The Final Copy of The Real Glitterlist
Yep. Took a while but I’ve tidied up and streamlined my own bucket list for the next 25 years and left a few spots to fill for when I find something new.
Yesterday, when I got out of the Hastings Caves where I work part time in the very bottom of World Heritage Wilderness - after singing opera to a group of tourists, my phone buzzed getting back into wifi. I saw between tour shifts that Sky Mason sent me a message from her substack saying she liked my glitterlist. I had no time really to respond - but Sky is a clever lass and I was kinda thrilled that she had taken nocice. On her most recent post she has popped up her 10 favourite substack accounts - and theres some gold in there. But it got me thinking.
I like my glitterlist - but its needed abit of work - and Sky was the kick I really needed to get it done. So this morning I woke up this morning at 2.35am and decided to finish it off.
SO its now all done. Polished enough for me. And as someone with ADHD who takes 90 % effort to finish the last 10%…. I’m thrilled!
If anyone else wants to use this a springboard to work out their own bucketlist glitterlist feel free to print this off, get a highlighter & start to build your own. Its free for all to use.
The Glitterlist
Organise a gathering of random friends for dinner at each change of the new season. Always Dress up. Have new friends meet old ones & introduce them to each other. Create a ‘Supper Club’ list of friends to always invite to events I hear about.
Always choose the 'elegant solution' to everything. Slow down & spend time learning, researching and following through on what that is.
Create a yearly body of art work & throw a fabulous exhibition opening. Create artwork thought my entire life. Do it daily - make it apart of my routine & create collections between 10-30. Label ‘periods of art’ like Picasso did.
Do the 60 great walks of Tasmania. Map each one. Print those maps.
Learn to surf/bodyboard well enough to go to beaches and just surf with Sarah. Have beach fires with toasties and hot coffee to reward myself.
Buy a tiny boat & learn to sail. Leave it on my morning. Spend summers fishing, exploring and messing around on it.
Make an heirloom book of recipes to pass these favourite meals, preserves, and household skills or tips I find. Add & refine these every year.
Have wonderful relationships with my neighbours. Invite them over & think about what they may need on my travels around. Create a movement of this.
Start a year of family traditions… refine, repeat, and then honour these in practice. Use cake, treasure hunts, special dinners, activities, and walks to create and cherish these memories.Set the table with finery & make Sunday Lunch/breakfast/dinner a family traditional thing. Make the table open for anyone to join.
Create a year-on-year seasonal pantry. For us & to gift. Collect jars + preserving skills. Learn the art of preparing & preserving all kinds of food. Collect good cookbooks from those around the world who live similar lifestyles.
Visit & map all the little places I find fun that others would like to do - highlight the ‘must-do’ parts that I most enjoy so others can as well.
Learn the art of stonewall building & build structures. Plan & create a property master plan of outside functional ‘room spaces’ and pathways. Make these purposeful and usable.
Marry Sarah & create lovely life memories with her and our blended family.
Master how to make all kinds of breakfasts from scratch. Become an expert. Do the same with styling tastings platters. Research for the best quick and cheap 30+ salads, soups and cakes that taste good and are seasonal.
Learn to take excellent video footage using my phone. Constantly tweak my filming skills to capture life beautifully as a memory to reflect on later. Share this knowledge with others in person and online.
Have a large planned veggie garden that I actually grow food to eat from. Design the property orchard, mushroom farm, chook, herbal medicinal & drinking tea garden… and spots to sit, drink tea and enjoy them in. Seed save every year.
Compile a family yearly calendar for family and friends. Record birthdays on it and print this in hardcopy. Make the kids copies.
Get my family tartan made into cloth and explain my heritage to my family. Create the family tree via Ancestry and visit the places from my past.
Refresh my makeup/style/branding. Get a refresh at least every 3 years.
Learn to play the ukulele..
Learn to throw pottery on a wheel.
Learn to use my ESSE stove, just as they did a century Make it the heart of the home.
