Developing your Life List: SuperViva Helps You SuperAchieva!
After using the SuperViva website to brainstorm ideas for my life list, here is my evaluation of this method:
Pros:
- Easy to set up an account and create your list
- Lots of goals to look at for ideas
- Good categories to choose from
- Can add notes and other information to a goal
- Able to select a completed goal
Cons:
- Lots of goals to look at for ideas (need to look at the most popular ones, or plan on spending a lot of time reviewing)
- Initial wording of goals may not be the same as yours (you’ll need to modify later)
Lessons Learned
I learned a lot about what I *don’t* want to do in my life (sometimes as important as what you do want). I also realized that you need to consider some goals as ongoing, such as doing something once a year, once a month, etc. Another good idea is to add a goal to complete items on another specific list (like visit all National Parks).
Overall Evaluation
I really liked this method. I have high hopes for evaluating the SuperViva website for implementing my life list as well. More on that later.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Hi,
Needless to say “great blog post!”
I’m happy you enjoyed SuperViva for making your list.
Someting important I think was not clear about the site, based on your comment: “Initial wording of goals may not be the same as yours (you’ll need to modify later)”
In addition to being able to “copy” a goal you see listed, you can easily add goals worded however you like:
Simply type them into the “List a goal or idea” field toward the upper left of the page. Depending on the way you think I can see why may want to phrase a goal as “go to Paris again” or “go back to Paris” or “return to Paris” or “visit Paris again” !
You can also add a long list of your own goals, which is useful if you had it before on your computer:
http://www.superviva.com/add_life_list.php
I hope this is helpful and that your life list is as well!
Susie
January 9th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Susie - thanks for the tips - especially on uploading an existing list.
Just yesterday I got a Superviva email suggesting I “take a break and look over your life list” which I thought was really great. I also liked that it included some of the newer goals that had been added for continual inspiration.
I’m definitely looking forward to refining my life list(s) and using SuperViva for tracking them.
Ben