Life has no remote; get up and change it yourself

So, I started a blog.


It's called Kiwi in a Bucket, because ....I'm a kiwi (noun. person from New Zealand | not the incomplete name for a fruit (see 'kiwifruit')), and, I like bucket lists.


More specifically I want to live my life with purpose; a sense of direction based on what I believe in.  I want to do something awesome.


This is not the hollywood definition to include all things barf-worthy, 
this is simply an aim at a concious life, 
one that's:

creative | active | interesting  

sustainable | learned from  

connected | adventurous | accomplished 

intelligent | delicious | thoughtful 

positive | meaningful | unique made the most of |  fun.

Mostly, this whole thing is based on:

• Confession #1: I am a compulsive list maker.  I can't help it.  I make a to do list at work every morning. I have post-it lists all over my desk.  I list milestones in my savings plans.  I carry around a list of clothes I want to buy.  I'm sure any psychologist would have an absolute field day on how much confidence and security having a list gives me.
  There I said it.
• Confession #2: I have an irrational fear of having an average life.  Sometimes it keeps me up at night.  The idea of waking up in 20 years in an average house, in the town I grew up in, with an average number of average kids and an average job title no one understands (you know, the kind that just sounds like corporate white noise) elicits an immediate fight or flight response at the core of me.  I don't like it.  I can't stand it.  I need to make a concerted effort to ensure it doesn't happen.
• I know what I want to achieve, some things little tick-box type stuff, some things massive ideological theories, then there's everything in between.  All of them culminate in a bid to create a life I'd be content to look back on when the skin of my hands is as thin as paper and my hips have given up on me.  
• In 4 days, I turn 27.  I'm getting older, faster.  Every annual milestone makes me look at myself, my life, the past year and critique what I've achieved; always questioning: Am I moving forward?

This is aspiration for the un-average life is a journey-based collection of experiences, accomplishments, acquisitions, skills, memories and feelings.  Positive forward-movement. That's what I'm after.


This blog will tell the story of my collections.  

It's designed to inspire accountability, to keep me focused, progressive, inspired.  

I also thought it might be vaguely interesting - but that may be giving me a bit too much credit at this stage!

The bucket list that started this whole thing will follow.