What makes your pulse race?

So that’s me…at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (!) with friends.  I returned yesterday and I’m slowly trying to integrate back into reality. It was everything that I had hoped it would be and more! Fabulous films (The Music Never Stopped, Miss Representation, Higher Ground, etc), celebrity run-ins (Liv Tyler, Adrian Grenier, Morgan Spurlock, etc.), and THE best time hanging out with friends old & new. This trip was conceived many, many years ago with my friend Lesley, and a few years ago we got serious saving and planning to go this year. For weeks, I was was like a little kid, getting more excited every day until finally we left. Honestly, it was one of the best times of my life and it was great fun to check it off my “list”.

I’ve got to go on record stating that I think everyone should have a list of things they want to accomplish in their lives. 2 sites -2dobeforeidie & 43things are great places to record your list and  Lifehack & Squidoo both help you get started. It can really be anything – but I’m a true convert that if you “list” it, it can happen.

How’s that New Year’s resolution going?

In my personal and professional life, I’ve always hated setting goals… “make sure they are measurable, quantify your efforts, show marked improvements”.  I also stopped setting new year’s resolutions about a decade ago. But there does seem to be some merit to (at least) putting something “out there” in regards to things you still want to do in this life. Everyone seemed to be creating “bucket lists” when the movie of the same title was released in the last couple of years, and I’m sure I could find a Facebook or iPhone app if I tried really hard.  

Body & Soul magazine published a really great article talking about this very subject and even created a template for your own life-list worksheet.  It also listed the following 5 Steps for Creating Your Own List: Read the rest of this entry