Goals: My improved 43 Things
Over at 43 Things, I've been editing down Things I accomplished in 2007 (like enter and finish a mountain bike race) and ridding the list of things that no longer fit my "demographic" (buy a bigger house and entertain more). I edited the list down to 20 Things.
For a week now, I'd throw new goals onto a list. I figure I'd update my 43 Things by the New Year.
And if the list didn't hit 43 Things, I'd be OK with that.
I surprised myself when I looked to see exactly 23 new goals on my list Friday, which have now joined the 20 leftovers.
Here's the updated list:
• Solo hike the John Muir Trail.
• Stop biting my nails.
• Attend a summer writers’ workshop, preferably the Iowa Summer Writers Festival.
• Volunteer more.
• Expand my circle of friends.
• Complete at least one crossword puzzle a week.
• Build time into my life to do absolutely nothing.
• Audition and perform in a community theater production.
• Extricate myself from the newspaper industry.
• Get a short story published in a literary magazine.
• Treat myself to an indulgence once a month.
• Switch from coffee to yerba mate.
• Take a yoga class.
• Let go of the past.
• Try snowboarding.
• Write more poetry and have it published.
• Work out every single day, rain or shine.
• Be more spontaneous.
• Do more with less.
• Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination.
• Mentor a child.
• Reduce my intake of products made of corn to fresh corn only.
• Freelance a story for a major publication.
• Write more - and longer - short fiction pieces.
• Rid myself of all the clutter in my life; be ready to move on a moment’s notice.
• Take a multivitamin daily.
• Buy a road bike and a kayak – and use them religiously.
• Never again eat fast food.
• Make my blog more literary in nature.
• Learn Italian.
• Step out from the black cloud that sometimes hovers above me.
• Learn to play the guitar.
• Take up target archery.
• Organize a game night with friends at least once a month.
• Take an art class.
• Read more poetry.
• Host an elegant, seven-course dinner party for friends.
• Learn enough HTML to make my blog three columns and freshen up the design.
• Be independent of credit cards by 2010.
• Get at least one more tattoo.
• Live in Italy for a year.
• Travel to all 50 states.
• Try "la Fée Verte" "the Green Fairy," or Absinthe on my 45th birthday.
What do you want to do with your life in 2008 - and beyond?
For a week now, I'd throw new goals onto a list. I figure I'd update my 43 Things by the New Year.
And if the list didn't hit 43 Things, I'd be OK with that.
I surprised myself when I looked to see exactly 23 new goals on my list Friday, which have now joined the 20 leftovers.
Here's the updated list:
• Solo hike the John Muir Trail.
• Stop biting my nails.
• Attend a summer writers’ workshop, preferably the Iowa Summer Writers Festival.
• Volunteer more.
• Expand my circle of friends.
• Complete at least one crossword puzzle a week.
• Build time into my life to do absolutely nothing.
• Audition and perform in a community theater production.
• Extricate myself from the newspaper industry.
• Get a short story published in a literary magazine.
• Treat myself to an indulgence once a month.
• Switch from coffee to yerba mate.
• Take a yoga class.
• Let go of the past.
• Try snowboarding.
• Write more poetry and have it published.
• Work out every single day, rain or shine.
• Be more spontaneous.
• Do more with less.
• Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination.
• Mentor a child.
• Reduce my intake of products made of corn to fresh corn only.
• Freelance a story for a major publication.
• Write more - and longer - short fiction pieces.
• Rid myself of all the clutter in my life; be ready to move on a moment’s notice.
• Take a multivitamin daily.
• Buy a road bike and a kayak – and use them religiously.
• Never again eat fast food.
• Make my blog more literary in nature.
• Learn Italian.
• Step out from the black cloud that sometimes hovers above me.
• Learn to play the guitar.
• Take up target archery.
• Organize a game night with friends at least once a month.
• Take an art class.
• Read more poetry.
• Host an elegant, seven-course dinner party for friends.
• Learn enough HTML to make my blog three columns and freshen up the design.
• Be independent of credit cards by 2010.
• Get at least one more tattoo.
• Live in Italy for a year.
• Travel to all 50 states.
• Try "la Fée Verte" "the Green Fairy," or Absinthe on my 45th birthday.
What do you want to do with your life in 2008 - and beyond?
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