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100 Things I Am Going To Do In 2011

by A Man Reborn on Dec.22, 2010, under Journal, Motivation & Goals

This January I came up with the idea of a list of 100 things that I wanted to do in 2010. I thought about it for a little while and came up with a varied list of things. The things on my list were new, old, little, small and in general, things that I thought would be fun or interesting.

I ended up finishing just over half of the things on my list – which I think is pretty good. I did a lot of new things that I wouldn’t have done otherwise and I got to know myself a lot better by taking myself out my comfort zone.

There were a couple of unexpected side effects from making this list. The first was that I had a lot of friends step up and ask me about doing things on the list together with me which I thought was really awesome of them. We got to spend time together and often tried something new or it was something that they were able to teach me, or the other way around. The second was that it inspired some of my other friends to do something similar. In particular, my friend Carolina made her own list, which then inspired her friend Jeannie to make a list. This was all over half a year before I had even met Jeannie – but since then we’ve been inseparable and I definitely think that the two of us making our lists played a part in building that connection.

One other thing that I definitely know this helped with was boredom – I can’t think of a single moment in 2010 that I was bored, as I always had this list to fall back on for something to do.

So here’s a list for 2011. I don’t expect to do all of them. Some of them are things I did last year and loved. Some are things I didn’t finish last year. Some are completely new to this year. They’re in no particular order and again – they’re just things that I think would be interesting or fun.

2011 is going to be amazing and I am really looking forward to it!

Go skydiving
Do something special with Jeannie on our anniversary
Do a 48 hour fast
Plant and maintain a mini garden
Spend a day at the beach
Hike part of the Bruce trail
Go to the gun range
Go kayaking
Get a new tattoo
Take some kind of dance lesson
Keep my blog updated while working on this list
Get rid of 75% of the things I currently own
Go running in the rain
Watch a thunderstorm
Watch the sun set
Play in a poker tournament
Ride the single track at Albion Hills
Try indoor rock climbing
Paintball!
Volunteer my time for a good cause
Give blood 5 times
Make a gift for someone
Work at a haunt
Surprise someone
Spend a weekend at the cottage
Play a round of golf
Make sure I always have time for friends and family
Make a short movie
Go whitewater rafting
Climb the CN tower in under 30 minutes
Beat last year’s time of 1:07:14 in the Niagara Try-a-Tri
Get back to running 5k+
Ride 200 km in 2 days at the Ride to Conquer Cancer
Try skating
Do 100 push ups in a row
Do a handstand push up
Exercise or do something active every day
Cook 95% of what I eat
Fit into size L shirts again
Try skiing again
Ride in the trees
Do both a FS and BS boardslide on a box
Comfortably do all 4 types of 180
Go on a snowboarding trip with my little brothers
Do a nose grab, tail grab and method
Put together a new snowboarding video
Go to the zoo
Go to a Jays game
Go to a Leafs game
Go to a TFC game
Go to the CNE
Go to the science centre
Go to the Tim Burton exhibit at the Lightbox
Go on a brewery tour
Explore an old cemetary
Go to the Drive-in
Go to Honest Ed’s
Go to the Art Gallery
Go to a big music festival
Go to Vermont
Go to Buffalo with MicHELLe
Go to Detroit with Myla and Nix
Go to Niagara Falls
Go to Vegas
Explore the following neighbourhoods in Toronto: The Annex, Yorkville, Seaton Village, Little Italy, Kensington, Liberty Village, St. Lawrence, Cabbagetown and Harbourfront
Go camping somewhere new
Move out of Mississauga
Spend a day at the island
Learn to cook a paella
Try 2 new recipes every month
Make a Turducken from scratch with Shayne
Make sushi
Go shopping at St Lawrence Market
Have brunch at the Hoof Cafe
Eat a tasting menu
Bake and decorate a cake or cupcakes
Eat 10 new things
Master one illusion really well
Learn to create a life cast
Take a cast of my face and sculpt it into a zombie bust
Make a set of clay figurines
Make a Halloween costume from scratch
Finish my Halloween painting
Make a haunted gingerbread house
Read: Rework, The 4-Hour Body, The Power of Less, Pound for Pound, The Gift of Fear, It’s Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life and The Real Bling
Redesign the zombie walk page and setup the store
Learn search engine optimization
Learn 5 more effects in After Effects
Learn joomla
Learn JQuery
Learn AJAX
Learn Selenium
Learn OpenID / FBConnect / Google Friend Connect
Launch zombiepedia website!
Launch portfolio site
Build a facebook app
Take a night class
Get a raise
Earn 15% of my income outside of my regular job
Teach someone something

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100 Things I Will Do In 2010 – September Update

by A Man Reborn on Sep.02, 2010, under Journal, Motivation & Goals

I had a pretty intensely busy August with my big work project and I didn’t have too much free time, so I only got a couple of things done. I did make progress on a bunch of the others so it’s all good and I now that I have some more free time I’ll be making good use of it in September!

