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I met a Monica at a Portland Bloggers meeting back in September.  We are close in age (I’ve got a little more than a year before hitting the Big 4-0) and she caught my attention with a post titled “39 Things to do Before 40” on her Life Ohm blog.  I responded to her post with the comment you see below:

Thank you for the inspiration, Monica! Sounds like we are about the same age : ) I went with your 39 things to do before 40 theme…

1. Finish writing our book
2. Rent an Airstream for at least a week
3. Get back to England to see Paul’s family & friends
4. Take an Ayurveda class
5. Join Toastmasters
6. Pay off school loans (or at least a good chunk)
7. Really learn to embroider
8. Go back to a vegetarian diet
9. Continue to grow my Beachbody business
10. Spend more time with my little brother and sister
11. Take a digital photography class
12. Build up our Caretaking Couple business
13. Sell the 4Runner (don’t need it here)
14. Continue my search for vintage buttons & ephemera
15. Join ancestry.com with my Mom
16. Make my own toiletries and candles again (just for fun, not as a biz)
17. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity
18. Get back to my yoga classes (at Exhale)
19. Start a poker night with new friends
20. Calligraphy
21. Polish up on my geography
22. write a letter a week to a friend, family member, or stranger
23. Blog on a regular basis (at least 3x a week)
24. Garden (4 raised organic beds at our new digs – yay!)
25. Get a monthly massage
26. Finish my scrapbooking projects
27. Run
28. Find a tennis partner
29. Learn how to play my guitar
30. Go ziplining
31. Continue vision boarding
32. Visit my friend Laura in Valencia, Spain
33. Treat myself to a spa day (for the first time)
34. Practice more acts of random kindness
35. Finally visit Pike Place Market!
36. Figure out all (or at least most) of the functions on my Mac & use them
37. Continue to transform our rental house into a “home”
38. Get into the habit of staying in the moment
39. Focus on people and projects that bring me joy

I would love to keep in touch with you regarding our lists ~ maybe revisit them periodically. Seems we have a lot in common!

V

This (like the vision boarding) has been a fun and enlightening process for me, and I encourage you to make your own list.  You don’t have to be turning 40 in order to play ~ just come up with a list of things that you would like to accomplish by a certain date.  And if you feel like sharing said list, please do.

PS I have crossed a few things off since September ~ feels good!