Every now and then I like to share a bit of a list-making frenzy with you. Actually, making lists is not my forte however today I am compelled to do so. I’ve decided that this year is the year it’s all happening and according to positive psychology and quantum physics the best way to make your dreams come true is to state them. Out loud. Publicy. And tell people. Make it real in your head. So here we go:

1. Remember to breathe.
2. Bake. For my friends. I love to bake and haven’t done so for hmmm… at least a year now. I want to make decadent, delicious cakes and cookies for the people I love.
3. Tune into presence. All the time. Sit in my sweet spot and trust.
4. Finish stitching, beading and creating the leather handbag I started making in London in 2008.
5. Read more books than last year….
6. Go to L’etoile in Paddington. TICK! Thank you Allen for this one …. you are an angel.
7. Eat less sugar. I’ve fallen off the sugar-free wagon a little since Christmas and I need to get back on it. I feel so much better when I’m not consuming sugar.
8. Spend a weekend in Melbourne.
9. Go to Burning Man in late August.
10. Spend a month in New York.
11. Travel through South America from the bottom up ending my journey at the Rainbow Gathering in Guatemala in December.
12. Write an e-book/ course.
13. Write at least two guest posts per month. (So far so good, I’ve had one published this month with another scheduled coming up)
14. Meet the most fascinating, inspirational people that I have ever encountered.
15. Be a better friend. (Sometimes I am terrible at keeping in touch and showing how much I care …. I want to do so more.)
16. Get clear on what is important in my life and welcome people who share the same values.
17. Fall in love.
18. Go gently. Don’t be so hard on myself.
19. Practise the art of allowing.
20. Life harmony is not the same as life balance. I don’t have to have all the balls in the air at the same time.
21. Listen more slowly.
22. Tell more stories.
23. Write to my grandparents at least once a month. I know it means so much to them.
24. Sell all the designer clothes that I never wear. And spend the money on something I really, really love!
25. Commandeer an iPad.
26. Go to Officeworks and stock up on notepads. My collection of scribbled on papers scattered across my room is starting to move from charming chaos to enigmatic mess.
27. Manage my time a little more efficiently. (Plan without planning – if that’s at all possible! The trouble is, my nature rejects schedules and plans … I kind of have to trick myself with this one!)
28. Break up with social media. “It’s not you – it’s me! Let’s just be friends and hang out sometimes, rather than spending every single minute together! (You’re suffocating me!)“
29. Over the winter, watch all the films that I keep getting recommended and never see. I think this one needs a list. Any movie-buff-list-makers out there who want to help? Email me!
30. Perfect the back-walker. I can go back. But I can’t seem to quite kick over yet. Soon.
31. Get over my body image issues once and for all. Gulp. This one is scary. (Let’s practice a little radical self-love shall we!)
32. Stretch myself. Physically. Emotionally. Spiritually. Try new things.
33. Be more compassionate and understanding. We are all humans after all.
34. Host a dinner party. Complete with fairy lights and candles and live music and chocolate gateau.
35. Learn about wine.
36. Organically, gracefully and easily develop my business so it flourishes and is successful on all levels.
37. Allow lots of space for the unexpected.
38. Slow down.
39. Play with children, more than I have been.
40. Kiss a man with a moustache. Just for the experience.
41. Relax. Allow my body to fully relax.
42. Let go. Of control. Of knowing the outcome. Of expectations. Everything. I’m quite good with this but imagine how amazing life would be if I completely let go of trying to control it. If just showed up, did my part, shared my sparkle and let what ever may happen, happen. Wow! Just the idea blows my mind. 
43. Go to Tetsuya’s in the city.
44. Ride the rides at Luna Park with my sister and take loads of photos of our silliness.
45. Make green smoothies. I know they’re good for me. I even like them. But I’m just not making them.
46. Remember not to take life too seriously.
47. Practise my Spanish.
48. Write a loooong letter to my mama about everything. She doesn’t know me at all. Maybe she never will but I can try!
49. Make peace with my ex. I really hope he speaks to me again one day and we can be friends. I guess breaking someones heart makes them not want to talk to you anymore.
50. Enjoy each moment as it comes. Feel the width and the breadth of it. Taste it. Smell it. Be in it.
51. Figure out how I can monetize my talents. Seek out someone practical who can help me. I need a second brain for this. Ammm so …. anyone?
52. Buy socks.
53. Write every single one of my friends a love letter and send it via post. With stamps and everything. Amazing!
54. Print this insane listomania out and put it somewhere I can see it so I actually remember to do all these things.
55. Figure out how to use all of my flying points with different airlines and hotels to the best of my advantage. I have no idea and it’s all so confusing. I need help from someone who is good with numbers and details. Both things that I detest. (I’m one of those people who still uses their fingers to count. Yes. I know.)
56. Go for a long weekend away to Byron Bay.
57. Convince my landlady to put me on a rolling lease. I really hate stiff contracts. They make me feel uneasy. It’s like clipping my wings.
58. Go to a sex toy shop with my sister and check out the goods without acting like a demented teenager. Really. I shouldn’t be embarrassed about these things anymore.
59. Create the MOST AMAZING COSTUME EVER for Secret Garden festival in March. With face paint, warrior-fairy style. And a leopard print kimono.
60. Be still. Allow more stillness into my life.
