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30 Goals at age 16
Posted by Lise on 12 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: goals
At age 16 I was on exchange in France. Ironically, I was perfectly miserable and waiting for my life to begin. In addition to scrawling Alanis Morrissette lyrics on every scrap of paper I could find, I at one point made a list of 30 life goals for myself.
Without further ado, my goals at age 16:
- Hike the Appalachian Trail
- Learn how to sail and crew around the world
- Visit Morocco
- Learn Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Irish Gaelic, Japanese, Hindi, Chinese, and Portuguese.
- Learn the ancient languages Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Persian, etc.
- Become a woods guide.
- Visit Alaska
- Learn how to ride and own horses
- Learn to fence
- Learn to play the piano and violin
- Visit India and study in an ashram
- Have a collection of medieval weapons
- Finish and publish A Dangerous Age (the novel I was writing at the time)
- Write songs for a band
- Play flute in an orchestra
- Work for TSR and/or White Wolf (heh, I’m showing my age there)
- Meet Anne Rice (wtf?????)
- Write and/or direct a film
- Act in a film
- Learn how to windsurf (better than J.C.) (J.C. == Boy With Whom I Was Obsessed At the Time)
- Learn to ski
- Meet Terry Goodkind
- (There is no goal number 23. I would venture it should be “learn to count”)
- Join the Peace Corps
- Start an Interact/Rotaract club in Plattsburgh
- Live in Montreal
- Get accepted to the University of Pennsylvania
- Be in a Highlander movie (or episode of the TV series) (Alas, I think this one must go terminally unfulfilled)
- Return to France and teach English
- Join the organization that organises all those work-study programs (name forgotten) and spend some more time abroad
- Get my black belt in taekwondo (this, in part with no. 9, 19, 12, and 8, should, I hope, lead to no. 28)
Goals Update: June 1-June 7th
Posted by Lise on 09 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: goals
As you’ll recall, I set three goals for myself this month:
- 11 days consecutive exercise
- 30 minutes of blog work per day (hint: reading other people’s blogs does not count as blog work!)
- Restaurant budget under $100
Exercise: I skipped out on exercise on the 4th and 6th, thus voiding my 11 consecutive days. On the 4th I had an impromptu after-work visit from a friend, which kept me busy until almost bedtime, and on the 6th I spent most of my evening compiling a garage sale map (there were a LOT of garage sales this weekend). However, the rest of the month stretches ahead of me, and I’m encouraged by the fact that I seem to have lost some weight.
Blog work. I’ve been seriously on and off with this one - I think I only managed 4 out of the 7 days of last week. I’ve started a lot of blog posts, but haven’t finished polishing them. For example, I started writing an article (or series of articles) on homebrewing, which aren’t quite ready yet. In some sense this was a bad month to start, because I’m taking an intensive summer class. A better goal would have been to devote myself to that! Still, I’m pretty pleased with the work I’ve been doing. I’m overwhelmed with ideas for upcoming posts; I just need to actually get them written and posted.
Restaurant budget: I’m at $40/$100 for the month, which is a little bit ahead of where I should be, but I’m still on track. I just need to keep reminding myself that restaurants in my area really aren’t that good.