Initially, I wasn’t going to bother creating this bucket list because the remainder of this year and much of next year are pretty much canceled for many people, including myself. I wouldn’t be surprised if I spent another birthday alone. I’d rather be overly cautious than risk it for something as trivial and self-centered as my birthday. However, I did realize I was only boxing myself in if I believed that there was nothing I could accomplish during a pandemic. If anything, having restraints will make tackling this list a little more reasonable than in previous years. So here it goes:
- Donate more of my time and money. Researching and advocating for organizations I believe in. And continue doing so; I don’t want to be one of those people who make it a one-time thing out of guilt and then forget about it when my life goes back to normal.
- Complete an oil painting, even if it’s the shittiest piece of shit I’ve ever created in my shitty existence, haha.
- Read 30 books (I’ve finished 17 so far since my last birthday sooo I might try to up this to 50?)
- Have at least one plant-based meal 3x a week. Hoping to go at least one plant meal a day, but we’ll start small and see how it goes.
- Hit all my major savings goals (I hit a major goal in August, but I want to keep the momentum going since this will probably be the easiest time in my life for me to save)
- Move to a new city (very dependent on COVID, as this was initially supposed to happen in early May of this year)
- Have visible obliques that don’t completely disappear when I eat (or drink water lol. This is more dependent on diet and genetics than anything else welp)
- Incorporate meditation into my daily routine 3x a week
- Do more to help around the house without being asked to/ be more self-aware of other people’s needs, even if they aren’t saying anything.
- Stop saying ‘yes’ to people or situations that don’t suit my needs or sanity, regardless if they’re friends or family. And stop feeling bad for saying ‘no.’ I want to feel good about my no’s lol
- Go to New Zealand and get my birthday tattoos, haha. However, it’s probably going to be a very delayed birthday gift. Hopefully, it’ll happen sometime while I’m 30?
- Make it to the one year mark for blogging!
- Make one online friend.
- Join a community where I know absolutely nobody
- Explore the trails around my home more. This may be the last year I get to do this.
- Learn to dance (this one’s so scary for me for some reason!! haha)
- Find some sort of volunteer work I can do that’s contactless.
- Incorporate more HIIT and weight-lifting into my workouts
- Frame one of my many art prints (after 5 years of owning it, haha)
- Complete three more 30-day art projects (1 down, 1 in progress)
- Learn to cook something new at least once a week
- Less social media/mindless scrolling. I’ve deleted IG and Messenger so far, and it’s been amazing.
- It would be nice to go somewhere new, like a state park or even another state, but we’ll see
- Develop some film photography
- Fill up my Giant Sketchbook (the one that’s all over Youtube)
- Go to therapy again.
- Set up an online shop, hopefully selling my artwork?
- Create one vlog, even if I don’t upload it or share it anywhere
- Cull my circle so I can focus more of my time and energy on people I actually care about
- Love myself as much as I have loved others
I will review this sometime next June and see what I’ve accomplished…
Wish me luck!
Good luck in achieving these goals.
thank you, Lauren!! :))