Listopia

DayZero Project seems like the kind of site that everyone knows about but no one talks about, its a shame. If you have never checked it out then you really should. It makes you want to do things you've never known you wanted to do. Honestly, it helped me get my mind around all the things I've always wanted to accomplish but never had the organization to.No silly gimmicks or hidden methods, that's just it. It really makes you see all the things you've always wanted to do and get to it. That way you can start accomplishing goals instead of just thinking about them. Over the years (yes I've been on the site that long), they have added new features. Each one better than the next. In case you are one of the people who don't know about the awesome site, let me fill you in.

• You make a list of 101 goals you want to complete in 1001 days.
• There's a feature to add goals to a list called "someday" for those things you want to do but don't see yourself finishing in the next 1001 days. Things like "get married" or "write the great American novel."
• In case you are lost on ideas, there's themed lists of ideas.
• You can also pick categories and choose between two different ideas.
• Or there's always been the list of most popular goals.
• More recently, they have added an option to have more than one 101/1001 list which makes me happy because I always end up with too many ideas to fit on one by itself so I need many...I'm an overachiever. 

That's really all there is to it, one of the simplest ways to organize your life goals, silly or serious. Years ago, right after the site started really taking off, a friend recommended it to me when I was struggling with figuring out which of many goals I really wanted to accomplish. I felt like I wasn't doing anything with my life...reality check, I was only 16 at the time. The weight of the world was already getting a little too heavy for me. But this site honestly helped me see the big picture of what I wanted to accomplish in the next 1001 days. My list is a mix of silly and serious goals that I want to do. Here are a few of my favorites:

• #6 - Leave an inspirational note in a book for someone (done): I left a note in an Encyclopedia of Satanism that I found at the library, it said "You are beautiful and I hope you smile today."
• #14 - Don't speak a word for a day: I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this one because of my inability to shut the hell up.
• #24 - Get a New Year's kiss (done): Though I may not be with the person that I kissed at midnight, it was a wonderful thing to turn the person I was dating and be able to kiss him as the New Year started thinking the rest of the year would only get better (I was wrong, we broke up less than two months later).
• #31 - Build a sandcastle: I know that this makes me a child but I really want to do this because its one of my favorite things to do at the beach but I always feel so embarrassed as a 20 year old building a sandcastle in front of a bunch of people.
• #56 - Answer "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind": Try it, I dare you...this one has been hard for me, that's the only reason it hasn't been done yet.
• #81 - Stop wearing makeup (done): For about a year, I stopped wearing makeup all together except for like tinted moisturizer. I felt really confident and then I started working with a bunch of gorgeous girls and being in retail so that ended pretty quick. But I still don't wear nearly as much as I used to.
• #100 - Say "I love you": I will be honest, I've only said it to one guy before and really meant it. I've always wanted to find that special someone that I could say it to and know that I actually love.
• #101 - Make another 101/1001 list: Of course this has to be on here, though I will admit that I'm already half way through making the next one.

I've been going through my dayzero list today and adding some new things, also removing goals that just don't apply to my life anymore. I wrote all the ones that I still want to complete in the notes section of my new planner, it actually filled all three pages. I'm ready to get rocking and rolling on this list. I want the next five months left in 2014 to be fantastic. What brought all this to mind was TSC's post about lists and why they rock. I swear I'm not obsessed with Lauryn or anything but I do think her posts are lovely, she's a great inspiration to me.
Until next time!!!
Love ya guys.

I Didn't Know Writing Was So Stressful

Well that's a bit of a lie, I guess. Its just all been getting to me recently. Since I could form a proper story (let's call it second grade), I've been writing. There are more notebook and flashdrives filled with half-done stories laying around than I care to count. Never a finished one. I can't think of one project that I've ever completed. Not even my short-stories are actually finished to a point that I'm content with. Don't get me wrong, as a writer, putting something out there that you are 100% happy with just isn't going to happen. This isn't a perfect world. Recently, I've had all this motivation to write but all of my old story ideas seem over-done or over-thought (partially because they've been floating around in my mind for years by this point). There just isn't anything coming to mind when I want to write. When I say that, I mean working on a novel, of course. Though, I'm not going to lie, working on this blog has been incredibly difficult as well. This is my third or fourth blog in the last two years, I just can't seem to stick with anything. I'm always changing what I want in life or what I want to write about. I felt like that was too confusing for my readers, which I had actually amassed a little bit of a following on my previous blog. But the content I was putting out there didn't sound like me, it wasn't something I particularly cared about...I could just write about it in a manner that made people think I did. Not something I'm completely proud of but whatever, that's in the past. That's the reason I started this blog in the first place, so that I could write about things that mattered to me. At the time, that was Magic: The Gathering. But now that I am in one of my phases where I'm burned out on playing MTG, I feel like I should still be forcing out posts about the subject even if I don't want to. That's not at all what I wanted in my blog but I have yet to find a real grove. There's such a stigma that you have to have a themed blog in order to do well but I realized that I don't care how many people read my blog. If there's just one person that likes my posts then its all worth it in my mind. So I guess what I'm trying to say, in a long, round-about way is that I'm going to be changing things up, trying to write more about things that truly matter to me. Things that I have a passion for. This week, I love the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood game but don't worry, I won't be making a whole blog post about that...Now that I say that, it sounds kind of tempting but I will try to resist the urge for you guys. There might not be an overall, consistent theme to my blog but I hope to start putting out content that I am truly proud of and am passionate about. Sorry for this rambling mess, I know that most (probably no) people will actually read this but it was something that I needed to put out there.

In the meantime, between working max hours in retail and working on a book (I will get there eventually), hopefully I can find some worthwhile things to post about.

Love ya guys.