Life Goals

As I near the ‘age 30 milestone,’ I have found myself thinking a lot about I am meant to do with my life and, on a much more basic, selfish level, what are those things that I just want to do, however silly or petty they might be. Part of the reason I started this blog was as a way for clients (and potential clients) to get to know me better as a person, as well as a tool for friends and family to keep up with what I am doing – thus, I have decided to post this on my blog.

I have been working on this list for several months and will probably add to this list on a regular basis. As I reach each goal, I will add a date beside it.

Tangible goals

1 – Write a novel

2 – Fluently speak at least 2 other languages

3 – Learn to surf

4 – Learn to scuba dive

5 – Get a picture published in any National Geographic publication

6 – Adopt a child

7 – Take 2 weeks, go somewhere alone & read the entire Bible, cover to cover

8 – Road trip – Old Route 66

9 – Write travel articles for magazines

10- Get myself to a point where I spend at least 6 months out of the year doing mission, non-profit or service work.

11 – Get out of debt (by age 31)

12 – Learn self-defense

13 – Hike – the Lakeshore Trail in the Upper Peninsula

14 – Learn guitar

15 – Learn CPR

16 – Have a gallery show of my photography

17-  Start a travel blog

18 – Launch my travel/art photography website

19-  Get married, have a family unit, be a happy, little nomad family (I know, I know, mouths are dropping open, I am saying it)

20 – While there are 500000 places I want to travel, my top 6 places (right now):

- Trinidad & Tobago

- Peru

- Greece

- Easter Island

- Travel down a good portion of the Amazon

21 – Write a kid’s book

22 - Stop eating any meat product, except fish (already don’t eat red meat)

23 – Get another piercing or tattoo

24 – Start (or assist with starting) a non-profit

25 – Read at least one book per week

26 – Habitually have a daily devotion time

27- Cry more, seriously, I don’t cry enough

28- Paint my toenails regularly – I always neglect this

29 – Buy a house or condo

30 –Road trip - take a train trip through the Northwest USA

31- Develop a small jewelry line

32 – Go to a Spanish Language school in a different country for a week or two

33- Take a Bikini-Boot Camp class in Mexico – those things are intense!

34 – Toilet train my cats (seriously, don’t laugh – can you imagine how great it would be to NEVER clean another litter box?)

35 – Organize my house and STAY organized

36 – Learn to knit

37- Write a book on my family history (per mom’s request)

38 – Road Tri p: Take a pilgrimage in Spain

39 – Bike around England

40 – Bike the Natchez Trace Trail

41 – Consistently be self-employed (goal met when have done so for 5 years)

42 – Skydive AGAIN!

43 – Finish The Artists Way

44 – Raft down the Grand Canyon

45 – Backpack Central America

Intangibles

1 – be a better friend

2 – be more compassionate & empathetic

3 – be more open and forward with people

4 – complain less

5 – remember birthdays

6 – get back in shape (working on it!)

7 – be better at sharing my faith

8- stop worrying so much

9 – extend my vocabulary a& become a better speller