1.01.2013

Happy New Year!


Happy New Year, my friends.  

It's a new year. Breathe deep.  Soak it in.  There is such promise and hope on the first day of January.

This year, I have only one resolution: love.

My mom had a great idea; she suggested we create some specific goals for 2013 - the plan was to choose as many goals as our years of age.  She made a list and I did, too.  Here are my goals. I made a special chart that I'm going to keep with me all the time.  

I tried to make concrete, truly achievable goals.  Some are super easy to accomplish; some are more ambitious. I can tell you this much....I will accomplish these 30 goals in the next 12 months.  I'm determined.  It's going to be a great year.  And it begins right here, right now.  

30 Goals for 2013

1. Visit a National Park 
2. Eat a whole lobster (ate part of a lobster in Florida, 12/13)
3. Try a flavored coffee drink
4. Read 20 books
5. Make homemade soup (Vegetable, 12/13)
6. Cook beans in the pressure cooker
7. Go to 3 concerts
8. Sign up for a CSA box
9. Watch a subtitled movie (Sidewalls, 12/13)
10. Complete an embroidery project
11. Snowshoe
12. Visit Des Moines at least 3 times to visit my brother (twice as of July)
13. Visit a place I have never been
14. Organize my stamp collection
15. Give away a lot of clothes
16. Downsize my pajama collection by half
17. Sew something wearable
18. Learn a magic trick
19. Complete a rough draft of a book
20. Write a song for someone
21. Learn to dive off of the diving board
22. Make a necklace
23. Bake something
24. Go on an 7-mile hike
25. Go to a professional sporting event (Twins game)
26. Make a photo book
27. Go down a waterslide
28. Ride an airplane
29. Touch the ocean
30. Plant something

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Good morning - 1/1/13

7 comments:

  1. Love your goals! I thinkI should make 30 goals, too...

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  2. The reflection off the sun looks like an angel! I'll have to start with my goals...I need 55!

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  3. Come to Maine and experience 2 and 29 together.

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  4. Great idea! I think I will try. My son received a magic kit for Christmas...he wants to learn as well :)

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  5. Emily, Come back to Des Moines! Would love to have a cup of coffee. Said the blog reader you've never met...sorry. :/

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  6. Emily, Come back to Des Moines! Would love to have a cup of coffee. Said the blog reader you've never met...sorry. :/

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    1. Hi Caron. Thanks for the comment! Des Moines is such a great city. Thanks for reading the blog!

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