30 By 30
- Be more optimistic. Find joy and happiness.
- Garden my herb garden so it includes more than two herbs.
- Make two new friends.
- Give only homemade gifts or things that will be really appreciated, not just become “stuff.”
- Visit each continent (or at least add a few more to the list).
- Purchase a home. Learn things to fix up that home.
- Find direction.
- Accept me. Totally - body shape, skin, hair, everything.
- Play my bass clarinet again.
- Buy a drill for myself; maybe put together a real good tool box.
- Learn more pastry chef-ness.
- Learn to speak another language (for real this time).
- Be excitable.
- Concentrate on others’ needs.
- Become a runner.
- Return to swimming and climbing.
- Learn to small talk with people I have nothing in common with.
- Become more appreciative of what I do have and what I have done.
- Buy artwork on every trip I take, so that my home is filled with memories, rather than a dusty scrapbook.
- Learn to dress sexy.
- Volunteer. (Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, mentor, BSA…) Be active in a troop/crew/lodge of the Boy Scouts, even though I don’t have a kid.
- Learn that responsibility and blame are different.
- Simplify. Purge things I don’t need.
- Try to respect "the ordinary" (inspired by this quote by lin-chi: "if you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.")inspired by mipmup
- Find a center that became lost along the way.
- Find a pace between fired drill and slug.
- Write a letter each week to someone I love, letting them know that.
- Paint a large canvas painting.
- Learn to sew.
- Get a really great haircut and finally learn what to do with it.
1 Comments:
#20 might be optional. You look more than fine.
On # 17. Reading more, and more 'stuff' will make anyone a better conversationalist, but then again very few people really know how to make small talk without resorting to 'Did you see that [TV show/Movie]? It's a lost art, and will only impress the oldsters.
On #13. This may be genetic. You either got it or not. And don't despair for NOT having it. That can be very useful to you.
#19 is a passion of all older ladies & men. This is why they (and they alone) haunt the antiques stores. When you finally have enough money to search for art, you know you've really made it.
#14 Goes w/o saying for any true mother or lover in fact.
Cheers & Good Luck! 'VJ'
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