I love making New Year's Resolutions. There is something so very hopeful and optimistic about making a list of things to accomplish for the coming year. As per my usual NYRs Plan I am posting my 37 goals/resolutions for this year. At the end of next year I will report back on my progress.
This year my NYRs are based on my #1 goal - to make sure each month I do something exciting and worthy to be posted in a Christmas Letter. Just so you all know I don't actually plan on sending that Christmas Letter at Christmas time. It will be sent a little earlier...see goal #7.
Good luck to me!!! And Good Luck to YOU on all your 2011 NYRs!!!!
1. Do something each month that can be worthy of being featured in a Christmas Letter at the end of the year.
2. Run 3 marathons: One local, one regional (Utah), and one global (out of state).
3. Get a road bike
4. Get a usable pair of cross country skis
5. Write something and submit it for publication
6. Train for a private triathlon with Rachel
7. Write a "Christmas Letter" and send it out on my birthday.
8. Travel out of the country
9. Build up my savings again - I'd like to double what is currently residing in my account
10. Go to the dentist - get a teeth cleaning and x-rays
11. Sell the old wedding ring and get a complete temple outfit I actually like
12. Give blood again
13. Read 50 books
14. Hang art and other appropriate items on my bedroom walls
15. Curate bees at BYU again
17. Read the Book of Mormon and New Testament
18. Finish at least 3 old projects that have been kicking around for 10 years
19. Take some college courses
20. One last attempt to write and publish the research from my thesis
21. Photography class and skill development
22. Plant and grow a more successful garden and create a useable compost pile
23. Refresh my plant names and learn some bird names
24. Hike with Becky (my big sister)
25. Junk reduction - Sell my excess stuff that has been sitting around waiting to be sold
26. Get my Rifleman designation at an Appleseed Shoot.
27. Use my last 2 tickets to Beaver
28. Compile and bind a recipe book
29. Backpacking in the Sierras with Lindsey (and Olivia?)
30. Core Training - Weight training and 6-pack abs
31. Tour Kennecott Copper Mines
32. Visit BERET
33. Visit a national monument or national park - Memorial Day trip?
34. Go to the temple TWICE a month
35. Certify on some level at Front Sight
36. Humanitarian Service - quarterly activities
37. Become a shooting instructor
5 comments:
Wow, that is ambitious! I think you can do it!
I like #31. I shall add that to my family goals.
Hey, Jessica. When you go to Kennecott check and see if I can join you and your family. Because my family has all gone and I was going to go by myself.
I too want to learn the birds. Let's go birding together. I have a book and binoculars.
As for #31, I have been, but would be game to go again. We could have fun out in daybreak before or after our visit into the bowels of the earth.
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