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40 Before 40, Broadway theatre, Chicago, Costa Rica, Kiva, Lists, Meditation, Recreation, Segway
Hey guys, I’m 30.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
OK, got that out. Seriously though, I’m liking this decade so far. (Meaning, the less than three weeks of it I’ve experienced.) And I have some big plans. I wrote and started working on my 30 Before 30 list six months before I turned 30. I didn’t have much time for any really grand achievements. This time, I have ten years. I can accomplish a hell of a lot in ten years.
So here is my 40 Before 40 list. It may change. I’m open to modifying the list as I grow and evolve. But here’s where I’m starting. I think it’s going to be an amazing and utterly fantastic ten years. Life is good!!
- Get a new tattoo
- Finish writing a novel
- Audit a science class
- Take a hot air balloon ride
- Join a vegetable and/or meat CSA
- Go to India
- Live abroad
- Do a service trip
- Publish a novel
- Go scuba diving
- Go parasailing
- Go whale watching
- Run a 5K
- Do a meditation retreat
- Take voice lessons
- Record a song
- Go to Asia
- Finish reading the Pulitzers
- Take a cooking class
- Watch AFI’s top 100 films
- Go swimming with dolphins
- Go to a Broadway show
- Climb another mountain
- Fund 40 (more) Kiva loans
- Ride an elephant
- Meditate every day for a month
- Go to a burlesque show
- Do a gallery tour in the Chicago art galleries
- Start backyard composting
- Start gardening
- Grow something that I can actually eat
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter
- Pose for an artist (actually did this in high school, but I’d love to do it again)
- Do some public speaking
- Teach Adeline to play a musical instrument
- Spend at least three months getting myself fresh flowers every week
- Go ziplining in Costa Rica
- Do the Segway tours around Chicago
- Do the full six-week Revive program
- Find something to love every day this decade.
If you accomplish #40, nothing else will matter. Happy belated birthday!
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And thanks!
My preliminary list:
40 before 40
1. Get my National Board Teaching Certification
2. Buy a house
3. Restart my cooking blog
4. Have a 2nd child
5. Find a volunteer organization and start volunteering
6. Make meditation a habit
7. Publish my book
8. Write another children’s book
9. Go horseback riding with Josh
10. Knit at least one thing a year
11. Take a big trip abroad
12. Spend a week at Kripalu
13. Become more proficient at ASL
14. Create a garden on the porch
15. Be able to play 40 songs on the guitar
16. Compile all my own recipes in one place
17. Go repelling (again)
18. Donate blood once a year
19. Join a book club
20. Learn to can
21. Feel comfortable in my own naked body
22. Write my will
23. Run a 5k
24. Run a 10k
25. Run a half marathon
26. Get to a healthy weight
27. Start riding a bike again
28. Buy myself a piece of real jewelry with my own money
29. Learn to hem my own pants
30. Start baking my own bread
31. Coupon more
32. Explore a rainforest
33. Attend a Diabetes Sisters weekend for women conference
34. Make at least one recipe from every cookbook I own before buying any new ones
35. Teach a college level education course as an adjunct professor
36. Send someone (or a few people) a gift, just because
37. Create an at home yoga routine that becomes second nature
38. Reconnect with an old friend (or two!)
39. Cut out all artificial sweeteners and refined sugars (OK: raw honey, raw agave, maple syrup, coconut and date sugar)
40. Reconnect with my faith (go to temple regularly)
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All meats are naturally fed with no horomones/antibiotics.