My Impossible List

My original post about the Impossible List here. I first encountered the Impossible List via College Info Geek (a.k.a. Thomas Frank), and the creator of the Impossible method is Joel Runyon, who has since created Impossible HQ.

 

Fitness

  • Run a 10K
  • Run a half-marathon
  • Complete a Spartan Race
  • 100 consecutive push-ups

Martial Arts Related

  • Start Boxing (Summer 2017)
    • Get a summer boxing membership
  • Start Muay Thai (March 5, 2018)
    • Go to 25 boxing or muay thai classes in 30 days (March 2018)
    • Compete
  • Join Wushu (Fall 2017)
    • Get a solo in a Wushu show
    • Learn standing backflip
    • Do the splits

 

Habits

  • Created a blog (December 2017)
    • First post
    • Tenth post
    • Twentieth post
    • Fiftieth post
  • Complete a Goodreads reading challenge
  • 3 items of gratitude for 30 days
  • Write 500 words a day for 30 days
  • Read 25 pages a day for two months in a row
  • 52 books in 52 weeks (one year)

 

Organizing

  • Lead three campaigns for WAA (AAS-I in 2016-2017; Disaggregated Data in 2017; retroactive student leadership awards for past student activists)
  • Complete a WAA directory
  • Build a community website for WAA and AAS
  • Retroactive student leadership award for WAAM-SLAM I and II activists
    • A place on campus dedicated to past activists
  • Volunteer at Beijing LGBT Center
    • Visit the Center (March 2018)
  • Volunteer at Taipei LGBT Center
    • Visit the Center

 

Professional

  • First paycheck
  • First fellowship (Lumpkin Summer Institute)
    • Second (Wellesley Centers for Women)
    • Third (Wellesley in Washington)
  • Graduate Wellesley
  • Get into graduate school
  • Certify as personal trainer or Crossfit trainer
  • Certify as a Somatics instructor or mental health professional

 

Arts

  • Get published online! (Rest for Resistance, April 2018)
  • Write my 10th poem
  • Perform my 10th poem
  • Publish a chapbook
  • Make a Zine (“The History and Future of AAS”, May 2017)
    • Make the second
    • Make the fifth
  • Digitalize “all” of our non-digital photos, with tags
  • Perform at “Let Me Speak”

 

Skills

  • PADI certify (Summer 2013); PADI Caribbean Reef Ecology certify (Summer 2014)
  • Learn how to surf
  • Brew my own beer

 

Events to attend

 

Travel

  • Circle Taiwan via bike, 環島 (9-days, April 2018)
  • Visit Tibet
  • Visit Nepal
  • Visit India (December 2013)

 

This list is iterative and will continue to evolve as I develop and grow.

Last updated: May 20, 2018