30 by 30 (or not)

So on Monday, I turned 29. I have a good friend who’s a few months older than me, and just over a year before her impending 30th birthday, she set a goal to go on 30 dates (among other fun goals).

Don’t worry, Ryan, I’m not setting the same goal.

I was thinking about coming up with 30 goals to accomplish by the time I’m 30, but . . . we’re down to 363 days here and my biggest weakness with goals is setting them waaay too high, so I don’t know if I have time for that. Also, I can’t think of 30 things. Isn’t that sad?

So, instead, I took a cue from my sister (who has a 26 by 26 list, but who’s also doing this) with a monthly focus goal. Now, twelve goals, I can do (in no particular order):

• Get back into the habit of keeping a journal after, you know, skipping probably the biggest decade of my life—college, courtship, kids—just that).
• Lose some weight (and get a scale so I can figure out how much…)
• Be a better sister/daughter/friend
• Write more personally
• Declutter my home & establish routines to keep it clean
• Get around to the home improvements I’ve meant to do since we moved in. (Six and a half years ago.)
• A goal for writing, possibly another book.
• A month of reading
• A month of playing (some time in the summer)
• Read and work on The Anger Diet
• A month of creating: cooking (knife skills!) and other crafts
• A month of intensive gospel study

Now, a lot of these aren’t quantifiable in this form, but don’t worry—I’ll fix that when I get to them.

What do you think? What do you want to do or wish you had accomplished by 30?

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