We all love to dream, right?  Dreaming about where we would like to travel, what our ideal day would look like, adventures we would love to have….

 

A few years ago I read Laura Vanderkam’s book 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, and it completely changed my life.  (You can read my full review of the book, including more about how it impacted me, here.)

 

One of my favorite exercises that Vanderkam explains is making a List of 100 Dreams.  Now, if you know me, you know that I love lists.  So I began this List of 100 Dreams eagerly.

 

 

I thought I would share part of my list with you today. (The other part will come next week.)  I share this because:

 

-I want to inspire you to create your own List of Dreams

-I find it interesting to hear about other people’s dreams and hope that you will share yours with me

-I hope that sharing these dreams may push me to pursue them

 

Be sure to check out Laura Vanderkam’s blog post to learn more about creating your list of dreams, or you can check out this great podcast episode.

 

 

 

My List of 100 Dreams

 

 

Faith:

 

1.Spend a weekend at a monastery

2.Support missionaries

3.Commission a handwritten icon for our home

4. Get icons for each of the 12 great feasts for our house.

5.Go on a short-term mission trip with OCMC (maybe as a family or couple)

6. Learn to make prosphora

 

 

7. Go on a pilgrimage (maybe overseas to Greece or the British Isles)

8. Learn to sing the Paraklesis service

9. Get the “Welcoming the Christ Child” book and ornaments and go through during the Nativity Fast

10. Purchase a synaxarion for our home to read the lives of the saints

11. Learn to pray the Lord’s Prayer in Greek

12. Develop a consistent schedule for confession for myself and the kids (under the direction of a spiritual father)

 

Career

13. Write an Orthodox children’s book

14. Reach 30,000 pageviews per month

15. Earn $300-$500 per month consistently on the blog

16. Start doing Facebook live videos

17. Build a network of Orthodox writers that I know and communicate with

18. Speak at an event

 

19. Write another e-book

20. Attend another Ancient Faith Writing Conference

21. Go on a writing retreat by myself

22. Be a guest on a podcast

23. Do guest interviews with people on my blog

24. Be able to work part-time and write part-time

 

Travel

25. Visit all 50 states

26. Go camping in Acadia as a family

27. Tour a lighthouse

28. Go to Vermont and see maple syrup being made

29. Climb a mountain in New Hampshire

30. See the reenactment of Lexington and Concord

31. Visit Alaska and ride a train through the mountains

 

32. Go hiking in a national park in Utah

33. Family camping trip in Yellowstone

34. Do a wine country tour as a couple in California, Oregon, New York, or Virginia.

35. Go to an Orthodox Church in another country.

36. Do the Anne of Green Gables tour in Prince Edward Island

 

 

37. Visit Mackinac Island in Michigan

38. Travel to Patagonia

39. Go on a cruise to Antarctica and see penguins

40. Do a literary tour of England (especially for Shakespeare, Bronte sisters, John Donne, Jane Austen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis)

41. Have tea in an English garden

42. Tour the Orchard House (Louisa May Alcott’s home)

43. Do a riverboat cruise on the Mississippi River

44. Stay in a cabin in Montana

45. Family hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains

 

To be Continued….. 🙂

 

What would be on your list of dreams?