Goals

In August I am preparing to celebrate my 29th birthday. It makes me panic a bit. And kind of made me feel like this;

It got me thinking whether I had achieved what I wanted to by this age. I was reading through my old journals the other day and I had written a (very small) list of things that I had wanted to achieve in the future. I was quite chuffed to find I had achieved all of them, except for owning  VW beatle. Ho hum. So I had done well, yes?

However I have to admit this list was not very comprehensive. I strongly feel that if we don't set goals for ourselves in life we will never strive to achieve them. I have LOADS of things I want to do in life before I die. (Some more important than others.) What is the betting I will not achieve many of them.

But I decided to change things. I got preparing a list of things to achieve in the next year and a bit.

I have wimped out of making 30 things however and settled at 20. I like to make things easy for myself :)

I present to you...my 20 before 30 list;

1)      Take Lizzie to a music festival

2)      Try indian food

3)      Drive a VW campervan

4)      More babies

5)      Take up guitar again

6)      Sleep in a lighthouse

7)      Master a sewing machine

8)      Read all the books on my bookshelf

9)      Become an optimist

10)   Go in a hot air balloon

11)   Start visiting the temple regularly

12)   Visit as many national trust places as possible (dare I say all of them?)

13)   Take Lizzie camping

14)   Go on a megabus road trip (for £1!)

15)   Learn how to use a camera (properly)

16)   Go to the Edinburgh fringe festival

17)   Go to Northumberland

18)   Complete my Masters

19)   Start savings account for our trip to Asia

20)   Host an old lady party (? For my 30^th?)

I intend to blog about each of these goals as I cross them off my list.

So you never know. I may reach 30 feeling completely self-fulfilled and like this;

Maybe...