Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me!!!
Today, I am 24. I am taking the day off from work, sleeping in a bit, making myself a delicious breakfast, going to the gym, getting a massage, and teaching a dance class. Woo!
Since my birthday is so close to NYE, I'm going to combine my goals/bucket list/resolutions for the new year with my ambitions for my 24th year of life. All smashed together into one big shmorgasborg of a shit ton of things I want to get done in 2017.
2016 was a failed year. I hate to be dramatic, but it feels that way in retrospect. I did accomplish some things, try out some new stuff, and see some new places. But all in all, I felt unbelievable stagnant. I like to keep things positive, but it is what it is.
ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
The poetic approach:
The same time will go by and where will you be?
yearning for more or finally free...
Here is a list all the non-time-sensitive things I want to accomplish, try, fail at, see, do, experience, and test out in the next 365 days of approaching closer and closer to my quarter life crisis. I may write these down on a giant poster board and hang them in my room, but there's no precise time table for getting these done, I just want to eventually (this year!)
1. Do a polar plunge.
2. Participate in a Whole 30 eating plan.
3. Attend a gay pride event.
4. Train for and complete a 10k.
5. Have someone perform Reiki on me.
6. Take a professional dance class.
7. Go hiking in Vermont.
8. Take an aerial Yoga class.
9. Distribute hot cocoa and coffee to crossing guards in the winter.
10. Go to an outdoor concert (I didn't go to a single one in 2017!)
YEAR LONG, ON-GOING GOALS:
GOALS SPECIFIC TO MONTHS:
January - apply to freakin' grad school.
Today, I am 24. I am taking the day off from work, sleeping in a bit, making myself a delicious breakfast, going to the gym, getting a massage, and teaching a dance class. Woo!
Since my birthday is so close to NYE, I'm going to combine my goals/bucket list/resolutions for the new year with my ambitions for my 24th year of life. All smashed together into one big shmorgasborg of a shit ton of things I want to get done in 2017.
2016 was a failed year. I hate to be dramatic, but it feels that way in retrospect. I did accomplish some things, try out some new stuff, and see some new places. But all in all, I felt unbelievable stagnant. I like to keep things positive, but it is what it is.
ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
The mottos:
The poetic approach:
The same time will go by and where will you be?
yearning for more or finally free...
Here is a list all the non-time-sensitive things I want to accomplish, try, fail at, see, do, experience, and test out in the next 365 days of approaching closer and closer to my quarter life crisis. I may write these down on a giant poster board and hang them in my room, but there's no precise time table for getting these done, I just want to eventually (this year!)
1. Do a polar plunge.
2. Participate in a Whole 30 eating plan.
3. Attend a gay pride event.
4. Train for and complete a 10k.
5. Have someone perform Reiki on me.
6. Take a professional dance class.
7. Go hiking in Vermont.
8. Take an aerial Yoga class.
9. Distribute hot cocoa and coffee to crossing guards in the winter.
10. Go to an outdoor concert (I didn't go to a single one in 2017!)
YEAR LONG, ON-GOING GOALS:
- Take a short video every day of the year, to create a 365 second long 1SE video.
- Dance once a week and record myself improvising to all of my favorite songs. Compile the video. Witness the growth.
- Get out of cc debt (or as close as possible).
- Stretching and yoga, to me, is the truest form of self-care. Implement as often as possible.
- Eat clean clean and cleaner still. You can do it, biotch.
- Take deeper freakin' breaths. Pause before speaking. Radiate the light you know is inside of you, daily.
GOALS SPECIFIC TO MONTHS:
January - apply to freakin' grad school.
February - surprise L with a Valentine's Day homemade meal or sappy present because I am a weak, weak person.
March - go to a St. Paddy's Day parade, visit Aunt Natalie in Atlanta and take a day trip to Savannah, GA!
April - start training for a 10K, hopefully decide where I am going to grad school!!!
May - start process of apartment hunting.
June - complete a 10K.
July - go to a super fun 4th of July event, with fireworks and sparklers!
August - decide where I am going to be living for the next indeterminate number of years, move there, either travel internationally or compete an intensive 2-week yoga teacher training course in Costa Rica or somewhere equally unbelievable.
September - start grad school (!!!!)
October - celebrate Halloween either Boston-style or Pumpkin Fest-style in Keene, NH. All depends on where I decide for grad school.
November - Go home for Thanksgiving and write down at least one thing I'm grateful for each day for the whole month.
December - Bake 1,000 Christmas cookies, volunteer my time at a shelter of some kind, see the Rockette's Christmas Spectacular.
This is 100x more intense year planning than what I did in 2016 so I'm hoping and praying that this year goes according to plan. Of course, with a little wiggle room for spontaneity :)
This is 100x more intense year planning than what I did in 2016 so I'm hoping and praying that this year goes according to plan. Of course, with a little wiggle room for spontaneity :)
Cheers to a new year, new beginnings, new chances, and 365 opportunities to make it count.
