Lifting | Mighty List (in progress)

Last fall there was an inspiring article (are there any other kind?) over at Carolyn Rubenstein's blog, A Beautiful Ripple Effect. It was an idea she had gleened elsewhere about writing a MIGHTY LIST. A brain dump of about 100 things you want to accomplish before you are unable to accomplish anything else :) Real big dream-to-goal things, not a mundane laundry list of chores.

That was last October! Then life, as it so often does, got in the way. I was recently reminded of this idea and since I've thought about it off and on, collected other lists, considered short- and long-term goals and think I've finally come up with something resembling what would be considered my own MIGHTY list - well, a start anyway:

1. Set up a regular annual April vacation at Canyon Ranch in Tucson
2. Learn to cook, properly, from start to finish
3. Take a painting class - watercolours first - then oil and acrylic
4. Finalize the divorce
5. Turn my new home into exactly what I need it to be
6. Create a Blurb book - a big huge gorgeous coffee table tome - then create another
7. Design and run an Etsy store
8. Keep my Project Life up-to-date
9. Read ALL of the books on the school reading list
10. Be a vegetarian for a week, and then, maybe a month
11. Stop eating and drinking refined sugar
12. Take a cruise with stops in Morocco, Turkey and Italy for sure
13. Write - and publish - a book
14. Have my home smudged
15. Hang all of my artwork, put away all of the books, organize the craft and photography stuff
16. Determine (at least) 50 must-watch movies and then watch with my kids
17. Choose my favourite blog posts and put them into book form
18. Lose the weight, enough to feel good again
19. Put together ALL of my creative projects in various stages of 'begun'
20. Post those projects
21. Replace the nasty builder toilets
22. Organize all of my photos and digital art (30,000+ files) in iPhoto
23. Fix and cull all of the categories on my blog
24. Update the blog with a new look
25. Create the perfect lemonade
26. Plant a dogwood in my front garden
27. Swim, every day, because I love it
28. Find someone who brings out the best in me
29. Plan (and execute) Claire's birthday - on 20-12 2012
30. Submit 10 "guest posts" for publication consideration
31. Update and submit my resumé
32. Watch the opera - MET showings - at Silvercity
33. Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone
34. Take golf lessons - then golf
35. Hire a weekly cleaning service
36. Start playing tennis again
37. Write a cookbook for my kids of all our favourite meals
38. Clear out the storage locker
39. Continue to model the behaviour I want to see in my children
40. Model better
41. Take a creative writing course
42. Maybe even go back to school and take the courses I should have taken the first time around
43. Take monthly trips in to Toronto, with the kids, and take advantage of what is available: ROM, AGO, sports events, restaurants - oh so much!
44. Go indoor skydiving
45. Travel by train: one month Southern Europe, one month Northern Europe and the UK, one month Canada, one month Russia and Scandinavia
46. Travel by car: one month through the U.S.
47. Volunteer for a month or two in Africa
48. Put together a library of all the creative courses I've taken - and finish the projects
49. Feel rested and 100% well
50. The biggest unattainable dream in my life, ever: have an article published by Vanity Fair magazine

This list-in-progress is exactly what I had planned, a brain dump - in no particular order - of the things I'd like to accomplish. The big things. The things that have been weighing on me for a while.

What is on your Mighty List?