I have an incomplete 'To Do' list for 2004 at home. It is currently awaiting something to be put in at number 11. I've run out of ideas, past the inclusion of some of the better things from last year's list, some rather tedious things relating to debt and health, and the odd wishy washy personal-wellbeingy-self one.
You'll be seeing that tomorrow then...unless someone has something entertaining they would have me do with this year? Something I can put in at number 11?
Be gentle.
2003 - Crunch Time
Now there's no use in doing all this incredibly positive and difficult-to-avoid To Do List stuff if there is no accountability (shudder), so here's last year's list, with the results...
1. Get a job.
Done!
2. Finish the book.
Done! (Kind of. It still needs work, but I have written 'The End'...well, actually it was 'And So On', but you catch my drift)
3. Move out.
Done! Sadly this one will be making a reappearance for 2004, due to the less than wonderful nature of my houseshare.
4. Write every day; discipline being important in such things (not necessarily book)
Well, the whole point of the annual To Do List is that if something is 'To Do', then if you miss a day, or fail a bit, then it is still, 'To Do', rather than a resolution, which once broken is a bit of a sad and glum-looking thing. I didn't write every day, but hell, I wrote a lot. Which was the point of the whole thing.
5. Leave the country, if only temporarily...
Done! Two weeks in Spain, a weekend in Brussels, and, er, well, one rather intense 24 hour period when I was in Scotland, Wales and England...but maybe that doesn't count quite so much.
6. Pay off minimum £800 of debts, no maximum...
Er, abject failure, I'm afraid.
7. Watch sunrises and sunsets.
Kind of done! I certainly cranked up quite a few of both last year. They make me feel good.
8. Be who I want to be.
Well, done, I suppose, with only a few lapses into being who other people wanted me to be...hmmm. I've gone all thoughtful.
So there you have it;
In 2003, I scored 6.5 out of 8.
Not bad at all!
Well done! Achievement should always be noted and applauded, say I.
Seconded - if you're made enough to make beginning of the year to do lists, you should be congratulated on keeping to most of them.
That was supposed to read "mad enough"
Not a bad performance last year, you should be proud.
By the way, why do you need to have a number 11 on this year's list? Is it just that you want to escape having a "10 Things I Will Do This Year"-type title or is it something else entirely?
Hmmm... how about:
11. Win first place in karaoke competition.
or
11. Learn how to scuba dive.
or
11. Sky dive.
Happy 2004!!!
No, it was just that I wrote the number 11, and then when I had to think about it I felt that really, with all the time available in a whole year, that there had to be something else I could do with it all. So I was thinking about it...