I will be keeping track of my challenges here on my blog and on 43Things.com. Join me as I experience the next year as if I am living a reality show of my own making!
KEY: Bold & Blue Means Goal Completed! Bold and Red indicates that it just didn't happen.
- Walk and Win the 2 Mile Walk in the Victorian Classic in Eureka Springs (with Jean)
- Picnic Somewhere New to me (with Kathy M)
- Learn to Play Guitar (with Loretta)
- Learn to Make Soap (with Donna W)
- Do Yoga Once a Week (starting with a class with Jean)
- Work Out (to some degree) Every Day (possibly join Gym with Kelly) - Basically move my ass!
- Take a French Cooking Class (with Peggy)
- Float the Buffalo River to Gilbert, Arkansas (with Amanda)
- Do a Silent Retreat at Wattle Hollow and Reincorporate DAILY Meditation Practice (with Kath)
- Take the Wild Cave Tour at Blanchard Springs Cave
- Write a Poem Every Tuesday and Read it to Lynn L
- Love Myself Completely (thanks for the reminder from Donna D)
- Go on an Overnight Hiking Trip
- Run My First 5K
- Turn off the TV one Week a Month (this will be hard to convince my husband to do!)
- Journal Daily (even if it is just ONE word)
- Write a REAL Letter to a REAL Person Once a Month
- Finish Nanowrimo in November. - Not in the cards for me this year. Good ideas though.
- Say YES! - (At least more often than I say no) And Document What Happens.
- Take a Dance Class
- Practice Being Curious, not Judgmental.
- Celebrate the Unexpected (Everything deserves celebration! Break out the Birthday Candles!)
- Practice Paying Attention (Never do anything else while someone is talking to me)
- Join a Group (or rejoin a group) and Go to Every Meeting (church? book club? Something new?)
- Get my First Massage
- Do one "art" project this year (interviews, photos, free hugs in the park, painting... something) and document it.
- Make a List of Food I haven't Tried and Try All of Them
- Be Generous (Time, Things, Money - Even When it is Really Hard)
- Create A Tribe Retreat with My Friends (Like This Lovebomb Retreat)
- Entertain (casually) at Least 5 Times at our Home (book club, cookout, dinner party...)
- Get my Passport (and one for everyone in the family)
- Speak in Public Somewhere I Haven't Spoken Before or On A Subject I Haven't Spoken About (10/6/09 - Spoke to Eureka Springs Rotary)
- Go Someplace with my Family we have Never Gone Before.
- Finish my Dad's Probate
- Save a Nest Egg (Starting from Zero - Let's See Where we can Go!)
- Do a Daily To Do List - (The Goal isn't to DO everything, but to download it from my mind)
- Hug one new person a week (preferably someone I have not hugged before) (Submitted by Melodye!!!)
- Take photographs of the challenges to create a book of this amazing 40th year. (Great suggestion!)
- Learn to play chess
