Share How You Came To 43 Things

or maybe it was in another goal?

At any rate, I was looking for 43folders, well, actually, I was looking for the DIY planner, but I got there via 43folders, and I misremembered the name of the website.

I stopped using the planner (need to get back to it) but I’m still here!

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I came to find 43 things today when I was looking up possible careers for my furture. I had typed magazine editor and as you know google came up with all these links. There was one link that said “I want to work in a magazine”. So i clicked onto it and surely enough that lead me to this wonderful site right here. Until today I would have never thaught that a site like this would have existed. But I was very very wrong. I have a great feeling that this site is going to inspire me to follow my goals and dreams.

I found 43things a long time ago! I’m thinking it was over 3 years ago… probably right around the time of its inception. I googled goal setting, I’m sure and stumbled upon. I thought, how neat is this!? I opened an account an started making some goals. I remember someone writing a comment to me and cheering me…. but I wasn’t quite “getting it”. I stopped visiting the site pretty shortly there after.

For some reason, I always remembered this very odd name! 43things! Remembered it for 3 years! So I did a search for it 3 years later as I started thinking about change…. and here it is. This time, a very different thing happened. I don’t know if I’m different…. or if I gravitated towards some really inspiring people, but I’ve been a member for about 2 months and I’ve already found this to be a life-changing experience for me : )

I really would love to find my old account and see what my goals were back then!! I doubt it would still be here… or maybe it would? Hmmm….

So this is how I came here and I’m so glad I did!

I try to watch the weather/traffic report, then turn it off. The news can get pretty depressing and that’s no way to start the day! So on this particular day, I left the TV on and as I was moving through my room, a reporter started talking about this website. I’d just finished a class called 4T where I’d written out some goals/dreams- 4T and 43T sounded similar enough that I had to check it out… I’ve been here ever since ;)

I vaguely remember that I heard about it on one of those tv reports on the “new technology”. For this entry, I looked up some dates and found that 43T launched in Dec 2004, I joined in Sept 2006. That kind of shocked me because I’m usually an early adopter, but I have to admit I’m a bit of a slacker when it comes to social sites.

I didn’t use 43T well until this past year. I was really down on myself about how my whole life had been such a waste and I hadn’t done anything and somehow I wandered back to 43T. I updated the list and started actively looking for “Things I’ve done”.

I tend to blow off things I do cuz it’s just something I did. No biggie. But when you put it all together on a list, it begins to look like something. Like I’ve travelled. And done weird things. And learned skills. And taken chances. And changed my life. A couple of times.

I honestly don’t know if any of it means anything. I still don’t think it was a big deal. But it looks like I had a real life. And I look at my list, and there’s stuff I can do no matter what, so maybe I’ve got more things I can do. Dunno. Something to ponder.

Besides, I’m having fun here on 43T. . .

I don’t remember.

A friend of mine had found 43T during a google search on some very practical matter that she was researching, when it came up as the first site having information on that topic. Having looked around a bit, she thought it might be of interest to me & gave me the URL. (Although I’ve given it to at least ten people since, only two of those have ever registered, & only one of those is still active.)

So: I came to 43T, realized that it could potentially be a support to me as I worked toward my first goal – to “Use www.FitDay.com regularly” – & I’ve been here ever since! grin

I’m Happy To Say….
that my daughter has joined 43things. I told her months ago that this would be a good way to keep track goals and lists without all the clutter of myspace. She surprised me by listing a couple of very serious goals about raising her daughter and dealing with day to day things happening in her life.

The Ultimate Answer to The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. I had forgotten the exact phrase of the question but I knew the answer was forty something. So I entered 43 into google search and it brought me here. Hmmm. Maybe 43 is the Ultimate Answer. File this under “Syncronicity”.

Though, perhaps not as unrelated as I initially believed.

I first happened across 43Things whilst searching online for information on three things: divorce, passport applications, and language lessons. This was way back in July or August of 2005. At the time, I’d just come to the realisation that the marriage I was in was no more… in fact, if I recall correctly, I’d just arrived home from a final couples counselling session, during which I’d decided to pull the plug, and do something different with my life.

The site caught my interest enough that I bookmarked it to check out later. Later ended up being October 2005, when I came back for a closer look, and decided to sign up.

I have many reasons to be thankful for having found this place… I’ve met amazing people, both online and in person (hoping to do more of this in the near future). I’ve had the opportunity to learn so much from others… through discussions, receiving wonderful advice, and sharing your experiences. Buoyed by others’ bravery, adventures, and support, I’ve tried new things that I’d never have imagined just a few years ago.

I’ve also been very lucky in having met, met, and married one particular 43Thinger, and I’m still amazed at how this all happened. Obviously, without 43T, it simply wouldn’t be so.

Sometimes, the results generated by a search engine can be quite spectacular.