Are you a dreamer?

While sorting and cleaning up things for our adoptee's son's arrival I found a notebook from January 2014 that I had begun to write down my dreams in, not as in what I dreamt last night but as in what I wanted from my life. The idea behind it was if I didn't know what I wanted, how was I to know how to get it and how would I stay motivated to do the things required to get the things I wanted, again, if they were not clear in my head.

What prompted this dreams writing back in the day?

This question was posed to us by a friend while discussing future possibilities and a business model:

What are five things you would like to do, have or become if you had more time and money?

Now, this is a really simple question, and if you were to ask a child this in a simpler form, you would have a hard time stopping their imagination from running wild with the things they want to do, be or have.

However, ask an adult and for some reason, we have become so content or complacent with the way things are that it's hard to think outside the box we have created for ourselves back to those grand ventures we had planned doing when we were young.

I have always been a bit of a dreamer with grand expectations for my life and to date it's been a pretty wild ride with many ups and some life-changing downs. It wasn't until I played the #tenfactsonelie game started by @traciyork that I realised just how out there my life had been, so much so that all the facts looked like they could be lies due to the extreme nature of many. _{If you are interested in my truths click HERE.}

My dreams and life plan always saw me travelling the world until I was thirty and then settling down, getting married and starting a family. Unfortunately as life does sometimes, the wool was pulled from under my feet and I spent my prime travelling years, in and out of hospital, struggling for life and shattering my dreams in the process.

I recovered from my twelfth and final surgery a few months after my 30th birthday, lucky I had met my future hubby @shai-hulud mid nightmare and I did get married a few years later, starting a family has taken us down a different route to initially planned and taken a lot longer but exciting news, we will be meeting our son in the coming months as we were recently matched with a little man from Thailand.

Back to the point of this post...

For me, being a dreamer with a clear vision in mind of how my life was going to turn out, lost that vision when my dreams were shattered. So thinking of five things outside my original plan was hard, it was only when I realised that I just needed to bend my dreams a little to fit my new reality that I could get past my initial self-block and move onto the real challenge of writing down a hundred.

As you can see even with no road blocks and a healthy imagination I didn't get to a hundred. But I did have to laugh at my appendix’s that goes into more detail regarding travel and my dream home.

100 Dreams (Or close enough...)

1. New Bedroom Suite
2. New TV Unit
3. New Computer Desk/Set Up
4. Ducati 600cc - Yellow
5. Electric Hybrid Car with cruise control/back support - Automatic
6. Parachute - Made to order (Green/Pink)
7. Jump out of a Helicopter (In Europe)
8. Diamond Earrings 3/4 carat
9. Hot Air Balloon Ride
10. Go to Outer Space - Feel weightlessness and come home!
11. Go to Heston's Restaurant
12. Get Heston to cater a dinner party
13. White Christmas
14. Dog Sled Ride
15. Sing song with someone famous back in the day
16. Learn to sing
17. Volunteer at Circle-A-Ranch (send our children if we have any)
18. Complete a tough mother/mud slide event
19. Buy my sister a new car
20. Purple Gold – Earrings/bracelet & necklace
21. Renew Vows in the snow – 10 years 12/4/2023
22. Go to the Olympics (See the open/close ceremonies and gymnastics/diving events)
23. Go to Melbourne Cup (New dress/shoes)
24. Take my mum/dad/sister/niece and husband on a cruise
25. Retire by 40 - Financially free
26. Climb Mount Kinabalu
27. Go to Turtle Island
28. Do a Jungle River Cruise
29. Learn another language
30. Take my sudo grandparents on a holiday
31. Take my niece on a trip with me
32. Learn to play the drums
33. Buy and electrical drum kit
34. Buy a family home – See Appendix A
35. Talk on stage with my husband
36. New Clothes – Shopping in New York with my sister
37. Get my best friend new teeth and boobs
38. Quit Work – Traditional Job
39. Renovate my sudo grandparent’s house (De-clutter)
40. More storage in our home
41. Finish my garden beds
42. Go to India on a charity event my cousin runs yearly
43. Help my cousin set up charity in India
44. Take my brother on holiday and leadership training
45. Learn to draw/paint
46. Learn how to bake/decorate cakes
47. Learn how to look better/ be healthier
48. Learn how to take photos and manipulate them into art
49. Volunteer Work/Help Aid
50. Have or adopt a baby/children
51. Travel the world – See Appendix B
52. Tattoo redone in Hong Kong
53. Take my niece to Disney World
54. Visit Theme Parks around the World
55. Go to Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas
56. See Pink Lakes
57. See the Rainbow Mountains in China
58. Buy an Island
59. See the Grand Canyon
60. See the Northern Lights show
61. Cruise through Alaska
62. Train through the Rockies
63. Stay at the Palm (Atlantis Island) Resort in Dubai
64. Walk/Hike Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
65. Go Skiing/Learn to Ski
66. Learn to Snow Board
67. Maintain a healthy weight at 65kg (Fit & Toned)
68. Gardner for our new house and garden
69. Go on a Safari
70. Go shopping at Kookai
71. Go to Peter Island – in Hawaii
72. Go on a rewards cruise
73. Take my mother in law on a trip with us
74. Pet Snake with Terrarium
75. Pet Turtle with Terrarium
76. Go in a submarine for a ride
77. ………….

I must of ran out of ideas at 75 because I'm claustrophobic and can't think of anything worse than being confined to any small space for an extended period of time. Actually as I was writing these out for you, it was nice to see how many I had achieved and just how many made me laugh out loud.

Dream's clearly need to adapt and change as you do, just as the things you wanted to be, do and have changed from when you were a child. But for some fun can you guess which ones I have achieved? Out of the 76 above I have achieved 15.

YOU CAN WIN

I will guarantee one steem basic income share to one follower that picks at least 5 of the 15 achieved dreams. However, if on the day of payout I am feeling generous, I may pay out up to three.

If someone can pick all 15 I will give them 50% of the SBD generated from this post.

The winners will be announced in a weeks’ time with a summary of what the hell I was thinking when I wrote them and where my thoughts are now.

I look forward to seeing your guesses and as an added incentive, you may want to know I upvote good comments and aim to answer all genuine comments in a timely fashion.

Power Up and Steem ON!

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