Yep, I’m a geezer. But a geezer with goals! My birthday has come and gone this year. Every year I push myself to complete a goal list (not really a Bucket List- more like a Cake+Candle List?) with a goal for every year I’ve been alive. The goals are divided equally into family, business, and personal goals. Some goals are big, some small!
Here are a few I accomplished this past year:
17. Build a giant blanket fort
23. Sew something with Grandma’s fabric
…and here is one that definitely did NOT happen.
2. Fit into my wedding dress.
I was okay with that.
Here is mine for this year- some fun, some practical:
Personal
1. Send a thank you card to someone once a week
2. Attend a wedding as a guest
3. Start clipping coupons
4. Do Morning Pages once a week
5. Write one snail mail letter a month to a friend
6. Compete the Two Hundred Situps program
7. Complete the One Hundred Pushups program
8. Memorize one bible verse a month
9. Knit a baby hat
10. Call my Grammy once a week
Business
11. Blog two times a week
12. Be published in three bridal magazines
13. Revamp the website
14. Revamp the blog
15. Organize/revisit/rebudget business finances once a month
16. Shoot 10-15 weddings
17. Finish our home studio
18. Cherish/reward my referring clients and colleagues
Family
19. Replace Box Store recurring purchases with local small businesses (Old Town Spice Shoppe, I have my eye on you!)
20. Visit the Saint Charles Farmer’s Market
21. Spend a whole day at the Saint Louis Zoo as a family
22. Have a ’stay home’ night once a week
23. Read one book a day with Sydney
24. Go on a date weekly with my husband
25. Clean our home at least once a week
26. Make a meal calendar featuring our Best Hits
28. Paint our family room (thinking grey)
29. “Foyer into Modern Mudroom” project
30. Start collecting Family recipes for Heirloom cookbook
31. Have a ‘Girl’s Play Day’ with my Sydney, her Aunties and Grandmas
32. Teach Sydney some sweet Dance Moves so we can have spontaneous Dance Parties
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i love this michelle tradition. you are super.
I love this idea Michelle. I am definitely stealing this!! I especially like the Girl’s Play Date goal…very cute!
How fabulous and fun this post is. I love the first and third pictures too! They totally cracked me up. I am so putting “build a giant blanket fort” on my to-do list.
What a FUN set of goals!! I wish I had sewing skills like you! That bag is fantastic!
i love this idea!! i’m totally going to do this for our blog. maybe it will inspire us to actually COMPLETE some of our goals, haha.
It helps if you can have a head start on the New Year Resolutions by getting them into practice a month or so early!
How Cool!!! My birthday is a week & a half away and I am going to start doing this too! And heck yes for the situp/pushup program! I am totally going to do that. Thanks for sharing such a cool idea. Have no fear-when I get mine posted, I will totally credit you for the idea
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