I noticed a few in the past years and I just wanted to get one going for myself.
The list of 100 things I hope to get accomplished in the next 3-5 years of my life. I think it'd be nice to a put a purpose on some things, a strain on others, and hopefully get me to accomplish some things I just know I wont be able to do when I'm 30.
Here's a start....
1. Get into Columbia, or at least get a 'Thanks but no thanks' letter.
2. Write a book on how globalization is ruining our planet on a cultural level.
3. Be fluent in French, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. I think it's only fair on the last one.
4. See the Olympic Games in London.
5. Hear my echo in Hagia Sophia.
6. Make Poutein more than once.
7. Move to Montreal.
8. Actually getting to New York before Montreal.
9. Finally walk away from Starbucks.
10. Go to Paris
11. Go to Niece.
12. Touch a part of the Berlin Wall.
13. Learn the Piano.
14. After the Piano, learn the Organ, and play Toccata in D-Minor by Bach.
www.youtube.com/watch15. Learn the Cello.
16. Make bread more than monthly.
17. Weigh a healthy 150-155 lbs. (About 68 Kg)
18. Run farther than 60 yards without my heart exploding.
19. Have a bonfire on a beach.
20. Get a decent laptop.
21. Have a semester where I exceed a 3.5 GPA
22. Live on my own again.
23. Push my car off a cliff.
24. If I sell it, scratch #23.
25. Spend one weekend every few months in NYC with Erika, Aaron, Ben, etc.
26. At least try Ethiopian food.
27. Get the basics of the three books in my head on paper.
28. Find an agent if the need persists.
29. Get an Internship that WONT fall through.
30. iPhone!
31. See the leaves change in Vermont.
32. Start to not feel weirded out when 'Marriage' and 'Family' get brought to the table.
33. Come to terms with the fact I'll be 25 in less than 36 months.
34. Swim more often.
35. Stop saying 'Fuck' every other word!!
36. For realsies, stop smoking. SRSLY! Will stop. Honest.
37. Sew more often.
38. Drink tea instead of Coffee.
39. SUNY Buffalo, I will be going!
40. Spend my New Years in other places than New York and Vegas.
41. Become a solid fixture in both of my brothers lives.
42. Patch things up with my mother.
43. Paint more.
44. Start seeing a Therapist. I'm not really crazy, but there's LOADS of things I know I want to explain to an unbiased figure. Just to make sure I'm not as bad as I think I am.
45. To let my fathers wife, Heidi, know how much I love and appreciate her for everything she has done for him.
46. Read more and watch TV less.
47. Get a decent bike and use it. The using part is important.
48. Making more and more leaps of faith.
49. Keeping my life more organized.
50. Start using a damn planner!
51. Remembering to use the damn planner.
52. Keeping things clean. I'm kinda not so tiddy...
53. Be more honest with people.
54. Never stop being direct and blunt!
55. Stop feeling guilty.
56. To do things and to stop expecting something in return.
57. Not be selfish.
58. See the South.
59. Be in touch more with my Aunt and two Cousins in Texas.
60. Watch more foreign films and indies.
61. Finish the entire Smithsonian Museums. (I've only been in four...there're about 17)
62. Smell the roses.
63. Stop thinking in the manner of 'I want' and start thinking in the manner of 'do I really need...?'.
64. Know all my presidents.
65. Know my constitutional laws and amendments.
66. Learn peoples phone numbers so I'm not totally screwed whenever I get my phone stolen...again.
67. Invest in an accountant.
68. Get my money in fucking order. For god's sake, Justin. I need to get my shit together.
69. Make Pasta from scratch.
70. Learn to knit.
71. Try more beer!
72. Become a regular at a Buddhist shrine.
73. Spell better :-/
74. Use old school cameras. And I mean glass exposure old.
75. Sail more. This makes me the happiest :D
76. Get more pedicures. No, they're not just for girls. My heals get nasty from all the flippy floppies.
77. Buy more colors other than brown, blue and black.
78. Have cologne. lol, seriously!
79. Have a garden.
80. Be more organic with my eating.
81. Eventually get to eating animals that have two legs or less.
82. Get a cat.
83. Go fishing with my dad more.
84. Start a podcast.
85. Make my own clothes once in a while.
86. Finally shut down the last little bits of racist in me.
87. Use Couch Surfing more often. So should you!
88. Accept things without an intention of changing it.
89. Follow my own advice for once.
90. Understand Libraries are great places and I should go more often.
91. See an Opera monthly.
92. Get more classical music instead of 'booty shakin' music. It's about a 90/10 balance. Sadness.
93. Travel by Train.
94. Take the phrase 'It's not the destination, it's the journey' more literally.
95. Just to remember that it really isn't as important as I think it is.
96. Collect old books about the most random subjects.
97. Collect more sidewalk furniture.
98. Keep sitting front and center in class.
99. Come to terms with my past.
100. Let someone love me.