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Crazy List for 2009 - Part 1
One day Alice came to a fork in the
road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his
response.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't
matter."
~ Lewis Carroll
Are you ready for 2009? The tales
of Lewis Carroll have always intrigued
me because many universal truths lie
within. Many of us are like Alice in
Alice in Wonderland - we struggle with
which path to take instead of struggling
with the more important question: Where
is it we want to go? As the Cheshire cat
coyly shares, if we have no specific
destination then any road will get us
there.
Where do you want to go this year?
Perhaps you have already created a
detailed plan with specific goals.
Perhaps you have set a thousand goals in
the past only to be discouraged because
they didn't come to fruition. Perhaps
you think of resolutions as a novelty
and like most people abandon them by
February. Perhaps you are comfortable
with the status quo and feel
uncomfortable when thinking about
challenging life. But I strongly doubt
that. Why? Well, I doubt you would
subscribe to, or read, this newsletter
if there wasn't a glimmer of internal
hope for a better way... for a better
day. It only takes a glimmer to nurture
a vision.
So what do you want? Many of us
have difficulty articulating our
"wants." We might be used to expressing
our needs, but not give much thought to
what we truly want from life. We think
about getting from this day to the next,
or improving our immediate future, but
we lose sight of a bigger vision that
rejuvenate and inspire us. Let's do
something fun to break out of this
mold--let's make a crazy list.
Making a Crazy List I stumbled on
the idea of a crazy list early last
year. I had just finished telling
someone why I couldn't do something. I
can't remember the exact thing to which
I was referring but the sentence was, "I
don't have enough time to
______________" (and frankly, it was a
lousy excuse--it even sounded lousy when
I was saying it). However, since many of
us are so talented at making excuses, we
actually begin to believe them.
Later that night, something within me
stirred and said, "Wait a second... why
can't you do that?" Whenever I find
myself engaging in a negative pattern, I
challenge it as quickly as I can. Within
minutes I was creating a crazy list of
all the things I would like to do before
I die. The list contained many things -
get my pilot's license, climb Mt. Hood,
go on a safari, paint a series, run a
marathon, ski in Colorado, skydive,
learn calligraphy, spend New Year's Eve
in Times Square, start a self-esteem
group for girls, on and on and on the
list went--some of the list items more
challenging than others.
More and More Lists... As I
created this list, I found it easier to
begin articulating the "wants" of my
life. I made another series of lists. I
created a list for each of my major
roles:
Business owner
Author / Creative Person
Mom / Wife
Fiend
Christian
Volunteer
Then I began to list out what I wanted
in each area. I didn't stop and ask, "Is
this realistic?" because something had
started to occur to me in this process.
I think many things become unrealistic
simply because we deem them unrealistic.
For example, I might say, "I don't have
an hour a day to devote to that.... It
is unrealistic." The truth is, I
actually could find an hour, I just
choose not to find it, I choose to make
it unrealistic.
Our mind has great power. We must be
careful with what we deem realistic
versus unrealistic.
These lists had no limitations. Money
was not an object. Time was not an
object. Location was not an object.
These were indeed, Crazy Lists.
The best way to
predict the future is to create it.
What to do with these lists? I
can't tell you that yet. If I do, you
will begin with the end in mind which
will take away the very value of the
lists.
Your Weekly Challenge: I can tell
you what to do with these lists next
week, for now I can only tell you that I
think you'll learn something very
revealing if you grab a notebook and
start making your own. Spend 10 minutes
a day this week adding to these lists.
The more you add, the more value you
will gain from next week's exercise.
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