Sometime today, go to Nicholas Bate's website and read his complete list entitled 2011: TheYearofTransformation.

Next, pick one item and do it.  Just do it.  Exercise a choice.  Do something better than watching television.  Make bread.  Reflect on your week.  Read a biography.  Go to the library.

Then do another and another and another.  You will be pleasantly surprised by the results.

I've had people ask me why I so enjoy Bate's writing.  My answer is always quick:  It is doable.  I don't mean that in a standard-lowering way; I mean it the right way.  The actions Bate writes about are: a) written in English rather than some gibberish pseudo-science or pop psychology language, and b) completely doable in the best sense of the word.