24 before 24
Recently, I have been feeling the need to number, detail, and document all my goals. Call it a healthy obsession and strong need for constant betterment. Maybe its the post-grad reality shocking my nervous system and demanding I create a regiment for myself that follows the suit of what the education system provided me for 14 years of my life. Maybe it is the intense influence of Tik Tok and the ability to see every stranger's life goals and experiences. Maybe it is the result of an intense break up and desperate yearning to return to myself stronger and healthier than before. If you feel like you are floating aimlessly, now is the time to make a list.
What follows is a hopeful and ambitious list of all the things I wish to accomplish before my next birthday in August. To be fair, I wrote this list 3 months post my 23rd birthday near the end of the year so it's straddling the line between birthday goals and a new year resolutions. Either way I am a quick sucker for any self-improvement list. I hope you find some inspiration for a list of your own or that a bit of my over-ambition makes you laugh.
- Run a half marathon
- Make a zine
- Volunteer
- Get a second source of income
- Get a promotion
- Learn a new art/creative form (pottery, visual design, piano, etc.)
- Travel to 1 new domestic location
- Travel to 1 new international location
- See my sister in a lead role
- Sell something I made by hand
- Read 12 books
- See Sedona + Kristen at least once
- Go to the Hamptons
- Continue Letters Home dinners
- Write more postcards to grandma
- Go to a live concert
- Visit a national park
- Go on an Amtrak trip
- Launch my website/blog
- Workout consistently & learn to have fun with it
- Change my hair(style)
- Have career coffee chats once a month
- Be an extra in a TV show/movie
- Experience a new feeling
I will of course continue to document as I execute items off this list. I have already accomplished some and have plans for others. I hope you enjoy following along and can find hope for your own list <3