Step 19 - Discovering Web 2.0 tools

I checked out a site called "43 Things"
http://www.43things.com/about/view/learn_more

Cool concept, "43 Things"is a site that encourages you to record and share 43 goals/aspirations with the rest of the world, no matter how trivial or unattainable. In general, vague goals are the most popular goals on 43 things. I suppose it's kinda hard to be specific to your life when you are sharing the list with millions of people who don't know you.

You can scroll through large lists of goals submitted by other users and add them to your own profile, or you can be spontaneous and think of your own. Some people would already have lists in their mind of goals they are trying to achieve or would like to achieve, but for others I think it is much harder. It's kind of confronting when you try to find 43 things you want to do in your lifetime. If you peruse this site you will see some examples of goals eg:

• drink more water
• write a novel
• kiss in the rain
• stop procrastinating
• plant a garden

The list goes on and on and on.

You can also keep track of your progress and blog about your progress, so if you wanted to "plant a garden" and today you actually bought the seeds, this would be recorded as progress.

I thought about putting my own list together, but of course you need to sign up, create a user name, password etc. Don't think I want to get zapped away into another site, have already spent far to much time reading other peoples goals. But still it is a cool site, and I think it could be used to motivate people toward their goals, it also has the support of on online community in the form of forum boards, comments etc.

Over all a cool site.