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Not so lengthy I stumbled throughout a bit one thing that struck a chord with me.  A problem?  A name?  Boiled down…merely an thought to start out constructing an inventory of goals.  To take a while and create an unedited checklist of something you need out of your life.  I began.  I ended.  I frightened.  Was it foolish to create an inventory now as I crept nearer and nearer to 50?  Um no.  I feel as a result of I AM celebrating my fiftieth birthday -THIS WEEK – whereas at dwelling using out a worldwide pandemic (as a substitute of within the French Rivera as we’d deliberate) it’s extra necessary than ever to search for the constructive and perhaps even dream some new goals.

As I began I noticed I used to be approach overthinking this and needed to give myself some guidelines. It went like this.  No concepts are too huge, none are too small and I made a decision it’s okay to incorporate a few the biggies I’ve already completed – you realize as a result of it makes me really feel GOOD to have some issues already crossed off!

So right here we go, a peek contained in the loopy the week of my fiftieth birthday. Feeling grateful, searching for the brilliant facet and beginning this week by merely dreaming  FIFTY huge outdated goals…

  1. Snap a jaw dropping image of the Grand Canyon.
  2. Take a river cruise by Europe.
  3. Reside some the place far, distant for a complete month. (No less than as soon as)
  4. Plan one other household journey to Disney. (you’re by no means too outdated for Disney)
  5. Examine off at the very least 3 extra Caribbean islands with my Hubby.  Hmmm: St Lucia, Antiqua and Grand Cayman sound like an excellent begin.
  6. Take a {couples} journey to Vegas.  Possibly Zip Line throughout Freemont road, you realize,  simply because we will.
  7. Eat at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. Hmm, however which one?
  8. Go to the highest of the Eiffel Tower with considered one of my BFFs.  Rejoice all of the little issues and goals coming true.
  9. Add a Lock to the Pont des Arts Bridge in Paris with the love of my life.
  10. Stroll the streets of Santorini.
  11. Make a name from a London cellphone sales space.
  12. Sail on a personal yacht off the coast of the French Rivera.
  13. Throw a coin within the Trevi fountain.
  14. Take a gondola journey in Venice.
  15. Get misplaced within the complicated streets of Lake Como.
  16. Soar off a waterfall.  Is it bounce off or bounce in?
  17. Introduce Yoga into my life.
  18. Be taught to make use of chopsticks correctly. I’m a humiliation.
  19. Grasp a pasta salad individuals discuss.  Please be at liberty to go away me your recipe!
  20. Take a Goat Yoga Class.
  21. Create that dream closet. Edit my wardrobe  and do away with that stuff I’m by no means going to put on once more.
  22. Schedule an actual date evening as soon as a month for a yr.
  23. Set up our household recipes.
  24. Rejoice our twenty fifth anniversary – this September!
  25. Rejoice our fiftieth anniversary.
  26. Let go of a floating lantern and all of the harm that goes with it.
  27. Pay for a strangers restaurant invoice.
  28. Identify a star.
  29. Construct our dream home.
  30. Assist our daughters by College.
  31. Make extra time for studying and spend much less time on my cellphone.
  32.  Watch a sundown from our personal rental in Turks and Caicos.  (no dream is simply too huge, proper?).
  33. Spend much less time worrying and extra time within the second.
  34. Have espresso or lunch with a girlfriend at the very least twice a month.  Why is it so arduous to find time for me?
  35. Re-connect with some individuals I’ve misplaced contact with.
  36. Have household photographs carried out.
  37. Purchase extra contemporary flowers for the kitchen…simply because I wish to.
  38. Repair up the gardens across the pool.
  39. Store extra typically on the native farmers markets.
  40. Stroll alpacas.  As a result of why not?
  41. Go apple choosing.
  42. Have a date evening on the Drive In!
  43. Get revealed in a journey journal.  Accomplished and carried out!
  44. Be taught to say “no”.  Engaged on it.  Sigh.
  45. Discover some new nice blogs to learn, remark and help.
  46. Re-do my workplace.
  47. Defend and cherish our household cottaging custom.
  48. Grasp a much less embarrassing sport of golf.  Having all the lovable outfits is enjoyable however an honest swing can be good too.
  49. Take an indulgent multi-generational journey with my mother and father, my children, my sister…all of the fam.  Embrace the loopy and all of the reminiscences which might be certain to return with it.
  50. …..

And quantity 50?  I’m leaving this one clean.   Quickly, so SOON and I’m going to rejoice these little moments and each rattling factor that follows.  I’m going to maintain dreaming, planning and including to this checklist.  I could have turned 50 this week however on the subject of knocking goals off my checklist?  I’m simply getting began….

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