My Mighty Life List

I’ve been a relatively recent convert to the awesomeness that is Maggie Mason, and her blogs about parenting, shopping, fashion, and more. But it’s her Mighty Life List that’s got me thinking today. Specifically, this post, on how to write your own. I don’t have 100 ready to go, but I’m going to see what I come up with, and find a way to leave this post on the sidebar as a constant check in with myself. A final bit of inspiration, also courtesy of Maggie:

“Because whether you realize it or not, you have all of these little things in the back of your head that you’ve always wanted to do and every few years (or months, or days, etc.) you re-realize that you’ve been meaning to look into taking a photography course and you think “oh yeah, I should do that…” And remembering that over and over is taking up useful space in your soul.” –Scarlet Lily

Without further ado, to be added to as they come to me… My Mighty Life List.

1. Stay in a castle in Ireland.
2. Take at least one photograph every day for a year.
3. Buy a house.
4. Learn to dive underwater while snorkeling without swallowing water.
5. Take a photography course.
6. Learn how to really use Photoshop or an equivalent.
7. Ride down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
8. Go horseback riding on a Caribbean beach.
9. Finish another novel.
10. See all the Best Picture Oscar nominees one year.
11. Make a roast turkey dinner.
12. Hike to Machu Picchu.
13. Visit Stonehenge.
14. Go to Tintagel in Cornwall.
15. Island hop in Greece.
16. Rent a sailboat with friends for a week’s vacation.
17. Own a pair of Manolo Blahniks, Jimmy Choos, or Christian Louboutins.
18. Become a Black Belt in Nia.
19. Represent a #1 New York Times bestseller that I love and adore.
20. Take a helicopter tour of a Hawaiian volcano.
21. Get and stay completely out of debt.
22. Stay in an Ice Hotel.
23. Tour New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings filming locations with Doyce.
24. Read The Chestry Oak with Kaylee.
25. Have a conversation with Joss Whedon.
26. See the Great Pyramid from a camel.
27. Adopt a puppy.
28. Get a lead part in a musical.
29. Walk the Great Wall of China.
30. Own a Charles Rennie Macintosh chair.
31. Sleep outside under the stars in a national park.
32. Go to SXSW, Burning Man, and TED.
33. Hold a koala.
34. Ice skate on a frozen lake in the mountains.
35. Go parasailing.
36. Learn to drive a stick shift.
37. Visit Budapest, Prague, and Vienna.
38. See Neuschwanstein Castle, aka Mad King Ludwig’s Castle.
39. Watch all the Disney Princess movies (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan, Pocahontas, The Princess and the Frog, Brave, and Frozen) with Kaylee and Zoe.
40. Watch the sunset from Key West.