Chapter seven,
101 Dream List.
I haven't been everywhere,
But it's on my list.
Susan Sontag.
During 2020,
After delegating 90% of my teaching contracts to my new team,
I was starting to feel lost and unmotivated.
I'd been so used to doing it all for nine years that now I had to switch into a business development role that was so new to me.
I felt like I had accomplished all of my dreams and didn't know what else to do.
On a beautiful summer night,
I was on a date at my favorite local Greek restaurant,
Only five minutes away from my dream lakefront property and sitting across my dream man,
Who I waited 35 years to meet.
What more could a girl ask for?
Nothing at all.
I told my partner later that night that I don't have any more dreams and could easily die happy the next day.
He told me that I didn't have big enough goals.
What do you mean I probed?
I felt like my goals were pretty huge and the list was long.
I wanted to travel the world,
Check.
Write a book,
Check.
Meet my dream man,
Check.
Grow my company,
Check.
Have a dog,
Check.
Live and hold workshops at my lakefront property,
Check.
He said,
I must have more dreams left.
At that moment,
I couldn't even think of one dream.
He suggested that weekend,
We take some time to sit quietly outside and write 101 of our dreams that are yet to be accomplished.
So that is just what we did.
The very next day,
We each found a spot outside with a notebook in hand.
I was feeling in stock and anxious that nothing would come up for me.
I closed my eyes and sat in silence for a few minutes and when I opened them,
A flood of dreams that had been pushed really deep down came pouring out onto the paper.
In just over an hour,
I came up with this list.
This is super vulnerable for me to share since it is so personal and some may criticize my dreams,
But we are all so unique.
Hopefully,
You will simply find this entertaining for you.
101 of my dreams yet to accomplish as of July 11th,
2020.
One,
Start a nonprofit organization.
Two,
Earn 500,
000 in gross sales in AXA Unique.
Three,
Own 10 real estate properties and have a property manager to manage them all.
Four,
Travel to Cape Town,
South Africa and do a 10-day Vipassana meditation there.
Five,
Travel to Thailand and do a 10-day silent retreat by Chiang Mai.
Six,
Travel to Japan again.
Seven,
Travel to Bali,
Indonesia.
Eight,
Travel to Philippines.
Nine,
Fly my twin sister first class to her international destination of choice.
10,
Go on a cruise with my partner,
Sister and brother-in-law with a sweet room.
11,
Go on a Middle Eastern cruise with my partner.
12,
Spend a winter in Costa Rica with my partner.
13,
Do a 10-day volunteer Vipassana with my sister in Costa Rica.
14,
Go on a curtain chanting slash yoga retreat in Lake Atilan,
Guatemala.
15,
Do a 10-day Vipassana retreat in Joshua Tree,
California.
16,
Go to Las Vegas with my partner.
17,
Go on a 30 to 60-day road trip through US and Canada.
18,
Go to a festival with my friend Micah.
19,
Go to Burning Man.
20,
Go on an Alaskan cruise.
21,
Facilitate an intuitive animal communication workshop on a cruise.
22,
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
23,
Climb Machu Picchu in Peru.
24,
Visit Nepal and do a 10-day silent retreat in Kathmandu.
25,
Foster senior dogs and let them live out their last days in the comfort of my home.
26,
Hold a writing retreat at my home for authors.
27,
Speak Spanish fluently.
28,
Walk at least 10 days of the Camino Trail.
29,
Fast at least 10 days without any food.
30,
Travel to Israel.
31,
Travel to Senegal.
32,
Start another incorporated company.
33,
Max out my RRSP and TSFA accounts,
Canadian retirement and tax-free saving accounts.
34,
Volunteer at a center to serve my mom or partner on a 10-day silent meditation retreat.
35,
Adopt another dog.
36,
Hire a manager to manage Aksai Unique.
37,
Sell Aksai Unique.
38,
Backpack with just my sister.
39,
Publish a book about twins.
40,
Publish a book about entrepreneurship.
41,
Publish a book about life lessons.
42,
Learn to play the piano.
43,
Learn how to cook well.
