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Writing Your Lust-For-Life List
| Guest post by: Enrico Varella |
Article Overview: Some refer this as the Bucket List; meaning the things you want to do before you ‘kick the bucket’ and leave this Earth. The ‘Bucket List’ was a film, starring jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, and it initiated a flurry of interest for writing such a collection of dreams and desires.
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Writing Your Lust-For-Life List
Inspired by Phil
Koeghan (enduring and energetic host of realty-TV series, The
Amazing Race), and his book No Opportunity Wasted – N.O.W. I
wrote my ‘To-Do’ list a few years ago. So far, so good – I have achieved a few
personal dreams and challenges. Some refer this as the Bucket List; meaning the
things you want to do before you ‘kick the bucket’ and leave this Earth. The ‘Bucket
List’ was a film, starring jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, and it initiated
a flurry of interest for writing such a collection of dreams and desires.
Interestingly, due to these influences I have achieved a few
of my personal and business dreams through recent achievements. Some of these things include: being
self-employed in my small business for 10 years; teaching in 19 countries;
qualifying and competing in the Half-Ironman World Championships twice;
completing 11 Ironman triathlons (it started with one); completing an
ultra-marathon (three, so far); being in the national top-2 percent in the
marathon; getting actively involved in the Olympic Games (inaugural Youth
Olympic Games 2010). Most recently, I earned a Boston Qualifier (BQ) for a
chance to run in the prestigious Boston Marathon.
Write your ‘wish list’. What is your lust for life? How do
you orientate your life to your dreams? Which experiences would you enjoy? Who
would be part of this exciting journey?
Get a journal book. Write down what matters to you. There
are two lists:
1)
What I like to do for myself.
2)
What I like to do for others.
Fill your Bucket List with your dreams, aspirations and hopes. Include your professional and business goals: what, where, when, who and which. You have to
suspend your judgements, like ‘I cannot afford it!’, ‘I have no time!’ and ‘It
is impossible!’ You will have to plan and earn these experiences and
achievements, and we have to start somewhere. We’ll come back to this list soon
and work on fleshing out the skeleton. Go on – build your list!
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- Writing, Article Spinning, Backlinking.
Re: Will 2009 be the year you write your book?
- Writing a book takes time but its sure rewarding! Thanks for the info.
Re: Email autoresponder messages: what delivery intervals?
- Sub-lists are primarily created around the products I own.
If my list A was about one topic, I will not promote
anything to that list about another topic until I
first have them opt-in to another list.
Example of this is, let's say you were interested in
internet marketing and you opted-in to a list for
driving traffic (List A).
I will not send information about product creation
tips to that list unless I first have you opt-in for
another list (List B).
These two may be close enough so that might not
be an issue, but what I find is most internet
marketers drive all their promotions to their
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about marketing, another day about oh let's market
on Facebook, next day about, hey I found great product
on promoting stuff on Mobile or cell phones, next
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You get what I mean.
If I have to do above, it will be after subscribers decided not
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But I think by minimum, it's good to create sub-lists for
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Re: The 10 Goal Method for personal success
- Hi GT,
Thank you so much for posting this.
Writing your goals is absolutely the way to make it clear to yourself what you want.
It looks different when it's out there black on white, suddenly there is a meaning to everything.
Re: How do you make the most of your day?
- Here are a couple things I do to get lots done.
First, I work from a weekly To Do List (although I should call it an Action List) rather than a daily list. Each item on the list must be one specific action required to move one step closer to accomplishing or finishing something. It's similar to what Robert Alan talks about.
Each day I prioritize 3 actions that must be completed before the end of the day. I fully commit to those actions.
Second, when I really need to focus on something to get the most done possible I work in timed 50 minute increments.
That may sound a little loopy but it really works for me plus I feel refreshed working that way.
So I literally have a little timer on my desktop that I set to count down from 50 minutes to zero. During that 50 minutes I work without interruption. When the timer goes off I stop whatever I'm doing and take a 10 minute break.
You can get an incredible amount of work done working that way without feeling like you're working hard.
I don't schedule 8 of those 50 minute time periods because there isn't a need to plus I'm sure you would wear out if you did.
If you haven't tried this you might want to give it a try setting just two 50 minute time periods for a couple days and fiercely keeping them without interruptions to see what I mean.
I'd love to hear about your experience and any other kind of quirky things that work.
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