Now in a few days I'll be posting my intentions for 2011 and what my new project entails and a few days after that we'll be into the new year and moving full speed ahead. Before we get there though lets talk about you. Yeah you heard me. If I can talk about myself for a year then the least I can do is give you the same opportunity. I encourage you to think about taking up a project of your own. I'll show you mine if you show me yours and we can even discuss ideas for potential projects right here. Hell, I can even do one better. You still have that number we talked about earlier tucked away somewhere? Good!! Take your number and find it on the chart below...
1 | Choose to learn a skill or ability that no one would expect from you. |
2 | Take a Skill or ability you are good at and teach it to someone else. |
3 | Every month for a year choose a book that has been on the NY Times best seller list and read and review it. |
4 | Every month choose a year out of a hat and watch then review the movie that won the Best Picture Academy Award for that year. |
5 | Every month choose a year out of a hat and read the book that won the Pulitzer Prize that year. |
6 | Choose an Actor, Actress or Director that you know little about. Spend the year exploring their works. |
7 | Set up and host weekly Wii work shops at your local retirement home. |
8 | Create a list of thought provoking questions. Each month interview a random person with those questions and share the results. |
9 | Create a Bucket List and try and get at least 3 things on it accomplished this year. |
10 | Wikipedia has a random entry posted on it's home page every day. Commit to reading them every day for the next year. |
11 | Choose a different country each month for a year and learn to make a type of soup native to each area. Share your recipes, critiques and maybe have an international soup party at the end. |
12 | Choose a TV show that you've never watched but have heard a lot about. Buy, borrow or rent each season and watch the whole thing to completion. Review and critique as you go. |
13 | Choose to only use products made or produced in the US for one whole year. Share your experiences and challenges. |
14 | Every week make a different kind of grilled cheese sandwich. See how many you can come up with. |
15 | Learn to play a sport or game you know nothing about. |
16 | Create your own board or card game. Teach at least 3 other people to play it. |
17 | Every month for a year invite someone vastly different from you to dinner. Share your experiences, what you learned and how you chose your guests. |
18 | Start a collection. |
19 | Ask some one you love to teach you something you don't know. |
20 | For six months become a mentor to someone half your age. For the next six months become a companion of someone twice your age. |
21 | Learn about a historical event only from people you can talk to personally and only from people who were alive when it happened. After a year see how much you know about the subject. |
22 | Each month choose a different genre of books and read the most popular recommendation from each. (Choose stuff you wouldn't usually read like romance, graphic novels, cook books, etc) |
23 | Learn something interesting from a stranger every day. |
24 | Become a food critic. Create a web page and use it to post your reviews of local restaurants. |
25 | Every month choose a word and see how many different languages you can learn to say it in. |
26 | For one year only give gifts that you've made yourself by hand. |
27 | Every month choose a style radically different from your own and compose a look/buy an outfit to fit you into that style. Go out on the town and experience the places your alternate identity would enjoy.. |
28 | Set your Netflix Queue to "random". |
29 | Every month for a year ask a stranger what the last book they enjoyed was and read it. |
30 | Even if you have no intention of going on it apply for a reality show. See how many you can get accepted on in a year. |
31 | Review a random blog every day and write a blog about it. |
32 | Every day for a year learn a dirty joke and memorize it so you can retell it. |
33 | During the next year learn about and celebrate at least four holidays not normally practiced in your country/area/region. |
34 | Choose a natural disaster, serial killer or cataclysm and devote your year to learn everything you can about it until you’re a master on the topic. |
35 | Design a class and then teach it at a local children's center. |
36 | Choose something that you're bad at and become good at it. |
37 | Choose your favorite holiday and host a party themed around it at a local homeless shelter |
38 | Every week for a year choose a word or phrase and learn what it really means, what it's origins are and what it's usage was originally for. |
39 | Pretend your back in school. Do a book report every month and post it on line to be "graded". |
40 | Every month write a letter to a business critiquing or praising their products/services. The funnier the better but you can be serious if you want to! |
41 | Learn a new dance every month for a year and make sure to go out and show off your new skills. |
42 | Ask a 10 year old to tell you about their childhood and write a blog about what you learn. Every month interview someone 10 years older until you reach the oldest person you can find and learn about what being a kid was like for them. |
Wallah!!! Instant project!!! And if the one you chose at random sucks then choose any one you want or make up a new one! I'm excited to see what you decide to do and would be really happy to be a part of it!!
So...tell me, tell me....what does the future hold for Project You??
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Okay, I got #19 - ask someone you love to teach you something you don't know - a particularly hard one for me. As many of you know, I'm difficult to teach, being a teacher and all. It's hard for me to admit what I don't know, but I'll think about it, Greg. Nice job on these choices - there's so many different ways this could go! You could change the world, superhero!
ReplyDeleteReally... # 13. It's like you wrote that purposely for me...knowing damn well that would be the hardest. My goal..is to do all 42.. i think. =-)
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