I'm doing 43 things
6/30/08
1 month ago
Let’s plan to tackle this one next summer.
Huston's Life List
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1. Make detailed notes on the character and ministry of Jesus Christ from the Bible and Book of Mormon, and work on imitating every one
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2. Collect a family history, and do all temple work for at least ten generations back
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3. Share the gospel with 100 people a year
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4. Study each of the Teachings of Presidents of the Church manuals cover to cover
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5. Make a habit of reaching out to the lonely, stressed, underappreciated, doubting, or otherwise needy every day
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6. Go on a mission with my wife
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7. Minister to my home teaching families every month
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8. Help bring the Book of Mormon to wider, general attention in the world
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9. Travel throughout Europe with my wife, including to Houston village in Scotland
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10. Ride Route 66 from end to end on a Harley with my wife
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11. Do something overwhelmingly romantic for my wife every month
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12. Make sure my kids have tons of fun, loving memories from their childhood
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13. Learn tango, swing, salsa, and ballroom dancing with my wife
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14. Read the entire Harvard Classics and Great Books of the Western World series
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15. In one year, meet all the requirements an Eagle Scout would have to meet
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16. Publish a novel
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18. Earn a Ph.D. in English
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19. Publish useful scholarly research, both secular and religious
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20. Become really good at chess
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21. Don't watch any TV for a year
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22. Learn to play piano and acoustic guitar, and play a great jazz drum solo
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23. Learn fencing
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24. Own a genuine Scottish Claymore sword and a Japanese katana
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25. Become proficient in kung fu
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26. Grow a beard (at least for a little while!)
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27. Learn Mandarin Chinese
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28. Learn Latin and all the Romance languages...except French!
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29. Live somewhere green and rainy
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30. Learn to speak Gaelic
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31. See every non-R rated movie in the National Film Registry and AFI's "100 years, 100 movies" list
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32. Finish 50 New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles
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33. Ride in a bike marathon
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34. Be more optimistic and say fewer sarcastic things
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35. Become familiar with all the major works of Western art
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36. Get really good at yoga
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37. Get really good at sketching and drawing
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38. Act in a great play
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39. Learn to sing
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40. Become familiar with the works of all the great classical composers, as well as with all the major jazz and blues works of the 20th century
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41. Go camping in the mountains for a week, alone
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42. Publish a cartoon in The New Yorker
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43. Work out all the problems in my math textbooks from college
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1 month ago
Actually, I don’t want to keep a goal on here that can be done one evening a year, and that I will have no problem maintaining interest in, and which I’ve already finished for this year! Goodbye!