Crank the music and danceclean 30 min per day. Go then to dances/silent discos/parties and events. Go nightclubbing early. Take friends. Do this every few months.
Learn basic conversational French & visit France again. Visit Ireland too. 2-3 times in the next 12 years. After 12 years then plan to spend 3-5 months every year overseas away.
Learn to do the stock market better. Understand macro and micro economics Keep up my knowledge with podcasts. Invest monthly and more when I can.
Set my children up with the basics of life skills, like basic cooking, housekeeping, organising, and being naturally inquisitive about things. Culture them to hold a grit and ‘can try’ mentality. Teach that failure is apart of the process
Get dressed up, go to the Theatre a few times a year. Take the kids.
Learn how to do calligraphy. Write more letters, aim for one a week.
Learn to cook different nationality food by heart, French, Indian, Thai, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Irish and Greek…..
Identify foraging the roadsides/fields during harvest seasons in my region and map these spots out - and the seaweeds and learn their uses.
Only buy second-hand where possible in life. Only invest in those goods that can last generations & have stories. Consider all purchases with question ‘Is this Heirloom, Beautiful and Functional’ and ‘Do I need electricity/batteries for this?’ Or ‘Can I flip it?’… avoid plastic and the disposable options.
Build a large glass English greenhouse to enjoy longer springs & autumns in the cold months. Get 20 minutes of Sunshine Daily at least on skin.
Learn the art of sitting still and calming my mind, techniques to quiet my thoughts. Practice this.
Get a good sleep routine, and learn to switch off sooner.
Teach the kids to build a shack up the back forest - to feel the elements. Survival skills basics. Get them to camp in it - like they do SBS series ‘Alone’ and have that Enid Blyton ‘famous 5’
Go fossil/gem/shell/driftwood hunt for keepsakes
Fix, Mend & refashion second classic hand clothes. Remake my own jewellery from vintage finds. If ever travelling beyond Huonville dress up.
Visit all the world heritage & National Trust sites across Australia - and buy or take and drink tea there.
Visit & map all the tiny islands/beaches around Tasmania and learn their history - the shipwrecks/lighthouses/stories they have.
Enter things in local and national shows. Be it Jam, Art, Fashion…. do this for fun.
Have a tiny antique shop somewhere. Popups, online, markets, shops. collect food finds, learn hallmarks and periods of age.
Learn the types and to track weather, how to read clouds and name them.
Create a library of books with instructions on old skills I would like to try & learn and encourage the kids to do the same.
Work on publishing a book of things I like to do.
Get back into Palm reading & practice on friends.
Learn to fish, fillet, and cook it properly on a fire. Build a little fish & oyster shack out of driftwood down at the water for times to do this. Make sure I spend time down at water's edge every week collecting to repurpose rope, beach-finds and materials.
Create Cakemates as a permanent thing and get organized at it. Make a monthly calendar of events to take to it to share with others of what’s going on in the Valley. Create this platform for others to create lovely connections.
Make my own wine, liquor, cordial, ginger beer, gin. At least once, make a vintage. Get it bottled. Learn natural simple foods ice cream, pasta, bread, salami, cheese, ferments and breads.
Aim to be completely debt-free. Live well below my means, but do invest in experiences, good education, dinner parties, travel and the stock market.
Keep trying new lines of passive income regardless of the outcome. Try all different ways of making a crust. Just see what I like and repeat that. Test creative ideas/things for up to $200 without worrying what the outcome is. Give myself permission to always have a go. Teach the kids the same and that that failure is apart of the process.
Become an expert in something small/skill… that is flight portable & sellable.
Learn to do coffee art. Get a good coffee maker & drink only 2 coffees a day.
Be myself - always try not to put myself in a space where I compromise my values. Learn to accept that other people's values are different for different reasons. And that's okay.
Learn to stack wood professionally, like an art installation.
Learn to use a drop saw and a drill. Build little furniture pieces and shacks.
Become a woof host.
Learn to recognize good advice and follow up on it. Thank those who gave it to you and learn to give good advice that you believe in wholeheartedly. Trust your gut more.
