How to Make Your "101 Things To Do Before I Die" List

I have made this list to give some guidance on how to make your "101 Things To Do Before I Die" List. I broke them into areas of:
30 Things I want to BE
30 Things I want to HAVE
30 Things I want to DO
10 Places I want to GO
1 Breakthrough Goal - The big next step goal that takes you to the next level. That would best enable all others.

Meal Planning & Grocery List Maker

This is my Meal Planning & Grocery List Maker. It helps you plan out the meals for the week while creating grocery list of things you need to buy in categories that making the shopping faster. I also have a section for "Don't forget to eat" where you can list those fruits, vegetables, and left-overs you always forget to eat and go bad.

You can download this as an excel document.

My wife and I use it on Google Docs and share the document.

Video: How to Cut Open a Coconut

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How to Open a Coconut and Make Coconut Milk

to watch a short video

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Free 411 Service

1-800-Free-411 can save you up to $3.50 on cell phone chargers. Compeletly free, just need to listen to a quick add.

Next Action:
Add to your contacts on your phone and skype.

Habit: Keep a "One-Sentence Journal"

Why:

5 Powerful Reasons to Make Reflection a Daily Habit, and How to Do It

Why I started keeping a daily “one-sentence journal” (ok, a not-quite daily journal).

How:

I have found the most practical and organized way to keep a journal is digitally. Set up a private blog or an anonymous public blog with Blogger

How to Manage Your Online Profiles: 3P Idenities

Problem: Have you ever found yourself staring at website registration set up screen, twisting your brain on figuring out if you should give up your email address, or whether to use your real name or made up user name?

Solution: 3P Identities. You should only manage 3 identities. Here's how:


1) Personal Identity. Should be your main email address and most protected. Only use with family, friends, and trusted contacts. For this account I recommend Gmail because it is the absolute best email service out there hands down. It will also allow you to forward all email addresses into and send email from the account. Email address suggestion: firstname.middeinitial.lastname@gmail.com

2) Professional Identity. This is your work email address, only for work and work related associations, blogs, and networks. For email address I would keep professional sounding nothing to high schoolish and set it up with Yahoo, a decent secondary account.

3) Political Identity. This is your anonymous account that you don't have to worry about future employers figuring out what kind of music you listen to, youtube videos you watch, networks you join, comments you make, and blogs you read and write. When ever I sign up for a new social network or webapp I always use this email address to protect my main inbox from all the spam and updates that come when you give up your email address. For this account I use Hotmail which is making a nice comeback these days and I would come up with some fun original nickname that you will never have to worry about it being already taken and hints a little something about you.

Once you have these three email address set up you can use the same user name and passwords for each area of your online experience, so you will only have to manage 3 accounts.

See Also:
What is OpenID?
5 “DISPOSABLE” Web Accounts to Keep Your Identity Safe

Weightloss Social Network

I tried a couple health social networks and I have found DietTV to be the best so far. Although it's still in the beta stage they have a large community and great features like weight, activity, and food trackers that count up and graph your weightloss, calories burned and calories consumed.

GTD Mobile Webapp Quest

Just listened to Get Things Done Fast in one sitting during my 10 drive back from the family holiday visit. It was a great refresher on my productivity system. One thing that has changed since the first time I read the book has been the boom in mobile web and ease of use with my new Verizon Voyager iPhone Killer. So I am in the market for the best mobile GTD Webapp that could finally kinkless integrate and all my systems and make them accessible anywhere.

The finalist were:

Remember the Milk vs. Nozbe vs. Vitalist

My Rating:

*All have good mobile versions
*All have a fair free membership
*Remember the Milk and Nozbe have a Netvibes widget
*Remember the Milk and Vitalist have better user interface
*Remember the Milk allows you to add your tasks to Google Calendar
*Remember the Milk saves your completed task so you refer back to.
*Remember the Milk is the most customizable (Nozbe has preset contexts you can not change - Big turn off and Vitalist have 10 limited) See GTD with RTM: Getting Things Done with Remember The Milk for a great post on how to customize Remember the Milk to meet you GTD needs. Basically make your bucket lists (waiting for, tickler, someday/maybe, inbox) then use tagging to label your contexts.

My Pick:
1st Remember the Milk
2nd Vitalist
3rd Nozbe