“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” – Prince Siddharta Gautama Buddha
Today is my birthday and I look forward for more years to celebrate. More years to fill with love. More years of hard work and fun. More years of explorations and adventures. More years to be with the people I cherish. More years of fulfilling my dreams. More years of ‘becoming what I think’.
In celebration of my birthday, my most recent dream realizations and a conscious effort to ‘become what I think’, I thought of putting my heart on an inspiration list – my life list. I shall update my list when needed and cross out items (and buy myself a yellow shirt =P) as I accomplish an item to boost my self-encouragement. Here’s my ambitious but workable life list in no particular order:
- Procreate. Gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby girl last year and she’s turning one next month! 🙂
- Build our dream home.
- See a Jason Mraz concert. Find means to have a ‘Jason Mraz and me’ photograph that I could display in our dream home. =p
- Trek to Machu Pichu.
- Skydive.
- Ride an hot air balloon in Cappadocia.
- Attend a Brazilian Carnival.
- Become financially literate. Yes! 🙂
- Explore Batanes, Philippines. Will be crossed off my list next month (crossing fingers)
- Explore cities in Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic and Sweden.
- See the original Legoland in Denmark.
- Learn how to swim.
- Scuba dive on my own. (I have tried scuba diving in Bali even though I did not know how to swim and dive. Strange? I had a good Balinese scuba diver cum sea tour guide with me. 🙂
- Explore Dubai and Ferrari world in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Learn how to play the violin.
- Play Jason Mraz songs in violin.
- Play the violin in front of an audience.
- Explore Coron in Palawan, Philippines.
- Conquer the Grand Canyon Skywalk.
- Take a PMP short course and become a Project Management Professional.
- Experience a cruise vacation.
- Visit an Asian destination with family.
- Experience the beauty of cherry blossoms in Tokyo.
- Visit Sanrio Puroland in Tokyo.
- Start and grow a family business.
- Explore Seoul.
- Trek the Great Walls of China.
- Become a college professor.
- Reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu.
- Pursue ‘biking 101’.
- See Las Vegas.
- See Hollywood.
- Visit Disneyland, Florida.
- Contribute an article to a travel magazine.
- Contribute an article to Lonely Planet.
- Ride an ATV (without an accident – I will explain this in my one of my future posts.).
- Experience a white Christmas.
- Have my travel photograph featured in a newspaper or magazine.
- Collaborate on an ‘adventure book’ project with Gilbert.
- Learn how to solve the Rubik’s cube.
- Watch an opera.
- Camp. Without electronics.
- Sit around a campfire and bond with family/friends.
- Reunite with my relatives in Iloilo. I was lesser than half my age now when I last visited Iloilo.
- Work out a regular exercise with Gilbert.
- Work out ways to generate passive income.
- Photograph faces of 100 children a la United Colors of Benetton and compile them in an album.
- Photograph faces of 100 adults a la United Colors of Benetton and compile them in an album.
- Fluently speak a new language.
- Experience a fun run. Did The Color Run 3 days before my birthday and participated a fun run on the day of my birthday. 🙂
- See the Aurora Borealis.
- Renew my marriage vows with Gilbert 22 years from now.
- See the Angkor Wat.
- Have a Jerusalem pilgrimage.
- Learn how to bake. 🙂
- See Petra, Jordan.
- See The Pyramids of Egypt.
- Experience an African Safari.
- Photograph more sunrises.
- Read all my ebooks.
- Start a meditation practice of some kind.
- Volunteer for a cause.
- Regularly keep in touch with friends.
- Blog more often.
- Learn 2 new softwares. 🙂
- Attend a blogging conference.
- Attend a retreat.
- Try rifle shooting.
- See Antarctica.
- Attend a photography seminar.
- Overcome my driving anxiety after that traumatic driving experience in 2007 and drive again. Yey! 🙂
*List updated today, February 10, 2015. 🙂
Does anything above happen to be in your list, too? Join me, let’s plan something to look forward to. Let’s dream big. Let us bring on the yellows. 🙂
enroutechronicles 
You've got a long list there honey. Your list is cool and will surely support you to accomplish those goals. I hope we'll conquer the world until we get old like the old couples we've seen during our most recent European tour. Cheers!Love you so much 🙂
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bru, we almost have the same life list 🙂 blessed to have crossed out some of yours… i hope we can do #1 almost the same time, so we can share tips. hehe… then we can plan and do some adventures in your list. and because we will have mini-me's then, Japan Puroland and Disney, Florida could be the top choices 🙂 God bless, bru!
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Ms. Anonymous! :)We've been so much blessed to have fulfilled our dreams, to have experienced many adventures and to be given continuous opportunities to work out on achieving items on our life list. Let's go for number 1 very soon. 🙂
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..appreciate if you can include my face on your 100 faces a la united colours, so that i could be somehow part of this list… 🙂 loybu..
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Sure, my pleasure loybu! 🙂
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@Gilbert: We'll do. We'll conquer the world. :). And I hope we'll have number 1 soon. :). ILY so much, too. 🙂
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