Creative

I’m going to have to get creative with this list…. Yeah lame pun. Was worth it.

Creative List:

  1. Master a classical piano piece
    • I’ve been playing the piano since I was a kid and it’s embarrassing to say how much I actually suck at it. This has been something that I have already been working on and it’s something that I have always loved, but have just never been good/patient enough. Also, I’m talking full mastery of this piece, not the easier version just to say I did it. I want the difficult, fast paced piece that will literally make me scream in anguish, but will be totally worth it. This was originally 5, but I don’t want to get stuck on a number. Right now I just want to focus on a piece that I love and if I continue to learn more I’ll be thrilled. But for this goal I’d like just to have one under my belt.
  2. Make a table top game
    • I love board games, card games, dice games, just games. Therefore, I want to make my own table top in its entirety. I want to have a box on my shelf of my game and be like “yeah, I made that.”
  3. Build a game table (Looking at you Brother)
    • As much as I love my board games I have nowhere awesome to play them. My dear brother of mine came up with the idea to build this table a year or two ago and it has yet to happen. I’m going to choose to believe it will happen before I’m 30.
  4. Finish a full art journal
    • With all journals I get about 20 pages in, then forget about it and then start a new one. So for this I want to have a journal and fill it completely up, but writing all the time is difficult (read: she says as she’s writing a blog post). To counter that I am starting an art journal (read: I am so not artistic) that will be full of randomness and maybe some art (read: it won’t be pretty).
  5. Paint a picture
    • I’m not a strong painter, but I’d like to go to a Canvas and Cocktails so I see myself doing this one day. Plus, it’s not like the picture needs to look good…right?
  6. Scrapbook
    • My parents have all of the family and childhood photos just stacked up in a closet still inside the Walmart developed photo envelopes. Never been touched, just there. I’d like to go through all of it, maybe with my family and get them all in photo albums. I secretly wanna be Leslie Knope, so I’m going to make this goal focused on making a cool scrapbook.
  7. Learn calligraphy
    • The videos of calligraphy are always so cool and calming and pretty. I wanna learn the ways.
  8. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
    • This is a smidge drastic and extravagant. I was thinking like Cake Wars, but maybe not exactly like Cake Wars. They go all out and they know what they are doing (ish) and I am not nearly skilled enough. I just wanna decorate a cake that looks awesome at least once in my life though. Think a less extreme Cake Wars cake for the beginner level cake lover.
  9. Learn ballroom dancing
    • Who doesn’t wanna dance like a classy boss?
  10. Learn to Play Recuerdos de la Alhambra
    • For those of you who don’t know this song it is a classical guitar piece that I’ve recently developed a fascination for. Fun fact I don’t know how to play guitar besides Wonderwall by Oasis and this seems like something completely random that I want under my belt.

Health and Fitness

Look it’s the first section of my goals list.

Let’s be real, everyone should have health and fitness goals. It’s a factor in life that’s super important and directly correlates to how you live your life.

Health and Fitness Goals:

  1. Know over 25 go to healthy recipes
    • Get some knowledge and build an arsenal of healthy meals. Criteria to meet the goal is food that I have cooked over 5 times. I try plenty of recipes only to never make them again.
  2. Clear skin
    • I have struggled with severe acne for the past 10 years and I’m at a point in my life where it affects me more than I’d like to admit. I am actively working on this and have dermatologist appointments set up this month. So, hopefully this will actually be completed way before I turn 30.
  3. Find a fitness activity to be passionate about
    • Over the years I have tried a lot of things, but nothing that I have committed to fully and stuck with for longer than 6 months. I want to find something that I will love and will want to do for the rest of my life.
  4. Get to and maintain a 59 kilograms weight
    • I’ve decided this will be my goal weight because let’s be honest who doesn’t have a goal weight. Also, side note I don’t actually use kilograms on the daily it’s just I have yet to figure out how to change my scale and I’ve grown to like seeing my weight in kilograms now.
  5. Keep consistent pace on a full run
    • This is just gonna take practice, practice, and more practice. Eventually I’ll get there!
  6. Dance every day for a Month
    • This was originally run 100 days in a row, but I’ve since learned that I don’t want to risk injury just to get to 100. So now I have changed that goal to just a month and seeing as I’m not a strong runner, I’d rather not go over board and just focus on my pace. Hahaha! I’d run about 15-20 days every other month and then I would just stop. Then you know what? It dawned on me: I HATE RUNNING. And I just can’t convince myself to do it everyday, just not my thing, so I’ll just focus on running for #5 on this list. So now I’m swapping running with a different cardio: dance. Which includes flailing around for 30 minutes like an idiot. I sense this goal will make my mindset much happier than running ever did.
  7. Do another OCR
    • I did a Tough Mudder 2 years ago and absolutely loved it and would like to get another one or a different obstacle course race under my belt.
  8. Complete P90X
    • I have a feeling this is going to take multiple tries…
  9. 20 Consecutive Push Ups
    • Push ups will be the death of me.
  10. Yoga
    • I don’t know why I’ve never been the biggest fan of yoga, but I feel like everyone does yoga. I suspect there is something there that I am missing and I would like to find out what that is.

First Section Complete! On to the next!

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.

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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!