New Year, New Decade, New start :)

Happy new year everyone may it be your best yet =)

As you may or may not know I have been working on a list for a few months now of things I want to achieve.  I got the idea from eQ using the 101 in 1001 days so basically I've written a list of 101 things I am aiming to achieve in 1001 days, which is almost 3 years so what seems like a long long time to me but I'm sure I'll look back half way through and think it's jumped passed me without realising.  So here's is my list enjoy :)

Places:

1) Visit Paris again

2) Visit Amsterdam again

3) Visit more of Poland

4) Visit Berlin again

5) Visit London again

6) Visit the Lake District

Everyday:

7) Love myself for who I am, how I am and how I look :)

8) Tell people how I feel rather than keeping it to myself and getting mad later I’m terrible at this and I feel bad when I do it

9) Live for now and the future

10) Learn and use a new word every day this is always useful

11) Use my tarot cards correctly ie find my happy place to start and finish on (yes I have tarot cards I inherited them)

12) Treat things with the respect they deserve ie books

13) Recycle more

14) Be more trusting

15) Be more calm

16) Take things as they come

17) Life’s only short enjoy it (use this as a mantra)

18) Be more patient

19) Take my time over things there’s no need to rush

20) Be more tidy

21) Be more organised

22) Write things down more often

23) Find at least one thing I like about every day

24) Talk more

25) Enjoy everything like it’s the first time every time don’t get complacent

26) Worry less about being myself

27) Find my passion

Reading:

28) Read the Tao Te Ching

29) Read more philosophy

30) Read books I would normally avoid

31) Read a newspaper once a week

32) Read at least one book a month (this sounds like hardly anything but I’m a very slow reader so this might increase once I’ve read a few more books) and this will probably increase the more I do it :)

Doing:

33) Knit a scarf

34) Do yoga once a week

35) Do tai chi once a week

36) Make my own clothes

37) Make up my own recipes and write them down

38) Meditate once a day

39) Take more photos

40) Write a poem

41) Read my poem out loud

42) Take more walks

43) Play more music

44) Get a piano/keyboard, preferably a piano as I hate the feel of a keyboard

45) Listen to more music

46) Finish my scrap book

47) See a Shakespeare play at the globe this has been a dream for such a long time

48) Go on a picnic, I love these I don’t know why I don’t have them more often

49) Go camping again

50) Start growing my own herbs (I want to have my own veg but I’ve no room for that yet so herbs will have to suffice to start with)

51) Have a candle lit dinner

52) Have more baths (I shower all time just to clarify) they’re so relaxing but they take time too

53) Take horse riding lessons again

54) Get better at using photoshop

55) Go to the cinema at least every few months

56) Find more new music

57) Learn a new musical instrument

58) Attend science in the pub every month

59) Attend poetry in the pub every month

60) Make up my own comic

61) Be more creative

62) Go to the zoo

63) Visit an art gallery every few months

64) Visit a museum every few months

65) Climb the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales

66) Go skiing

67) Complete a computer game.  I have played many but never completed one this is a must

68) Sort out my clothes and get rid of stuff I’ve not worn in a long time

69) Have more plants

70) Have a pet

71) Get a bike and ride it

72) Sort out my music

73) Make my blog posts less random ie have some sort of structure for each week to follow

Me and life:

74) Reconnect with old friends

75) Contact my parents and grandparents at least once a week

76) Find a permanent place to live

77) Make new good friends

78) See my family at least every few months

79) Lose weight

80) Become healthier

81) Become as fit as I used to be

82) Learn a Polish

83) Learn French

84) Learn Dutch

85) Pass my driving test

86) Get a car

87) Get a job

88) Get onto a PGCE course

89) Become a teacher

90) Get a teaching job

91) Smoke less

Food and drink (yes this has its own section I love food!!!):

92) Drink beer I’ve never tried before real ale none of this horrible stuff :)

93) Find my favourite wine

94) Make a whole meal from scratch once a week

95) Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich

96) Eat more fish

97) Enjoy dinner at a nice restaurant with other people

98) Have a dinner party made all be me

99) Bake a tasty snack once a week ie biscuits or flapjacks

100) Eat more spicy food

101) Be more adventurous with food


I took me a long time to finish this.  Alot of them are things to better myself, my enjoyment in life and just to help myself become more content with things =)


Now my word for the day is, well it seems it more difficult to find a word I like than I thought perhaps I shall revert back to the old fashioned method and randomly open my dictionary somewhere.  Well I was going to go all scientific and work out how many pages there are in the dictionary and how many I could go through a day for a year but the bf has provided a word :)


Incongruous: Out of place

Enjoy the rest of the first day of this decade =)