New year 2018!! Fužine ! 100 ballons 100 wishes

100 Wishes, an exercise examining life’s goals

In October (2015) I did a personal retreat weekend inspired by my own life’s events and a friend’s blog post about her life audit. As part of my personal retreat weekend I made a list of 100 wishes for my life, writing each wish on a separate post it note.

Before starting this exercise I was a bit intimidated. 100 seems like a lot, and I’ve heard that people typically top out around 30. The early intimidation made early in the exercise a bit more challenging, and then I picked up speed and actually ended up surpassing 100 wishes.

Something I observed about this exercise is that how it feels will depend on what’s going on in your own life. I think had I done this exercise a year ago I would’ve felt more jovial and inspired by the exercise and had 1,000 wishes to record. The timing of when I did it was immediately following a series of chaotic events during my summer and fall, so I felt a bit beat up and honestly, had lost sight of a lot of my vision for my life. That feeling inside of me was part of my inspiration to do this exercise in the first place. To reignite the flame and re-inspire the many things I want to experience in life.

The 100 wishes exercise is one I think is healthy to do once per year and to do with a potential life partner (i.e. significant other, boyfriend/girlfriend, whatever your label of choice may be) because it’s important to find out if you have similar wishes for your life. Not all of your wishes need to overlap, but a healthy dose can ensure your compatibility and direction of your lives together.

I think the exercise could also be fun to do with a close group of friends, siblings, or parents even. Here’s my full list of wishes. Skip ahead for what I did after the initial brainstorm…