I recently made this list and posted it on my wall to remind me of things that really Spark life for me.
What about you?
- Personal daily experimental living/learning
- Playing improv games with a group of people
- Playing Soccer, Racquet sports and Ultimate Frisbee
- Stimulating, respectful, deep conversations, especially with my wife and close friends
- Thinking of new ideas, possibilities
- Having ‘spiritual experiences’ (sense of transcendence, gratefulness, connectedness, being loved by the Source, stillness, etc)
- Improvised singing and jamming
- Being totally goofy and/or laughing long and hard with friends
- Finding and playing/testing out the newest and latest technologies
- Snuggling with my wife and daughter
- Leaning from and playing with my wife and daughter
- Asking and being asked good, challenging, thought-provoking questions
- Seeing/understanding how things fit together, and then sharing/presenting that information
- Imagining/talking/reading/projecting/planning about the future
- Walking in, exploring and communing with nature
- Reading, hearing, watching a good story (thus book, play, movie, storyteller, etc)
- Experiencing other’s artistic creativity, particularly when its really innovative
- Being creative myself (writing a song, story or paper; creating a beneficial social site or podcast, etc)
- Accomplishing things that have a dramatic and wide reaching effect for changing things for the good
- Working with, or even just being a part of, almost any group
- I love challenging, provoking, encouraging and motivating people
- Gathering with a group of friends for a tasty meal and some wine
- Organizing, creating order from chaos (once I’m actually DOING it, not before)
- Traveling to new places, with either a total focus or a total non-focus