30 November 2009

the list

  1. Make 10 blood donations.
  2. Play 10 Jon Schmidt songs in a performance setting.
  3. Take a course in bicycle repair.
  4. Eat from a garden for one week. (Preserves count.)
  5. Stay with a budget for 2 months.
  6. Keep an online reading journal for 6 months.
  7. Bring a shoveling neighbour hot chocolate.
  8. Write a letter home.
  9. Join a choir and stick with them until we've performed.
  10. Biking transit for in-city travel for 2 consecutive months.
  11. Read the American Constitution.
  12. Organize a mid-afternoon dance in a park.
  13. Go for a midnight walk through a park after fresh snowfall.
  14. Recertify in First Aid.
  15. Change the oil on a car.
  16. Save $1000 for a piano.
  17. Give away a pair of gloves to a stranger.
  18. Write my MLA a thank you letter.
  19. Write a song (lyrics and piano arrangement).
  20. Go snow shoeing.
  21. Go sledding.
  22. Busk downtown on a Saturday morning.
  23. Hike the West Coast Trail.
  24. Acquire kitchen worms.
  25. Hold a documentary month - one documentary/week.
  26. Go backpacking for three days (two nights out).
  27. Teach a child to swim.
  28. Find someone to teach me how to knit.
  29. Knit slippers for someone I love.
  30. Paint a fence or a room.
  31. Cut my brother's hair.
  32. Go for one month without throwing away any food.
  33. Have lunch with a panhandler.
  34. Run a flower stand one summer Saturday.
  35. Make my mom zucchini bread.
  36. Fire a gun.
  37. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
  38. Barefoot running month (3x per week).
  39. Build a bookshelf or table with my dad.
  40. Read Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
  41. Write thank you notes to everyone for one Christmas.
  42. Pie month - bake two pies per week.
  43. Celebrate pi day with friends. (March 14th at 1:59pm, or 3.14159)
  44. Back flip into a dive.
  45. Have a silent picnic.
  46. Build a snow thing on the front lawn.
  47. One month of daily BrainFitnessPro. (Sunday's off.)
  48. Read all books in the Old Testament, excepting The Song.
  49. Talk to a dentist about Weston Price.
  50. Have breakfast for dinner at Humptey's.
  51. Back flip off a wall.
  52. Read the Tao Te Ching.
  53. Write 3 of my favourite musicians to thank them.
  54. Milk a goat.
  55. Have 3 gratitude fasts.
  56. Discover the perfect recipe for banana bread.
  57. One week of daily meditation for 20min.
  58. Read Preach My Gospel.
  59. WWOOF it for a couple of weeks.
  60. Memorize 20 hymns.
  61. Play kabaddi in a public park.
  62. Overtip a cranky waiter.
  63. Go hang gliding.
  64. Cook a dinner for my parents.
  65. Go sugar free for one month.
  66. Go into Monestary for 6 days.
  67. Go puddle stomping in a parking lot.
  68. Refuse to complain for 7 days.
  69. Draw a self portrait.
  70. Do Miles' 30 day challenge.
  71. Visit 4 art galleries.
  72. Grow flowers on public property.
  73. Wear yellow.
  74. Fill a thought book.
  75. Keep a gratitude journal for one semester.
  76. Build a 3 month food storage.
  77. Collect 7 great recipes for rice.
  78. Submit a tax return.
  79. Read a book about economics.
  80. Make a dinner of food from barter - the Moneyless Meal.
  81. Cultivate a full blown obsession a la Napoleon Hill.
  82. One month without YouTube.
  83. Early bird it for one month. (7am uptime or sooner.)
  84. Make a list of things I admire about each family member.
  85. Play Popsicle Sticks.
  86. Make up a bedtime story.
  87. Run 10km.
  88. Choose happiness daily for two weeks.
  89. Calculate my reading speed.
  90. Have a buy nothing week.
  91. Make roshki for Christmas.
  92. For one month read one conference talk/day.
  93. Hook up with a food style mentor.
  94. Bake brownies for Amber.
  95. Wear my hair in curls in public on a special occasion.
  96. Successfully do the windmill.
  97. Correspond with a missionary.
  98. Do 77 consecutive push ups (no rests!).
  99. Babysit someone's kid for free.
  100. Have a sleeping bag sleepover to watch a meteor shower.
  101. Choose to love someone I don't like.

The count down begins tomorrow.

End date: 28 August 2012

2 comments:

  1. Sounds wonderful! I am now officially inspired. What is Miles' 30 Day challenge?

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  2. Ahh, I think you'll like this one. The steps go like this:

    1. Sit down and write out a question about your life mission, something that's been bothering you, or something you've been trying to understand. A question.
    2. Flip open the Book of Mormon to an arbitrary spot and read the chapter or section.
    3. Write what comes to mind until you feel finished writing.

    The challenge is to do this every day for 30 days. I've never made it past a week - I run out of questions or don't want any more answers because getting them obligates me to act on them. ;) But it can be a powerful practice. It means a month of earnestly praying for direction and learning to respond to inspiration. Can this be not a good thing? I don't think so.

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