Hello, hello!
It’s that time of year again! I just “celebrated” my 37th birthday on Saturday, and as the number gets higher my enthusiasm for the day decreases lol… but I digress! Today is about acknowledging accomplishments and looking forward to making progress on new (and old) goals!
I know, I know… you may be saying, I thought you said in your last check-in post (HERE), that you were stepping away from all the lists? I did say that. I guess I just can’t help myself. And it will probably come as no surprise that I have tweaked my 40 x 40 list, yet again (this is version 3.0). I won’t go on at length about each item, but if I’ve completed something (bolded), or started/made progress (bold italic) on any of them already I will note it below.
So shall we? In no particular/alphabetical order, here we go!
- Bathroom Reno, Phase 2
- Become a fur-mama
- Become a member of an art museum
- Be a better housekeeper & homemaker I guess this is subjective lol, and I’m certainly not perfect. But I have been drawn to displaying the more domestic side of myself…
- Birthday cards & snail mail
- Consume art and culture at the moment this is YouTube art vlogs as I am not comfortable being out in the world (wherever we’re allowed to actually be out in it at the moment).
- Create art more regularly
- Design books
- Develop a proper skin care routine my skin is still a mess, more so than ever with daily mask wearing, but I’m not 100% sure it’s only from the mask, so still figuring this one out. It’s a journey…
- Do regular digital detoxes
- Dye my hair…purple?
- Eat a Mediterranean diet not exclusively but working on incorporating it more frequently
- Eat a mostly vegetarian diet I usually do this by default because I don’t particularly like touching/preparing meat, but I do still eat meat (especially because for the last year I’ve been eating dinner with my mom 6 out of 7 nights)
- Finally complete B School
- Find relief from chronic back pain
- Get life insurance
- Get strong
- Go on more/local adventures
- Grow a vegetable garden I have grown peppers the last couple of years, and last year I added tomatoes. I’m thinking I may only focus on herbs this coming season… but I consider this complete even though I plan to still continue on with it.
- Grow my hair long
- Keep up with world news still watching the nightly news and with recent national/world happenings I’ve taken to checking the news app on my phone more frequently, and it’s still mostly depressing.
- Learn hand lettering/ script handwriting I started the first section of my hand lettering workbook earlier this year. Still a long way to go!
- Learn Italian
- Learn to say hello in 40 languages I did the research and identified 40 languages and how they say hello, but I have to start studying!
- Live with less still on this journey, it is hard! Hi, I’m Lisa and I am a shoe, and pillow hoarder.
- Look for my “forever” home
- Perfect my signature
- Practice gratitude
- Practice meditation
- Practice Pilates again
- Read 40 books I got myself back on track for this, hooray! Some audio books have been mixed in for fun and variety.
- Reboot blogging hi! Still at it!
- Save more money I’ve been trying to spend less so by default I’m saving more…
- Start a YouTube channel
- Start an Etsy shop
- Start investing 1-5-10% of income
- Study Latin
- Take more pictures
- Whittle down my wardrobe (create a capsule?) I am constantly working on this.
- Write and publish an e-book
Do you create lists of life goals?
Many thanks and much love,
laf
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