My Life List

Happy New Year!

This year we are going to dream. We’re going to dream BIG.

Thank you, Budget Life List blog for the inspiration to put my life list together. Thank you, Svetlana, from Bezzahar for pushing me to actually write my wishes down 🙏

What’s a life list? It’s like a bucket list with a focus on life. Here is my life list. First the things I have done and second what I want to do:

Experienced:

1. Give birth
2. Recover my pre-pregnancy shape
3. 🪂 Skydive (from 15000 feet/4572m)
4. Bungee jump x2 (from 115m and 216m)
5. Bungee catapult (reverse bungee)
6. House running (50m high building, 15floors)
7. Start a blog
8. 2 citizenships: I feel like a secret agent now having 2 passports
9. Cut my hair short and make it blond
10. Ayahuasca x2
11. Silent Vipassana meditation retreat (10days)
12. A 6-months sabbatical followed by a 2-months mini-sabbatical
13. Learn to swim at 18 after being afraid of it my whole childhood
14. Learn to drive at 32 after being absolutely terrified of it
15. Overcame my fear of public speaking
16. Finish a Toastmasters educational path (15 speeches)
17. Start a Youtube channel
18. 🇿🇦 Drive on the left in South Africa for 2000km
19. 🇿🇦 Ride a horse
20. 🇿🇦 Sandboard
21. 🇿🇦 Wine tasting in South Africa on a boat
22. 🇿🇦 Safari 
23. 🐋 Watch humpback whales in South Africa
24. Sail a catamaran in the Caribbean
25. Drive dinghy
26. 🐬 Sail with dolphins
27. Color run
28. Drive electrical scooter around Berlin (a Youtube video with almost 30k views 😝)
29. Street art tour around Berlin hidden spots with my creative, multi-talented friend Weizhard
30. Drive quad (Fuerteventura)
31. 🏂 Snowboard
32. Zorbing
33. Water ski
34. Wedding witness (Maid of Honour) x3
35. Fly first class
36. Live abroad x2
37. 🌋 See an active volcano in Hawaii (from far)
38. 🌄 See the sunrise on top of Haleakalā (a massive volcano on Maui)
39. 🚁 Helicopter ride over Hawaii (Moloka’i)
40. Walk the Kalalau Trail on Kauai (Hawaii)
41. See the sunset at Mauna Kea (the highest mountain in Hawaii)
42. 🐢 Swim with Hawaiian green sea turtles (honu)
43. Be a girl scout
44. Stroll the Las Vegas Strip
45. Be on a dating site (successfully exited ❣️)
46. Belly dance
47. Quit alcohol (I still have it rarely on special occasions)
48. 🍰 Quit white sugar with the support from my friend Svetlana from Bezzahar.com (I still have it rarely on special occasions)
49. Applied to 2 of my dream companies, got rejected, and realized they’re not my dream after all
50. Become a tiger godmother with the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)
51. Kayak
52. White-water rafting
53. Jump off a cliff in a river
54. Year-long Erasmus student exchange program in Spain
55. Walk (almost the whole) Camino de Santiago
56. Fly to a different country on a blind date x2
57. Lead a women networking group
58. Start and run a public speaking event series
59. Visit Death Valley
60. Visit a ghost town in California
61. Round trip in California
62. Step on 4 continents
63. Meet the FIRE Europe community

Here’s what’s still on my list

I like to think of these wishes as they have already happened:

1. Thanks for flying in a hot air balloon
2. 🚶‍♀️Thanks for walking the entire Camino de Santiago 
3. Thanks for having a six-pack
4. Thanks for giving a TEDx talk (it’s a goal: I’ll give a TEDx talk by the end of 2021)
5. 🎹 Thanks for learning how to play the piano and having a magical moment as in the videos of people playing in the middle of a busy airport and the passers-by can’t help but stop to listen mesmerized.
6. 🐬 Thanks for swimming with dolphins
7. 📙 Thanks for writing a book 
8. Thanks for aging gracefully into a sporty grandma who goes hiking in the mountain and is a hella-of-a-lot-of-fun to be around
9. 🐕‍🦺 Thanks for having a dog
10. Thanks for seeing my face/product/book on a big billboard and being all “Oh my Gosh, is this me?!”
11. Thanks for having my face/product/book on the cover of a magazine
12. Thanks for seeing the Nordic lights
13. Thanks for spending the night at a luxurious treehouse
14. Thanks for experiencing the Mid-summer day in Northern Europe (the longest day in the year)
15. Thanks for building my creative, playful, and irresistible company
16. Thanks for creating the life I don’t need a vacation from
17. Thanks for being a world-class coach with extraordinary results
18. 🇪🇸 Thanks for being able to speak fluently Spanish
19. 🇷🇺 Thanks for being able to speak fluently Russian
20. 🇩🇪 Thanks for being able to speak fluently German
21. 🏡 Thanks for having my own, beautiful home
22. 🔥 Thanks for enjoying a fireplace at home
23. Thanks for having my own garden
24. Thanks for having abundant Me-time every day
25. Thanks for having a star named after me 
26. Thanks for hiking the Kom-Emine trail in Bulgaria
27. 🌋 Thanks for seeing the Hawaiian volcano lava up close
28. 🏔 Thanks for the mountain view from where I live
29. Thanks for visiting Madeira 
30. Thanks for working with extraordinary people
31. Thanks for experiencing satisfaction from my work every day
32. Thanks for visiting New York
33. Thanks for visiting the Taj Mahal 
34. Thanks for seeing the Gisa pyramids
35. Thanks for attending a floating lantern festival 
36. 🏄‍♀️ Thanks for surfing in Portugal
37. Thanks for ziplining
38. Thanks for kissing on the Eiffel Towel
39. Thanks for exploring midnight Paris
40. ⛄️ Thanks for living again a snowy New year’s Eve as in my childhood
41. Thanks for having a skiing vacation with my family
42. Thanks for the ‘Nieuwjaarsduik‘ with Annemieke Jansen (a Dutch tradition of running into the freezing winter ice waters to celebrate the beginning of a new year)
43. Thanks for being able to juggle
44. Thanks for solving Rubik’s cube
45. Thanks for starting a program/project to spot and develop young talent in my home country
46. 🚕 Thanks for driving a bright yellow car
47. Thanks for joining the Forbes Coaches Council – an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives in the coaching industry (added on the 19th Jan 2021)
48. Thanks for being a mentor in the programs of the Bulgarian Tony Robbins (added on the 19th Jan 2021)
49. 🔥Thanks for walking on fire
50. 🇦🇷 Thanks for spending a month in Buenos Aires

How about you? I’m curious! What’s on your life list?