Jenna List

The Jenna List is a life list; MY life list. It’s a list of just a few of the things I’d love to do in this life of mine. It’s always changing, constantly updated – hopefully, with things always being crossed off the list. If you have another idea for me, please share! And if you’d like to join in the fun, I welcome your company. Let’s go on an adventure!

1. Run the New York City Marathon
2. Write [and publish!] a memoir
3. Teach a class on organizing creativity
4. Become a personal essayist – writing & publishing personal essays in outlets such as Salon.com [Done! - April 9, 2012], the New York Times, LA Times, xoJane.com, and more!
5. Open an etsy shop with my design-friendly ladyfriend, Stephanie
6. Launch a business/work for myself
7. Volunteer for 826 Valencia
8. ALL THE TRAVEL – Greece, Spain, France, Thailand – take me there!
9. Live in another country
10. Have sex 30 days in a row
11. Give a speech/lecture in front of a group of 10+ people
12. Be featured on the cover of a magazine [e.g., Fast Company, Inc., etc.]
13. Save up enough money to travel to a foreign country & bring my mom
14. Have Shatterboxx design my vanity page
15. Have Shatterboxx design my Twitter profile
16. Jump out of an airplane [COMPLETED - August 2011]
17. Get a Masters degree [COMPLETED - May 2012]
18. Pay off grad school loans
19. Contribute to a favorite blog as a “Guest Blogger”
20. Buy a house
21. Have my wedding featured on “Style Me Pretty”
22. Have a speaking role on a television episode
23. Walk a red carpet at a movie premiere/Hollywood shindig
24. Spend a day working on the beach
25. Start a charity for teachers working in underprivileged communities which helps them pay for classroom supplies
26. Make my hair this color
27. Open my own bookstore
28. Give up Starbucks for a month
29. Go on a police ride-along
30. Create an iPhone app
31. Learn Spanish
32. Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef [COMPLETED - August 2011]
33. Teach a college class
34. Be the subject of a photo shoot
35. Live in New York City
36. Save up a $10,000 “Rainy Day” Fund
37. Take a wine-tasting class
38. Review 50 books on personal blog
39. Learn how to use photoshop
40. Exercise regularly [three times a week] for three months
41. Have lunch with Sarah Peck [@sarahkpeck]
42. Go to New York to meet with magazine editors
43. Have a cup of coffee at the original Starbucks in Seattle
44. Make six figures. Regularly.
45. Plan PR strategy for myself
46. Work from the beach for a full, sunshine-y day
47. Visit Chicago in the summer
48. Be featured on Revolution.is