Write yourWish List
These aren’t your new year’s resolutions. Get your wish list out and make a point to do some memorable things this year.
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While this may not be a bucket list per se, I find it motivating to make goals for the year. Not so much resolutions but reminders to myself to not get bogged down in the mundane every day of life and to do some whimsical things throughout the year. Some of those are travel goals, some are seasonal and some are more long-range. This is where The Wish List* comes in handy. I went through it again after writing my last post to pull some new inspirations. Here are some of the fun things I came across.
-Walk down London’s Abbey Road in homage to the Beatles.
-Canoe* the lakes of the Adirondacks.
-Visit a new museum each month.
-Learn to tap dance.
-Summer in a villa in Tuscany.
-Meet someone under the Big Dipper constellation in New York’s Grand Central Station.
-See Niagara Falls from both sides of the border.
-Scrape away the dogma to clear my thinking.
-Stand in the torch of the Statue of Liberty. (Might have to be the crown since visitors haven’t been allowed in the torch since 1916.)
-Swim in the lagoons of the Maldives.
-Go to a costume ball dressed as Wonder Woman.
-Write my autobiography.
-Understand finance. (Like, REALLY understand finance.)
-List 100 good things that have happened in my life.
-Make pair of leather sandals.
-Float on the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth.
-Make real peanut butter in a Cuisinart.*
-Learn the art of field sketching.
-Avoid middle-age spread (yes, that’s in the book).
-Go to a game at Fenway Park in Boston.
-Visit the elephant-shaped house in Margate, New Jersey.
-Make a new friend of an old person.
-Spend a summer Sunday in a hammock.*
-Attend the Lincoln Center festival
The list ranges from everyday actions like baking almond croissants to pie in the sky and being a guest at Buckingham Palace. According to the author, Barbara Kipfer, “Wishing is good for us. Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air. and aspirations all drive us forward, impel us to make things happen. They tell us a lot about ourselves. Our wishes come straight from our core, and they are loaded with vital information about who we are and who we can become. Keeping track of our wishes helps us tap into the energy that propels us to go after our happiness.” I fully subscribe to this kind of thinking. So get your list together and do some memorable things this year.
