To Do List
I was playing around on a website yesterday that seems to be one of those sites that is something of an internet phenomenon. As with most ‘internet phenomena’ it is a very simple idea that has just caught on and now has a cult following.
The site is http://www.43things.com. Put simply it allows you to register and record a list of 43 things that you would like to achieve. Other people can then read your goals and give you a ‘cheer’ if they think your goal is a particularly admirable one. Alternatively if they have already achieved your goal they can post to say so and give you some encouragement or advice. A simple idea and one that doesn’t sound too interesting, but once you get onto the site you just can’t help looking through the goals which range from the trivial such as ‘do the washing up’ (yes, I achieved that one today!!) through to the grand such as ‘rid the world of poverty’.
You’ll find plenty of people wanting to achieve things that you have done. For me many of these were things I had taken for granted and didn’t really feel were an achievement. However, now that it is someone elses goal it gave me a sense of satisfaction at having achieved it.
You’ll find plenty of people with similar goals to yours, again these were goals that I hadn’t ever really thought of as being something I was working towards, but once you see them written down they suddenly take on a little more importance. Seeing these goals on the screen may even give you renewed enthusiasm to actually get around to achieving them. Whether or not it makes a difference is of course up to you but it is still interesting to see what people around the world are trying to achieve.
It also helps to put things in perspective, are the things you are worried about at the moment really THAT important? Surely you should be spending more time trying to achieve some real goals rather than just existing from day to day. What have you achieved today?
For me I also like the fact that the internet allows such simple ideas to become huge. No doubt the people behind it are making lots of money from it and good luck to them. It is an original idea that has been well executed.
