The writing I'm doing right now is unformed, mainly exercises to let me practice more creative writing. It's nothing I want to share, but I also want to keep this blog alive. Today roundabout connections brought me to a blog post talking about a book I keep coming across online. The woman's post also talked about creating a list of 100 big dreams -- what you'd love to achieve in your life. I've done these lists before, and her post inspired me to do one again today. I'm pretty amazed at how different my big dreams are now: softer, smaller scale (well, some of them), less about big adventures and more about living a healthy, happy life in whatever way that means to me each day. Here's my list. Care to share any of yours?
My List of Big Dreams
1. Do a REALLY funny stand-up routine
2. Write an award-winning play or screenplay
3. Write an award-winning book
4. Be incredibly fit
5. Remain a non-smoker
6. Have an incredibly fulfilling lasting relationship with a wonderful, loving, kind, respectful partner
7. Having this relationship come into my life real soon!
8. Go to the Galapagos, snorkel there, take amazing pictures
9. Really learn how to use a camera professionally
10. Earn some money with my photos
11. Treat myself with kindness, love, and respect
12. Treat others with more kindness, love, and respect
13. Learn to hold my tongue and take a moment to respond thoughtfully when my buttons are pushed
14. Trust in my brilliance and intelligence
15. Look only to myself for validation (which contradicts # 1, 2, and 3, but #14 should take care of those)
16. Find and do work I’m really passionate about
17. Have the financial freedom to not work if I don’t choose to
18. Climb Machu Picchu, visit Istanbul, and travel through New Zealand
19. Become more accepting and less judgmental
20. Create a really juicy Web site and blog
21. Continue to have amazing relationships with my family and good friends
22. Continue to approach life with curiosity
23. Continue to have good health
24. Invent something fun or useful and make some money off it
25. Learn to play the guitar well enough to sing songs around a campfire
26. Learn more Spanish
27. Find a partner in crime to nourish our creativity
28. Release money worries
29. Have a dog and easefully care for it
30. Continue loving my life!
31. Become an excellent impromptu chef
32. Visit the Antartica
33. Have a better relationship with David
34. Start being my greatest cheerleader (my mom will serve as my model)
35. Silence (or at least ignore) the Everybody voice in my head
36. Become an expert at something
37. Release my frantic, knee-jerk “need an answer now” response when I really don’t need an answer right now
38. Sit calmly in the chaos when I really do need an answer now and don’t have one yet
39. Learn some graphic design skills
40. Go be an audience member of the Ellen show, or even a guest!
I plan to update these whenever they change as my life is a bubbling brook that likes to make new splashes, often every day.
Doop-doo-be-doo! (Thought the photo warranted a caption)
Posted by: Debbie | June 21, 2010 at 02:42 PM
great list of dreams! I want to steal a few and add to mine :) Thanks for the comment and if you'd like my opinion, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years is definitely worth the read!! I've now only got a few chapters left, but a lot of thought provoking material to process! Don Miller's blog is also a favourite :)
Posted by: Laura | June 22, 2010 at 03:18 AM
Thanks for the recommendation Laura. I've added Don Miller to my reader. And of course feel free to steal away -- I already did from your post.
Posted by: Debbie | June 23, 2010 at 01:33 AM