50 Things

One of the first steps in setting your intentions or goals for the future is to just do a brain dump by listing 50 things you want … if money were no object, if anything was within your reach … how would you spend your time? Where would you be? What would you being doing? Nothing is too outrageous. Now is the time to let all your hopes and dreams fly!

Here I go!

1. Travel across Canada by train
2. Visit the Yukon
3. Study at the Banff Arts Centre
4. Publish a book
5. Write a novel
6. Write and produce a play onstage
7. See U2 in concert
8. Visit Newfoundland
9. Achieve a healthy BMI
10. Practice yoga
11. Practice meditation
12. Read books
13. Own my own house
14. Eat real food
15. Get back into writing groups like the WFNB
16. Go to the Fog Lit Festival
17. Go to TIFF
18. A log house on riverfront
19. Travel extensively
20. Be debt free
21. Accumulate much wealth
22. Mentor people
23. Employ a staff including a personal assistant, driver, chef and housekeeper
24. Give speaking engagements
25. Develop and run an artists retreat for writers
26. Start my own artistic festival in Miramichi
27. Learn film editing
28. Go on a vineyard tour/ wine vacation
29. Own a vacation home in Alma
30. Own a condo in downtown Toronto
31. Visit the Canadian Rockies
32. Spend the rest of my life with a person I love, being loved, respected, supported as an equal partner
33. Grow my own food
34. Rescue animals
35. Spend more time in nature
36. Have the means to take care of my family
37. Travel across the country by RV
38. Make a movie
39. Attend a session with Abraham
40. Go to a Kevin Smith Show
41. Attend Comic-Con
42. Develop a product line
43. Do a spiritual hike
44. Attend new festivals I’ve never attended before
45. Get a walk on role on Coronation Street
46. Go back to university to study literature and art
47. Own investment properties
48. Develop my own wine
49. Own a vineyard
50. Meet many interesting people and form new friendships

The list of 50 things is challenging, especially if you’re doing it for the first time and you aren’t used to letting your dreams flow. But for me, it’s been fairly easy these past years because I’ve grown so used to doing it.

However, this year it’s the toughest it has been in a while. I’ve been struggling all week to come up with 50 things and I’m not really very excited by what I did put down. Some of it is okay, I suppose all of it is okay, in a mediocre kind of way, but nothing really jumps out and pulls me in and makes my heart pound and sing, “Yes! This! NOW!” It feels like I’m forcing it.

Maybe 2019 doesn’t need any intention other than I will live in it. I will get back on track and find my passion for life again. I will get unstuck (I AM unstuck!) and I will “do” things … create, feel, be.