Changing Direction
The original content of this site is no longer online. It used to document a project I had to complete every goal in the book, “Dream It. List It. Do It!” The book is a compilation of people’s goals taken from the website 43things. Through a number of months of that project, a few things became clear to me:
1. I didn’t need a project like that to inspire me to do cool things. Many times I was delayed or prevented from doing something on the list because I was already doing something awesome. I didn’t want to risk the possibility that I would some day miss out on the awesome because I was distracted by the list.
2. I had plenty of things I wanted to do that weren’t on the list. I wanted to note some of those things, but I felt like having any sort of life list besides the one in the book would be a distraction, so I prevented myself from doing it.
3. Lots of stuff in the book is crap. There are whole sections on having super powers (impossible), having extraordinary adventures (improbable), or having faith (undesireable, at least for me).
4. It’s not about the blog. Setting up a separate blog wasn’t an obviously bad idea, but I should know by now (after over six years of blogging at the time of writing) that my blogging is never going to be reliable or timely. Nothing I do is ever likely to succeed if I feel like I’m doing it for a blog, even if that wasn’t the original intention.
I still love the life list idea. I have, and want to have, goals. There’s so much I want to do. And dammit, I’m nerdy enough to get a giddy thrill from crossing something off a list. But it needs to be my own list. I took the easy way out and borrowed someone else’s hopes and dreams and it inevitably failed. Now I want to go it on my own and do my own thing.
I won’t keep this site up forever. If I do make a proper go at a real life list (maybe a Mission 101?) I’ll document it the natural way for me: sporadically, unreliably, and on my one and only real blog.
