35 by 35
On November 24, I turn 32. While I’m thrilled I made it this far, there’s still so much I want to accomplish! I’ve come up with 35 items I want to do before I turn 35 (hence the 35!). Three years seems like a long time, but in reality, it isn’t.
For a long time, I was a fan of the 101 in 1,001 project. It’s pretty self-explanatory; come up with 101 things to accomplish in 1,001 days. That’s just under three years. I leaned on those lists as I created my 35.
The goal is to use this newly revamped site to help document these 35 goals!
- Learn to play the guitar
- Travel to Europe with my family
- Take a trip with my brother
- Take a trip with my dad
- Take a trip with my mom
- Become debt free (credit cards, bills)
- Squat 300+
- Deadlift 300+
- Bench 250+
- Run ONE marathon
- Voice one project for LibriVox
- Create a drag queen documentary
- Finish Bush/Gorbachev documentary
- Set up a scholarship at SHSU
- Turn one story a month in 2019 (2 stories a month in 2020)
- Record oral histories with grandmothers
- Digitize all of our family photos
- Turn oral histories & family photos into a book of family history
- Go to Disney World
- Take a trip by myself
- Become conversational in Spanish
- View a space launch in person
- Camp in West Texas
- Start & finish a Whole 30
- Identify 10 people who have influenced my life and write them a letter
- List career goals & steps necessary to meet them
- Convert my life to bullet journal
- Journal at least once a month
- Ask Gen House if I can read his journal collection & write a book
- Finish my list of “20 Rules for being a Journalist”
- Find a creative use for my growing collection of fortune cookie fortunes
- Launch a podcast
- Take a class on Photoshop
- Buy a DSLR camera
- Volunteer at least once a month
