A List of things I hope to do in my lifetime. I first published this list in 2008. Occasionally I go back to it to add a new goal, or mark something as accomplished. Both actions are terribly satisfying.
1. Write and publish a book.
2. Take a roadtrip across the US in a camper.
3. Live in Italy for a year.
4. Drink mint tea in Morocco
5. Speak fluent French
6. Learn to dance
7. Grow a garden8. Hanglide.
9. Build my own studio/barn on our land.
10. Learn to surf.
11. Take a photography class.
12. Write regularly for a magazine.
13. Buy a potters wheel & kiln and throw pots in the garage.
14. Teach creative writing.
15. Complete a sport triathlon.
16. Own a tiny apartment in a big city to sneak away to.
17. Meditate.
18. Learn to kayak & join a boating club.
20. Take a trip to India.
21. Learn to sail & spend a year homeschooling/sailing with our kid(s).
22. Travel somewhere every year.
23. Grow a rose garden.
25. See the northern lights.
26. Go on a multi-day biking trip with just my guy (again.)
27. Ski Snowboard black diamonds.
28. Go camping every summer.
29. See the monarch migration in Mexico.
30. Visit Prague
31. Keep bees.
32. Build Bean a tree house.
33. Host a dinner party.
34. Find more close friends nearby.
35. Own horses.
36. Attend Speak at TED.
37. Meet Isabell Illende & Barbara Kingsolver.
38. Spend a winter in New Zealand
39. Make small + smart investments.
40. Lend money using Kiva.org
41. Lead life-changing creative spirit workshops.
42. Live on the ocean
43. Meet Ira Glass
44. Live in a house with painted white floors
45. Live in Paris
46. Visit the Galapagos
* Inspired by Mighty Girl I’ve always sort of kept a list like this, tucked into the back of a notebook. A life list. Things that keep you true to the heat at the core of who you are.
What’s on you’r list?
i’m rubbing my hands together…anxious to write my own…
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I don’t have a list of things to do…. I’m just trying to do them.
Jane
Wowsers. I brainstormed a list like this a few weeks ago. It’s so nice to see what other people’s lists look like, too. Top at my list is probably to beat my flying phobia, which I’m working on, and which will open up so many more doors and make crossing other things off the list (such as traveling and seeing my family more often) much easier. Small things: taking thermoses of hot tea and a china cup along when hiking – such a fun thing to do – pull out my sketchpads again – and lots and lots of others.
I love lists, too. Good luck on yours. Keep us posted!
go to new york & take my mom with!
go on a missions trip to africa & take my girls with.
help with habitat for humanity.
travel to montana & texas (not sure why, i just want to)and also do a horseback riding 3 day excursion at one of those places.
take my girls to the ocean & collect seashells.
write a children’s book.
those are just a few. many more on my list. some have changed. others i have crossed off.
i love lists!
tara
Hey, what a beaut list. I’ve left my runnin’ a bit late for many of my things on a wish-list, but I hope there’s still time to publish that book that nearly got published! As for travel – yes – I want to see more Pacific Islands but that long haul by plane to Europe – no way I could sit on a plane that long. My main wish these days is for my kids and grandkids to be healthy, safe, and find a passion in life as well as great friends.
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Isabel Allende….you mean Isabel Allende. I say this because you wrote about her once before and I hunted like a crazy person and finally figured it out that you misspelled her name. I found out who she was and I’m greatful. I thank you for turning me on to her.
I’m a list fan too, and enjoy putting one together every few years so I can see how it changes. About Prague – do visit! It’s a beautiful city and there are lots of ways of escaping the crowds and really seeing it that I’d be so happy to pass along.
I’ve followed a bit of Mighty Girl’s list. I might tackle my own soon. I’ve tackled a few things on my list.
I wrote a “100 things” list, similarly shaped, out of deep depression last winter. It gave me a lot of momentum to pull myself up and out of a failing marriage and focus on where I’m going instead of where I was and where I’d been. I think it is interesting that our lists overlap on a few things: write and publish a book, live in Italy for a year, see the northern lights, microlend.
Other things on my list: learn to play the cello, plant a night-blooming garden, learn how to make cheese from scratch, do yoga every day, do guerrilla art.
I printed out my list and stuck it in the back of my journal. Whenever I’m feeling down or stuck, I read it again and pick one thing to work toward.
See you again. :) Great list! I hope you can find time for MANY MANY of them!! :)