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My Magic 100 list - comments appreciated!
I'm new to this whole blog thing so please bear with me. I'm four days into my Magic 100 and I wanted to follow my own progress by blogging on this site... keeps me honest with myself I guess. I'm an Aussie living in London (moved here in April this year), doing the work and travel thing at the moment. I work in finance and am reaching a stage where I'm looking for something that inspires and motivates me. I'm not exactly sure what I want to be doing at this stage so I guess you can say I'm in a period of self-discovery.
After making this list, I must admit I'm a bit daunted as to how I will achieve some of these goals (largely in the areas of finance and the cost of completing all these goals). I'm trying to suspend disbelief but its not always easy and the self-doubt can creep in sometimes. I have included some very basic goals in my list also so that I can feel I am accomlishing tasks along the way.
Here they are:
Health & Wellbeing
• Do my hour of power every morning in the month of December
• Develop a 12-month training plan by 30/11/08.
• Reduce body fat to 12% by end of 100 days.
• Commit to an elimination diet from 17/11/08 – 15/12/08.
• Complete the Fatblast 20-week program.
• Wake up at 6.30am Mon-Fri from 10/11/08 – 31/12/08.
• Book an appointment with physio to fix my knee and neck.
• Prepare a 4-weekly meal plan throughout the 100 days.
• Be able to see my six-pack by end of 100 days.
• Start boxing lessons and complete 10 lessons by end of 100 days.
• Start wrestling lessons and complete 5 lessons by end of 100 days.
• Stretch my calves every night for six minutes.
• Brush my teeth every night before bed.
• Do 50 push-ups and 20 plyometric jumps every morning as soon as I wake up.
• Maintain a food diary for 100 days.
• Maintain a training diary for 100 days.
• Stay off alcohol for one month (10/11/08 – 06/12/08).
• Limit myself to a maximum 5 drinks on a night out.
• Complete 12 consecutive chin-ups by 18/02/09.
• Bench-press 110kg for 10 reps unassisted by 18/02/09.
• Squat 120kg for 10 reps unassisted by 18/02/09.
• Deadlift 120kg for 8 reps unassisted.
Relationships
• Ring family once a week.
• Ring Trace once a month.
• Send Xmas cards to Grandma and Mick.
• Ring one friend in Australia every weekend.
• Catch up with at least one friend each weekend in London.
• Go on two dates a month.
• Send Northy & Kristin a house-warming gift.
• Cook one meal a month for house-mates.
• Buy a Webcam and register on Skype so that I can speak to friends and family.
• Go out for dinner with flat-mates once a month.
Career
• Have a new job by 18/02/09.
• Spend at least one hour each week looking at career opportunities outside and within the finance industry.
• Call four recruitment agencies twice weekly until I have found a new job.
• Go see FirstContact regarding renewing visa.
• Have three new ideas for completely new careers by 18/02/09.
• Have three new ideas and rough plans for starting a new business by 18/02/09.
• Bring client database up to date by 24/11/08.
• Complete my filing by 24/11/08.
• Approach each member of my team once a week and see if there’s anything I can help them out with.
• Wear a tie to work Monday to Thursday.
• Automate the monthly client performance reporting as much as possible by 30/11/08.
• Work out how many weeks worth of work I have left on my visa.
• Send email to surf club notifying them of my status.
Finances
• Produce a 12 month budget by 16/11/08.
• Earn £18,000 by the end of 100 days.
• Generate £10,000 in passive income by the end of 100 days.
• Increase my hourly wage from £18 to £22 per hour by the end of 100 days.
• Save £10,000 in personal income by the end of 100 days.
• Save £60 per week until 31/12/08.
• Save at least £100 a week from 01/01/09 to 18/02/09.
• Pay off all debts by 31/12/08.
Adventure
• Go to Egypt to see the pyramids and trek across the desert on a camel.
• Go to Berlin for a weekend.
• Go to church for four weeks in a row.
• Participate in at least two volunteer activities by 18/02/08.
• Visit Bath
• Visit Oxford University
• Visit Cambridge University
• Visit Stonehenge
• Visit Windsor Castle
• Visit Madam Tussauds, London Science Museum and Tate Modern.
