I like lists. Given the adage, “what gets written down, gets done,” they’re useful tools. I make a list for errands. Often, I take a list to the grocery store. I decided to make a list for my life and share it here. As the adage holds true, I’d like each one of these to happen. I’d call it a bucket list, like in the 2007 movie The Bucket List, but I don’t like the word bucket. It’s a living list; to be checked upon and updated based on life events, lessons and experiences. If you haven’t made one, hopefully my sharing will provide some inspiration.
This video to me visually represents why a life list is worth writing. The view is always changing but we know for certain the sun will rise every morning — there is always the chance for a new beginning as there is always an end — and we can influence what happens in between.
Sunrise
Life List
| Complete | |
| Health | |
| Live in bliss | |
| Eat super duper healthy | |
| Exercise regularly my entire life | |
| Become a master yoga teacher | |
| Meditate daily | x |
| Run a marathon | x |
| Love and Family | |
| Marry the love of my life, soulmate, life partner | |
| Have two beautiful children with him | |
| Raise my children with my sister’s children | |
| Raise two wonderful adults | |
| Become a grandmother | |
| Career | |
| Teach spirituality in my fifties | |
| Give speeches around the world | |
| Have a net worth of $200million | |
| Create enough passive income so I don’t have to work | |
| Make an award winning, high grossing film | |
| Teach Yoga | x |
| Run $1million dollar business | x |
| Found a company | x |
| Run a $10million dollar business | |
| Run a $25million dollar business | |
| Run a $50million dollar business | |
| Experiences | |
| Swim with Dolphins | |
| Design and live in my own environmentally friendly home | |
| Spend 3 months of the year in Hawaii | |
| Experience weightlessness | |
| Drive a great hybrid car | |
| See Wimbledon | |
| See Fashion Week in NYC | |
| See the Olympics | |
| See the Paralympics | x |
| See the US Open | x |
| Apprentice with a master healer | x |
| Limelight | |
| Speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland | |
| Be a speaker at TED | |
| Be one of CNN’s heroes | |
| Go to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland | |
| Member of Palaeopitus in college | x |
| Travel | |
| Travel to Brazil | |
| Travel to Jerusalem | |
| Climb Mt Fuji | |
| Hike in the Himalayas | |
| Go to Arches National Park in Utah | |
| Travel to Japan | |
| See Stonehenge | |
| See the Galapagos Islands | |
| Go on safari | |
| See gorillas in the wild in Uganda | |
| Hike in Patagonia | x |
| Backpack through China | x |
| Sail through the South Pacific | x |
| See Machu Picchu | x |
| Hike through Haleakala in Maui | x |
| Education | |
| Graduate from a top US college | x |
| Receive my MBA | x |
| Valedictorian of high school | x |
| Skills | |
| Learn to play guitar | |
| Learn to play golf well | |
| Become an artist-painting, pottery | |
| Play tennis well | x |
| Learn to rock climb | x |
| Learn to telemark ski | x |
| Become a cyclist | x |
| People I want to meet | |
| Bono | |
| Barak Obama | |
| Michelle Obama | |
| Desmond Tutu | |
| Nelson Mandela | |
| Angela Merkel | |
| Madonna | |
| Dalai Lama | x |
| Hilary Clinton | x |
| Indra Nooyi | x |
