So, I have had a to-do list for years. I have a friend who has asked me repeatedly to post my list so that people can see it, and help me with it. I started it in the 1st grade after reading a book about a girl who made one and had an amazing life because she completed it. Slowly but surely I am crossing things off my list.
The ones in bold I have already accomplished.
1.) Tour the UK and Egypt
2.) Learn to speak French and Spanish fluently
3.) Swim the English Chanel
4.) Be financially stable enough to donate to others
5.) Find balance between taking care of myself and giving to others
6.) Go camping and dance naked around a bonfire
7.) Go skydiving
8.) Go Ivy League
9.) Get Over fear of Mexico
10.) Fall in love with my best friend
11.) Go on a cruise
12.) Buy a car, of my choice.
13.) Acquire as many old books as possible, and build a fantastic library for my home
14.) Memorize how to spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
15.) Visit the East Coast during autumn
16.) Finish the 50 books to read before you die list
17.) Go abroad and teach English
18.) Kiss a boy from every zodiac sign
19.) Live outside of Utah
20.) Move out of my parents house
21.) Reconect with people from my childhood
22.) Find that one soul I can take to 'Neverland'
23.) Do something with my photography
24.) Learn the constellations
25.) Go to Disneyland, and Disneyworld
26.) Get my Bachelors degree before I’m 25
27.) Visit the temple regularly for a year
28.) Jump a waterfall
29.) Pay a compliment to someone every day for a year
30.) Experience New York
31.) Go back to Washington D.C. and tour everything there
32.) Ride an elephant
33.) Learn to play the piano well
34.) Get baptized.
35.) Climb Ensign Peak every week for a summer
36.) Be able to beat all the 'Gus' girls in a race
37.) Sell a photograph I have taken
38.) Learn to ski/snowboard
39.) Learn calligraphy
40.) Lose fear of singing in public
41.) Read a 1,000 page book.
42.) Go Kayaking/canoeing
43.) Run mile in 5 min
44.) Join ballroom team
45.) Earn all girl scout patches.
46.) Set up a steady savings account
47.) Memorize a poem longer than 5 stanzas
48.) Play in an orchestra
49.) Visit Amish country
50.) Kiss in the rain
51.) See the Aurora Borealis
52.) Learn to play the guitar well
53.) Find someone I trust with everything and anything
54.) Write a book and get it published
55.) Bear my testimony in sacrament
56.) Have an extensive vocabulary
57.) Make-out in a walk in refrigerator/freezer, car wash, and the SLC library
58.) Reach over 10,000 songs on itunes
59.) Kiss a stranger
60.) Help someone else gain self confidence
61.) Visit every art museum in Utah
62.) Visit all 50 states
63.) Learn to love everyone around me for who they are, and are trying to be
64.) Build a tree house
65.) Plant a garden
66.) Own my own house
65.) Re-gain contact with a best friend from the past
66.) Develop own style
67.) Graduate from High School
68.) Graduate from College
69.) Learn to do flips and handsprings
70.) Fill a sketch book
71.) Learn to paint
72.) Write a song and sing it for someone
73.) Get married in the temple
74.) Free climb a cliff face
75.) Learn to rappel
76.) Tend a rose garden I planted
77.) Tell someone I love them and mean it whole heartedly
78.) Appreciate the small things
79.) Be the first to point out the silver lining in every bad situation for a month
80.) Write a gratitude moment in journal every day for a month
81.) Experience something no one else has
82.) Develop a true relationship with Christ
83.) Learn to be self-less
84.) Go streaking and skinny dipping
85.) Make a new friend every month
Well, there you have it. The glorified to-do list of Jess. The list grows each year as I meet new people and learn of the things they have done in their life. There are some incredible people in this world, and I feel privileged to have met some of them!