• Learn to Scuba Dive
• Create a personal webpage with blog.
• Visit Nottingham
• Visit the Lakes District
• Go see a Premier League match.
• Produce a rough outline for big trip in 2009.
• Start a conversation with a stranger every day for one month (01/01/09-31/01/09)
• Go see a West End show.
• Go on the London Eye.
• Go speed dating.
Education
• Complete a beginners DJ course.
• Learn to speak Spanish and be able to hold a conversation for 5 minutes by the end of 100 days
• Read the four Gospels of the Bible.
• Complete Anthony Robbins’ “Get The Edge” program.
• Complete Anthony Robbins’ “Personal Power II” program.
• Complete “Twelve Pillars of Success” program by Chris Widener and Jim Rohn
• Complete “Financial Success” Program
• Learn how to draw comics and have one page completed by 18/02/08.
• Read “Wake Up And Change Your Life” by Duncan Bannatyne.
• Read “The Dragon Reborn” by Robert Jordan.
• Read “The Shadow Rising” by Robert Jordan.
• Read “Its not about the bike – my journey back to life” by Lance Armstrong.
• Read “The Life of Mahatma Gandhi”
• Read “The Google Story”
• Read “Richard Branson – Business Stripped Bare”
• Read “Magic Bullets”
• Read Arnold Schwarzenegger biography
• Read a book on the Crusades
• Read a book on body language.
• Read a book on vocal control.
• Cook one meal out of a recipe book each week.
• Learn how to speed read
• Start a beginner guitar course.
• Research two companies/investment products each week.
• Read one industry magazine each week.
• Purchase a music production program and have one beat produced by 18/02/08.
• Learn Excel to an intermediate level (i.e. with some understanding of pivot tables and Visual Basic).
• Learn Powerpoint to an intermediate level.
Please feel free to share your thoughts. Any constructive criticism is welcome.
Thanks
Mat
After making this list, I must admit I'm a bit daunted as to how I will achieve some of these goals (largely in the areas of finance and the cost of completing all these goals). I'm trying to suspend disbelief but its not always easy and the self-doubt can creep in sometimes. I have included some very basic goals in my list also so that I can feel I am accomlishing tasks along the way.
Here they are:
Health & Wellbeing
• Do my hour of power every morning in the month of December
• Develop a 12-month training plan by 30/11/08.
• Reduce body fat to 12% by end of 100 days.
• Commit to an elimination diet from 17/11/08 – 15/12/08.
• Complete the Fatblast 20-week program.
• Wake up at 6.30am Mon-Fri from 10/11/08 – 31/12/08.
• Book an appointment with physio to fix my knee and neck.
• Prepare a 4-weekly meal plan throughout the 100 days.
• Be able to see my six-pack by end of 100 days.
• Start boxing lessons and complete 10 lessons by end of 100 days.
• Start wrestling lessons and complete 5 lessons by end of 100 days.
• Stretch my calves every night for six minutes.
• Brush my teeth every night before bed.
• Do 50 push-ups and 20 plyometric jumps every morning as soon as I wake up.
• Maintain a food diary for 100 days.
• Maintain a training diary for 100 days.
• Stay off alcohol for one month (10/11/08 – 06/12/08).
• Limit myself to a maximum 5 drinks on a night out.
• Complete 12 consecutive chin-ups by 18/02/09.
• Bench-press 110kg for 10 reps unassisted by 18/02/09.
• Squat 120kg for 10 reps unassisted by 18/02/09.
• Deadlift 120kg for 8 reps unassisted.
Relationships
• Ring family once a week.
• Ring Trace once a month.
• Send Xmas cards to Grandma and Mick.
• Ring one friend in Australia every weekend.
• Catch up with at least one friend each weekend in London.
• Go on two dates a month.
• Send Northy & Kristin a house-warming gift.
• Cook one meal a month for house-mates.
• Buy a Webcam and register on Skype so that I can speak to friends and family.
• Go out for dinner with flat-mates once a month.
Career
• Have a new job by 18/02/09.
• Spend at least one hour each week looking at career opportunities outside and within the finance industry.
• Call four recruitment agencies twice weekly until I have found a new job.
• Go see FirstContact regarding renewing visa.
• Have three new ideas for completely new careers by 18/02/09.
