Do you have a Life List? If no. Read this Post.

You are cordially invited to step off the treadmill and really sink your teeth into your life. Or simply put, create your own life list. A life list is a list of things you want/must to do in this lifetime, and the intent is to cross the items off one-by-one.

A few months ago, in honor of my one-hundreth post to this blog, I created my life list of 100 action items. It's quite possibly the most important collection of words I've ever written. Sure it's easy to go through life thinking "I'd love to skinny dip in a very shallow, public fountain," or "I want to yodel in Yosemite" or "I will learn to use the remote," but it's another thing to actually document the words, attach your name to it and then cross it out upon completion.

After I created my life list, something magical happened. I actually started DOING things on the list. And friends offered to help me cross items off my list. And friends began to create and share their own lists with me. And reading their lists made me want to help them. And despite my lack of love for to-do lists, I've grown to love these lists.

So I created a wiki for you cool people. A wiki is web site you can edit. No coding required. It's a place where you can create and manage your own life list and read the lists of other cool people.

So what do you want to do in this lifetime? Think big. Or small. Start slow, or let it flow. I challenge you to DO what you want to do with your precious life.

Start your list on the wiki here: http://coolpeopleiknow.pbwiki.com/
The password is: coolpeople

If you need help, email me at: littlepurplecow (at) windstream (dot) com

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Read what the NY Times has to say about life lists.

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