43 things 

Not being one for New Year’s resolutions I’ve been looking for a more structured way.... 

what do you want to do with your life?Power of positive affirmation. Website enable you to keep a rolling list and tick off what you’ve done and drop things you think you will never be able to do. Wont actually put these on 43 things as that invites comments and dont have time to respond and dont wnt to be cheered. Over 1 million people use it.

• Choos between achievable goals and life changing choices. It helps me to keep a limited list. Forty-three would just be too many for me. But it’s good to have some that are high-priority for this time in my life, some that are just for fun, & some that are longer-term dreams. My preference is not to post very many relational goals—I mean about my husband & kids, church, & touchable friends (as opposed to e-friends). That works better for me.
• Organize your list with care. I have ended up with a general-inspiration goal (hope) at the top, followed by the goals that are tugging at me most persistently these days (writing, art, activism, home care). Having these current-high-priority goals near the top is essential! Then there are a few goals that I hope to accomplish down the line but don’t feel called to work on just yet. At the end are “43Things community goals”—support for 43T friends, birthday wishes, learning from each other’s books & places, cheers, & this goal.

1. Develop a taste for wine and be able to appreciate its subtle nuances instead of it all tasting like vinegar.

2. Get drunk more often

3. Learn desktop publishing

4. Build my dream house in my olive grove

5. Live in Çandır village

6. Find a storeroom for all my excess furniture or a buyer

7. Become more thick skinned.

8. Stop being afraid of harmless reef sharks.

9. Start being able to read horror books or watch horror movies without being scared to go into a dark room for weeks after.

10. Learn a proper curse to use on my enemies so that awful things happen to them on a regular basis.

11. Learn to roller skate.

12. Learn to ice skate.

13. Learn to balance.

14. Persuade Sezgin to take a more liberal view towards Turkey’s Kurds.

15. Earn enough money next year to buy my mum and dad some tickets to Turkey to visit us more regularly.

16. Lose two stone.

17. Drink more water.

18. Produce news stories that the Sunday Times wants to publish and pay for.

19. Have twins.

20. Travel to Central Asia and ride an Akhal Teke horse the desert.

21. Learn to speak Dutch by osmosis.

22. Write a book popular enough to allow me to give up my day job.

23. Teach my daughter to read.

24. Give up smoking.

25. Spend more time at home.

26. Have a whole day to myself – all alone.

27. Relax enough to allow someone else to amssage me without my tensing up.

28. Beat Sinem at backgammon whenever İ choose.

29. Find my sister Alev a boyfriend who truly appreciates her fabulousness.

30. Grow my own veg.

31. Get another slinky whippet and call it Frisbee.

32. Go to a Star Trek convention.

33. Read and remember more Richard Dawkins and persuade more people to aetheism.

34.Help clean up litter in my home town.

35. Retire at 43!

36. İncrease my sex drive to the point where it matches Sezgin’s.

37. Never do anymore housework.

38. To sort out my life so well that sometimes İ have nothing to do.

39. Grow a lychee tree.

40. Not be chicken and swim in June next year.

41.Eliminate mosquitoes and house flys from the face of the earth.

42. Write instead of read. 
 

Progress? İ just poured another glass of water and looked up some Dutch verbs