I love lists. Lists have been a part of me as long as I can remember. As a teenager, my friends and I scribbled a lists of silly things we did on my bedroom desk. On occasion, we would run into the room giggling and slide the television aside revealing our TOP SECRET LIST. Tucked away safely under the television was the list of the boys that we wanted to kiss. Rumor spread of its existence, but it remained well hidden until the windex wiped it into memory before departing for college.

words I love,
listed.
names.
places.
books to buy.
books I've read.
wines to try.
bills to pay.
places to go.
friends to see.

And then there was traveling India, a whole continent of lists.
1.) Living with an old woman in Calcutta and her 20-something cats, all listed out for good measure.
2.) A list of the gurus/ashrams I visited.
3.) An inventory list of the contents of my 30 lb backpack that I had lugged from the Himalayas in Nepal, on a motorcycle through India to the beaches of Sri Lanka.
4.) A list of reasons why it was time for me to go home.
5.) A personality purification list for getting to the authentic me.

Most important are the lists of things that I want to create in my life. These lists have been essential to my life. These lists are the way that I am able to focus my energy, hone my skills, learn about myself and prioritize my interests.

In going over my lifelist, I have noticed how many of the items I have created. It is a confirmation in the power of we have to create exactly what we want in life. The key is to really get clear about what you want to create and why you want to create it.

The items on my lifelist include both the ways I am interested in living my life and the things that I would like to experience along the way. My current lifelist was started in 2000 and is still growing.

The Way to Live:

1.) Nurture my marriage.

2.) Cultivate deep friendships. Continually create and nurture friendships that are truthful, joyful and supportive.

3.) Spend time with my family.

4.) Health: Maintain a holistic health plan

5.) Support myself through my art. Make the work I do be what I love.

6.) Create daily.

7.) Trust Life.

8.) Give unconditionally.

9.) Create an attitude of gratitude.

10.) Live truthfully. Be aware of gossip and judgement.

11.) Cultivate stillness everyday.

12.) It's all about balance.

13.) Softly playing in the background, the soundtrack of my life. Enhance life with great music.

14.) Take risks.

15.) Travel far.

16.) Express all that is enormous and beautiful and painful in life.

The Living (in random order):

1.) Buy an old house and fix it up
2.) Have my own art studio
3.) Go to art school
4.) Live in a chateau in France
5.) Draw charcoal nudes
6.) Bartend on a greek island
7.) Create a loving, spiritual, creative marriage
8.) Have a baby
9.) Climb Mount Kilamanjaro
10.) Live in Prague
11.) Travel to Morocco
12.) Design lighting
13.) Throw pottery
14.) Have an art showing
15.) Start my own creative business
16.) Go to India
17.) Trek in the Himalayas
18.) Live in Calcutta and work for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity with the dying
19.) See a Neil Diamond concert
20.) Restore old furniture
21.) Live on the Mediterranean in an old villa
22.) Learn to play the guitar
23.) Open a bar/restaurant
25.) Write a book
26.) Create a close network of amazing women friends
27.) Create a family video documentary and give it to the family
28.) Walk down the narrow streets of Alexandria, Egypt
29.) Cruise the Turkish/Greek islands
30.) Live in New York City for a time
31.) Float down the Mekong River
32.) Ride a scooter through the streets of Saigon
33.) Create a blog
34.) Play the sitar
35.) Dive the Red Sea
36.) Have a lake house
37.) Live downtown in a old loft
38.) Study philosophy
39.) Study transpersonal psychology
40.) Become a life coach
41.) Go to Burning Man
42.) Support myself from my art
43.) Spend New Years at the Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite
44.) Live like the Durrell family in " My Family and Other Animals"
45.) Start a womens group

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