• Have three new ideas and rough plans for starting a new business by 18/02/09.
• Bring client database up to date by 24/11/08.
• Complete my filing by 24/11/08.
• Approach each member of my team once a week and see if there’s anything I can help them out with.
• Wear a tie to work Monday to Thursday.
• Automate the monthly client performance reporting as much as possible by 30/11/08.
• Work out how many weeks worth of work I have left on my visa.
• Send email to surf club notifying them of my status.
Finances
• Produce a 12 month budget by 16/11/08.
• Earn £18,000 by the end of 100 days.
• Generate £10,000 in passive income by the end of 100 days.
• Increase my hourly wage from £18 to £22 per hour by the end of 100 days.
• Save £10,000 in personal income by the end of 100 days.
• Save £60 per week until 31/12/08.
• Save at least £100 a week from 01/01/09 to 18/02/09.
• Pay off all debts by 31/12/08.
Adventure
• Go to Egypt to see the pyramids and trek across the desert on a camel.
• Go to Berlin for a weekend.
• Go to church for four weeks in a row.
• Participate in at least two volunteer activities by 18/02/08.
• Visit Bath
• Visit Oxford University
• Visit Cambridge University
• Visit Stonehenge
• Visit Windsor Castle
• Visit Madam Tussauds, London Science Museum and Tate Modern.
• Learn to Scuba Dive
• Create a personal webpage with blog.
• Visit Nottingham
• Visit the Lakes District
• Go see a Premier League match.
• Produce a rough outline for big trip in 2009.
• Start a conversation with a stranger every day for one month (01/01/09-31/01/09)
• Go see a West End show.
• Go on the London Eye.
• Go speed dating.
Education
• Complete a beginners DJ course.
• Learn to speak Spanish and be able to hold a conversation for 5 minutes by the end of 100 days
• Read the four Gospels of the Bible.
• Complete Anthony Robbins’ “Get The Edge” program.
• Complete Anthony Robbins’ “Personal Power II” program.
• Complete “Twelve Pillars of Success” program by Chris Widener and Jim Rohn
• Complete “Financial Success” Program
• Learn how to draw comics and have one page completed by 18/02/08.
• Read “Wake Up And Change Your Life” by Duncan Bannatyne.
• Read “The Dragon Reborn” by Robert Jordan.
• Read “The Shadow Rising” by Robert Jordan.
• Read “Its not about the bike – my journey back to life” by Lance Armstrong.
• Read “The Life of Mahatma Gandhi”
• Read “The Google Story”
• Read “Richard Branson – Business Stripped Bare”
• Read “Magic Bullets”
• Read Arnold Schwarzenegger biography
• Read a book on the Crusades
• Read a book on body language.
• Read a book on vocal control.
• Cook one meal out of a recipe book each week.
• Learn how to speed read
• Start a beginner guitar course.
• Research two companies/investment products each week.
• Read one industry magazine each week.
• Purchase a music production program and have one beat produced by 18/02/08.
• Learn Excel to an intermediate level (i.e. with some understanding of pivot tables and Visual Basic).
• Learn Powerpoint to an intermediate level.
Please feel free to share your thoughts. Any constructive criticism is welcome.
Thanks
Mat
4 Comments
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Comment by Pam Davenport on November 22, 2008 at 7:21pm -
I just started a few minutes ago and haven't done my goals yet so I'm really impressed with yours! I've been to Sydney and the gold coast and am planning a trip to Perth next Oct. Just wondering what part of Australia you are from and why did you leave. I need to learn powerpoint for my job and didn't realize there were levels.
Good luck with your goals.
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Comment by NessyK on January 4, 2009 at 7:21am
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hey Mat,
í'm new to this as well... got to say, as i was working through my magic 100 i felt very nervous around the career section. Then, during my research, i came across your top 100. so i hope you dont mind but i've 'pinched' one of your goals, the, have 3 new ideas for completely new career... i loved it! It has taken the pressure off me to decide right now, and gives my mind the time to marinate over new prospects for 2009. thanks for your help
regards,
ness
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Comment by Helen Edwards on March 31, 2009 at 6:15pm - I have just joined today Magic 100 and I am well impressed with your list of goals.
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