Get better at writing things down. Find systems to organize the ADHD in me, and then practice them. Routine them and make them atomic habits.
Get down to a healthy weight for me. Keep there. Be healthy, flexible, fit, and work always to pay the yearly health insurance.
Learn to be comfortable about being uncomfortable. Be brave more and try new things that make me scared but exciting. Test the waters often.
Sit for a painting with Sarah and have her sit for me.
Teach my children the art of running a business, being financially literate & having a good 'try your best' work ethic. Make them habits.
Write and record a song, poetry off by heart. Get Sarah to do another album
Go on a boat cruise somewhere. (Maybe on the crustier side of 25 years)
Make a love of looking to each new season so that I see the benefits of going from one to another, and really embrace that change. Document this.
Learn to do 30 different hairstyles with my hair. Know them by heart.
Make every trip a small learning of something. Spend time outlining that before I go. Purposeful travel. Take something away each time you learn.
Do a complete detox each midyear …on life, house, health, finance choices.
Find a group of people that like the share market so I can chat with them and see what they think. Take notice of other peoples ideas beyond my own.
Learn to photograph on the go. Teach others this. Show them how they can feel good how they look in photos.
Understand essential oils useage. Use them. Make my own perfume, candles, roomspray etc…
Absorb more science, tech, and finance-based literature and podcasts. Share my findings - take one piece of learnt information with each and apply it to life
Be more locally involved. Seek out new groups that add benefit to the community. Support them. Learn the timeline of events that occur with them. Give my time or skills to these people.
Learn to give an address or a toast or speak in front of a group confidently. Practice this.
Have a range of condiments/preserves/ I can eat, gift and sell.
Accept that I won't like everyone, and that they won't like me. And be okay with that. And then let it go.
Discover all the antique/second hand/ opshops of Tasmania. And the near by nice cafes….Map the nice routes between them.
Learn how to fly fish and to visit the lakes that do this.
Work towards buying a tiny base in Hobart for when I may need it.
Learn to paint on the run. Store little art supplies in the car & bag. Take them everywhere.
Seek to help others the best way I can regardless of the cost. Create spaces for this to occur. Help others to find their flow, their life goals by sharing my journey.Teach little classes of things I learn over cups of tea so others can learn too.
Get better at listening, pausing, and reflecting. Even if it's only 10 minutes. Especially with people I can't stand to breathe the same air as. Learn to deal with life - don't disappear/run away from hard conversations.
Learn to play the game of croquet, bocce, cards boardgames and other reflecting games.
Improve my overall health by my actions and what I eat. Meal plan for both health and finace. Understand nutrition health better. Make weekly changes.
Surrounding myself with people who embrace, support, inspire, and cheer each other on. And introducing them to each other. Find people who like to chat about entrepreneurship. Make them a group. Share & bounce ideas and surround myself with others who excel in my weaknesses.
Nurture my long friendships from around the world. Visit & chat with them. Include them in plans. Reconnect with mates from the past.
Understand the raw building materials I have in my area. Use them. Driftwood, rocks, bricks, washed-up planks, rope, etc…
Learn to love my greyness, wrinkles, saggy bits.
Learn to fix & remake things by hand. Have a little working tool kit/workshop. Learn to sharpen knives and to maintain things.
Have a wall of little clippings/cutouts that inspire me and refer and add and take from this as things change. Essentially a visual Pinterest board.
Have a ‘cut flower garden’ and learn the art of flower arranging.
Understand and embrace the world of colour,patterns, design and composition. Use it in day-to-day life. Know my colour pallet well. Seek good influences/teachers to build on this.
Provide the best education options for my kids that I can afford. Provide them with good life experiences/skills to carry them on.
Write and illistrate a childrens book with a message.
Learn the art of fancy drinks and good fun evening dinner party entertainment.
And that my friends, since finishing this, is now my permission now start now of ticking things off. Happy Friday Folks
xLJ
You have all it takes, Jo. Well done! May I please have an invitation to your first art exhibition.