Kipfer - The Wish List

Our wishes are the true touchstones of our estate; such as we wish to be we are. Worldy hearts affect earthly things: spiritual, divine. We cannot better know what we are than by what we could be. Joseph Hall, English bishop

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Maybe it was something modest, even mundanea wish to change jobs or to climb a tree. Maybe you wished for something fantasticto be a country music star, for example. Or for something utterly practical, like making a budget and sticking to it. Your wish might have taken you to the other side of the world or as far away as the moon, or it might have meant just a walk around the corner. Maybe you wished to do something generous, or something just for you. What happened to all those wishes? Where did they go? Wishing is good for us.

Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations all drive us forward, impel us to make things happen. They also tell us a lot about ourselves. Our wishes come straight from our core, and they are loaded with vital information about who we are and who we can become. Keeping track of our wishes helps us tap into the energy that propels us to go after our happiness. Thats what The Wish List is for. With some 6,000 wishes, it is meant to serve as a wellspring of ideas for things to do, have, see, taste, experience, achieve, give, be, learn, do for others, or tryjust once!in this lifetime.

Each item completes the sentence: In my lifetime, I want to The collection of wishes ranges from small, easily realizable goals to grandiose pipe dreamsand everywhere in between. It works for ages 10 to 100. In fact, The Wish List looks a lot like your own hopes and dreams. But I dont mean this list of wishes to be solely revelation. I mean it to be a useful toolyour own very personal reference manual. Carry The Wish List with you (its highly portable), annotate it.

When your creative daydreaming starts, scribble your own wishes on the blank lines. Check off or underline those wishes you want for yourself. When youve achieved a wish, celebrate the fact with a big red X in the box. As the years go by and The Wish Lists pages become dog-eared and yellow, you will have accumulated a profile of your own changing view of happiness, your own evolving values, and your own fulfillments. Not a bad thing to have. ........................................................................ bequeath enough money for my survivors to toast me with champagne each year on my birthday have cybersexvirtual, but very safe bodysurf off Malibu invent a holiday compose a perfect haiku not risk what I cannot afford to lose spend a romantic weekend in a luxury hotel on the French Riviera publish an article in a learned journal and see real scholars take it seriously walk down Londons Abbey Road in homage to the Beatles hit a three-pointer in a basketball game ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ learn sign language keep a stash of Girl Scout cookies all year round become a masseur spend a week kayaking among the islands off Maine volunteer at the Special Olympics write a best-selling, blockbuster bodice-ripper ........................................................................ fly-fish the Yellowstone River spend the day noshing travel for three months with just one carry-on bag win a place on the U.S. fly-fish the Yellowstone River spend the day noshing travel for three months with just one carry-on bag win a place on the U.S.

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