My Life List was first committed to writing in September 2011, inspired by Maggie and in preparation for Camp Mighty, though for as long as I can remember, I’ve kept a mental tally of “things I want to do someday”. It is a constantly shifting, brutally honest accumulation of my goals and dreams – both big and small. Having this list has inspired me to be, make, and do more than I ever accomplished before putting it into words. It unlocked me.
If you’d like to help me meet of my goals, hit me up! I’d love to hear from you. And if you don’t have your own life list yet, what’s stopping you?
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cultivate and maintain an herb, sprouts, and veggie gardenlearn to compost and make it a practicelearn to run, and run a 5kDo the Run for Your Life Zombie 5k in 2012run a 5k without stopping- run a 10k
establish a meditation practiceknow the sources of our meatreplace grocery store shopping with farmers market/independent butchersexercise habituallyquit diet coke, replace it with water and teacut back on processed foodswrite a book proposalget a book dealwrite my bookpublish my bookbook a segment or appearance on national programming as BAB- attend TED
- climb machu picchu
- sail the greek isles and eat saganaki there
throw a proper greek easter feast for my los angeles family- do karaoke in tokyo
- learn to exercise moderation in my vices – {ongoing}
- visit bob marley?s home / smoke a spliff at his grave in jamaica
- pay off my student loans
- volunteer regularly
- take a private cooking class with and/or have dinner with Rick Bayless
- write $1m check to charity for auto-immune disease research
- remove money as a concern
- create an office space that cradles and inspires me
experience pregnancy and childbirth- attend a yoga retreat
- practice living in the moment, not focused on the outcome – {ongoing}
- rent a beach house in SoCal for a month in the summer, have a party every weekend
- re-learn to use a sewing machine
- become organized and learn to love it (or at least maintain it) ? {in process}
own a brand new carestablish my personal brand{that’s this blog!}hear a live symphony perform Vivaldi?s Four Seasons- attend Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand
- set foot on all 7 continents
- set foot in all 50 states
- move my parents to SoCal in retirement
- wear a bikini in public with confidence
- hug a koala bear in Australia
rescue my next dog from the street or shelter (or rescue a retired greyhound)- get confident in photoshop
- spend a day at a spa in Bali
meet and thank Anthony Bourdain for his inspiration- eat at Per Se in NY
see Peter Gabriel perform livesee David Byrne perform live- see Elton John perform live
- see Don Henley perform live
see Sting (or The Police) perform live- See Epik High perform live
- experience my natural hair color
- meditate in an ashram in India
- have dinner with Ina Garten
- volunteer at a no-kill shelter or with newborn babies at hospital
- take an african dance class
- take a bollywood dance class
- buy spices at a Moroccan bazaar
- stay the night in a castle, preferably haunted
- drink a guiness in ireland
- look for nessie in scotland
- see Edgar Oliver perform live
- picnic on a volcano in Hawaii
- do the ?Lost? tour in Hawaii
produce a filmfly a plane- experience Zero G / anti-gravity
- take a trapeeze class
- swim with manatees
- make peace with my past – {in process}
- put experiences over material possessions {ongoing}
- eat fondue in the alps
- play blackjack in macao
- walk through cherry blossoms in Seoul
hug big bird- go apple picking and make a pie with the fruits of my labor
- make preserved lemons
- rent a flat in london or paris for a season
- hire a regular cleaning service
hire a reliable bookkeeper/accountantgo to david lynch?s nightclub in paris- anonymously pay someone?s bill at dinner
- drive a vespa through the streets of Rome
pay medical bills as they arrive, with no more debt- take a girlfriends-only trip with stacie
- take a siblings-only trip with dawn, michael and kim
visit Napa/Sonomamake pasta from scratchwalk across the brooklyn bridge- walk across the golden gate bridge
- see the aurora borealis
- attend the artichoke festival in Castroville, CA
drive a sky-high highway ramp without panicking- drive up the California coast to San Francisco, stop in Big Sur, Monterey on the way
- stand on a glacier
- eat at NoMa in Copenhagen
- help baby turtles to the sea for the first time
- visit the galapagos islands
- ride a zipline through a forest
- hug a chimpanzee
- see the Grand Canyon
- explore the pyramids in Egypt
- excavate at an archaeological site for a day
- eat at French Laundry
or another Thomas Keller restaurant shoot a gun- stay on a houseboat for a week or more
change my entire outfit in a restaurant booth, Crocodile Dundee style.- appear on NPR
- write a candid memoir
properly frame the art I care about most- write something, anything, every day (establish a regular writing practice)
lose the 30lbs I gained last year. replace with strength and confidencecomplete my divorcebook a feature film- perform in a play again
order everything off a menu in one sittinggo sober for 6 months- visit the Magritte museum in Belgium
get a tattoo of Paco?s pawprint- get a tattoo of Watson’s pawprint
- go back to Cinque Terre
- learn korean – {in process}
do a buddhist templestay in koreamarry again, this time for lifeexperience pregnancy and childbirth- Spend a season in korea (or move there permanently)
COOKING LIFE LIST (written 5/2013)
croissants- brioche
- pie crust
mool naeng myunkimchihomemade dill picklesprime rib- spanakopita
- great fried chicken
sikhye- shortcake
- madeleines
homemade jamprime rib
These items were COMPLETED before I wrote this list, but would have belonged there anyway:
- see wild whales, in the wild – {check}
- speak at a conference – {check}
- get flown internationally for work – {check}
- visit london, paris, cinque terre, amsterdam, venice, south of france – {check}
- go vegetarian – {check}
- go vegan – {check}
- downhill ski – {check}
- snowboard – {check}
- swim with dolphins – {check}
- meet Rick Bayless – {check}
- book a segment or appearance on the local network news as BAB – {check}
- take UCB 101 improv class – {check}
- Get my SAG card – {check}
- Move ?cross country – {check}
- Fall madly in love – {check}
- Have a fabulous wedding – {check}
- Escape cubicle hell – {check}
- Have my writing published in print – {check}
- Get paid doing what I love – {check}
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I started my own list on Go Mighty and started following you! I used Broke Ass Bride quite a bit in 2012 when I got married. Even though we waited nearly 10 years to do it, we were separated within 6 months and divorced at the beginning of this year. AND I fell in love again in the mean time. I feel like we are kindred spirits.
Oh Robyn, thank you for your comment! Perhaps we ARE kindred spirits. I wish you so much happiness. Please come by often, and let me know how you’re doing! xo