Rachel Murray




I'm doing 43 things
 

Rachel Murray's Life List

  1. 1. live passionately
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    5,148 people
  2. 2. get up at least two hours before i have to
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    2 people
  3. 3. work because I like to, not because I have to
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    3,166 people
  4. 4. Read more books
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    9,349 people
  5. 5. buy eco-friendly products
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    9 people
  6. 6. get into grad school
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    326 people
  7. 7. master CSS
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    783 people
  8. 8. Get a job that I enjoy, am proud of, and is fun
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    345 people
  9. 9. Build a Social Network
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    48 people
  10. 10. Worry less.
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    3,984 people
  11. 11. Learn to cook
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    6,603 people
  12. 12. get out of debt
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    8,839 people
  13. 13. Get a tattoo
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    17,049 people
  14. 14. travel the world
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    15,203 people
  15. 15. be mindful
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    114 people
  16. 16. explore the Bay Area
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    73 people
  17. 17. do paragliding
    9 people
  18. 18. update my website
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    279 people
  19. 19. have a daily simple goal
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    8 people
  20. 20. Make an entry on 43 things every day with progress on more than one of my goals
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    2 people
  21. 21. walk on hot coals
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    40 people
  22. 22. Try yoga, kickboxing or some other interesting form of exercise
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    5 people
  23. 23. Be healthy, stay healthy, eat healthy
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    117 people
  24. 24. learn to drive
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    4,996 people
  25. 25. end corporate domination of our lives
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    5 people
  26. 26. make my mark in web development
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    15 people
  27. 27. weed my friends lists, domain names, and list subscriptions
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    2 people
  28. 28. Create more fanlistings for the things I love
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    3 people
  29. 29. spend more time learning new software and applying it to fun projects
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    3 people
  30. 30. Organize my 72 Hour Kit for Emergency Preparedness
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    33 people
  31. 31. make a design for the CSS Zen Garden
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    2 people
  32. 32. learn esperanto
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    358 people
  33. 33. backup regularly
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    44 people
  34. 34. finish my personal projects
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    44 people
  35. 35. write essays, articles and blog entries to get my ideas out in the world
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    30 people
  36. 36. escape from Google
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    3 people
  37. 37. be thankful
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    120 people
  38. 38. have my deviated septum fixed
    2 people
  39. 39. catalogue and organize my library
    34 people
  40. 40. see an astrologer
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    5 people
  41. 41. pay for my shareware
    1 person
  42. 42. random acts of kindness
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    32 people
  43. 43. Take a cake decorating class
    197 people
Recent entries
Update my weblog at least once a week
Not so much 'giving up' but 'putting on the backburner' and 'trying a different medium' 7 months ago

I’ve been online a long while, and I have various blogs – both official and unofficial. If I really wanted to commit to blogging publicly for my professional career, I’d have done it by now – and I find that I prefer to read blogs rather than write them.

That said, I have kind of committed to having a photoblog over on my Flickr account, and I’m enjoying documenting my thoughts and experiences visually. Since I’ve always been more of a words person, trying the pictures as communicate has been fun, and I think I’ll put more effort into that.


weed my friends lists, domain names, and list subscriptions (read all 2 entries…)
More things to amalgamate 10 months ago

Ok, have to consider online repositories of info: Backpack, Central Desktop, any others (damn all those startups!) – how am I going to use them to keep track of stuff?

Also offline repositories – namely my poor little iBook. It’s organized, but it’s got a crapload of information that needs to be migrated online so that if something goes wrong I don’t have a meltdown.


random acts of kindness
easy enough to do, no? 1 year ago

Both on a personal scale – with the people in my life – and on a less known scale, such as with total strangers. An example of the former is doing little things like writing recommendations for people in their LinkedIn profiles; an example of the later is complimenting waitstaff on their service verbally and not just with a tip.

This stuff is so easy to do – we just have to remember to do it. I tend to do it anyway, but I believe in doing more of it, since life is short and spreading joy and thanks is usually free and easy enough to do.


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