For the past month, I stopped doing anything except for tasks that I should be doing: projects that need to be tackled, chores waiting to be done. I even stopped doing the Confident in God reading challenge. I stopped watching my favorite videos. Life for a month is Project-Eat-Sleep-Project-Sleep-Repeat. It is absolutely exhausting. I wasn’t focused. Overwhelmed is an underestimation. I can’t even find a scintilla of productivity. In short, I struggled hard – seems like redundant but I guess, that’s what it is.
Then I realise I have to check the items/goals/aspirations I leave unfinished, unchecked, unattended. The more I have ideas, the more I feel the urge to just sleep and sleep and put everything off.
Bucket list? I know I have some creazy bucket list. The truth is once we’re on our death beds we don’t really look back and dream, “I wish I could go to Europe, travel to Egypt, jump off a cliff”. Instead of focusing on those, I must tick off items I have put off doing.
Here’s my updated list, most action-based, again just to get them off my mind and release the negative overwhelming feeling:
Appy to Australia Awards REAP submission
Study abroad
Take PhD or Master’s abroad
Finish PhD
Submit research proposal to journals and get published!
Present paper in international conference at least thrice
Lolo anointing
Get other relatives baptised (Bornok, Michelle)
Publish Speech book
Commercialize Own Created Boardgame
Produce Teaching Toolkit online
Produce Public Speaking training online
Apply to Chevening
Apply at Harvard, Stanford or MIT (even if I know I won’t stand a chance!) 🙂
Publish Memoir online (Focus on testimony as Christian)
Create a Christian Workbook
Create own podcast
Pitch One screenplay (Focus on Xenon)
Win another exchange to any country in Europe
Create Academic Book/Manual (Classroom Discourse Analysis)
Publish the Language Documentation Website
Publish OraTOR App
Publish OraTOR book
Overhaul OraTOR and make it profitable
Win Toastmasters’ International
Works of Mercy
1. Feed 1,000 or more people (1,000 Manna from Heaven)
2. Visit 1,000 or more sick people (1,000 Touch from the Great Doctor)
3. Give 1,000 or more Thank you and Praise Notes (1,000 Notes from God)
4. Commit writing to a death row prisoner for a year (A warrant of release)
5. Send a letter to a soldier
Places
1. Visit Surigao
2. Visit Chocolate Hills
3. Visit Cebu
4. Visit Vigan
5. Visit Palawan
6. Visit Hong Kong Disneyland
7. Go to Jerusalem
8. Visit Eiffel tower and Louvre
9. Visit any country in Africa aside from Egypt
10. Visit Statue of Liberty
11. Visit Egypt
12. Tour Germany and Switzerland
13. Visit Vatican city
14. Cruise
15. Visit United Nations in New York
16. Visit Harvard
17. Visit Princeton Uni
18. Visit Yale University
19. Visit MIT
20. Visit 5 States
Skills
1. Publish a Book
2. Speak at any TEDX event
3. Present research in an international forum
4. Get a PhD
5. Study Abroad
6. Publish three researches
7. Complete an online class
8. Drive
Others
1. Eat at an expensive French restaurant
- Own a Speech/Language Center
3. Study in a Coffee shop (seriously, I haven’t experienced this one)
4. Write a letter to myself and open it again after 10 years
5. Read BBC’s Top 100 Books to read before one dies
6. Stroll around a park alone
7. Create a bucket list blog
8. Buy someone lunch
9. Start a vlog
10. Revamp my wardrobe
11. Write my autobiography
12. Volunteer in the church
13. Write a blog post at least once a week
14. Volunteer in an organization
15. Leave a copy of my three favorite books and a CD in a public place with a “free, hope you enjoy it” note.
16. Go camping
17. Attend a circus show
18. Ride a cable car
19. Send 5 postcards through postcrossing
20. Send a bouquet and a box of chocolates to a lady. (O.O)
21. Take 365 photos in a year ( one shot each day)
So far this is my list and I already started working toward ticking each item off.
If you have creative and fun activities to suggest, please share them below. 😀
-Kayla, the Theoxenophile
I actually have 22 goals for 2021. It’s a sacred agreement between Jesus and me, so I cannot share them here but whenever I accomplish one goal, or do something that helps accomplish one, I’m going to share it here.
