The beauty of those goals were their ambiguity - and lack of a check box after accomplishing.
So this year, I'm taking a more detailed approach to the whole thing, and making a cut and dry list of things I want to accomplish in the next year. I started this list back in October, so I would be sure to capture all of the things I want to do, big and small. I might even add some as the year goes on. Of course I will share my successes with you
Some are straightforward (#14, #21), others are going to be a challenge (#9!, #13), and others are going to be more long-term, to give myself a fair amount of time to actually complete them (#3, #6).
The List:
- Do something that really scares me
- Be confident - physically, mentally, optimistically
- Lose 25+ pounds so I feel like me again (and sadly, no, this isn't a drastic number...)
- Learn to garden - actually grow real things
- Kiss Tony hello every evening when I get home, regardless of how tired/stressed I am
- Read every book (even if that means re-read) on this Top 100 list - with the freedom to change a few at-will
- Go camping or hiking - even if it's not real camping or real hiking
- Get professional photos of Tony and I
- Learn how to make 5 new recipes that are edible
- Refinish a large piece of furniture from the thrift store
- Make my wedding scrapbook
- Eat more veggies
- Run 5 miles in one go - this is big for me, but probably seems pathetic to real runners
- Go one month with no soda
- Tell people more often how much they mean to me
- Do more papercrafts; send at least one card I made from scratch
- Teach myself more about web design
- Do something totally life-changing
- Be a better sister
- Go on a bigish vacation
- Go on a little vacation
- Organize our garage, for real this time
- Try a new piece of random fruit from the farmer's market
- Build a piece of furniture from scratch via ana-white.com
- Be a better friend
- Make 1 new friend
- Eat more fish
- Volunteer more
- Buy/Build as needed so our closets can finally be organized.
- Learn more about a new country each month - even if it's just from the elementary school level books
- Put up crown molding in our house (with Tony's help!)
- Improve my posture - especially when sitting at a desk
- Plant more fall bulbs for a spring surprise
- Backup my photos online somewhere (this is a MUST!)
- Go to a high school football game
- Waterski again (I've been scared to try again after this success)
- Figure out how to backup my blog's history
- Ride bikes once a week (once it's warm)
- Visit Atlanta landmarks I've missed
- Clean out our dryer's hoses
- Go one month without fried foods - at all - no cheating
- Give up something big for Lent
- Floss more
- Go on a summer picnic
- Reduce my sugar intake
- Revamp our laundry room (I've been planning this for years...)
- Find a daily/weekly cleaning routine I can stick with
- Build our deck (with Tony's help!)
- Paint the furniture in our guest room
- Love life, every day!
(Don't worry, I wont post about #40 or #12 or #43, but if I do something really amazing I will be sure to update you! I'm also going to post this list on a tab at the top of the blog and cross things off as I go)
Any other suggestions of things I must try in 2011?