(Holy crap, just try to write 50+ things and not feel better about your life…. These are things you want to have, experiences, see, etc.) Also, write out things you’ve already DONE and check them off.

(I have achieved A LOT in the last 10+ years…) Updated 11-19-11

1. Publish a book
2. Live by the beach again
3. Get married.
4. Get another cat or a dog.
5. Become a well-paid writer or well-paid at something! 12/2011
6. Travel to South Africa or Madagascar
7. Have a beautiful garden
8. Grow my hair really long
9. Be a contestant on a game show (I’m thinking Family Feud).
10. Have a website that is #1 on Google 12/2011
11. Be in a dance contest
12. Travel in decked out VW van (we’re talking carpet-on-the-ceiling-pimped-out)
13. Attend a swing dance weekend or salsa dancing event
14. Eat a cooked bug
15. Travel to Prince Edward Island (I watched Anne of Green Gables when I was growing up)
16. Volunteer in an old folks home (I love old people)
17. Volunteer in a hospice
18. Have a man friend
19. Be in a play
20. Be gifted an iPhone (coming soon)
21. Sell crafts or jewelry at a local flee market
22. Eat like a vegan
23. Ride in a hot air balloon (that would be so fun!)
24. Win a big award and give an acceptance speech
25. Make 50k a year… or more!
26. Have $25,000 cash in the bank by next winter (’12)
27. Make 6-figures in one year
28. Write a $15,000 sales letter
29. Meet Lorrie Morgan-Ferrario (she’s a copywriter)
30. Get contacted by a publisher directly to write a book
31. Get stronger at meditation
32. Feel at peace with god and life
33. Ride in a limousine!
34. Give huge tips to service people (waitress, hotel dude, etc.)
35. Order something on the menu without looking at the price first (I rarely do that)
36. Be in a surfing contest
37. Own an awesome beach cruiser
38. Sail from one continent to another (without getting sea sick…)
39. Have 5 weeks or more of vacation a year
40. Live on an island for a few months
41. See the northern lights
42. Be an extra in a movie
43. Bake a cake for someone special
44. Buy an entire new wardrobe for myself (and NOT with thrift store clothes)
45. Write 100 thank you notes
46. Walk the red carpet
47. Get closure on the past
48. Go snorkeling in Hawaii
49. Stop biting my fingernails
50. Fly in that plane that lets you experience zero gravity (Weird: two days after writing this list there was an article in the paper on the subject).
51. Go paragliding
52. Write a best-selling book
53. Fly over a volcano
54. Travel into space
55. Join a bowling league
56. Meet Warren Buffett (this is on my mom’s bucket list, but I’ll take it)
57. Be interviewed on the Today Show (now that Oprah is over )
58. Be an extra in a film (oh whoops, I wrote that twice — guess I am REALLY interested!)
59. Sleep in a castle
60. Learn Reiki
61. Sell my original artwork
62. Get my tendonitis healed in my arms
63. Go on a trip to New England in the fall
64. Live in two places
65. Go to Austin, TX, just for fun
66. Host a dinner party
67. Go to Italy
68. Make a new friend on an airplane
69. Learn the names of the constellations
70. Buy really nice stones for jewelry making
71. Do an adventure race
72. Work with a fabulous life/business coach
73. Get coaching from a fabulous life/business coach
74. Have bamboo in my backyard see this post.
75. Milk a cow (why not?!)
76. Sell something online
77. Have a romantic candlelight dinner
78. Eat at a restaurant in the dark (sounds so cool!)
79. Sell my handmade jewelry in stores
80. See one of my close friends have a baby (I don’t actually want to see the birth, but I want to have the experience of being a friend “auntie.”).

Things I’ve done (definitely a good idea to add a list of been-there-done-that!)

It’s interesting to notice that most of these things involved other people (for an introvert like me)…

1. Fallen in love
2. Sang karoke
3. Rode a mechanical bull
4. Ran a marathon
5. Planted a garden
6. Watched Tiger Woods golf in person
7. Knitted a scarf
8. Won a writing contest
9. Been on blind dates
10. See a ghost
11. Built sandcastles
12. Traveled all over Europe
13. Traveled to South America
14. Flown first class
15. Whale watched in Mexico
    
16. Got a hotel room all by myself
17. Started my own business
18. Did meaningful work
19. Worked from home
20. Went on a cruise
21. Did handstands in the grass (I love handstands)
22. Celebrated my 30th birthday in Colombia
23. Learned to surf
24. Painted an entire bedroom
25. Worked for a book publisher
26. Lived a block from the beach
27. Lived in the mountains
28. Swing on a flying trapeze
29. Had a boyfriend (or two)
30. Stand in an Iowa cornfield
31. Went whit water rafting
32. Went to a NFL Game – San Diego Chargers
33. Saw a professional baseball game
34. Hockey game
35. Run to the top of a mountain
36. Learned to dance salsa and swing
37. Saw the Olympics in Salt Lake
38. Swam from La Jolla Cove to La Jolla Shores
39. Did a triathlon
40. Learned to snowboard
41. Sailed in Lake Michigan
    
42. Got a literary agent
43. Pursued my passion
44. Had a best friend
45. Created a website
46. Graduated from college
47. Lived in a house all my own
48. Owned a pet
    
49. Hiked to the top of a mountain
50. Experienced numerous sunsets
51. Practiced Bikram yoga
52. Nailed a job interview
53. Lucid dreamed
54. Saw my best friend get married
55. Ate sushi
56. Slept on the ground under the stars
57. Etc…

photo by mil8