A time for personal changes…..
13 August 2008A list of 33 things to take control of my life:
1) I need to organized my life better
2) I need to clean my apartment from top to bottom.
3) Run my finances a little better.
4) Be better at my job
5) Slow my head down some – I think way too fast and I noticed it is causing some problems in concentrating and personal relationships.
6) Exercise more
· Train for the half marathon in April then a marathon after that.
· Do a 5K in the middle or end of October.
· Run outside more
· Ride my bike more (use it to get to store and weekend rides)
· Hike more and plan for a through hike of the
7) Buy a scooter this year.
8 ) Buy a smart car next year.
9) Start recycling again. But try to adhere to the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse and then recycle).
10) Reduce my food waste buy using everything I can.
11) Attempt to Compost my food waste in my apartment (vermicomposting)
12) Eat out a whole lot less.
13) Dietary considerations
· Slowly switch to as much organic foods as I can and in a way that is affordable.
· Not go totally vegetarian or vegan but reduce my meat intake to 4-5oz per week and only use locally grown grass feed meats and cut back my dairy intake to only locally produced or organic dairy products.
· Buy as much produce as I can from the farmers market and only in season
· Reduce my caloric intake to between 1500 to 2000 calories a day and drop to under 220lbs
· Drink Less alcohol.
· Completely eliminate High Fructose Corn syrup from my diet
· Learn to eat as fuel.
· Drink more water
· Eat more seafood
· Cook more
14) Dispose of my current household cleaners and transition to more envirofriendly cleaners.
15) Spend more time out side and with my dog
16) Meet new people and rekindle old friendships
17) Go back to school for photography hone my skill and start a business (Get paying gigs soon, make cards, start up website, ect)
18) Shoot more photographs and upgrade my equipment (flash, lens, grip, replace my XT with an XTI till I get a 40D or 20 D)
19) Learn to meditate and look for a Buddhist teacher
20) Read more
21) Listen to Music more and get back to going to live shows again
22) Work on not getting angry anymore at little things
23) Write more and work on typing and communicating, better formulating ideas.
24) Look to move out west over the next few years
25) Pick up apart time job in the winter months DEC to FEB to pad my savings up to a couple months of pay.
26) Have at least 2 days of computer less and TV less days.
27) Have 4 days a week where I do not spend any money unless completely necessary, one of which is a weekend day
28) Put 10 percent in savings. (5% via stock account 5% in easy to get bank account), put change jar that gets put into savings and drop ant 5 dollar bill in there whenever I receive one.
29) Do Yoga for mental and physical health.
30) Go places that I have never been or have been meaning to go to.
31) Buy a Guitar and lean to play.
32) Volunteer
33) Be Happy all the time, No matter what.
Following the Earl Hickey Model, I will cross things off as I complete or get a good start on doing. I will be interesting to see were I am with this list in January.
2 Responses to “A time for personal changes…..”
August 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
This is an excellent list. I think I will print it out and use it as a guide to go by for myself!
October 5th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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