Ambition

Things I want to do:
*Many chosen with help from "The List: 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life," by Gail Belsky. * means I've done it!

1. Learn to row. *I'm now a rower on DC Strokes!
2. Teach my Alaskan Malamute to kayak.
3. Kayak in Kenya.
4. Do a safari watch in Africa.
5. Run a lighthouse for a week or two.
6. Learn to whitewater kayak.
7. Take a volunteering vacation, preferably in South America or Europe.
8. Work for the Media Hub in Brussels.
9. Learn to skydive on my own.
10. Get scuba diving certified.
11. Have an organized home.
12. Publish a book featuring my pics from Afghanistan.
13. Change the world.
14. Leave a healthier environment for future generations.
15. Learn to play double reed and string instruments.
16. Take Bikram yoga every week. *I do now!
17. Get my knees in shape enough to run again. *Done and ran 1/2 marathons!
18. Learn to cycle well enough to do the 9-mile ride to work. Then the 9 miles back home.
19. Buy a bike. *Done!
20. Find my creative side.
21. Read more of the classics.
22. Get my PhD.
23. Learn to sail.
24. Join a relief effort.
25. Build a piece of furniture.
26. Visit an ashram.
27. Hike Macha Picchu.
28. Escape at least once a year.
29. Have a girls-only vacation with lifelong friends.
30. Have one signature dish.
31. Learn to live with less and love it.
32. Learn to surf.
33. Take an adult ballet class.
34. See a Cirque du Soleil show.
35. Get to know my new home town.
36. Sleep through the night naturally.
37. Learn to fly an airplane.