My List
This is my list of things to do. They are in no particular order though I sorted them into broad categories to help me keep focus on various areas of my life.
- “Should haves”
- Change out coins around my room
- Watch all the Godfather movies
- Polish all my silver jewelry
- Put up curtains in my bedroom
- Put all addresses and contacts onto PC
- Scan reference papers onto PC (In progress)
- Redo lifeguard licence
- Get my general driver’s licence
- Grow Disney animated movie collection to 50 (In progress)
- Reading
- Read a biography/memoir
- Finish reading all of Stephen King’s writings
- Read an Ayn Rand novel
- Re-read all the Harry Potter books
- Health
- Floss every day for a month (it’s a start)
- See doctor about my weird headaches
- Stop drinking sodas for 1 month
- Drink 2 bottles of water every day for a month
- Go vegetarian for a week
- Food/Drink
- Learn how to make crepes
- Bake bread the old-fashioned way
- Make hummus from scratch
- Bake a homemade apple pie
- Learn to use chopsticks
- Take a cake-decorating class
- Learn how to make one fancy dessert
- Learn how to make 10 different cocktails
- Exercise/Fitness/Sports
- Develop six-pack abs
- Complete 50 push ups straight
- Compete in a masters swim meet
- Join a competitive/recreational sports team (In progress)
- Take a martial arts or self-defense class
- Play an entire game of scored tennis
- Swim Cross-the-Harbour length swim
- Relationships (Friends/Family/Other)
- Fall in love
- Babysit my god-daughter
- Kiss someone on New Year’s Eve
- Email my family abroad at least once a month for a year
- Make contact with four people from my past
- Trace the genaeology on my mother’s side of the family as far back as I can
- Creativity
- Art
- Draw a sketch every day for a month
- Paint a mural
- Writing
- Reach 501 blog posts on beyondbee
- Take a creative writing class
- Photography
- Scan all my printed pictures onto my PC
- Do my photography portfolio
- Update photoblog everyday for a month
- Complete 10 photographic projects
- Put together my own home darkroom (In progress)
- Buy a digital camcorder
- Music
- Learn to play a classical piece on piano
- Arrange a well known song for pan
- Play the flute in public
- Play a solo piece on pan in public
- Practice my flute for 30 minutes per day, for a month
- Play with a steelband in Panorama
- Watch PBS video series “The Story of Jazz” (all 10 parts) (In progress)
- Learn how to play drums (traps) (In progress)
- Art
- Arts and Culture
- See 2 new (to me) Cirque du Soleil shows
- Go see 5 movies in a theater in a month
- See another play on Broadway
- Attend a Film Festival
- Personal Development
- Write down everything I spend money on for 1 month
- Send a secret to PostSecret
- Spend an entire day in bed, just because
- Eat alone in a nice restaurant (without a book)
- Read one of my poems out loud to a group
- Go to the movies by myself
- Complete my CTM (Toastmasters)
- Finish at least one ATM level (Toastmasters)
- Go to the beach by myself
- Sing solo at Karaoke (In progress)
- Watch no tv or movies for a week
- Face my fear of falling
- Model for something (photograph, painting, anything)
- Learning
- Start taking Sign Language classes again.
- Learn to give a massage
- Get certified to scuba dive (In progress)
- Learn to juggle
- Take a Spanish class
- Take a cooking class
- Take horse-backriding lessons
- Take more Belly Dancing Lessons
- Take a make-up artist course
- Take a surfing lesson
- Learn how to tie a tie
- Research beliefs of 5 religions
- Learn CSS well enough to design a website
- Just for fun
- Successfully do a cartwheel
- Ride in a hot-air balloon
- Toast marshmallows over a fire
- Swim with dolphins
- Go back to New York City
- Set up a treasure hunt
- Do a scavenger hunt
- Sleep in a tent at least once
- Go skiing or snowboarding
- Go skinny-dipping
- Have a fondue party
- Build a proper sand castle
- Go on a picnic
- Watch a sunrise and sunset in the same day