I have had the list in my head for a long time. I am a part of Mondo Beyondo this month and have written down my list...remarkably frightening and freeing at the same time. Now I have to put some time frames around them. Some have to do with my fears (trusting others, asking for forgiveness) and some are just things I want to do or places I want to visit (skydive, get in shape, go to Nepal, visit the Galapagos Islands). I am not brave enough to post the entire list here...perhaps I should add that to my list...number 31 can be learn to be brave enough to post your life list in a public place! Oh...I went to Vieques and swam in the Bay....EVERYONE should do it!

I could write a list... like the rest of you girlies I think I've got a few things in my head but I'll tell you the thing that first pops into my head when I think about writing a list: I'm worried about list plagiarizing! I'm a mightygirl lurker for sure... but I've never read her Mighty Life List in its entirety, because ---- what if I look at it and like... wanna steal 75 of her 100 things? Then people would be all, "That's someone else's life, " and I would feel crap. GRRR. Tortured, tormented. For now might just be safer to stay in little maternity leave bubble and aspire to getting all the way to bedtime without ripping out chunks of my own hair. ;-)

I created a Life List after being inspired by Maggie. I figure that the first step to meeting your goals is to fully commit to them. So my list is in the column of my blog at http://not-so-deepthoughts78.blogspot.com/ and I am working, very slowly, at checking things off. One of my smaller goals is to try different types of fish. I never thought I liked to eat fish, but I find that my tastes have changed now that I am older and it is time to broaden my horizons. My biggest and probably the hardest to achieve item on my list to be a work-at-home or stay-at-home mom, for at least a part of my kids life. With our financial situation I doubt that will happen, but I would love it if I could be there for my son any time he needed me all day long.

OMG I totally wrote one today!!! http://mammyp.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-life-list.html Thanks, Maggie! (I only stole a couple... promise) x

When I was in high school or college I wrote a list. It had things on it like ride in a hot air balloon, New York for Christmas/ New Years, DC for 4th of July... things like this. I wish I could find that list. Now that I know more about myself, my list would look quite different if I wrote it down. It would revolve experiencing the world. I think we learn the most when we are traveling and outside of our element and comfort zone.

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I think this is a great idea. I have not done it but I will sit down and try in the next couple of weeks. Like Karen, I have a list in the back of my head. I just wanted to say that it's important to realize that this list should be an organic and malleable thing. I doubt anyone can write a static list that will just not change until they check off that last little item. You can't imagine what will be on your final list of what you have actually done that counts as the most magical experiences of your life. I went to China a long time ago and got to see a pack of baby pandas wrestling each other and fighting over the water coming out of a little faucet. I think about it to this day. I was five feet away from them. I could not have thought to put that on a list but when it happened, I knew that I would never forget the energy of that moment. Another example would be a huge, hollowed out tree that was out in a local game park when I was a PCV in Zambia, that was called a "bat tree". I stood in the middle of it with tiny bats flying above me like a swarm of bees. I could feel the air coming off of their little wings and I felt that same magic. Again, I could NEVER have thought to put that on a list. I don't know. I think that little moments like that can often be far more meaningful that just checking off that you have "jumped from a plane" or "climbed Mt. Everest". Of course, that's just me.

I've had things I wanted to do floating around in my head for a long time. It wasn't until I watched this episode of Momversation that I decided to take the time and actually write them down. Thanks for the inspiration! You can find my list here: http://weirdo-mom.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-life-list.html

Here's mine: http://shiftinglife.com/life-list/