Ten ideas for lists you can write to improve your life this year

I love writing lists.

Why do I love lists?

Because they take me from what’s happening to what’s possible.

They help me collect ideas in one place that I otherwise might have missed.

Ideas excite me.

I know they’re not the finished product, and I know it takes action for an idea to have any real-world worth, but having a selection of good ideas represent opportunities.

Opportunity is motivating.

It is almost real. It stirs up colour, vision and possibilities in my mind’s eye.

But I’m not always motivated. In fact, I find it incredibly easy to veer off track and forget where I am and why.

This has gotten better with being super-obsessed with these lists and the planning around them. This creates much-needed clarity to keep on track with my longer-term goals.

Writing a brainstorm list of ideas around a particular question or topic has become one of the most productive things I do, and I do it pretty much every day.

Writing exhaustive lists encourages the bio-machinery at the back of my mind to spit out new ideas that weren’t easy to spot initially.