Many many reasons to love lists
and many many lists to come
Welcome to Picoum.com — a place to get inspired about almost anything, and welcome to Tanja Is Crazy About Lists. I will meet you here once a week with a special list because I am just crazy about lists!
List-making is very popular in Japan. The Japanese see it as a way of tracking their lives. They write what they see, hear, taste, smell and feel. They say that after ten years of practice, list-making brings them immense joy. This type of journaling is a treasure in their lives.
I love lists myself because I find them to be a fun way to write. They are short, yet give you so much information! You can make them about any topic you want.
Why should we write lists?
- To discover who you are and what you want out of life
- To remember your life
- To enjoy your life more by writing about it
- To help you prioritize
- Because it’s fun to cross items off
Where to start if you like the idea?
I am crazy about lists. Crazy in a good way. I even have lists of lists I can write about!
Grab a pen and a cool notebook (or many) and just start. Five items per list seems perfect to me. You can start with the classics (grocery list, shopping list, to-do list, bucket list, etc.) and here are more:
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Some of my favourite lists to write:
- Once a day:
- 5 things I am grateful for
- Once a week:
- I find 5 endings to this sentence : I would like to …
- Once a month:
- Clothes I want to buy
- Once a year:
- I ask 5 questions to my children every year and and keep in a special notebook. The questions are:
- When I am older I want to be…
- My favourite toy is…
- The most important thing in my life is…
- My favourite food is…
- My favourite sport is…
- My favourite subject at school is…
- A picture list. I choose one picture of myself per year that I keep in another special journal. I like to see how I am changing. I am sure that it’s a journal I will cherish when I’m older.
- I ask 5 questions to my children every year and and keep in a special notebook. The questions are:
Any books I recommend?
I am so crazy about lists that I even have books about them! Here are 5 great ones:
A last list for the road!
Since I can’t stop myself, here are some more lists to try...
- 5 new words to learn
- 5 words that are hard to spell
- 5 synonyms of “love”
- 5 words in another language
- 5 words about something you are passionate about
I’ll see you back here once a week to share a great list that I hope will inspire you to write your own.
Till next week…