Finished since last update:

68 – Become a triathlete – done on August 8th at the Niagara tri
73 – Give a speech - did a best man speech at Anthony and Ashley’s wedding

2010 List – as of July 15th, 2010

DONE - Create a new set of 1 year and 5 year goals - done in March after an eye-opening February
Get a new tattoo - gonna do this soon!
Get my advanced-green ranking in Muay Thai - working on it!
Go skydiving
DONE – Explore an abandoned building – explored Michigan Central Station and a ton of others in Detroit with Myla and Nix
Climb the CN Tower in under 30 minutes - will do this at the United Way climb in October
DONE - Snowboard at Whistler - went during the Olympics in Feb!
DONE - Stomp a FS 180 off a kicker - did it at Beaver Valley in March
Do a proper FS/BS boardslide - never got the hang of BS boardslides… sometime this month!
DONE – Spend a weekend camping with my dog - going June 11-13 @ Rockwood
Beat last years record of 30 snow days - tied currently at 30 days… gonna break it with a day at snow park in the summer
Get down under 200 pounds - aiming for a 5 pounds a month pace which is somewhat conservative
Take my Mom to the Art Gallery – sometime this month!
Get rid of clutter from my room - have donated/given away/thrown away 7 large boxes and 9 garbage bags of clutter… feels awesome, more to go!
DONE – Ride 50 km on my bike in one go - June 6, 2010 – signed up for the 2010 Ride for Heart 50km ride
Build 5 Halloween props - got all my materials gathered and starting this month!
Build a fake disemboweled torso out of latex/foam – got some ideas from a bud who does excellent fx work
Take my Dad to a football game
Learn to rollerblade - I think I’m going to replace this… not very psyched about it
Make 95% of the food I eat from scratch - this is an easy one for me as I shy away from processed foods
Get 5 new freelance clients - 3 down and 1 more potential being worked on
Do a 48 hour weekend fast – will do this in the fall sometime
Learn 5 magic tricks - got a wicked teacher for this! Thanks Anastasia!
Go to the Science Centre
Go to the ROM – going this Sunday!
Deadlift 315 pounds - progress is underway
Squat 225 pounds - progress is underway
Read 25 books - 17 down
DONE - Spend a weekend snowboarding with my little brothers - went for 3 different weekends
DONE – Grow a herb garden
DONE – Climb a tree
Ride the entire single-track trail at Albion Hills - started biking again in March
Ride the entire single-track trail at Glen Eden - started biking again in March
DONE - Walk in the rain - a Squamish necessity!
Become proficient at AJAX – starting to get the hang of it
Do a 22 km run - Sunday October 17, 2010 – Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon
Launch the zombiepedia website
Go to the carnival – going this Saturday!
DONE – Bake a cake
DONE – Volunteer my time for a good cause – worked at the milton charity haunt
DONE - Try being vegetarian again for 21 days - was much easier than I thought and I’ll be reducing the amount of meat in my regular diet
Try being vegan for 21 days – tried doing a raw diet for a month… made it 2 weeks – not for me! will try this again in the fall
DONE - Get a raise
Revise and stick to a new budget - budget done and have been sticking to it
Have a 100% TV-free month - I tried this in March… didn’t watch any TV at home… but still had a few hours at other people’s houses / bars… tough to avoid!
Build a Facebook application - working on an idea for a small app this month
Take a night class
Paint a giant painting – sketching ideas now
Go to the shooting range - after boarding at snow park!
DONE – Learn 5 new effects in After Effects - learned 2 so far
Teach the dog to not be scared of the nail clipper - making progress
DONE – Make a new snowboarding video - editing is underway
Create 10 website layouts - 5 down, working on 3 more
Build my portfolio website
Try indoor rock-climbing
Learn to Salsa
DONE – Donate blood
DONE – Make a gift for someone by hand
DONE – Visit a Renaissance fair- went to the pirate festival
Snowboard in the summer - http://www.snowparkniagara.com/ – aww yeah!
DONE - Be part of a zombie movie - I got to shoot with George A. Romero… one of my favourite directors and the king of Zombies!
DONE – Start a new business venture – initial planning is well underway
DONE - Start a conversation with 50 strangers - probably did close to double this # during Feb alone :D
Learn to make a Paella
DONE – Decorate a Munny! - got it in the mail and did it today!
Go on a random and pointless roadtrip
Write a children’s book - started to write
DONE – Become a triathlete - changed to August 8, 2010 – Niagara Try-a-tri Triathlon – 375m swim / 10km bike / 2.5km run – started swim training
Try wakeboarding
Train with a champion – October 30th, seminar with Andy Souwer
DONE - Zombie around with my ghouly friends! - done at the Romero shoot!
DONE – Sculpt something out of clay
DONE – Give a speech - got asked to be my buddy’s best man at his wedding!
DONE - Re-pierce my labret - it didn’t close up as much as I thought
Eat chicken wings in Buffalo - gonna go with MicHELLe!
Spend an entire day at the beach
Go on a brewery tour - gonna go with MicHELLe!
DONE - Ride through the glades - rode the glades at Blue Mountain and then at Whistler and loved it!
DONE - Surprise someone
DONE – Work at a haunt – worked at the Milton haunted house in August
Do 10 pull ups - currently training – at 2 consecutive right now, but will get much easier as the weight comes off
Do 100 push ups - currently training – at 25 consecutive right now
DONE – Go to a big music festival - Went to Heavy MTL 2010 with Greg, Derek and Jenn!
Learn Yoga
DONE - Watch the clouds drift by - sat and watched the clouds drift through the mountains every chance I got out west
DONE - Watch a sunrise - watched it come up behind the mountains in Squamish
Go kayaking – missed a good chance to do this, but will still for sure!
DONE - Watch a sunset - watched it on the bus ride back from Whistler
Hike part of the Bruce trail - going to do this on a weekend in October
Do a handstand pushup
Eat a tasting menu
DONE - Eat 5 things I’ve never tried before - way over 5 now… should have set a bigger number, I love trying new foods
DONE - Ride on a powder day - got to do this twice at Whistler… best 2 days of riding in my entire life
Build a haunted gingerbread house - found a sweet blueprint
DONE – Explore a cave - will do at Blue Mountain or at Sauble
Make a Turducken!
DONE – Finish 3 major projects at work - 4 down!
DONE - Reformat my laptop - nice and clean
DONE - Backup all my important files - bought a spindle of DVDs and finally did this.. have them on a hard drive too – took forever
DONE – Eat at a White Castle – did this while on a trip to Detroit with Myla and Nix – it was gross!