• achieve more than is expected of me, faster, more efficiently, at less cost, for greater impact
  • answer a suicide hotline and talk someone out of it
  • ask for a miracle - and get it
  • be able to identify woodland plants
  • be able to nap for 10 minutes and wake up refreshed
  • be awarded a grant to go to art school
  • be happy with the way i look
  • be honest about who i am
  • be in bed by 10:00 p.m.
  • be known as a faithful letter-writer
  • be photogenic
  • be sustained by an inner strength
  • be the first person to fly in leonardo da vinci's wings
  • break a bad habit
  • break a mirror and not worry
  • bring up my children to be independent
  • calculate the possible consequences of an action before i act
  • challenge accepted assumptions before reaching a conclusion
  • change gender for a week - just to see what it's like
  • change my worst personality trait
  • change what isn't working
  • choose the manner of my death
  • combine all my interests into one goal
  • complete all the tasks on my daily to-do list
  • confront prejudice whenever i hear it
  • consider the alternative
  • continue my education - for the rest of my life
  • control my actions with my will
  • create a budget and stick to it
  • create a happy family life
  • cure my phobias
  • develop a sound body and cultivate a sound mind
  • develop all five senses
  • develop film in my own darkroom
  • do my best in whatever i'm doing
  • do no harm
  • do now what i keep saying i ought to do "someday"
  • donate everything i own to charity
  • double my money in a single year
  • earn the respect of my colleagues
  • eat less meat
  • eat more vegetables, less meat
  • eat till i'm satisfied - not a bite more
  • eat when hungry, sleep when tired
  • eliminate racial prejudice
  • emulate don quixote
  • eschew intertia
  • exercise for an hour before breakfast
  • experiment with new ideas in how i dress
  • feed my intellectual appetite
  • feel welcome wherever i go
  • find a reminder system that works
  • find the good in everyone
  • find the mystical in the mundane
  • finish everything i set out to do
  • finish projects ahead of time
  • finish what i start
  • focus on the positive
  • forgive myself for my mistakes
  • gain the one ability that has always eluded me
  • get a guarantee that i will have the one thing in life i want most
  • get a tattoo
  • get back in touch with the spiritual
  • get through the encyclopedia britannica from a to z
  • give each person i love the thing they want most
  • give more than i'm asked for
  • give up caffeine
  • go on a retreat
  • go on a spiritual retreat
  • grow old gracefully
  • have a knack for languages
  • have a place for everything an keep everything in its place
  • have adversaries, not enemies
  • have healthy children
  • have teeth like people on toothpaste commercials
  • help topple a corrupt and oppressive regime
  • invent a new language
  • keep my promises
  • keep my word
  • know where everything is
  • learn by osmosis in my sleep
  • learn latin to improve my knowledge of how english works
  • learn something new every day
  • learn the constellations - once and for allvisit the land of my ancestors
  • learn to meditate so i can center my mind and calm my spririt
  • learn to speed-read
  • like what i see in the mirror
  • live by the lunar calendar
  • live frugally
  • live in a society in which no child was ever abused or molested
  • live in the moment
  • live to be 100
  • live to see the end of poverty
  • live without television
  • look good without makeup
  • love myself
  • make certain i do not repeat my parents' mistakes
  • meditate as i walk
  • meet my deadlines
  • need only five hours of sleep
  • not be embarrassed to make a fool of myself
  • not have to work
  • organize a filing system that works
  • organize my personal papers
  • overcome difficulties in a relationship
  • own a fully equipped, state-of-the-art do-it-yourself workshop
  • own a really good camera
  • own every book ever written on my favorite subject
  • own less
  • own the latest generation of computer equipment
  • persevere - even when i'm exhausted
  • persuade world leaders to destroy all existing nuclear weapons and build no more
  • push my comfort level
  • put away enough money to retire whenever i want to
  • raise my pain threshold
  • read every book i own
  • receive an honorary degree
  • refuse to count calories or measure portions
  • remain productive even after i retire
  • remember everything i read
  • remember names
  • remember the latin names of my favorite flowers
  • remember to back up the hard disk once a week
  • return every phone call on the day i receive it
  • return everything i've borrowed
  • run a six-minute mile
  • see all my wishes come true
  • see what life is like as a cloistered nun
  • sleep alone in the forest
  • speak a foreign language without having to study it
  • spend a month of solitude in an isolated woodland cabin
  • spend the summer at a writers' colony
  • spend the whole summer camping out
  • stand up to my mother - lovingly but firmly
  • stick to an exercise regimen - for the rest of my life
  • stop weighing myself because - who cares?!
  • study hard, whatever the subject
  • study psychology
  • succeed in being content at work and at home
  • surpass my own expectations
  • take a yoga class on a regular basis
  • take one step forward and no steps back
  • take time off from my career to raise my children
  • take up yoga
  • throw away the scales
  • travel on $20 a day
  • try to accept a situation before i try to change it
  • unexpectedly inherit a fortune
  • use my time creatively
  • wake up without an alarm clock
  • walk across england
  • write a how-to book on my subject of expertise
  • write my life story
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