Birthday Update

Actually my Birthday was 2 days ago, but whatever close enough.

In less than a month I will have had this blog for a year now. So far I have accomplished 9 out of 100 goals. Which in my brain feels like quite an accomplishment because some of these goals/challenges just take a lot of time and planning.

Though I keep forgetting how daunting of a number 100 is until I look at my list and realize that I am not that far into it. I have 7 years until my goal and with only 9 done within the first year I need to start getting my life together and really focus on my goals.

Even though I don’t have a lot checked off yet, I do have a lot in the works and eventually I will be checking things off left and right!

Breakdown

I initially planned to post my full list of goals right off that bat. In my head I thought compiling a list of goals would be easy.

Obviously, I was wrong.

I have never actually been big on setting long-term goals, but I’m usually good at making lists so I thought I’d sit down and knock out a goals list in no time. That didn’t happen and I found myself struggling to come up with ideas. I really wanted to just go wild and write everything that I could think of, but a lot of those thoughts didn’t feel genuine. They felt like things that I know others have on their bucket lists and I couldn’t bring myself to write them down for the sake of completing my list. I want my goals to be things I’m genuinely looking forward too and would like the challenge. I don’t want my list to be the first things I find on Google and be like “yeah that sounds good.”

Now I am not saying that I want to make my list something original or never been done before because honestly there will be some of the obvious stuff on there. I just want each goal to actually mean something to me. Honestly, I would just like to put more thought into this then just randomly throwing a list together and being done and then never accomplishing those random items because I have no desire to actually do them. That doesn’t sound fun, that sounds exhausting.

So, what I have decided to do is break up my goals into sections. I’ll have a set list of 100 goals and 10 goals per section. That way making one list at a time isn’t nearly as intimidating as doing it all at once. I intend to post each section separately and once they are all completed I will compose a master list.

Breaking things down into chunks will help me structure my goals and give me some time to reflect on what I want to see myself doing in the future.

Hopefully I’ll have some sections completed and posted by the end of this week.

Now I don’t know how to sign off on this post since the last one was clever and this one I got nothing. So, here’s a random pic of noodles. Inspiration noodles. Noodles that inspire me to write my goals down.

First Commit

Before I begin properly with this blog I first want to introduce myself:

Hello, I’m Lauren.

There are a lot of blogs out there for a lot of different reasons. Some are great and some are not so great. I am hoping that mine will be at least decent, in fact I am not hoping for anything great. What I want out of this blog is a way to track goals and document my life experiences and share them with others and myself.

Firstly, let me just tell you that I am not a strong writer and that I am not the best with my words. I often lose focus on sentences and ramble and that will happen a lot. So pre-warning on that front. But hopefully through this blog it will help me become a better writer with a focus on structure and story telling.

Secondly, I just want to get into my main reasoning for starting this blog. I’m 22 and I haven’t really had many goals in life. Recently I have come to the conclusion that I want to live my life with more experiences and creating more memories. Which is probably a very cliché thing to say, but right now I do not care because I genuinely don’t know why else I would be alive if I wasn’t meant to enjoy it.

So, I have decided to create this blog to document a set list of goals (which will be my next post) that I would like to accomplish by age 30. On this blog I hope to talk about my struggles and successes of accomplishing these goals and just talk about my experiences through life as I go through them. I haven’t lived a sheltered life or anything and I have done quite a few things in life (which I will probably write about as well), but I also haven’t been utilizing this world enough to actually go out and try all the things.

I am excited for this blog and I am excited for the challenges it will bring.

Commit!