This past week, from making the collage on how I see myself in therapy, to traveling through NY for work and experiencing a moment which must have somehow spiked my lips with the bitterness of passing time and sweetness of nostalgia, I’ve decided I need to focus on what I actually want to get out of life. If I don’t have a series of constantly moving goals in life, I know I drop into a depression, but that isn’t good reason to chase after goals, which mean little to me.
- Sell my artwork to someone I don’t know
- Finish writing a 200+ page novel
- Ok, start a 200+ page novel
- Live in New York City for a year
- Spend a month in Italy
- Take a cruise to Alaska
- Go on a safari in Africa
- Feel healthy (physically)
- Feel healthy (mentally)
- Write one good song
- Write a play… that is performed in New York City
- Find my true singing voice (i.e. learn how to breathe)
- Figure out how to sing the right notes all the time
- Get cast in the lead role in a show specifically for my voice
- Learn how to cook meat and vegetables perfectly
- Have a group of friends to travel with
- Have my artwork shown in a recognized gallery
- Grow old gracefully
- Share my passion for honesty with the world
- Make people laugh. Everyday.
- Own one dress that makes me feel like a million bucks.
- Have somewhere to wear that dress that isn’t a Halloween party.
- Spend a week in Japan, a week in China, and a week in South Korea
- Help others get more confident managing their finances
- Develop and nurture a strong extended family
- Regularly volunteer and help others
- Run a mile without feeling winded
- Have my artwork appear in a national magazine
- Write a second novel.
- Perform stand-up comedy.
- Spend one week a year at some tropical beach.
- Read 12 fiction books per year, minimum.
- Hit $1M in networth at 40
- Quit my FT day job when I hit $1M networth at 40
- Spend way more time with my sister. Visit her 4+ times a year
- Have a too-hilarious tweet be tweeted by a verified twitter user
- Write blogs about the meaning of humanity that people enjoy reading
- Sing in a choir again. Travel through Europe with said choir.
- Learn how to tap dance
- Learn how to play the piano
- Learn how to play the piano and get good at it
- Get really good at giving speeches
- Stop caring what others think about me
- Cut processed sugar out of my life
- Get serious with my photography
- Have my photography displayed in a gallery
- Dance like nobody’s watching, even though they are
- Design a product’s UI
- Visit Yellowstone National Park
- Visit Maine
- Write an album of songs
- Have a kid or two.
- Teach them to love themselves
- Teach them to speak up for what they feel is right
- Teach them that adults don’t know what is right any more then they do
- Learn how to oil paint really well
- Draw the human form realistically
- Learn how to use a professional film camera
- See the northern lights
- Do one pull up. No, seriously.
- Perform at an open mic
- Keep a clean, organized, decluttered home.
- Learn to be happy with what I have, instead of wanting more.
- Be respected for what I have to uniquely contribute
- Have perfectly sculpted eyebrows
- Have a bikini-worthy stomach
- Fit a size 6
- Drive a Tesla
- Have a threesome, or a foursome. (I didn’t realize this was #69 until after I wrote that. I swear.)
- Or at least write some seriously hot erotica about this
- Publish a book of erotic short stories under a pseudonym
- Paint on a really large, museum-size canvas
- Stand up paddleboard
- Go beginner surfing in Hawaii
- $2M in networth before retirement, pref $5M
- Have my paintings shown in a major museum
- Write a third novel.
- Come up with the recipe for a signature drink.
- Consistently sleep 8 hours a night
- Make peace with my father
- Make peace with my mother
- Sit poolside on a hot, humid evening at least once a summer
- Become a hugger. (Of people, not trees.)
- Win an international art contest
- Attend a swingers party with non terrifying people and hide in the corner
- Write an incredibly erotic story about it afterwards
- Spend a week at an Orangutan refuge
- Volunteer for a week with Octopuses if such a thing exists
- Take a long cross-country road trip across the USA
- Learn how to ride my bike better and not be scared of it
- Do some sort of long bike ride down a coast somewhere
- Learn how to not lose every matching earring and sock.
- Visit Amsterdam
- Visit Paris with someone who can show me how locals live
- Experience a very fine wine so I understand why they are so expensive
- Fall in love with life every single day.
- Wake up in the morning and exercise as a routine.
- Design a beautiful, unique bathroom to come home to every night.
- Be a good friend to people who deserve a good friend.
- Don’t die. So I have time to do all of these things at least twice.
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