A List: 30 by 30

I am 51 weeks away from being 30. Here's hoping I can accomplish these mostly fun (but some challenging) goals!


Here goes nothing:

❏ Read 30 books: 10 memoir/biography, 10 novels/YA fiction, 5 challenging, 5 classics

❏ Write letters to 30 people who have significantly shaped part of my life

❏ Skydive with BFF before January

❏ Eat adventurously: try a new restaurant in Greenville each month, try a new recipe from a different country each month (and invite friends), if something new is offered, try it (within reason)

❏ Visit 3 states I have never been to

❏ Get a new stamp in my passport (repeats don't count)

❏ Go to a play/live performance

❏ Ride in a cab

❏ See 3 bands I have never before seen in concert

❏ Climb a new mountain

❏ Go to a game at Fenway park

❏ Study world geography/cultures, 2 months per continent (Australia and Antarctica combined)

❏ Complete a challenge each month (i.e. no chocolate, no eating out, etc.)

❏ Keep a gratitude notebook. Write at least one sentence a day.

❏ Take a pottery or woodworking class

❏ Just keep running – 3 days a week, Mud Run, Swamp Rabbit, Half Marathon in the fall

❏ 30 random acts of kindness

❏ 30 movies off the 100 greatest movies as suggested by AFI

❏ Visit the Cali cousins

❏ Rough draft a memoir of my 20s

❏ 5 days a week: floss, make my bed, no dishes in sink at night

❏ Successfully roll a kayak and go white water kayaking

❏ Attempt to learn djembe or another percussion instrument

❏ Reach and maintain lifetime goal weight

❏ Create a bucket list for the next 30 years to come

❏ Drink a cup of black coffee or tea once a week, at least, without becoming addicted

❏ Read the whole collection of one author (Roald Dahl or Lewis Carroll, perhaps)

❏ Cut my wardrobe in half (or more)

❏ Find the best froyo shop in town

 

❏ Drive to the beach and back in one day (with less than 3 days notice)
 
*The list is subject to change if any brilliant ideas come up throughout the year.

I would like to accomplish as many of these as possible with people, so if any sound interesting to you, let me know and we can conquer it together!