My Life List

A while back, two bloggers I follow, 1617 Sunshine Avenue and Juni Desirée, posted something called “My Life List”. There’s actually a book called The Life List written by Lori Nelson Spielman (which I will be reading this year, for sure!).

Basically, it’s a list you write of the dreams and goals you want to accomplish throughout life. I’ve been thinking about it, and I really like the idea. Suits me perfectly, don’t you think?

It’s actually a way of visualization – kind of like those vision boards that I’ve been talking about and that I love creating. So, naturally, I wanted to make a life list – and of course, share it with you!

So I asked myself:
If there were no obstacles whatsoever, what would I do in my life?

And here’s what I’ve come up with (so far – but the list keeps growing, and growing, and growing…):

1. Write a book
2. Publish a book
3. Become a bestselling author
4. Write a children’s book
5. Talk in front of a crowd of 500 people
6. Earn a very good living on my writing
7. Reach out to thousands of people each week
8. Attend film school
9. Write a screenplay and have it turn into a movie
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10. Marry the man of my dreams…
11. … And spend a wonderful lifetime with him
12. Buy a house with a beautiful garden and a pool
13. Start a family
14. Spend Christmas with the whole family in  snow-covered northern Sweden
15. Live in London
16. Move back to London
17. Live in the south of France
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18. Visit 100 different countries
19. See the great pyramids of Egypt
20. Go on a safari
21. See the Victoria Falls
22. Visit Zanzibar
23. Visit Madagascar and fly over Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park
24. Road trip around France
25. Walk a lavender field in France
26. Visit Versailles
27. Road trip USA
28. Hawaii
29. New York
30. New Orleans
31. Travel through South America
32. Hike the Inca trail to Machu Picchu
33. Travel around the Caribbean
34. The Azores
35. Travel around Australia
36. See Uluru
37. New Zealand
38. Iceland
39. See a live polar bear in its natural habitat
40. See Northern lights
41. Walk the El Camino with my mum
42. Spin around on a field of tulips in Holland
43. Ireland
44. Galápagos Islands
45. Vietnam
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46. Learn fluent French
47. Watch a sunrise on the beach
48. Watch a sunset on the beach
49. Try rock climbing
50. Swim into a waterfall and see what’s behind it
51. Make more friends (especially writer friends)
52. Reach 10 000 followers on my blog
53. Eat cake for dinner
54. Behave like a child at Disneyland
55. Slow dance on an empty dance floor to live piano music
56. Meet Elizabeth Gilbert
57. Take a photography class
58. Take a salsa dancing class
59. Try contemporary dance
60. Get a cat. No, two. (At least.)
61. Learn how to surf
62. Dive in the Great Barrier Reef
63. Dive in a shark cage
64. Touch an elephant
65. Hold a koala
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66. Be part of a writing group
67. Open a creative house for kids
68. Teach
69. Change people’s lives
70. Help a child in need
71. Help someone else fulfill their dream
72. Become a better human being with each passing year
73. Read more as each year passes
74. Meditate every day

 

Now, the things I’ve already accomplished in life, I haven’t put up on the life list, unless they’ve been something really important to me or a true life-long dream. Those things, you might have noticed, have been crossed over (but I wanted to keep them on there) – just to remind myself of them, and how much I can do when I set my mind to it. Otherwise, I wanted to keep this list one to refer to from now on.

The only true obstacle stopping you from doing anything you would put on your life list, is actually you and your mind. Think of the post I wrote on Sunday…

So tell me…

What would you put on your life list?

Go wild!

Endless love,

Jo