{recording life} Making a Life List

Do you read Learn with Jenny?  She is an amazing woman with a powerful story…you must check her out!  I love her zest for life and her quest for intentional living.  She is starting a new series on her blog about creating a life list and that is right up my alley! (You know how much I love lists!) 

Part One is actually the preparation before you create your list.  She asks three questions: What do you value?  What excites you?  What are your inspirations?  Good things to think about, right?  Below are my answers.  I’d love to hear some of yours!

Values List
Jenny says: “These are the things that really matter to you. Simply, these are your beliefs and ideals that you hold as special.”

• Family
• Creating a welcoming and loving home atmosphere
• Charitable giving/service and modeling that for my children
• My Catholic faith and continually growing in faith
• Recording my family’s stories for future generations
• Creativity
• Living intentionally

Excitables
According to Jenny, “These are the things that make you feel centered, grounded, yet alive. These are the simple acts that often bring out the best in yourself, serve to spark an active imagination, or put yourself in a healthy, energetic mindset to dream big.”

• Laughter
• Giving gifts
• Being in the kitchen
• Heart-to-heart conversations with family
• Taking photographs
• Working on my Project Life album
• Reading
• Sewing of any sort with my hands, not so much with a machine
• Getting out of our everyday routine, even if it’s a day trip or small excursion

  

Inspiration
Jenny says: “What serves to inspire you? There are things all around you that help to influence you or inspire you everyday. These include people, events, blogs, magazines, music, concerts, life experiences, photography, etc.”

• Start Something That Matters
• Pinterest
• Magazines and catalogs like House Beautiful and Pottery Barn
• etsy
• Ali Edwards and how she does Project Life
• Jenny’s weekly letters to her children
• Photographs of my childhood with my siblings and cousins
• A Homemade Life (my current read…definitely making me think of the stories that exist around our favorite meals) 

If you’re interested, Jenny has a free printable worksheet you can use.  I found that this was a really enlightening exercise and I am excited to work on my own life list in the coming weeks.