Random Observation/Comment #457: When you want to do something, it doesn’t seem like work. In fact, there’s not enough time when you’re having fun.
Why This List?
There’s always something we want to do in the immediate and short term that leads to the obtaining of status, skills, knowledge, or material goods in the future. I want to focus this list on the actual actionable items that just take a bit of elbow grease and planning rather than the state of things that we want to be. These are the stepping stones that make dreams come true. Just go and do it.
- Create a Professional Photography Portfolio
- Implement a game with Oculus Rift SDK
- Create a consistent #coffeechat at work for photography
- Create an “Ignite” or “Stand up for passion” monthly speak up session at work
- Take a professional cooking class on a different cuisine
- Start a yoga/stretching routine so I can palm the floor (and heal my back)
- Complete another 30 day healthy challenge
- Start a MOOC on a non-tech and non-finance related topic
- Organize a surprise birthday party for a friend
- Organize an event around releasing lanterns/kites into the sky with candles inside
- Write a crossword
- Practice reading with emphasis and voice inflections by recording a chapter reading for an audiobook
- Create an android app that publishes random observation/comments
- Extend “You’re Pretty Fucking Awesome, Keep that Shit Up” to a hashtag or formal site for NYC and beyond
- Train for a physical challenge
- Learn a new photoshop technique that can improve photo edits
- Take a singing lesson
- Complete a full module on memrise
- Learn how to shoot/edit video
- Plan a trip for my parents
- Clear my digital clutter (I can probably write a separate blogpost about this)
- Take an improv class
- Take more portrait photos of friends
- Post more on reddit – try for front page
- Give a speech to inspire others
- Make something with my hands
- Put together a photobook to physically print
- Relearn reading Chinese
- Refresh my life by buying new business socks, v-neck under shirts, and boxers
- Take a NYC food tour – best ramen spots? best burgers?
~See Lemons Do More