Things to Do this Life
Posted by Goddess Leonie on February 14th, 2008. Filed under: GoddessGuidebook, Joyful Goddess Life.
Three years ago, I started my Things To Do This Life List.
It amazes me how so many of my miracle~dreams have come true, some without even knowing… revisiting this list encourages me to remember what makes my soul juicy and how I want to be in this world.
Go on~ Dream BIG and Create your own 
Leonie’s list of THINGS TO DO THIS LIFE
1. Have a midnight picnic
2. Paint my nails bright purple
3. Have a bicycle with streamers on the handlebars
4. Have henna painted on the palms of my hands - Done.
5. Read tea leaves
6. Learn how to say “thank you” in six languages. - Done.
7. Play Bingo in a Bingo hall.
8. Scuba dive
9. Handglide - I’ve sky-flied on a wire, which is close… 50% there.
10. Wear a lot of bangles on my wrists so I can make music when I *sashay* - Done.
11. Swim with dolphins - I was so close to doing this in Adelaide…
12. Spread happy graffiti/street stickers - Done.
13. Photograph project of street art - Done.
14. Hold the hands of my beloved on a beach and say *I do* while looking intensely into his eyes
15. Begin & finish my second gratitude journal
16. Finish reading “Women who run with the Wolves”
17. Read “Mists of Avalon” - 50% read, and I think that was all I needed to read, so I am marking this as Done.
18. Read a Henry Miller book
19. Finish an Anais Nin book
20. Have a book launch
21. Write silly and insightful sayings on t-shirts and wear them - Done.
22. Paint like a goddess - Done, and will do for the rest of my life.
23. Watch “What the Bleep Do we Know” - Done.
24. Watch the Qaatsi trilogy – Don’t feel the burning wish to anymore.
25. Record a full length song
26. Dance on a table
27. Design my own sticker series
28. Feel truly enriched, uplifted and satisfied by my career. Touch other’s lives with my work. - On my journey there!
29. Get published by a publishing house
30. Paint a photo frame - Done.
31. Have a big treasure chest of artsy goodies - Got the goodies, not the chest.
32. Make an altar - Done. This is so much a part of my life now.
33. Cook a creme brulee
34. Play a magical April Fool’s Day trick
35. Get an eyebrow ring - Done. And I loved every part of it – getting it, having it, letting it go.
36. Rockclimb – Half done. I rock climb wherever I go, but I want to try out a rockwall.
37. Have bright blue hair
38. Canoe/Kayak on Lake Burley Griffin - Done. I’ve been sailing on it twice, and hilarious fun ensued.
39. Go to a Sacred Heart Gathering at Uluru - Done. And it was incredible.
40. Howl at full moon - Done.
41. Learn the dates for star signs off by heart - Do I really want to do this anymore?
42. Get a tattoo – Maybe after I am thirty or past my second saturn return.
43. Do an art portfolio up with photos of all my works – Done. And it looks awesome.
44. Learn Tibetan Buddhist meditation
45. Dance on a beach at night
46. Have a LeoniePaLooza - I’ve had many of them now.
47. Sleep under the stars again
48. Hike for three days
49. Eat noodles again at a streetvendor stall in SE Asia
50. Have a hammock.
51. Own a blue car - Done. Aurora the Blue Jeep has joined our happy family!
52. Add to this list
53. Change my name to Leonie Cougar Mellancamp Allan {or not} - Done. I chose Not.
54. Dress in disguise - Done.
55. Get so flexible i can bend my head to my knees
56. Work in a bookstore
57. Perform a rain dance - Done, and it worked! Also performed a stop-rain dance.
58. Wear a grass skirt and a coconut bra
59. Get a professional dress-ups photo taken (dressed up like another era) - I was so close to having this happen in a little German town in South Australia, but they’d just closed!
60. Baptise a baby
61. Find a signature perfume scent - Done. My signature scent, I have realised, is no perfume ~ just the sweetness of my hair, the breath of wind around me, and occassional swirls of essential oils. My beautiful friend Angel said to me the other day “I love your smell Leonie. I have a pair of your socks that even smell like you!” I think I realised then my perfume quest was over… my signature scent is me.
