“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- Get over my driving phobia
- Read an entire set of the Encyclopedia Britannica
- Visit an active volcano
- Learn to longboard
- Float in the dead sea
- See the Redwoods of California
- Stay at the Giraffe Hotel
- Eat lobster in Maine
- Eat oysters in the Gulf Coast
- Swing on the “End of the World” Swing
- Learn trigonometry
- Own a motorcycle
- Learn Spanish
- Learn German
- Learn French
- Learn Arabic
- Learn to play an instrument
- Make enough money writing to quit my job
- Get a degree
- Learn screenprinting
- Memorize a poem
- Memorize 100 digits of π
- Go on a cruise
- Make creme brulee
- Start a podcast
- Attend a TED Talk event
- Give a TED Talk
- Swim with humpback whales and whale sharks
- Stargaze from Death Valley National Park, California
- or Clayton Lake Dark Sky Park, New Mexico
- Ride an elephant
- Take a dance class
- Take a cooking class
Finish a Massive Open Online Course- Volunteer
- Donate 10% of my income
- Collect something
- Start running
- Join a gym, attend regularly
- Make meditation and yoga a daily habit
- Become a weekday vegetarian
- Find time every week to dream up plans and possibilities
- Figure out what enlightenment is
- Reach enlightenment
- Own some land, and a cow, and a pig
- Own a business
- Publish a sci-fi/dystopian fiction novel
- Publish a graphic novel
- Publish a book of essays/poetry
- Publish two blog posts a week
- Publish a zine
- Have an article printed in a magazine
- Learn to paint with oils or acrylics
- Bake a perfect loaf of bread
- Get married
- Have a kid
- Adopt a kid
- Own a better home
- Get my library card
- Journal every day
- Hand make all of my own journals
- Visit the Met, the Whitney, and the MoMA museums
- Visit the American Museum of Natural HistoryOwn a bull terrier
- Own a sphynx cat
- Read 30 books a year
- Read more philosophy books
- Write a children’s book
- Find a mentor
- Be a mentor
- Write and send letters
- Complete one year of a creative habit
- See the aurora borealis
- Start composting
- Start recycling
- Put up a wheatpaste poster
- Take a cross-country road trip
- Go camping every summer
- Try skiing
- Learn to rock climb
- Climb a mountain
- Meet an octopus
- Make a perfect espresso
- Visit Stonehenge during the winter solstice
- and during the summer solstice
- Finish a Crash Course playlist
- Learn to enjoy being alone
- Visit a place where the sun doesn’t set
- Take a train ride across the country, comfortably
- Earn a degree
- See the “Pancake rocks” at Paparoa National Park
- Visit every continent
- Earn a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing
- Send a finished sketchbook to the Sketchbook Project
- Microdose LSD
- …
I shamelessly stole this list idea from Laura Vanderkam’s post “List of 100 Dreams”
Photo by Leon Contreras on Unsplash
Lisa Marie Blair 