Isn't that a song lyric or title? It does sound vaguely familiar. Anyway, I have been looking at self development sites for a couple of months, and reading, reading, reading on ways I can improve my life. I have also been following Steven at Hundred Goals and am impressed how he completes his goals; whereas I am less than impressed at my ability to make goals and forgetting them! Or dragging them out for monthly or annual reviews and realising I have made no progress whatsoever.
So, the point has come where I need to get this written up in a public domain and make plans on how I'm going to achieve them. My aim is to get to a list of 100 (at least) so there is some work to do, but I will not procrastinate any longer, nor keep reading blog sites that tell me the same thing - just do it! So here it goes ...
Sunday, August 7, 2011
The list ....
- Raise my daughter into a happy, caring adult who does what she loves, happy to be who she is, and realises her dreams
- Learn to parallel park
- Get full driver's licence
- Climb a mountain
- Visit Cuba
- Complete the whole 'Round Lake Taupo' race
- Start consulting business
- Complete my daughter's memory quilt
- Visit the Highline in New York City
- Complete organised ocean swim of any length
- Pay off credit card - DONE Aug 2012
- Bike / walk rail trail from Upper Hutt to Featherston - completed 12/11/11
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Become fluent in Russian
- Record family history
- Work as ESOL tutor - DONE July 2012
- Visit Socotra in Yemen
- Learn to take better photographs
- Live in Bolivia for six months
- Find a way of getting rid of gorse that does not involving an axe!
- Find ranger type role in regional park or with Dept of Conservation (paid or volunteer)
- Take my daughter camping - done 14/1/12
- Visit Abel Tasman National Park, and kayak at least partway round
- Run half marathon - DONE February 2012
- Book last minute ticket to unknown international destination
- Visit Amazon jungle
- Read Koran
- Complete reading material for Massey 100 level Human Geography papers
- Make sausages / chorizo from scratch
- Run up Maungaraki hill non stop
- Visit Door to Hell in Uzbekistan
- Sleep in an igloo
- Ride on a dog sled
- Read the teachings of Budda
- Read the Torah
- See urban decay in Detroit
- Find out my IQ
- Complete reading material for Massey 100 level Development papers
- Spend 1 day working in physical job
- Sell something on Etsy
- Learn to sail a boat
- Travel in Wakhan Corridor to the source of the Oxus River
- Take a flying lesson
- Learn to put on makeup properly
- Do a midwinter polar swim
- Complete Tongariro Alpine Crossing - done 3/12/11
- Visit Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Yasi, Kazakhstan
- Go ice skating
- Learn all the rules of rugby
- Eat yum cha at a restaurant in China
- See the blossoms in Japan
- Visit Taktshang Monastery, Bhutan
- Go vegetarian for a month
- Learn to use chopsticks
- Take a tango lesson in Argentina
- Learn hip hop (anywhere)
- Take a cooking lesson in a foreign country
- Take saxophone lessons
- Learn to crochet
- Work overseas in a volunteer role (pref for NGO)
- Hang out in a New Orleans bar and listen to jazz all day
- Go on a horse trek for at least one day
- White Christmas in New York
- Experience white nights in St Petersburg
- Visit Auschwitz
- Ride in a helicopter
- Learn to dance Flamenco
- Learn to ride a motorbike and get a licence
- Learn about international humanitarian law to talk accurately on the topic
- Find a job or volunteer role where I really make a difference
- Ride a camel
- Attend 'Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off' in Nevada
- Fly in a fighter jet
- See the banana plantations in Iceland
- Learn bellydancing
- Teach children about other cultures, outdoor activities, humanity, or exercise/health
- Travel Abraham's Path in Palestine or Israel (or both!)
- Learn to ring bells - started 19/12/11
- Learn to firewalk - done 28/4/12
- Learn to blow glass
- Write at least one blog post every week for a year
- Walk across a country
- Learn parkour and become more sure-footed and balanced
- Take flight down to Antarctica
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