Life list
How watching a film inspired me to create my own list of things I want to achieve in my life.
Over the weekend, we watched the new Netflix movie ‘The Life List’
The plot: “The Life List finds Alex Rose (Sofia Carson) embarking on a slightly unconventional mission for a grown woman: In order to gain access to a mystery inheritance left by her mom, she has to complete a list of life goals she cooked up in bubbly handwriting when she was a 13-year-old girl.”
That evening I took to my journal, writing my own life list. How have I not done this before?
You see, each year I create goals and in my mind I have aspirations. But I have never produced a life list (bucket list).
I started to reflect, without really knowing it, I had already achieved many of my own life goals:
Buy a house (ok, I have a mortgage) ✅
Own my own sports car (I drive a BMW M1) ✅
Get a dog ✅
Dye my hair ✅
Cut it all off short (which I still hate)✅
Go to NYC ✅
Heal from my childhood ✅
Write a book ✅ (I am now writing my second one)
Public speaking ✅
Change career ✅
Complete a marathon (Ok, I walked it but it is still a marathon, right?!) ✅
Complete a 5K ✅
Complete a 10K ✅
Work for brands like Harrods and Selfridges ✅
Yet there are still things that are still outstanding:
There were things that came to me immediately and easily. Things I have also always talked about, shared with friends and plotted on my vision board. The items, ambitions and oh so ‘on brand’ for me:
Tedx Talk
Party in Ibiza (I’m going in June)
Live abroad
Create my own fashion brand (?!)
Get a tattoo
Travel around Europe
Learn a language
Earn £1m per year (or equivalent depending on year and inflation)
Own a Chanel bag
Then I took a moment to sit and mediate. To think on a deeper level. I thought that ideations of marriage and motherhood - would, no, should - be there. But, they weren’t. I have been with my partner for 10 years. I often refer to him as my husband, for ease and stop people asking me those questions. Due to a complicated childhood, being a mum wasn’t something I dreamt about. Whilst most little girls played with dolls, I was creating my own bring and buy sales in our back garden. Perhaps it was inevitable that I didn’t have a human baby. (I very much class our cockapoo as our fur-baby, she is the centre of our universe).
What’s on your life list? Let us know in the comments.
I’d be curious to know.
It might give me some further inspiration to add to mine or you might inspire someone else….
