Well I guess it’s time to reflect on my life and see what I’ve accomplished so far. Eventually I’ll be turning thirty and I want to make sure I’ve done everything I wanted to do before that time. Here’s a list of thirty things I want to accomplish before I turn thirty.
The List
Places I want to visit
- One new foreign country
- The Pacific Northwest
- New (to me) national park
- Michelin starred restaurant
- Long Lake, NY
Things I want to achieve
- Publish a book
- Create one side project that I’m passionate about
- Learn one new hobby past a beginner level
- DJ’ing
- Video editing
- Latte art
- Smoking an entire brisket
- Sell one print of my pictures to someone that I don’t know
Things I want to improve on
- Journal at least 36 times
- Read 3 books
- Write 10 blog posts
- Have 7 more photoshoots
- Host 2 dinner parties
Idealistic but realistic things
- Visit my parents across the country two more times
- Finish learning a new language (currently trying Tagalog!)
- Donate a certain percent of my income to charity
- Complete one college class or online course
- Go on a roadtrip up the California coast
- Film and document my parents’ life stories
- Go camping somewhere with a clear night sky
- Solve a rubiks cube in under 5 minutes
- Skydive, bungee jump, or paraglide
- Send 10 hand written letters to friends/family
Random things
- Run a 5k
- Increase my powerlifting total by 100lbs
- Try one new restaurant a month, and one new recipe for every three restaurants
- Automate and utilize my home server for media and backups.
- Make one new friend
Should be doable but will still take effort and planning. Looking forward to crossing off some of these. If people are interested I may make a post explaining some of these. Contact info is at the bottom of the site. Let me know if this helps inspire your list!