Life Is Awesome

This list is a work in progress.  It grows and changes as I realize what things are important to me and what I want to do.  This is not my first list, I’ve already crossed off quite a few items from the original that no longer exists except in my mind (my favorite thing to cross of was studying abroad). This is the new list that is active and ever changing and inspiring me to try new things and experience life to the fullest.

CAREER/CREATIVE

• Get my writing published.
• Enter a writing contest.
• Complete nanowrimo.
• Own my own business.
• Blog every single day for a month.
• Earn $500 a month online consistently.
• Earn $1000 a month online consistently.
• Speak at a blogging conference. (If I don’t die of fear first.)
• Complete the 365 project.
• Have a photo published.
• Take a photography class/course/seminar to learn more.

EXPERIENCES

• Get a tattoo.
• Go skydiving.
• Go bungee jumping.
• Attend the World Cup.
• Take a photo with a celebrity.
• Have a spa weekend.
• Host a game night.
• Watch a sunrise at the beach.
• Go on a hot air balloon ride.
• Eat only local food for a month.
• Cook all my meals for a month.
• Cook my way through a cookbook.
• Go vegetarian for a month.
• Live near the ocean.
• Live on my own.
• Live abroad.
• Learn to play violin.

FAMILY/RELATIONSHIPS

• Fall in love.
• Get married.
• Have or adopt a child.
• Be a foster parent.
• Own a dog, or two.

FINANCIAL

• Pay it forward.
• Pay off my student loans.
• Pay off my credit cards.
• Become debt-free.
• Buy a house.
• Buy my mom something she wouldn’t buy herself.
• Take a financial planning course to learn more.
• Create and read a personal MBA reading list.

PHYSICAL

• Run a 5k.
• Complete a triathlon.
• Go on a multi-day biking trip.
• Do a bike race.
• Go snowshoeing.
• Go snorkeling.
• Snowboard in 10 different mountain ranges.
• Go kayaking in New Zealand, Alaska, an ocean.
• Do a cartwheel.
• Do a proper pushup.
• Do a handstand.
• Do crow pose in yoga.
• Find my happy weight.

TRAVEL

• Fill my passport.
• Visit Asia and Africa (my last two continents besides Antartica).
• Take my mom on a vacation.
• Drive across the US, coast to coast.
• Set foot in all 50 states.
• Visit London and explore the UK.
• Visit New Zealand and kiwi out.
• Go on a cruise.
• Drive to Iowa to buy some corn.
• Gamble in Las Vegas.
• Visit New Orleans.
• Visit New York City. Eat a hot dog. Eat a pretzel. Eat pizza.
• Visit Japan.
• Visit CUBA.
• Revisit Franklin, TN & my childhood memories.
• Take a vacation by myself.
• Take a yearly trip with a girl friend.