They’ve been popping up everywhere lately, and with all the introspection I’ve subjected myself (and you) to over the past months, I decided just to make the damn list already!
So – here it is: 50 things I want to do/learn/see/accomplish. As I accomplish, I’ll cross them out. A couple things that I’ve already done were awesome enough to include on this list pre-crossed-out.
- Attend a yoga retreat
- Be my own boss
- Become a marathoner (October 4, 2009)
Brew my own beerBuy a piano- Climb a 14,000’+ mountain
- Complete a 70.3
- Develop into a competent public speaker
- Do three pull ups
- Drink at a pub in Ireland
- Dye my hair a color not found anywhere in nature
- Eat Mexican food in Mexico
- Finish a Century Ride
- Go to the opera in Italy
- Gracefully and easily do headstands in yoga
- Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
Host a formal dinner party(September 30, 2011!)- Ice skate
- Kayak
- Learn to fence
- Live in another country
- Make my own cheese
- Move into a house designed by my husband
- Not worry about money
- Open a Swiss bank account
- Own chickens
- Photograph the Parthenon
- Publish a novel
- Read a work by every Nobel Laureate that has won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Receive money for writing
- Road trip across the U.S.
- Run 1,000 miles in one year
- Scuba dive
- See the Taj Mahal
- Serve homemade lefse
- Set foot in all fifty states (20 Remain: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia)
- Sew a quilt
- Speak Spanish fluently
- Spend an entire year as a (mostly) locavore
- Stand in one of the great pyramids
- Stay in the penthouse suite of a luxury hotel
- Stop by Stonehenge
- Successfully meditate
- Take dance lessons
- Throw pottery (on a wheel, not against the wall)
- Tour Sedlec Ossuary
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Volunteer for WWOOF
- Watch the championship singles matches at Wimbledon
- Wear a bikini in public








Yay! You did the life list!
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gazelle reply on August 30th, 2010:
yes! thank you for the idea & encouragement.
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I just saw this tab! I totally approve! I think I need to do one of these.
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