Life List Stories and Inspiration

If you have a goal to invent something, here are some really fun opportunities for aspiring inventors, directly from Everyday Edisons newsletter . (Last year I pitched at Everyday Edisons and it was really fun! A great chance to hone a 2 minute pitch too.)
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I’m so excited, only a few hundred life goals to be listed before SuperViva hits the 100,000 mark.
Sure that may sound like peanuts to some websites but it’s still very exciting to imagine the “net effect” that SuperViva may have had on many people whether on just 1 thing they may have thought about or [...]

A few months ago Esquire Magazine published 75 Things a Man Should Do in their 75th anniversary issue. It’s not that the list is so thrilling, but that the more ambitious 175 Things list in Esquire inspired my first life list in 1999.
(The one I always remember is “shave a woman’s legs.”)
So in honor of [...]

For years I’ve wanted to organize a program to harvest fruit from yards of people who didn’t want their fruit—oranges, grapefruit, apricots, etc. And now I’m thrilled to say this dream has come to fruition: By Natasha Boissier.
Who is Natasha Boissier? An enterprising citizen of Berkeley, California who got sick of seeing fruit rot on [...]

Today I noticed another SuperViva life list goal to learn voice acting. When she asked “How do I get started?” I decided to answer:
Recently I took some classes and learned voice acting generally splits into three areas.
1) narration (tutorials, books on tape, documentaries)
2) character acting (video games, cartoons)
3) commercials (no explanation needed, right?)
You can [...]