61. Spend my money more consciously. Don’t buy crap. Buy beautiful things that last a long time. And less of them. Spend my money on things I really value. (I can be a tad frivolous at times!)
62. Don’t think too much.
63. Don’t think about what other people might think. It really doesn’t matter.
64. Have fun. All the time. (I do this anyway but there’s no harm in reminding myself.)
65. Go on an exclamation mark detox!!!!! They seem to creep into everything I right far more than is appropriate.
66. Proof read my writing a bit more before I publish. Euch! It’s that whole attention to detail thing! I hate it.
67. Have at least one afternoon/evening totally to myself per week. I need time alone to recharge.
68. Discover new intricacies about the people I call my friends. I love exploring the people in my life.
69. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Don’t be afraid to fail. Move through and past those fears. Do it and see what happens. Either way it’s a wonderful learning experience.
70. Convince my employers to gift me with a new iPhone. Because I deserve it.
71. Go through my inbox and file and tidy and organise the 1000’s of emails that are making life a little convoluted.
72. Practise gratitude the moment my mind wanders into a realm of complaint. And any other time. It works so good and makes life amazing.
73. Communicate my feelings and thoughts more clearly. Face to face. In spoken words.
74. Cry if I feel like it. Things sometimes are worth crying over. Give myself the permission to feel my emotions and then get over it. I tend to skip straight to the get-over-it part. The feeling part is important too.
75. Take the time to sit down and write more. Often I write while also doing 20 other things at the same time. Little inspirations come to my mind and I jot them down; my mornings often involve me bouncing between the bathroom and the notebook on my bed. Perhaps if I took the time to sit down with them I could take it a little deeper. The again if I wait to write when I have time, the thoughts may have already passed. It’s like trying to capture a cheeky pixie. Very slippery.
76. Hold his hand. ‘Cause I like it. I’m obligation free. It’s just a gesture of affection.
77. Don’t cut my hair. At all. Not even once this year. Just to experiment and see what happens.
78. Make a dream catcher from dried vines, wool, shells and semiprecious stones and feathers I have collected over the past 10 years of my travels.
79. Allow myself to move from super groomed to a little more wild again. I’m tired of the common “Sydney” look. I’m breaking free.
80. Have a really beautiful dinner with my dearest friends for my birthday. Complete with sparklers and birthday cake and lots of wine.
81. Learn how to dance with a man.
82. Do something really super romantic and wonderful at least once a month.
83. Fly a kite.
84. Go sailing or on some kind of boat trip. Cause I love it.
85. Have more real, deep and meaningful conversations. I hate small talk and mostly I just move away from it. Perhaps if I could engage people to communicate a little deeper I could stay in the conversations for longer.
86. Be more accepting of others. I’m an idealist. A philosopher. A dreamer. I expect everyone else to be this way too. But I realise they’re not. And that’s ok.
87. Have patience. With life. With outcomes. With myself. With others. Things often just need time.
88. Host a Mad Hatters Tea Party. We can all be Alice. I’ll try to find some magic mushrooms. 
89. Define exactly what I want my life to look and feel like. Get clear on it. Write it out and go live life on my own terms. Use my imagination and then go beyond even that. High aspirations. No expectations.
90. Tell all the people I admire, how and why I admire them. They inspire me and deserve to know so.
91. Go on lots of picnics.
92. Stop checking Google Analytics stats quite so much, my monthly excel spreadsheet is truly quite sufficient. Focus on what’s actually important instead. (Building an Empire of Revolutionary Love).
93. Write down my dreams as soon as I awake. Something magical might come out of them.
94. Learn how to make chocolate soufflé.
95. Write a gig review. Just to try it out and see if I can do it. It seems daunting and intimidating but I go to so many festivals and music gigs, it’s certainly a valuable skill I could develop.
96. Experiment. With everything.
97. Go on a road trip without a destination in mind. Discover new and wonderful places.
98. Hula hoop lots more and learn some really cool tricks I can show off at parties. (Perhaps buy a hula hoop so I can do this).
99. Read every single Dr Seuss book ever written.
100. Make at least one video blog aka vlog for viendamaria.com this year. Get help with the post-production so it looks AMAZING!
101. Go to Confest at Easter and present some workshops ….. on topics not yet decided.
102. Do a flash-mob-dance-off.
103. Stay awake all night and watch the sunrise at the beach. And then skinny dip in the ocean.
104. Minimise my collection of belongings. Do I really need all those books and things? Less is more I say.
105. Burn my journals and notebooks from the past 10 years (after I’ve copied out all the juicy stuff).
106. Blow bubbles in the park and play with glitter and take photos of these little moments of joy and amusement.
107. Create a photo album of my life for my family.
108. Sell all the 100’s of pieces of jewellery that I have collected to sell from my travels over the past few years.
109. Wear more accessories. Aiming to look like a pirate crossed with a nymph.
110. Expand my music collection. Open my ears to new and wonderful sounds. Try out something new.
111. Go for walks along the beach in the winter, even when it’s cold.
112. Trust in the process of life. It is truly very amazing and magical, even when my mind tries to conjure up ridiculous ideas of defeat.

Tell me. Do you share any of these? What dreams are you going to fulfil this year?
 
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