The Task

For many years, I messed about achieving things, and waited for my "real life" (presumably enabled by these achievements) to begin.  Mostly this entailed putting off fun things in order to go about my achieving activities.  Also some important stuff got set aside, occasionally to my regret.  Achievement is not without its various costs, it turns out. 

But now I'm done with a lot of the usual achieving activities that people do: I have a Ph.D.  I have a house.  I have a job that I like much better than the job I aimed for (and missed), which may even deserve the moniker "career," whatever that is.  The demands of this job are sufficiently broad that I'm pretty sure I could continue my achieving activities indefinitely.  But it occurs to me that this is a form of laziness, and that I had better do something else: if not instead of, then in addition to.

But on the other hand, 16 year of amateur achieving and 17 years of professional achieving has left me ill equipped to follow another path; I am terrified of what might happen if I curtail my monomaniacal pursuit of performance.  So, in an attempt to avoid the laziness I mentioned, I have created a list of 101 non-work non-achievements to be executed in 1001 days.  I appreciate that there is a certain pathology here.  But here we go.

Link:  101 goals in 1001 days