Today I turn 29. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, about how this is the last year of my twenties. I’m not sure why this feels like such a huge milestone for me. I guess because like everyone, there are goals I had secretly made while I was younger that I would do. Now, as an adult I still have not done many of these things. Life does complicate things. Some goals are not as easy to accomplish once married & having children, however not impossible. So I decided to take a closer look at some of these things I had hoped to have done by now. What is it that has kept me from trying new things & achieving new goals? Is it really because of being married & then having children? No not really. The biggest reasons have been that I just haven’t made an effort to do these things or that I was afraid I’d fail at them. In making a new effort, I decided to make a list of 29 things to do before I turn 30. Here it is:
29 Things to do before I turn 30
1. Travel to Tibet
2. Adopt an active lifestyle as my own
3. Give more than I receive
4. Stop saying “I want to be…” and start saying “I am…”
5. Go snowboarding
6. Read at least 2 novels that I didn’t read in high school.
7. Learn to live a more sustainable life
8. Do volunteer work as a family
9. Test drive an extremely pricey car
10. Shoot a gun
11. Go skinny dipping with my husband
12. Eat something I’ve never tried before (yak butter tea maybe?)
13. Go to a rock concert
14. Get a tattoo
15. Travel by train
16. Donate blood
17. Learn to ballroom dance
18. Create my family tree
19. Go to a drive in movie theater
20. Treat myself to a spa day
21. Learn to effectively start a fire
22. Master changing a tire
23. Learn to chop wood
24. Complete a self portrait
25. Begin Letterboxing with our family
26. Write a knitting pattern that is published in a knitting magazine
27. Make journals for Nona & Jacob about their lives growing up
28. Reconnect with the friends I had as a teenager.
29. Become a better organized multi-tasker
