Making it happen. Owning your life list. - Giant Conference 2015

OWN I NG Y O U R L I F E L I S T .megan o’neill - #giantlifelist - @hellomeganw

giant conference 2015 - #giantlifelist - @hellomeganw

S O N OW WHAT ?

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1. Take trapeze class at SF Circus School 2. Skate a roller derby banked track practice 3. Travel more around the USA 4. Learn to pickle vegetables 5. Give blood 6. Make BBQ sauce from scratch 7. Throw a Halloween party 8. Take a ridiculous Splash Mountain photo 9. Run a 5k 10. Enter a pie into a county fair pie contest 11. Throw a themed dinner party 12. Go on a hot air balloon ride 13. Go to Japan 14. Learn basic Japanese phrases for trip 15. Go on a mother/daughter vacation

16. Go to a U-pick farm 17. Learn how to make homemade pasta 18. Learn 10 awesome cocktails recipes 19. Go to a taping of the Price is Right 20. Organize items at Mom and Dad’s 21. Create a font 22. Take Strengths Finder test 23. Have a BBQ on the beach 24. Message in a bottle 25. Read the happiness project 26. Run a 10k 27. Be more spontaneous! 28. Better my computer drawing skil ls 29. Fire an Uzi 30. Do a random act of pizza

30 b e f o r e 3 0 l i s t

Accomplished 1. Take a beer making class 2. Buy a house 3. Submit a patent at work 4. Have a patent fi led 5. Fly business class 6. Go on an international business trip 7. Zip l ining through the Santa Cruz mountains 8. Become a senior level designer 9. Take a kayaking class in Santa Cruz 10. Compete in a hackathon 11. Be in the sports section of a newspaper 12. Meet Grumpy Cat 13. Take a glass workshop (fusing and molding) 14. Complete Toastmasters CC manual 15. Have a fabulous wedding 16. Submit solo session to SXSW Interactive 17. Speak at a work related conference 18. Host a typography scavenger hunt

Work in progress 19. Own a corgi 20. Decorate my home office 21. Write a book 22. Run a 1/2 marathon 23. Run a 5k in 30minutes or less 24. Complete a 365 project 25. Sew a dress 26. Drive a monster truck 27. Find 10 letterboxes 28. Grow a square watermelon 29. Own a fruit salad tree 30. Volunteer to take photos for local SPCA

40 b e f o r e 4 0 l i s t

OV E RV I EW - c r a f t i n g y o u r l i s t - p s y c h o l o g y r e l a t e d t o l i f e l i s t s - s t a y i n g i n s p i r e d - o v e r c o m i n g c h a l l e n g e s - a c t i v i t y

WH E R E T O S TART

S H O U L D WANT N E E D

S P E AK I NG U P

photo: @kevin_ashton

L I V I N G I N T H E MOM ENT ?

WH E R E T O S TART

- f i n d b a l a n c e

- s p e a k u p

- d o n ’t b e a n e m u

R E L AT E D P S Y C H O L O GY

P E AK - EN D R U L E Sa

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ction

Time

L O NG T E RM G OA L S

R E L AT E D P S Y C H O L O GY

- c r e a t e m e m o r i e s

- t h i n k l o n g t e r m

STAY I NG I N S P I R E D

F I N D Y O U R T R I B E

STAY I NG I N S P I R E D

- f i n d y o u r p e o p l e

- s h a r e y o u r g o a l s

- i n s p i r e o t h e r s

OV E R C OM I NG C HA L L E NG E S

ADD I C T E D T O P R O D U CT I V I T Y

w r i t i n g a n o t h e r m e d i u m a r t i c l e

a t t e n d i n g m o r e m e e t u p s

v o l u n t e e r i n g d e s i g n r e s o u r c e s

t a k i n g a s k i l l s h a r e c l a s s

n e t w o r k i n g w i t h o t h e r p r o f e s s i o n a l s

w o r k i n g o n y o u r p o r t f o l i o

p o s t i n g m o r e t o s o c i a l m e d i a

r e d o i n g m y w e b s i t e

l e a r n i n g a n e w c o d i n g l a n g u a g e

r e a d i n g m o r e n e w s a r t i c l e s

p o l i s h i n g p r o t o t y p i n g s k i l l s

b e t t e r w o r k / l i f e b a l a n c em e n t o r i n g m o r e


I M P O S T E R S YNDR OM E

photo: @whitneyhess

“ “Don’t compare your insides to somebody else’s outsides”

- Hugh MacLeod


OV E R C OM I NG C HA L L E NG E S

- s l o w d o w n .

- y o u ≠ i m p o s t e r

TAK E AWAYS

CRA F T Y O U R L I S T C ON S I D E R W HYSTAY I N S P I R E D C R U S H C HA L L E NG E S

“ “a year from now you will wish you

had started today” - Karen Lamb


J U ST S TART & S HAR E W I T H O T H E R S

T HANK Y O U .megan o’neill - #giantlifelist - @hellomeganw

Making it happen. Owning your life list. - Giant Conference 2015

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