A Mighty Life (1-40 in no particular order)
Posted on | April 17, 2008 | 10 Comments
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. Learn Italian.
6. Learn to dance.
7. Grow a garden
8. Hanglide.
9. Build my own studio/barn on our land.
10. Take a film class.
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 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 TED.
37. Meet Isabell Illende & Barbara Kingsolver.
38. Spend a winter in New Zealand
39. Use Sharebuilder to make small investments.
40. Lend money at Kiva.org
* 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?
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April 18th, 2008 @ 1:35 am
See you again.
Great list! I hope you can find time for MANY MANY of them!! 
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:57 am
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.
April 18th, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
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.
April 19th, 2008 @ 2:08 am
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.
April 21st, 2008 @ 10:17 pm
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.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:48 am
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.
w.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:23 am
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
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
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!
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
Kristina. Try this online course http://www.fearofflyinghelp.com/#enroll
My husband had an awful fear of flying, but after reading/listening to this course several times we managed to fly from UK to Florida. Since then it’s been plain sailing… or should I say flying. It’s worth listening to all the sounds… that really helped my hubby. Now HE tells ME what’s happening on a flight!
I don’t have a list of things to do…. I’m just trying to do them.
Jane
April 25th, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
i’m rubbing my hands together…anxious to write my own…