Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Pulling together the list...

So I wanted to do a little research on putting together my list because I didn't want it all to be about travel which it could easily be and I didn't want it to be generic either.

One article that I found interesting and wanted to share about creating your own list is asking yourself the below questions:
  • If you had a year left to live, what would you do, who would you take with you…?
  • If you won the lottery, where would you go what would you do…?
  • What did you always want to do when you were a child…?
  • If you were on your deathbed, what would you most regret not having done…?
  • If you had an upcoming high school reunion, what would you like to be able to tell your former classmates you’ve accomplished
  • What do you need to have more of in your life
  • Who do you admire and why…?
  • Your sitting with your grandchildren on your lap and telling them about your travels, what stories are you telling them…?
  • You’ve died and are listening to your eulogy, what are your friends and loved ones saying about you.
  • If a Genie granted your 3 wishes, what would you ask for…?
  • What do you want to Be, Do or Have…?
  • Where do you want to go…?
  • Who do you want to spend your time with in your life, negative people or positive people that you like, trust, respect and that make you happy…?
I really like some of these questions but one thing I noticed about myself and my "Safe" choices is that it always deals with one underlying thing.

$$$-Dinero. This is especially evident by my career choice as my field is not something anyone really truly enjoys....but you get paid.

Just to Ponder:
How much different would our lives be without worrying about money & stuff? How much of this is ingrained into us as kids that as adults our actions are based on our adolescent feelings about money.

1 comment:

  1. I just have never been driven nor deterred by money. I know that we have to have some money to be part of society today but I feel that I have seen more people limited by money than "freed" by it. It seems that we are always trying to save money for "stuff" that we will most likely throw away, try to save money incase there is some tragedy or we just simply don't spend it because of the guilt that we should be saving it. Strange. So it is about what really brings us happiness and sure at some level we need some money to be able to partake in most activities that bring us happiness (to camp you have to have some gear, to paint you need paints, to take pictures you need money to print etc). However I think that the amount of money that we need to provide us happiness is far less than what we think.

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