This is the easiest and most challenging thing on my list. It’s easiest because being with my kid and giving him my attention is so instantly rewarding. It’s the most challenging because I have to get over myself. I can’t let anything else matter when I’m with him, and yet the world tries to pull me away…
thor's Life List
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1. Visit the Galapagos Islands
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2. Visit India
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3. Volunteer
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4. see all Shakespeare's plays performed
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5. Go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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6. Raft down the Grand Canyon
6 people -
7. go hot air ballooning
125 people -
8. Attend Carnival in Brazil
48 people -
9. Research my genealogy
216 people -
10. Travel on th orient express
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11. be a teacher
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12. Try a new recipe each week
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13. Be a great dad to my kids
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14. Go on a safari
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15. do more charity work
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16. build my dream house
1 cheer830 people -
17. learn to SCUBA dive
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18. one week spiritual retreat a year
1 cheer3 people -
19. cruise Alaska
1 cheer46 people -
20. garden
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21. Make a movie
2,963 people -
22. Record an album
1,173 people -
23. Stay in Tuscany for several months
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24. cook more
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25. Build a Personal Video Recorder
29 people -
26. drink more water
18,963 people -
27. get an ipod
1,230 people -
28. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
1,156 people -
29. live outside the united states
206 people -
30. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
304 people -
31. visit antarctica
438 people -
32. learn a language
619 people -
33. live in New York City
2,667 people -
34. run with the bulls in Pamplona
292 people -
35. boat up the Amazon River
1 person -
36. invent a world
1 person -
37. sail odysseus' route through the greek islands
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38. read the classics
693 people -
39. climb a mountain
1,752 people -
40. write a novel
9,672 people -
41. visit all 50 states
7,136 people -
42. exercise 3X a week
620 people
Recent entries
But of course
4 years ago
Plan ahead and be spontaneous
4 years ago
Is it possible to make a plan to be spontaneous?
I’ve never had a problem being spontaneous before but the more I enmesh myself in a project (or projects) the less I find I do the unexpected things. Usually the “something new” is an unplanned activity, some whim that turns into an adventure. So that’s the paradox—all these “to do” items make it potentially less likely I’ll fit the spontaneous “something new” in.
Unless I work it into my plan. Hmmm.
