at least 3 things about each of them
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    122 people
  33. 33. have interesting conversations
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    11 people
  34. 34. stop gossiping
    466 people
  35. 35. live life fearlessly
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    44 people
  36. 36. speak more clearly
    91 people
  37. 37. learn world geography
    13 people
  38. 38. Be a better friend
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  39. 39. create a vision board
    220 people
  40. 40. see The Oprah Winfrey Show live
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    5 people

How I did it
How to get over an unrequited love
It took me
5 years
It made me


Recent entries
see The Oprah Winfrey Show live
Oprah 1 week ago

I’m kinda on the fence about her in general. But I freakin’ live in Chicago, so why not?



Take a cooking class
I may try to take a basic knife class this summer. 2 weeks ago

A co-worker did a two-day cooking bootcamp at Kendall College(kick-ass culinary school here in Chicago) and I’m considering taking a basic knife skills class there. I want to ease into this learning how to cook thing by taking a class that does NOT involve any actual cooking. :)



stop worrying so much about what i look like (read all 3 entries…)
Jessica Weiner 4 months ago

Through some random wandering about the interwebs, I found Jessica Weiner. Where has she been all my life? I’m reading her book, ” Do I look Fat in This”, and it has really given me some great perspective. She encourages people to start living life now, not after you lose weight or get the perfect job. She also makes mention of the fact that being healthy is not tied to a specific size or body shape. Makes sense, but I never really thought about that in any meaningful way before.

For all the talking I do about being comfortable with who I am, and how I look, the truth is I’ve been waiting to lose weight for my life to take off. I always imagined I’d have the perfect __ when I lost weight. Ms. Weiner has definitely inspired living my life, truly, right now.



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