The prompt is from #Trust30. You pledge for the next 30 days to do blog, journal or create something each day over the next 30 days. Each day  there is a prompt from an original thinker or doer. Each day you get the prompt in your email and you do your thing. Tweet it, talk about it, spread it around.

It’s all about doing your thing your way. Just as Ralph Waldo Emerson would have wanted it.

Back to the 15 minutes to live. You set a timer for 15 minutes and you write the story that has to be written.

I started blankly at this one for a few minutes and then I had it. What would I do with 15 minutes left, 1 year left or any finite amount of time left?

Gather friends and family and head outside. That’s all. I don’t need any fancy crap or a big house or expensive toys (those are all fun, don’t get me wrong). But when it comes down to it, if I’m outside with friends and family, I’m happy. That’s all I really need. Once it starts pouring rain, I’d be happy to have an Arc’teryx Gore-tex suit though!

If it went past those 30 minutes, I’d tuck into my life list and get those going. I’ve already done a couple this year and a couple are in the works for the next few months. Get’r done!

Think about the things you’d do if you only had 1 year left. What is most important to you that you’d have to get it done? Where would you go, what would you do and who would you see?

This is going to make you uncomfortable and you’re not allowed to read on until you answer it. Why aren’t you doing those things now?

Time is running out.

What did I want to eat the next day? What did I want to do a week from now? What was everything going to be like when I got home? What was I going to do for work? What did I want to do with my life?

Wait, back up a step. What was that last one? What did I want to do with my life.

It hit me like a ton of bricks. I had been doing a lot of reading about people leading unconventional lives, coming up with crazy business ideas and travelling the world but I had never really sat down and actually thought about what I’m doing.

It’s all fine and dandy reading about these other people that are gallivanting around the world working with new-age business and partaking in amazing adventures. But I thought it would just stay as that; reading. Now I feel myself being pulled into the world of doing anything I want, anywhere in the world.

All these people are living lives I’ve dreamed of living but always thought it would never come true. Everyone has to have dreams right? But they stay dreams.

Or so I thought.

With everything and anything now open to my excited mind, I immediately hit a  wall. How do I keep track of all this good stuff? Where do I track it all? How do I remember what I’ve done?

Enter the Life List.

The best thing I’ve seen on the Lifestyle Design blogs in all my perusing has to be the life list. There is no better thing to keep you excited about what you are doing and a way to gauge how well it’s going. My problem is that there might just be a million things that I want to do in the next year, never mind over the course of my life-time so I have a very hard time narrowing it down to a simple, easy to read list.

For inspiration I turned to a few of my favorite blogs to see what they’ve put on their lists.

Sean at Location180 was the first Life List that I saw and I will never forget how excited I got reading all those things realizing I could do the same.

JD at WageSlaveRebel also has an excellent Bucket List on the go as well with the added twist that we are going to do it with him.

I just recently found Nate’s To Do List from WhereIsNate. A solid list that I’d love to do myself, I especially liked #22: Take Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing.  That one found it’s way on to my list after good conversation with a Finnish fellow in New Zealand.

And without further adue, here is The List.