The 35 List
I’m a virgo, and well I love lists. I did try that 100 things in 1001 days…I failed that completely. I just wasn’t connecting with my list or the task at hand. With me turning 35 this weekend, I would like to put forth a simpler list of things I want to accomplish.
I make this list as I watch a friend make a change in her life. She’s packing up and moving to San Diego. I admire her sense of adventure, her fearlessness and eternal optimism. I’m an cynic with many moments of optimism deep down. I admire that. I’m jealous (she knows, I told her), but I admire it deeply (she knows, I told her that too!).
The last few years for me have been static. I feel like something is missing, and honestly I haven’t traveled ANYWHERE for two or three years. I’m stuck. I need to get unstuck.
The stuck I also found in my yoga practice and sometimes my teaching. That kids yoga training I took made me feel alive, and I need to do stuff like that more often.
Hence I need a list to keep me on track. To push myself out of boundaries. Some of them are business related, but that is an extension of me and deserve to be here. I present my list of 35 things to do during my 35 year on earth.
1. have a spa weekend (hotel, massage, pampering, tea and yummies)
2 learn to make my own web page.
3. get a massage!
4. go to a yoga conference
5. see the soundtigers this season
6. go indoor rock climbing
7. a mini road trip in the Escape
8. go to a yoga class (that I am not teaching) once a week
9. write that romance novel
10. spring/summer go to a yoga class once a month in nyc
11. make cupcakes once a month
12. re read all of the Harry Potter books in order
13. figure out wordpress
14. visit Boston
15. give gifts from the heart
16. sign up for a second teacher training
17. buy the blue duck at bath and bodyworks
18. practice thai massage
19. spend a day in silence
20. workout 3 times a week at the gym (not including time with trainer)
21. visit NYC at Christmas time
22. eat raw foods for a weekend
23. spend a week offline and with NO television
24. eat out for lunch at a new restaurant once a month
25. find my clothing style
26. buy myself flowers once a month
27. wear a skirt and flip flops
28. completely my French Pimsler CD lessons set
29. get pink high lights or a stripe
30. purchase a journal on b day to become a gratitude and life loves journal
31. make a podcast
32. tea time out
33. long weekend in dc
34. own a fish or two
35. explore Connecticut as a tourist