How to Make and Manage a Life List
It’s because my intentions to help people think about their life goals are pure. And as with web mail, financial companies, or any other services, there’s never one solution that works for everyone.
Today someone commented that “The aspect of SuperViva I love the most is getting ideas by browsing other people’s goals - that has been really useful for me, to help inspire me to achieve some new things. I also love having the list of achieved goals - it was great browsing other people’s and thinking “Hey, I’ve done that already!” and checking it off.”
But still, you may come to SuperViva and decide it’s not for you. So, I thought, why not help you find a way to make and keep your life list that works for you?
I hope in return you will make a donation to fund SuperViva’s efforts, if this article was useful, especially if you’re using it to help with your business!
| Option | Cost | Pros | Cons |
| Paper (journal, notebook) | Very low | It’s creative and tactile | You could lose it!
Gets messy over time, requiring rewriting; although this could be a pro, for your creative process. Very hard to track and reorganize. |
| Online or computer text editor (private blog post, Yahoo! Notepad, or the list apps on iGoogle) | Free | Very simple, easy to cut and paste. Private, if you choose to make it so. | Fairly static |
| Excel (on computer) or Google Docs spreadsheet (online) | Free | Classic way of organizing a life list, you can add categories in columns and check off as you go, add dates done etc. | No cons if you mainly want privacy |
| To Do list applications (Remember the Milk for example) | Free | Very simple (although more oriented to daily type tasks). Integration with Jott so you can post by phone. You can also add it to iGoogle. |
I’m not sure how well you can categorize and how easily a long list would be to manage. |
| Public blogs or message boards, where people list their life lists. | Free | If it’s a vibrant community this can be a quick simple way to connect with other people to help you. | Realistically this works best if you’re working on a couple of particular goals. It doesn’t make a lot of sense for a lifetime list unless it’s your own blog. |
| Other life list websites | Free | If finding other people to get input, 43things is the leader. Some may have Facebook apps to share your goals. | Several limit you to 100 or fewer goals; or require goals to be public vs. allowing them to be private as SuperViva does. |
Do you keep your life list some other way?
