Share your Life to-do list and/or your Bliss List :)

[Alarin]

I've always found Life "to-do" lists fascinating (like this one by adventurer John Goddard), and recently heard about another type of list called a "Bliss List" which is a list of things you really love like chocolate icecream with whipped cream

What does your "Life List" or a "Bliss List" have on it ??

[Patricia]

I really like the idea of writing a "Bliss list".

[helgi]

This reminds me of an episode of This American Life on superpowers, where they talked to a woman who made one of these lists in her teens:

Wonder Woman. Kelly McEvers with the story of Zora, a self-made superhero. From the time she was five, Zora had recurring dreams in which she was a 6'5" warrior queen who could fly and shoot lightning from her hands. She made a list of all the skills she would need to master if she wanted to actually become the superhero she dreamed of being. Sample items: martial arts, evasive driving and bomb diffusion. She actually checked off most things on the list... and then had a run-in with the CIA.

You can listen to the episode for free here, http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/01/178.html

[stephencp]

Here is my fraction of his list:

38. Visit every country in the world - I been to about a dozen
74. * Dive in a submarine
75. * Land on and take of from an aircraft carrier
76. * Fly in balloon
77. * Ride an elephant
81. * Type 50 words a minute
82. * Make a parachute jump
83. * Learn water and snow skiing
88. * Learn to fence
89. * Learn jujitsu
101. * Run mile in five minutes (maybe when I was younger...)
102. * Weigh 175 pounds stripped (he still does) ( I don't...)
103. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups
104. * Learn Spanish (and Japanese)
110. * Read the Bible from cover to cover
111.* Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Poe, Emerson (not every work of each)
113.* Become proficient in the use of a rifle, pistol, microscope,
119. * Visit a movie studio
123. * Travel through the Grand Canyon on foot and by boat
126. * Marry and have children (has five children) (I've got two...)
127. * Live to see the 21st century (this one wasn't hard for me...)

Stephen
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[Krad]

1. Buy and refurbish small abandoned wineries in Napa, Southern Italy, Normandy and the south of France. Each will be unique and completely reflective of the country and culture with a modern unique twist.

2. I will have secrete small restaurants through out the world. These restaurants will have Italian style open dinners where in dish after dish will be served. No menu and everything following a theme and presented as a surprise. Two separate families will be selected by scouts based on what they think will be the best prospect for creating a friendship. These dinners will be free and contain items taken from small wineries and local farms.

3. I will travel between these cites at random when not looking for new prospects and or participating in the construction of cites, in addition to creating all forms of art.

4. Create unique schools that cherish wisdom and artistic expression free of charge. Children will earn there far by doing good deeds without exception.

[secrets0stolen]

Originally Posted by stephencp

Here is my fraction of his list:

38. Visit every country in the world - I been to about a dozen
74. * Dive in a submarine
75. * Land on and take of from an aircraft carrier
76. * Fly in balloon
77. * Ride an elephant
81. * Type 50 words a minute
82. * Make a parachute jump
83. * Learn water and snow skiing
88. * Learn to fence
89. * Learn jujitsu
101. * Run mile in five minutes (maybe when I was younger...)
102. * Weigh 175 pounds stripped (he still does) ( I don't...)
103. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups
104. * Learn Spanish (and Japanese)
110. * Read the Bible from cover to cover
111.* Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Poe, Emerson (not every work of each)
113.* Become proficient in the use of a rifle, pistol, microscope,
119. * Visit a movie studio
123. * Travel through the Grand Canyon on foot and by boat
126. * Marry and have children (has five children) (I've got two...)
127. * Live to see the 21st century (this one wasn't hard for me...)

Stephen
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Ooo.. I like this list. Most of it, that is.

[beast]

Travel to Antarctica
Spend a year in Greenland
Take the trans-Siberian, and the trans-Mongolian, and the Silk Road
Visit Petra
Traverse Africa, and Australia
Become fluent in Spanish, and work on an estancia in Argentina (and I know which one, too!)
Husky-mush throughout Scandinavia
Go to Tibet
Go to Bhutan
Find a career that I absolutely love
Be at peace with my whole family
Make the best puff-pastry I've ever had from scratch
Write a screenplay, and have it made into a movie
Act in the theater
Skydive
Breed puppies (responsibly!)
Live on a ranch
Raise goats
Get a horse
Gallop a horse without fear
Design and build my own home
Have children
Adopt children
Write a memoir about all those awesome things that I did

[secrets0stolen]

Originally Posted by helgi

This reminds me of an episode of This American Life on superpowers, where they talked to a woman who made one of these lists in her teens:



You can listen to the episode for free here, Superpowers | This American Life

I listened to that-- Oh my God, she is awesome.

[NDN Scholar]

Wow, this thread is from 2006. Good job, girls.

[beast]

Originally Posted by NDN Scholar

Wow, this thread is from 2006. Good job, girls.

I never got why people care when someone bumps up an old thread.

[NDN Scholar]

Originally Posted by beast

I never got why people care when someone bumps up an old thread.

Oh, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong. It's just... the sheer age of the thread in itself. Like... Damn! It's difficult to comprehend! What was I doing in 2006? I was... I was in high school, man!

I was just a young boy.

[AlmostGodess]

Originally Posted by beast

I never got why people care when someone bumps up an old thread.

It just makes me wonder how to dig such threads. Seems like forum archeology to me

[marinik]

And why not add some good content to an archeological finding???

[NDN Scholar]

Originally Posted by marinik

And why not add some good content to an archeological finding???

I'm down.

[NoJobRob]

Here's mine, which is subject to change at any time without notice:

Get rich.
Use my money to help people in my local community.
Have a house with a state-of-the-art recording studio.
Travel the world and visit ancient ruins.
Continue to learn things.

and......... that's about it! Finding the right woman would be cool too, but I'm perfectly content being single. If I do then that'll just be icing on the cake.