100 Things I'd Like To Do
There's a page at the end of my Hobonichi Day Free that's titled "My 100". I think it's standard in every Hobonichi, and it's supposed to be a list of 100 custom entries to one's own discretion. Mine is "100 Things I'd Like To Do Before The End Of The Year", which sounds more daunting than it is.
The rules are simple:
- All activities can be done alone and don't require specific input from other people
- There is no goal other than "doing the thing". No judgement, no streaks, not set results needed
- It should be something I've thought about more than a couple of times lately, and if I ask myself "What's stopping me?" I can answer "Nothing in particular"
I won't share the complete list, but I can list a couple of examples: "Open a blog", "Play Clair Obscur"1, "Carve some stamps", "Read more", "Send some letters", "Start drawing again"2. I've got 29 entries written down so far, of which I've only completed 16. I'm not sure I'll end up writing 100 Things by December to begin with.
When I'm feeling nervous because I feel like I'm wasting time being stressed about everything, when I'm paralyzed by fear, I open my journal to that page and look for something to do. When I'm overwhelmed by the amount of things I want to do, so much that I feel like I can't keep it all in my head, I write them down in the empty entries.
Sometimes I just read the page to check out what I've done so far. It's nice to remember the small things.
Note how it's not "Finish" but just "Play": of course I want to finish all games I listed, but I consider one done even if I decide to drop it. The final step is "being done with it" regardless of how much progress has been made.↩
This is the only one I haven't marked as "done" from the ones I listed here, and one of the hardest ones as "start doing something again" is hard to quantify and doesn't follow rule 2 strictly. That said, it's important enough to me to want to write it down.↩