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1. Go Ballooning in the early morning over spectacular country
Learn to juggle with 3 balls
Be able to locate 3 constellations in the sky
Walk down a catwalk
Do 100 push-ups in a row
Drink a bottle of Grange with a friend around a fire
Play the stock market with $1000 for 5 years
Sail to the Antartic
Visit Macchu Picchu
Stay up all night in front of a bonfire
Learn to play the bongos
Watch a movie a day for a year
Go to Japan and speak Japanese
Drive down to the Amalfi Coast and stay a week
Spend a week at an adventure hotel
Hang out for a month in Croatia
Drive across America coast to coast
Find a tall mountain and abseil down
Make a Tifaifai quilt
Visit Vancouver and sail through the Inner Passage
Celebrate Xmas in New York
Attend a pow-wow
Display 6 photos that I love on my walls at home
Watch the Sunrise from Mt Warning
Stay at a Buddhist Temple
Live with a view of the water
Play golf on each continent
Go Horseriding through beautiful country for a whole weekend
Learn to Salsa
Go back to Hong Kong and Macau
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Make an item of clothing and wear it on a regular basis
Read Top 100 books
Take trapeze lessons
Go rollerblading through Central Park
Ice Skate in Rockefeller Square
Raft through the Grand Canyon
Wear a kimono to a public event
Learn Sign Language
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Knit a beanie/scarf for a homeless person each year for 10 years
Drive my convertible to work once a week regardless of the weather
Go for a Day trip on a Harley
Spend a month living in the middle of the CBD of a large city
Check out the ladies in the windows in Amsterdam
Attend one really huge rock concert – Bonnaroo etc
Spend 2 weeks in Kauai
Go down the nile in a boat and climb to the top of a pyramid
Wear a slinky dress to an evening event
Set up an internet sales company – maybe through ebay
Spend a month living by the beach in a tent or a caravan
Be the member of the audience in a quiz show
Go to an American NBL game
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Go and watch an international Golf Tournament
Go up the Eiffel Tower
Experience weightlessness
Send a message in a bottle
Wear my wedding dress a 2nd time
Shower in a waterfall
Go to Turkey and Cappadocia
Make a hall table out of beautiful wood – myself
Have a workroom in my house for me to leave my hobbies out
Driving holiday from Alice Springs to Broome
Practice yoga once a day for a year
Live on a boat for a month
Learn how to make an amazing jus
Be a Great God mother
Play mahjong once a week for a year with Chinese people
Walk on a palm fringed beach whilst the sun is setting
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Be in Ireland on Saint Patrick’s day
Learn to be a bartender
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Place a piece of my own artwork in each room of my house
Visit Venice and ride a gondola
Ask a stranger to go for coffee
Sit on a bench and talk to a homeless man
Maintain healthy weight under 70kg for 10 years
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Take a picture a day for a year
Watch a European Football game at the stadium and come out
Make a polish dance outfit and learn to dance polish style
Run at an international sporting event
Make 10 years at my current job
See Monkeys in the wild
Watch baby turtles take their first steps down the beach
Ride in a helicopter
Host a Foreign Exchange Student
Have a food fight
Have moles removed from my face
Enjoy cheese, wine and bread with a friend on the Seine
See the sunset over the west coast
Chill out at a health farm for a week
Learn To stick-surf
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Oh the pain and exhilaration - was that exhaustion

 

 

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  angieszz

Sat, Jul 04 12:08 PM

Oh the pain and exhilaration - was that exhaustion?

 

I have been training hard for my 96k race.  Constantly increasing the intensity, the distance and the frequency. I am 100% convinced that my body will cross the line - albeit exhausted and sore.

 

The mind however, will it let me cross the line? I have started to notice how it plays tricks.  BIG tricks.  It sends out little tweaks and pains at irregular times - like 5 minutes into a walk, it forces your head to look straight up at a sheer cliff face (much better handled at a smaller chunk!) etc.  I have discovered though you have to trick it back - you have to reward yourself. So I have a little toolkit of supplements, bsicuits, jokebooks, new socks, delicious rubs etc to reward myself irregularly throughout the race. 

 

Why then don't we reward ourselves with things that we will truly appreciate along our life's journeys.  Get to an achievement point along the way and get a treat! Oh, that's right Tools does that - sometimes the tips for life are right under our nose!

 

Quote of the day:-

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or the sullen"

 

Thomas Carlyle

 

Have a great day - I think I will add a little book of jokes for the journey.

 

Angie

 

 

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I Like Your Quote

Obviously it's harder to do things when you're depressed, but the way that it's worded makes me want to be happy.  Hopefully that will happen soon.

 

Peace & Love,

~Kirsten~