44,
Learn how to knit.
45,
Milk a cow.
46,
Become a millionaire.
47,
Make someone else a millionaire.
48,
Facilitate intuition and business workshops with my partner.
49,
Go to a Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within workshop.
50,
Do a 21-day Vipassana retreat.
51,
Do a 30-day Vipassana retreat.
52,
Do a 45-day Vipassana retreat.
53,
Invite my grandma to have a vacation at my home.
54,
Swim with the great white sharks in Cape Town.
55,
Go to Fiji.
56,
Visit Big Bend National Park in Texas.
57,
Hike down the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
58,
Visit Arequipa,
Peru to see Volcano Misty again.
59,
Travel to Oman.
60,
Live anxiety-free.
61,
Have my sister and brother-in-law live at my home for one summer.
62,
Buy a real mountain bike and go more often.
63,
Pick a bucket of Saskatoon berries from my Saskatoon bushes in my front yard.
64,
Become vegetarian.
65,
Stop drinking coffee.
66,
Stop drinking alcohol.
67,
Feed myself a year worth of organic vegetables from our garden.
68,
Buy an electric vehicle.
69,
Buy a 100% solar-powered travel camper.
70,
Buy an eco-dome to put on a lakefront terrain for tourists to enjoy.
71,
Sign up for a bachata dance competition.
72,
Learn and do acro yoga with my partner.
73,
Have a golf game where I par most holes.
74,
Teach my dog Spring an agility course.
75,
Go real rock climbing with my partner.
76,
Go to a Marc Anthony concert.
77,
Go to a Don Omar concert.
78,
Read 1,
000 books.
79,
Go on a trip with my friend Cassandra.
80,
Learn to play one song on the guitar.
81,
Volunteer attend a bachata in a jail.
82,
Volunteer at hospice care.
83,
Be there for one person as they die.
84,
Volunteer at the Mirror Foundation Blind Race Fundraiser.
85,
Hold another fundraiser for Opportunity International Canada.
86,
Shave my head.
87,
Stop wearing makeup 100% of the time and feel confident doing so.
88,
Have a two-week vacation with my dad.
89,
Donate $100,
000 to charity.
90,
Be financially free by 50 years old.
91,
Go on a camping hiking trip in the mountains of Vermont.
92,
Live at the Vermont Modern Monastery for one to two months.
93,
Go skydiving again.
94,
Drive to Regina and back.
95,
Go bungee jumping again.
96,
Buy a handpan drum,
Then learn how to play it.
97,
Host more radical honesty workshops at my home.
98,
Stop having sugar cravings.
99,
Climb the Himalayan mountains with my sister.
100,
Swim with wild dolphins.
101,
Walk on the Great Wall of China.
When I read these out to my partner after we were done,
I had to laugh at my process.
I didn't want to think or analyze too much,
But simply let any thought flow as it happened.
My brain went from number 44,
Learn how to knit,
45,
Milk a cow,
Then jumped to 46,
Become a millionaire,
And then 47,
Make someone else a millionaire.
My brain acted as if knitting was just as easy and important for me as helping to make another person a millionaire.
I guess it could be just as simple or difficult as I perceive it to be.
My true belief systems really came out in this exercise.
I also had to giggle at how limiting my dreams were compared to my partner's.
We each had only 101 lines in our paper to fill,
And he used them very wisely.
For one number,
He put,
Visit the seven wonders of the world.
Good one,
I thought.
I used seven lines to specifically note each dream and then started to reflect on why I didn't even think of the idea to write bigger dreams for myself.
Later that summer,
We had some friends stay over.
We shared our dream list,
Which inspired them to complete one as well.
I encourage you to also stop and take an hour when you are in a relaxed state to allow yourself to dream big.
For some,
I realize it may be difficult because you have pushed those dreams so far down and don't wanna bring them up.
This exercise may cause some pain,
But for me,
It was eye-opening.
Eye-opening in the sense that I realized I actually do have a lot of dreams.
My dreams may be small,
But that's okay.
Sometimes we only have 101 lines to list out these dreams.
How will you choose to fill it?
