Every five years I try to make some goals or challenges for myself. It’s NOT a bucket list. I just need some external motivation to do things I want to do sometimes, and find checking things off lists quite satisfying.
Pay off credit card debt.Pay off college loans.Visit 40 countries- Visit 40 states (8 to go!)
Read 40 new booksGo on 40 hikes40 days with no tv/movies/netflixSend 40 postcards- Lose the last of the weight to get to 40 lbs lost (20 to go!)
Get 400 likes on the Facebook page- Get 400 followers on my Instagram page for this blog
- 40 dinner dates with 40 different non-family people (Hannah and Jake, Amie, Suz and Gabriel, Esther and Nathan, Marie, Jaymie and Dana, Claire and Michael, Tracey, Georgie, Nick and Corli, Cindy, Joanna, Connie, Maggie, Nessa, Sone, Steph, Cat, Chris, Karinda, Justin, Sharan, Priya,)
Visit Morocco- Visit China (June 2024)
- Visit Mongolia
Make hamburgers by hand on the BBQ- Walk the Camino Santiago
Run a 5 or 10K (Smashed it May 1, 2021!)Host a holiday dinner party(Thanksgiving, Easter, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Easter)PUBLISH THE DAMN BOOKTake a yoga classTake a new kind of fitness or dance class- Write 800 blogs
- Meet someone famous
Complete a dry January (or month of choice)Blog every day for a month (again)Give up shopping for LentMaster a loaf of sourdough breadVisit an elephant sanctuary- See the Northern Lights
Learn to play CatanGo one month with no restaurantsVisit Africa and Australia, successfully visiting all seven continentsStart my Masters in Education (applied, was accepted, then covid! But have done a LOT of professional development…will call this even)Make an apple pie from scratchReach 400,000 hits on this blogGet paid to publish somethingMake grandma great’s fried chickenOne month with no chocolateRead 40 books each year (or 200 total new books)