Thursday, June 13, 2013

Living Deliberately: My 99 in 999

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "the unexamined life is not worth living."  I agree.  I also agree with the philosophy of the fictional character Alex Hitchins...


Hitch: "Like I always tell my clients - begin each day as if it were on purpose."


A few years ago I either came across or invented the phrase "living deliberately."  It resonates with me a lot.  In fact, I wrote a whole blog post on it on my other blog, here.

This list of 99 goals represents my attempt to live deliberately over the next 999 days (and from there on out).  I don't want to let life happen, I want to make it happen.  There are so many things that I want to experience, learn, and do that won't happen if I don't plan it.

I also realize that my privilege and opportunity to be able to live this way is incredible.  So, each time I accomplish one of my 99 things, I will be donating a dollar (hey, I'm a starving grad student!) to charity.  I plan to blog about each thing I do as well as each charity I donate to, hopefully leaving my readers inspired along the way.  Enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. I love this. I'm rooting for you. And I'm at a time in my life where I've had to muster through life happening to me, since the accident. I've had a pretty good attitude so far, but this last stretch is going slow and my patience thin. This was just what I needed to read to take back my umpf.

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    1. You've been a champ with your accident! Glad you're getting your umpf back! You could totally do your own 99, just with things you can do. I love you!

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  2. This plan is inspiring to me, Sabrina! Go for it.

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  3. I just found your blog and I absolutely love it! In high school I had an amazing English teacher whose theme for the year was "living deliberately." As far as I know, it comes from Henry David Thoreau, who said (talking about his time at Walden Pond), "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." It appears to me that that's exactly what you're doing! I definitely need to focus on living deliberately instead of just getting through each day.

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