Raven’s Aladdin List

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.  For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh is shall be opened.  -Matthew 7:7-8

First an explanation...About 1996 or so I picked up the book "The Aladdin Factor" by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.  I have to say the book has made a terrific impact on my life.  The basic premise is ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE....IF you dare ask for it.  As part of it you make an "Aladdin List"  101 things you want if anything is possible, money no object, etc.  Then you work to manifest them in your life.  Basically setting and obtaining goals.  It is so awesome to be able to cross things off your list.  I, if I search hard enough, could probably find my list for each year since I have had this book.  It feels so incredible to be able to know that i have achieved something on my list.

As some of you know in the past I have literally walked up knocked on a door and been given a motorcycle!  I believe anything is possible if you want it and work for it hard enough and are not afraid to ask for it.

So I publish this list here for several reasons: First as a type of accountability.  I have made my desires known now my friends can say "Hey Rae, how goes the list?" and keep me on track, Second to hopefully inspire others to live without boundaries,Third in a way it is asking.  You may be able to look at this list and go, "Wow!  I can help her achieve her dream by doing X."  Maybe you actually have an old Montblanc or Waterman pen laying in a drawer.  Maybe you know a dentist, etc etc.  But I do hope my list will inspire you to create your own!

Questions? Comments? Email me at wing2sky@gmail.com

btw you will notice some of the list is hyperlinked to pages with more information.  I also want to not that #25 is in honor of Chris Swanson.  She is my ex-girlfriends mother who has battled cancer for some time and such an inspiration to me.  She also opened her heart and home to me and treated me like family and I will always love and respect her for that.

1. Finish “eBay Alternatives” Book
2. Get book published
3. Finish other book
4. Get that published
5. Go to Dentist
6. Get Broken tooth fixed (OW!)
7. Get teeth fixed in general
8. Go to Alaska
9. “Do” NYC
10. Finish Chopper
11. Breed Bunnies
12. Finish Bathroom
13. All carpeting done –FINALLY!
14. Have my chickens
15. Exercise Regularly for 6 mos
16. Go to CA
17. Go to Grand Canyon
18. Go to New Orleans
19. Go to a Zoo
20. long weekend/3 days at beach
21. LW/ 3 days in Mountains
22. New(er) car/ van
23. Duncan Glow in the Dark Butterfly Yo-Yo
24. Quit Smoking
25. Grow hair for locks of love in honor of Chris Swanson
26. Make a short movie
27. Get a good Metal Detector
28. Go shooting with Detector
29. Merry Mule profitable in real life
30. GoAntiques MMT profitable
31. Make a OOAK Barbie
32. Sew Something on machine
33. Do my geneaology
34. Brandon’s Wedding
35. 3^rd party suit settled
36. Get my closet organized
37. Get my office organized
38. Find / Buy a Frank Happ piece -  Frank Happ was my grandfather and made beautiful pieces of furniture.  I would love to find one of his pieces.  They are all marked somewhere with his name of at the least F Happ.
39. Hunt/Kill/skin/eat a deer
40. Save $2500 (earnings not settlement)
41. Decide where I want to live the rest of my life!
42. Be able to attend a workshop/attend one
43. Own a great piece of furniture like a Stickley or Eames chair
44. Get an Art Deco Vanity
45. Own a Tag Heuer or Philippe Patek watch
46. Get Donald Trump’s autograph
47. Practice 365 Random Acts of Kindness
48. Document them and write a book about it
49. Sell a Virtual Vacation or Your Wish is my photo on Etsy.com
50. Go Horseback Riding
51. Go to Crazy Horse Monument (SD)
52. Go to England
53. Go to Westminster
54. Tour New England
55. Go to Canada
56. Visit my Aunt Norma’s grave
57. Go to Smithsonian
58. Go on Olivia Cruise
59. Go on Windjammer Cruise
60. Get a Bengal Cat
61. Build a boat
62. Give away toys to needy kids at Christmas
63. Go to NYC and give out money to homeless
64. Find a way to raise $$ and Awareness of RSD/CRPS
65. Have a “spa” day
66. Be on What Not to Wear  -So someone needs to nominate me! or could just be get a new wardrobe and make over that makes me look good.
67. Vacation in Philly & go to historic places I never visited when living there
68. Meet more interesting people
69. Get a 70’s 280Z or Monte Carlo
70. Fix that car up
71. Get a Scooter/Moped
72. Get a Kindle
73. All my websites finished and nice (MMT Ravensquest Ravenov)
74. Really make effort with Watkins  (btw my associate # is 373831)
75. Make effort GBG  This is a Goji / Vitamin blend that I can tell a BIG difference in how I feel when taking it.  Price is good at $20 + s/h  give it a try.
76. Make effort .ws  This is a new domain extension market as well as MLM.  Cheap and easy!
77. Get a Zither or Dulcimer
78. Learn to play it
79. Be caught up on all my bills
80. Have a nice flower garden
81. Get 100 items on etsy
82. Get 1000 on GoAntiques
83. Get on a regular sleep schedule
84. Replace plastic bookcases with wooden ones
85. Have house done nicely
86. Go on a spiritual retreat
87. “Fix up” land/yard
88. Get a dog pen
89. Have a nice Montblanc or Waterman fountain pen
90. Live more healthily
91. Volunteer at Volunteer at a nursing home
92. Learn how to juggle well
93. Finish my bedroom as a “retreat”
94. See Wayne Newton
95. Renew a relationship with my brothers and their families
96. Send letter to other family members
97. Paint a picture
98. Fly in a helicopter
99. Get my Raven tattoo
100. Legally change my name
101. Make a difference
     
     
     
     
     -DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
     
     If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want
     is wrong.
     
     Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
     
     Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same
     circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
     
     Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for
     action, let me be.
     
     I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will
     come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of
     you.
     
     I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or
     your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions,
     or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these
     ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you
     as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to
     understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but
     that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my
     seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize
     my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve
     and even nurture those differences.
     
     Excerpted from Please Understand Me II
     Copyright (c) 1998 by David Keirsey