What could I take a 2nd look at?

Monologues
Metabolism
Image
Insurance
Retirement
Spending
Website

What do you love to do?

Serve a tennis ball
Organize information
Dance
Learn about people
Learn about history
Learn
Rehearse
Water ski
Walk a quiet beach
Cook a great meal
Deposit checks
Sing
Research people, places
Wake up and find coffee in a foreign country
Read the Herald Tribune
Ride a bike trail
Solve problems
Direct actors
Coach actors
Interpret scripts
Complete things
Reduce waste
Design, graphics
Talk to my brothers and my in-laws
Reunite with the family in Cape May
Play Trivial Pursuit
Read great writing
Visit the Smithsonian Museums
See great performances
Help people get better at something

What are you passionate about?

Acting
Characters
People
Natural beauty
My children
Education
Following one's dream
Higher education
Asking questions
Listening
Singing
Dancing
Cats and some dogs
Clean air
Traveling
Paris
France
Italy
Florence
Venice
History
Johnny Depp
David Cook
Law & Order
Tennis
Zumba
Music
Anthropology

What bothers you?

This list can grow like a snowball, and it's great to get these off your mind. Go for it.

Rudeness
gratuitous swearing
Verizon voice prompts on hold
Advertisements while on hold
Advertisements
People who have more than 15 items in the Express Lane
Cell phone talkers who drive
Cell phone shouters
Fox political news
Political name calling
Ignorance
Open closet doors
Being pulled by my dog
Repeating requests more than twice
The use of guilt to provoke action
chewing with an open mouth
talking with a full mouth
my Verizon bill
Listening to someone read a speech instead of them actually speaking
self-absorbed acting
Fear-based choices
Fear-based living
Fear of law suits
Regulations and restrictions because of fear of law suits
bad line calls on the tennis court
"Anti-Politically Correct" bumper stickers
verbal noise pollution
Religious righteousness
Emotional unintelligence
Viagra commercials during baseball games
Erectile disfunction spams
Viagra promotion where birth control is restricted
Chronic pain
Sciatica

Who do you admire?

• Barack Obama
• Tina Fay
• My mother-in-law
• Sally Fisher
• Bob Hoskins
• Stephen Sondheim
• Eric Schaeffer
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Barbara Walters
• Allen Schor
• Al Gore
• Lorne Michaels
• Angela Lansbury
• Al Franken
• John Adams
• Bob Woodruff
• Bill Gates
• Bill Clinton
• Hillary Clinton
• Michael Jordan

This was 10 minutes. I could keep going, but 10 minutes is my finish line.

Today's List: What needs completing?

• My porch stairs
• Applying RainCoat to my decks
• Walk the dog before the rain
  
• My son's bathroom cleaned
• College status form completed and sent
• dimmer in kitchen
• papers filed
• Gym - exercise 45 minutes cardi0
  
• coach clients
• trim tree
• Congratulate friends' Grads
• Grocery shop
• do laundry
• research hs test for son
  
• find paying work
• pay college bill
• Go to Library
  

Discovery: when the little things are notated, there is room to think about the bigger things, the things that WILL need completing. This list, for me, is usually much longer.

Today's list: What Makes You Happy?

Today's list is; "What Makes You Happy."

By identifying what makes me happy, I can put out there what I need. I am more likely to seek and/or notice these things if I get them down on paper or screen. As I always say to my kids: "If you seek what's wrong or bad, you'll find it. If you seek what's right or good, you'll find it. Which search makes you happy in its result?"

• 72• weather
• coffee
• made beds
• good lighting
• colors
• cleanness
• warmth
• trees
• birds
• music
• singing
• dancing
• income
• beautiful tasty healthy food
• bike rides
• Caribbean blue ocean
• my children
• thoughtfulness
• kindness
• manners
• appreciation
• surprise checks in the mail
• compliments
• progress
• projects accomplished
• yellow
• winning
• job offers
• good fitness
• massages
• laughter
• Jon Stewart
• learning
• completion
• invitations to parties
• weddings