62. Create a dreamboard - Done.
63. Watch a foal being born
64. Marry myself - Done. I love this so much. Best thing I ever did for me.
65. Give birth
66. Find a song that sings about a Leonie - DONE! Found on my 26th birthday - Arjan Brass sings “Leonie”.
67. Have no idea about what I’m going to be doing for a year
68. Tell a stranger they look beautiful
69. Give a spontaneous hug to someone I wouldn’t usually.
70. Cut and polish a rock
71. Make a plaster cast of my breasts & belly and paint it
72. Belly dance in blue - Done.
73. See a buffalo - oh my god! Done! I loved this so very, very much. I didn’t realise it was on my To Do List until just now!
74. Take photos of the red dirt of the Grand Canyon against a blue blue sky.
75. Gondola. Venice.
76. Meet SARK.
77. Paint rocks
78. Paint with ochre rock dust
79. Create my own set of oracle cards - In the process of.
80. Delve and acknowledge the wisdom of my authentic and ancient self - I do, and forever more will do.
81. Drink tea made from loose tea leaves - Done.
82. Make a necklace - Done.
83. White water raft
84. Ride a horse again - Done. And I will again and again.
85. Lead a womens circle - Done.
86. Run a sacred creative retreat – Done. It was AMAZING. And I thought I wouldn’t do this for years and YEARS… but I did, and it was divine, blissful, tranformational. More than I could have ever imagined.
87. Submit a book proposal – Done! You GO Goddess Girl!
88. Appear in a SARK book – Done. RAR!
89. Go to India – Done. Wow. I travelled around India with my beloved, two sisters and Mum. Adventure of a lifetime!
90. Walk the Camino trail
91. Go to Tibet
92. Read all the books in my bookcase
93. Go to Maccu Piccu
94. Write a book
95. Stay at an ashram in India for a couple of months.
96. Be an apprentice to a Wise One.
97. Enjoy every single day of my life.
98. Live in the country again.
99. Go to a world music/alternative music festival
100. Paint a wall mural
101. Do things just for me.
102. Be in the SageWoman magazine (illustration, article or review)
103. Hold workshops all around the world
104. Hold a workshop with my friend Donna
105. Meet* Doreen Virtue, Julia Cameron or Oprah. Or all three.
106. Set up a healing retreat
107. Be Leonie. - I love being Leonie. I am SO good at it! DONE!
108. Sell a painting to someone in Asia, Africa and South America. (Then I would have a painting in every continent!)
109. Have a neighbourhood progressive dinner.
110. Publish a range of greeting cards.
111. Go to Tasmania with my lover.
112. Return to Uluru.
113. Meet Brooke Medicine Eagle.
114. Go to a residential spiritual retreat.
115. Create a photography website.
116. Have a solo art exhibition - Done.
117. Bushwalk in the Australian Alps.
118. Travel the NSW South Coast.
119. See James Taylor in concert.
120. Photograph a sublime band for their CD. - In the making.
121. Do The Gift.
122. Go to Japan.
123. Go to the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury.
124. Visit the Nan Tien Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in the Southern Hemisphere. - DONE. It was so beautiful visiting this place with my beloved.
May we all know our dreams are possible,
with love and light,
Leonie
June 8th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Hiya!
I think you should link some of your “to do’s”.
So that others can get what you mean when you say. “Do The Gift”… What is “The Gift” and how do you “Do” it??
Otherwise I think this is a great idea!!
June 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am
I love your list. Now, I’m excited to start mine..i done lists before but never this big.
I do share the desire to swim with the dolphins.
Shell’s last blog post..The Honey Moon
June 8th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I remember reading this list the very first time I found your blog! I have a list somewhere on my computer, but I haven’t been actively working towards anything on it. I may have to dig it up and see where life has taken me just because I put those thoughts out there.
