My Life List

My Life List

This isn’t a bucket list. These aren’t things I need to cross off before I die. I will not accomplish everything here, but that’s not the goal. This list exists simply as a collection of things I would like to do in my lifetime. If writing them down helps me focus, and in turn helps me achieve some of them, the list has served its purpose.

A list should never make you feel guilty for not accomplishing something! It should serve as a compass, opening you up to experiences that you may have discounted otherwise. I hope to hold myself more accountable and achieve more. I tend to do well with public lists.

I have italicized those that I have completed.

Experiences
• Live in a foreign city for a year
• Spend a week without electricity or running water
• Go on a 'Girls Only' holiday
• Host a traditional Turkday dinner
• Shake the President’s hand
• Have a hobby farm
• Raise chickens
• Host a baby shower
• Organize an event
• Throw a surprise birthday party
• See a tree that I’ve planted grow to maturity
• Keep a houseplant alive for at least a year
• Be completely debt-free (mortgage included)
• Help build a home for charity
• Host a murder mystery party
• Write my will
• Learn how computers work
• Find a cure
• See the top 1% share their wealth with the rest of us
• Experience equality among humans
• See compassion in everything
• Stop the hatred
• Cure the ignorant
• Win an Olympic medal
• Run in the Boston Marathon

Sights
• Look out over Paris from the Eiffel Tower
• Cross the Brooklyn Bridge
• Cross the Golden Gate Bridge
• Visit Costa Rica
• Visit the Robie House, Fallingwater, and visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio in Oak Park
• Take the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s River Cruise
• Cross the Canadian border, eh
• Visit the Frank Lloyd Wright® Taliesin & Visitor Center
• Visit Japan
• Have a cheesy photo taken of me holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Visit all 50 states
• Go to China
• Walk on the Great Wall
• Travel in a 3rd world country
• Go to India
• Travel using a train

Just Plain Fun
• Picnic in the park
• Ride a roller-coaster with my hands up
• Experience weightlessness
• Fly a plane
• Write a haiku
• Solve a Rubik’s cube
• Wear a flapper dress
• Eat something new with a blindfold on
• Make a popular Youtube video
• Create a dance
• Skydive
• Scuba dive
• Ride a pogo stick
• Walk on stilts
• Eat the best gourmet dark chocolate
• Go cliff diving
• DJ at a club
• Practice yoga on the beach

• Family
• Have grandkids
• Go sledding
• Visit the state fair and listen to some bands
• Go roller skating again
• Have a professional family photo taken
• Watch Logan graduate from high school
• Watch Logan graduate from college
• Renew my wedding vows

• Home
• Paint all of the trim in our house white
• Make every room in our house exactly as I’d like
• Make the outside of our house as cute as the inside
• Have a home library with a rolling ladder
• Buy my dream home
• Own a coffee plantation

• Style
• Only wear lovely undergarments (that match)
• Ruthlessly edit my closet down to only my favorite things
• Determine a wardrobe’s essentials, then buy them in the best quality I can
• Find my perfect shade of lipstick
• Sew a dress for myself that I would actually wear
• Wear perfume regularly

• Skills
• Learn how to play the harmonica
• Learn how to use my camera in manual mode
• Play the guitar
• Matte and frame an original painting
• Take self defense classes

• Professional / Career
• Write a novel
• Be a keynote speaker
• Have a monthly column in a magazine
• Launch a magazine
• Direct a photo shoot
• Judge a dog competition
• Create a perfect resume for myself
• Figure out what my dream job would be
• Meet my Guru
• Find a mentor
• Mentor somebody
• Launch my yoga career
• Make enough money to support my family
• Make an appearance on TV
• Celebrate my retirement
• Compose a cookbook of original recipes
• Start a dog kennel
• Hire an assistant
• Volunteer on a regular basis
• Teach someone a new trade

• Projects
• Take a photo every day for a year
• Start a tradition
• Choose a good cookbook and cook every recipe in it
• Give only handmade gifts for the holidays
• Create an original painting


**I fully expect this list to change as time goes on.