Another year, another opportunity to challenge myself to dream bigger, experience more, and make less excuses!! Sticking with 41 items again, since I still fell short last year…I’ve GOT to make some of these carryovers a priority!! Hope you’ll join me on some adventures, or at least gain inspiration to try some new things yourself 🙂
Body & Health
1. Get another tattoo – I’ve carried this over since I started doing bucket lists. It MUST happen this year! I have ideas for THREE now! Hoping changing the category from Creativity to Body & Health helps me make it more of a priority 😛
2. Give Guided Meditation a try for at least a week
3. Do a boudoir photo shoot (carryover from 2021)
4. Get in 100 rides on my Myx bike
5. Do the 4 Week Gut Protocol again
Contribution
6. Do Operation Breakfast, “Pay it Forward” while ordering, or “Tip the Bill”
7. Foster or adopt an animal
8. Visit at least 3 Farmer’s/Community Markets
9. Write and send at least one snail mail letter per month
10. Help someone else achieve a Bucket List goal
Creativity
11. Make a photo book and/or print a canvas from our Hawaii trip
12. Update my website at least once per month (including both health/fitness and travel!)
13. Tie-dye a shirt
14. Learn a new skill
Do it Again
15. Play something on my clarinet
16. Play Spades
17. Play BINGO (home & family events don’t count haha)
18. Take another train ride (not counting Universal haha)
Experiences
19. See Elton John, Pearl Jam, Pink, and/or Lady Gaga perform
20. Watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show with audience participation
21. Go snow tubing
22. Try Beef Wellington and/or Baked Alaska
23. Do a White House Tour
24. Take a new route to work
25. Get my kayak on the water at least 5 times
Household
26. Get a quote on a stamped concrete patio
27. Discuss a possible kitchen/dining room remodel with someone reputable
28. Get more organized and use our existing storage solutions
29. Plant a full herb garden
Learning & Growing
30. Spend more time with my co-workers outside of school or on-campus events
31. Read at least 3 books that were made into movies I haven’t seen yet
32. Read at least one book a month that was recommended by a friend or colleague
33. Read at least 5 books that are frequently challenged or banned
34. “Do more things I suck at” – stole this one from someone haha
35. Make macarons (carry over from 2022)
Travel
36. Visit at least 10 LOVE signs in Virginia
37. Multi-day Spyder trip with Dad (Vermont?)
38. Ohio Trip – (Cedar Point, Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame, Pins Mechanical?)
39. PA Trip (Flight 93 Memorial, Idle Wild?)
40. 5 more state races
41. Stay in a unique location (houseboat, yurt, etc.)
And here we go! I really hope you’ll go out and make your own list!! If you need suggestions, check out my other posts for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Start small, but dream big! I have so many people saying “I wish I could” in regards to my experiences. And while yes, finances, work schedules, and other responsibilities factor in…it sure beats looking back and saying “what if?!”