Saafir in Fort Worth is doing 35 things including…

schedule daily goals I can accomplish

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Saafir has written 10 entries about this goal

Monday, October 6th 1 month ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice guitar for thirty minutes
  • Practice Angel Eyes, I’ve Got A Woman, Charade, and All of You for thirty minutes
Dress better than Miles Davis, James Bond, Jimi Hendrix, and the Sartorialist
  • Dress like a funk musician today

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Pick Hanan up from school and take her downtown for icecream
  • Call Latifah
  • Call Munir
3. GET MY shit together
  • Cash my check and put gas in Mom’s car
  • Pay my Sprint bill
3. DO GOOD WORK: Use my best talents to serve the world through my work. Perform work of the highest ethical and technical caliber
  • Apply for a GYO
  • Call Baseemah about the Texas R Commision
  • Write my strengths based plan for the rest of this week: share it with B. and/or D.
  • Memorize the prices for the MacBook Pros


Monday, September 28th 1 month ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice guitar for thirty minutes
  • Practice “Angel Eyes” and “All of You” for thirty minutes

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Catch 3 people doing something good at work today
  • Call Latifah
  • Call Munir
3. GET MY shit together
  • Figure out transportation for Thursday


Friday, July 25, 2008 3 months ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice the chromatic scale on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “I Got A Woman” on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “Angel Eyes” and “All of You” for thirty minutes
  • Read a few chapters from my music theory book
Make beautiful martial art
  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Do strength training for a half hour
    • Practice handstands for twenty minutes
    • Do forms for thirty minutes

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Take care of Kim while she recovers from her wisdom-teeth pulling
  • Call Hanan
  • Call Munir
  • Scan in a few dozen of Mom’s photos
3. GET MY shit together
  • Buy my meds
  • Cash my check, deposit money, and pay ADS


Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 4 months ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice the chromatic scale on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “I Got A Woman” on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “Angel Eyes” and “All of You” for thirty minutes
  • Read a few chapters from my music theory book
Make beautiful martial art
  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Do strength training for a half hour
    • Practice handstands for five minutes
  • Go to Christopher’s Tae-kwon-do class

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Call Munir
  • Call Hanan
  • Scan in a few dozen of Mom’s photos
  • Read a few chapters of Gottman’s book
3. GET MY shit together
  • Burn CDs of Kim’s “Compilation’s” folder to free up some space on her hard drive


Monday, July 8, 2008 4 months ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice the chromatic scale on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “I Got A Woman” on the guitar for twenty minutes
Make beautiful martial art
  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Ride bicycle (six miles in forty minutes, six miles in 24 minutes)
    • Meditate (20 minutes)

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Call Munir
  • Text Hanan
3. GET MY shit together
  • Cook rice and beans for lunch
  • Renew library books
  • Tidy room
  • Shower and dress
4. DO GOOD WORK: Use my best talents to serve the world through my work
  • Read a chapter in my Leopard book
  • Memorize the prices of the 15” MacBook Pros


July 2, 2008: Half a day at work, half a day at play 4 months ago
1. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice the chromatic scale on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “I Got A Woman” on the guitar for twenty minutes
  • Practice “Angel Eyes” for twenty minutes
Make beautiful martial art
  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Ride bicycle (six miles in forty minutes, six miles in 24 minutes)
    • Weight train (30 minutes)
    • Practice forms (20 minutes)
    • Meditate (20 minutes)
  • Plan my workouts for the week

2. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Call Latifah
  • Call Munir
  • Text Hanan
3. GET MY shit together
  • Refresh my “Get my shit together” list
  • Cook lunch
  • Wash/dye clothes
  • Clean out my bags
  • Wash my hair


June 25 5 months ago
1. GET MY shit together
  • Refresh my “Get my shit together” list
  • Call Dr. Bernstein
2. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician
  • Do twenty minutes of singing exercises
  • Practice scales for twenty minutes
  • Practice “I Got A Woman” for thirty minutes
Make beautiful martial art
  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Practice handstands (20 minutes)
    • Ride bicycle (six miles in forty minutes, six miles in 24 minutes)
    • Weight train (25 minutes)
    • Meditate (20 minutes)
  • Plan my workouts for the week

3. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Call Latifah
  • Call Munir
  • Text Hanan


June 24: A Day On 5 months ago
1. GET MY shit together

a. Cook
b. Put away my clothes, organize closet a bit
c. Refresh my “Get my shit together” list

2. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Create a stunning webpage

  • Sketch some layout and navigation ideas
  • Flip through the hacking MySpace book again, jotting down main ideas
  • Copy my notes on creating a page to my 43Things

Become a musician

  • Listen to my “soul singers” playlist for an hour
  • Do forty minutes of singing exercises
  • Read about scales and chords in my Music Theory book

Make beautiful martial art

  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Do yoga (30 minutes)
    • Practice handstands (20 minutes)
    • Weight train (25 minutes)
    • Meditate (20 minutes
  • Plan my workouts for next week

3. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • Call Latifah
  • Call Munir
  • Text Hanan

4. USE MY GIFTS of intelligence and curiosity to serve others

Become a polymath

  • Read about the history of computers (30 minutes)
  • Work on layout ideas for my website (30 minutes)



June 10: Work 5 months ago
1. GET MY shit together

a. Call loan lady again, buy stamps, fill out form, and send it off
b. Ask Jason about the new hire package
c. Make sure they know about next weekend
d. Clean my room
e. Make breakfast, pack a lunch

2. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician

  • Listen to Ray Charles for an hour
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Read about scales in my Music Theory book

Make beautiful martial art

  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Ride six miles in forty minutes, ride six miles in twenty-four minutestwenty-three minutes!
    • Do handstands for twenty minutes
    • Meditate for a half hour

3. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • E-mail Latifah
  • E-mail Munir
  • Call Hanan

4. USE MY GIFTS of intelligence and curiosity to serve others

Become a polymath

  • Read about the history of computers for a half hour

5. DO GOOD WORK: Use my best talents to serve the world through my profession. Perform work of the highest ethical and technical caliber

  • Concentrate more at work today
  • Write a plan at least for the rest of this week
  • Ask about doing the workshops this weekend


June 9 5 months ago
1. GET MY shit together

a. Call loan lady again, fill out form, and send it off
b. Call Angela about benefits

2. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world.

Become a musician

  • Listen to Sarah Vaughan for an hour
  • Practice “I Got a Woman” for a half-hour: practice the melody, learn the first four chords
  • Practice “All of Me”, “My One and Only Love”, and “My Funny Valentine” for a half hour
  • Do thirty minutes of singing exercises
  • Read about chords in my Music Theory book

Make beautiful martial art

  • Workout for an hour and fifteen minutes
    • Do a strength training workout
    • Do handstands for twenty minutes, meditate for fifteen minutes, and do thirty forms
  • Watch the Shaolin Monks DVD

3. WEAVE A TAPESTRY of COMPASSION. Make my life a place of warmth and joy for the people who pass through it.

  • E-mail Latifah
  • Call Munir
  • Call Hanan

4. USE MY GIFTS of intelligence and curiosity to serve others

Become a polymath

  • Read about the history of computers for a half hour



Saafir has gotten 2 cheers on this goal.

  • Calissa cheered this 5 months ago
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