My Blogging Adventure Begins

I'm not much of a coffee drinker. I only drink it if the coffee flavor is covered with chocolate, cream and sugar (I do love mochas!), but that didn't stop me from enjoying my introduction to "The Inspirational Coffee Club." The group's founder, Julie Clark, spoke at the January 2009 WILL Luncheon and explained her "12 Ground Rules for Savoring Life."

Her speech really hit home with me, especially when she explained Ground Rule #7 "You're Never Guaranteed a Second Cup: Savor Today." She asked if there were things you talk about doing but never actually do. Of course! Who does everything they talk about doing? But the more I thought about it, I realized that there are lots of things I'm not doing that I really want to be doing. I always think about doing them or talk about doing them, but I never actually go through with it. And it made me kind of sad.

Julie had us start an exercise she called creating your "Coffee Cup List." She asked us to come up with a list of things we want to be, do, see or have before our cup runs dry. She even gave us a few moments during the presentation to start the list. I quickly came up with five I wanted to accomplish before the end of 2009.

This part of the presentation really stuck with me and that night I came home and finished the list. I thought of 25 things I wanted to before the end of the year that fit into one of Julie's eight categories: career, relationships, financial, physical, recreation & fun, helping others & giving back, spiritual and personal growth (hobbies, trying new things). I decided I wanted to quit thinking about living tomorrow, but instead start living today.

That brings us to this blog, one of the first things on my list was creating a blog. I've thought about doing this for years and even attempted to start a blog before, but only wrote one post. This time will be different, because this time I have a topic -- my Coffee Cup List.

I'm going to stick with this because I have a list of 25 things I want to accomplish before the end of 2009. And it may only be February, but I've already accomplished three items on my list! That means I'm off to a good start. Stay tuned to find out what I accomplished already and what I'll accomplish in the future.