30 things I want to do before I turn 30

Or: 30 things I want to do (or learn to do) before or by the time I turn 30.

1. Be able to walk in kind of high heel shoes. (Practice by doing it at home - it’s Lady J’s animal print pumps that inspired me! Looks way cool)
2. Get another tattoo. (I can wait until next year though…) - Probably on my thigh - it’s not part of my body that I show.
3. Build muscles. Drop a size (I still wont be skinny! - sung to the tune of na na na na na, or the French version: na na na na nère - don’t ask me why they changed that in French…).
4. Write one short story of more than 90 pages in Word.
5. Paint again. (the objective is to paint about 3 paintings - not including the one I’m shipping A.S.A.P.)
6. Comment on other blogs again - without sounding like the most incredibly stupid person.
7. Meditate (and keep meditation as a daily thing).
8. Workout every day. (I’m not bolding it because it’s just for me and I don’t even want to leave a little window that says: I’m expecting external feedback on this).
9. Ignore any comment about weight (criticism or compliment - it’s easier to ignore everything) and just learn to be and do things for me (and keep in mind that the only opinion that matters is mine - unless I drop to a dangerous low).
10. Change how I speak with others and avoid anything I consider to be judgmental.
11. When somebody else speaks about their experience - not making it about me. (Hey, it happens. I just think I have to sort out my things solo - and re-learn to be a better listener).
12. Be a better daughter. Show patience. Show *argh* humility. (my mother lost her parents with regret. Ain’t no way I’m not appreciating what I have)
13. Improve my relationship skills. (Let’s see, I have issues with recognizing when I’m wrong, I’m stubborn, I get hyper emotional, I can sometimes be needy, I’m a drama queen… All things I can work on - I’m not saying annihilating those traits: bringing down a level or two can’t hurt)
14. Taking it one day at a time.
15. Limiting my procrastination (huge issue).
16. Not focusing on the goal to the point where “any point during the journey sucks” (or equals failure).
17. Accepting that changes take time.
18. Trying to develop patience - argh.
19. Getting a medical checkup - haven’t in… five… or more years?
20. Finding ways of differentiating between what I do for me and what I do for others.
21. Finding a cause to fight for (actively). Of course it needs to be something I can see myself working on and doing long term - doing something I know how to do. Problem is: I don’t want to create something new (and to have to work at both building it and maintaining it: seriously too lazy). But all the projects that I can think of don’t currently exist… (several people want to help me make some of my projects come true, but I’d still have to work at establishing and maintaining them, plus they want me to be visible! ARGH!) Ah. The dilemma.
22. Mary a billionaire. Just joking! I’m running out of thoughts… Ah! No more alcohol unless it’s at a wedding. No other options - except maybe for my birthday because I know everyone will pick on me if I don’t.
23. Grow again my herb garden.
24. Pull my daily card - daily! (Tarot related). Ties in with:
25. Actually write in my Tarot Journal.
26. Practice Yoga once a week - I have the DVD… I’m just procrastinating.
27. Accept that a setback does not a plan fail make. (I know. Incoherent. I didn’t say I’d sound more coherent here, I said in comments I leave on other blogs!)
28. Keep smiling.
29. Find a way to learn how to snap back and put people back in their place (Seinfeld fans might remember an episode where George spent the whole time trying to find a smart reply for something someone said in the beginning: that’s me!)
30. Avoid cynics and people who bring me down - and toxic behaving people in general (make me depressed, sad, or make me want to kill everybody - bad karma). Sometimes it’s impossible to ignore toxic people. So also learn how to ignore everything they say/them. (life is short man. I refuse to give time to people who don’t make me want to live happier and stronger as is or how I chose to be(come)).

~ by Insane Mind on May 10, 2008.