This is so inspiring!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:38 am
Okay, so this is like the third message along these lines this week that I’ve received. Guess it’s time to really do it.
Started writing one this morning, and found myself thinking that there wasn’t a whole lot I really wanted to do.
Or so I thought. I seemed to have just gotten myself to a sad place with low expectations. Your list is definitely inspiring.
Gotta get to work. (PS: about the ‘tattoo after saturn return’ thing.. I got my second larger and more meaningful tattoo for my 33rd b-day. Definitely worth waiting for… I’ll send you a photo..!)
Gina’s last blog post..The Superlicious Diva
July 7th, 2009 at 5:17 am
This was VERY inspiring, thank you!!
Bambi’s last blog post..Sweet Sunday: Spiral Beach – “Domino”
July 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Here I am on the other side of the world – and twice+ your age – I resonate to some people on your list. I have met SARK.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I love this list. So much. You’ve given me a few I need to add, like Maccu Piccu and white water rafting.
Thank you so much for pointing me here.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I just found this tonight and I am so inspired now to write my own. I’ve been struggling a lot lately, but maybe this will help me to focus on the things I can do rather than those I am afraid to do!
Thank you Goddess Leonie – you brighten my world!
October 17th, 2009 at 11:21 am
How did you manage to get a painting in Antarctica? I liked your list. Lots of cool stuff on there. It’s really fun to tell strangers they look beautiful as long as you genuinely mean it. You can tell it brightens their day.
October 31st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
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November 26th, 2009 at 5:09 am
My sister told me about this “list” and I am amazed at how many things you have on your list.
My sister has her list compiled and is working on getting some of the things done. I helped here with a couple of them.
I started my list and find it difficult to come up with more than 35 items. Any advice on how to dig deep down to come up with more?
You are a bright inspiration!
Thanks
January 28th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Thank you so very much for sending me this postage.. I am simply charmed with this.
reading your list I could verify that we have many desires in common.. and some I already accomplished.
I had never thought about writing… leaning that the written words have to can more than the said ones.. I will take like this your piece of advice and to write las.. to paint las to decorate las with flowers as a reliquary.
thank you Leoni for increasing light to my day.
xoxo
yasmin
February 5th, 2010 at 1:17 am
When I turned 40 I created a scrapbook page with a center saying “365 hopes and dreams for my 40th year” then around the outside I doodled all my list. As I completed them – I lightly colored over them with chalk – In the end it was colorful with a few white dream areas – but it was beautiful – I am now inspired to create a life page – thank you
February 12th, 2010 at 3:23 am
My Leonie,
This is wonderful. I started mine a number of years ago and must revisit it. I love the idea of surrounding mine with gorgeous color like your site.
I worked with SARK at the Kripalu Center here in the Berkshires, USA. She is truly amazing and wonderful.
Thank you for all you do, for sharing your world with us. And I can’t wait for pictures of your Little Mermaid.
Be well. Be wonderful.
Yours in Creativity
February 26th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Leonie:
The honesty in your writing is so refreshing. Each day when I receive a post from you I always take a moment to savor it.
I love how you allow us into your world, and your head. You are
truly awe inspiring to me.
I am so excited to meet little mermaid, and share in this aspect of your life as well.
Love the list. Again, you motivated me.
Thanks,
Ginny
March 8th, 2010 at 10:34 am
I love this list, though I do have advice about henna. It can be VERY dangerous. One little 4 year old got burned by the henna ink because he was allergic to the chemical ppd in it. I myself had a horrid experience with black hair dye (I got my hair done at a salon at my college) and it took me so long to heal from the scabbing, burning, and sheer pain of it. I was losing my hair in clumps and over a year later, I do have some skin issues on my forehead and around my eyes. I was on a couple of rounds of antibiotics to clear it up as well.
I’m so glad you had no troubles with your henna experience.
xo
Jill
April 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Don’t forget to mark 65 as done
A lovely idea … this list.
I guess I will try… although I have already done a lot of the things I guess…
And I have to learn to dream again.
But it seems fun!