30 things before I am 30
This time of year always gets me excited, I simply adore Christmas but I also love New Years Eve/Day and the beginning of a new year. I consider myself lucky because my birthday falls just after the new year so I get to begin a new year of my life along with the start of a new year. This year I will turn 26, one year closer to being 30. To me 30 has always seemed so far away but these days its seeming closer and closer (because it is closer and closer each day). When thinking about the next five (ah, closer to four!) years there are many things I would like to do. Not so much a bucket list, but a list of goals I wish to accomplish. Below, I have compiled a list of 30 things I aim to accomplish before or during my 30th year of life…here we go:
Be more established in my career. This is a big one. I am only just beginning this new venture and I am so excited, I have always loved art and aim to be successful an artist.
Shop less. This one seems silly but anyone who knows me knows I love to shop, I wish to do this less and enjoy what I already have more.
Find a really good therapist. This may be a little more pressing and I should for sure do this before I am thirty but it needed to be written in the ether to hold myself accountable.
Learn accounting. I have never been nor will I ever be someone who enjoys this. It is a necessary evil of beginning ones own business and I gotta do it.
Exercise more regularly. Again, accountability here. I really have never found great joy in the act of exercising but the after effects are really quite nice. Just gonna make it a habit.
Attend the 2024 Olympics in Paris. This will be post 30 but its a nice goal. I LOVE the summer olympics and have always wanted to visit Paris. Two birds and all!
Use my phone less. This is more pressing that some of the others on this list. I just wish to be more present in the world around me.
Learn more about global politics. I think I have become extremely limited in my global awareness and it makes me crazy. I need to do better on the whole.
Use my very pretty planner more. I have a planner that I use sporadically. I wish to utilize it more as a means to hold myself more accountable. If its written, I must do it.
Read. I love to read and I love lightly trashy novels typically residing in a crime/suspense/mystery genre. I wish to explore the world f the written world more.
Have a kid, or a plan to have one. This is kind of bold but I would like to have one by the time I am thirty. I have been with my boyfriend now for 6.5 years and hope we will be in a place to.
Travel. This isn’t really a change but its something I never want to stop. I would really like to visit South America before thirty.
Have a brick and mortar store. This is a goal I have had since I was approximately six and I really wish to achieve it. It has been my one constant goal in my ever changing life.
Embrace my inner six year old. She was a badass. She knew what she loved (pink & leopard) and fulled embraced it. I wish to honor her tenacity and really embrace who I am.
Stop being embarrassed. I give it up. Embarrassment is the worst feeling and it is so silly. It does not serve any purpose outside of making you feel badly, so I’m done.
Spend more time with family & friends. I love them and I want to see them more. I want to make this more of a priority.
Do a project with my brother. He is studying building science and I love buildings. I really like we could do something amazing if he’ll agree to work with me.
Move. I currently live on Connecticut, nothing against Connecticut but this isn’t home. I want to move to a city, or near a city that is preferably warmer (and closer to my sister).
Partner with a large company to create something amazing. A pattern for a wallpaper? A label for a spice bottle? Art prints for a nursery? I would do it all.
Buy a house/apartment/condo. I would really like to own my home, I wish to paint the walls, change layouts. I want a place I can renovate and make completely me.
Get my real estate license. I don’t wish to be a Realtor but I think it would be interesting to learn the field and potentially do some work staging homes.
Make a new friend. I have some very amazing close friends that I love more than life. I have friends from different phases of life but you can always have more, right?
Have an employee. And be a dope boss. If I am to have a store, I must have an employee. I plan to treat them well and be the best boss I can be.
Become a cult leader. (JK but who doesn’t love learning about cults?)
Have less waste. I think being more conscious about the companies I shop from/stores I visit and choosing options that have less waste and use less plastic.
Explore my faith. I am not sure where I stand religiously and think it would be nice to figure it out a little more. I find that spirituality is a beautiful things and I would like to experience more.
Do things for other people. From volunteering to making dinner for my boyfriend, I want to give more of myself to others on a daily basis.
Embrace alone time. Since beginning to work alone at home I have struggled a bit, but as I do it more I enjoy it more. I want to get better at being alone.
Work with my momma. I hope to be able to have a place where my mom can come work with me. She has had dreams similar to mine and I would like to share mine with her.
Be happy. Whatever I do over the next few years & for the rest of my life I want to be happy. I want to do more to embrace happiness and find happiness. I want to enjoy the little happys of the average day and the big, once in a life time happys. There is so much happy that frequently gets overshadowed and I intend to relish in the happy any chance I get.
