When my daughters left for college I wanted to give them some words of advice to take with them. I couldn’t seem to find the right ones because there is so much to teach them as they leave. You can only hope and pray that they hear everything and remember everything that you have taught them.  It took me days to figure out what to do to make sure that they did. I decide that giving them a list of list of 50 things to do before they died would be the best way to go. Here is the list I gave them.

50 THINGS To Do or Be Before You Die

1. Love yourself and God so much that you Fall in Love everyday,
 with your life and everything in it.
2. Be the light that you are now, Forever, and when the wind tries to blow you out, make  your  flame even bigger.
3. Forgive everyone in your life, no matter what they do to themselves or you.
4. Play in the Rain, Do Not let anything keep you from life, no matter how hard it pours.
5. Have faith in everything, no matter how hard it may seem to believe, believe in it.
6. Be Full, know that you do not need anyone else to fill you, you are whole.
7. Choose the best path, not the easy one.
8. Trust your choices, they belong to you.
9. When you are sad, crank the music up and sing.
10. When you feel lonely, take a big pad of paper and write everything you feel and put them all  over you walls and then realize that the gift you used to write it, is from
  God and you are not alone.
11.Take long drives to the ocean and run in the surf.
12. Walk thru the rainforests all over the world and see the wonder of God.
13. Learn one thing new everyday, learn it well, and keep it.
14. Don’t ever meet expectations, exceed them.
15. Don’t let your career become you life, let life become your career.
16. Don’t stand in a window and look at life, be outside living it.
17. When you hit a brick wall, lean how to climb it.
18. Don‘t do anything half-hearted, do it with all the consuming passion you have.
19. Do everything you say you are going to do.
20. Trust people until they give you a reason not to, don’t mistrust until the give you a reason  to trust.
21. Touch a whale.
22.  Fly a kite.
23.  When you wake up in the middle of the night with an urge to go somewhere, GO.
24. Never do anything you will deny and never deny anything you do.
25. Make sure the people you love know it.
26. Don’t grow up, just get smarter.
27. Thank God for every day you have, good or bad.
28. Thank God for everything you have, good or bad.
29. Own every move you make.
30. Don’t want something, Have it and never take it from others.
31. Keep at least two friends from High School.
32. Keep at least a million from College.
33. If someone tells you that you will never be able to do something, find a way.
34. Don’t let anyone owe you, release them from debt.
35. Go to the moon and touch it instead of waiting for it to come to you.
36. Feel every thing with your whole soul.
37. Realize that life is full of regret only if you let regret fill your life.
38. Don’t be all you can be, be more.
39. Don’t let your past be your future.
40. Every once in a while close your eyes and listen.
41. Remember that some of the wisest people in the world have never said anything at all.
42. If you want to be opinionated, you need to be open-minded, other wise you will never  know that they are saying the same thing you are, just a different way.
43.  Learn how to ride the turns in your life so that you won’t spin and loose control.
44.  Every once in a while you have to lift your feet off the ground.
45.  Jump and let God catch you.
46.  Learn how to hear God’s words in everything.
47.  Go against the flow, not with it.
48.  Spend an eternity with your family.
49.  Make God and yourself proud and don’t worry about anyone else.
50.  Don’t change people, Change lives.