The Forgotten Life List
I finally got around to organizing and packing yesterday, thankfully. This is my last day in Oregon so it needed to get done regardless of how I felt about the tasks and my overwhelming desire to procrastinate.
While I was cleaning and going through my papers, I cam across a notebook I’ve had for a few years. Inside was an old 101 in 1001 Days list. I’d completely forgotten about the list but it was awesome to see that even without keeping it in mind I’d completed a good number (almost half) of the things on the list. I’d done things like:
- visit Chicago
- drove to Iowa and bought corn
- continue to blog at least weekly
- take my mom on a vacation
- donate blood
- learn to cook 10 new meals
- shop at a farmers market
- get a CPR certification
- fall in love
- achieve $500 monthly income from the web
It was fun to go back through the list and cross off the those things and more that I have accomplished. A lot of them were little silly things, but a few were substantial. Like the internet income. Crossing that off felt really good because when I wrote that I probably made 50 cents a month online. And now I make more than $500 each month. It took some time, but achieving goals is possible.
Finding this forgotten life list inspired me to update my current life list (the one that is always changing as I change). I’ve updated it a bit to reflect some new goals and to inspire me to complete some of the other things on the list. I know quite a few will be happening in the next few months and I’m so excited. I’m happy my forgotten life list showed up just at the right time to inspire me once again.
Its really great how you can just think of random things you want to do in life and write them on a list and then do them. I make lists a lot but its never for stuff like that. My mind isnt that organized :)
Sometimes, it’s more enjoyable to just do things that passed through your mind immediately…