Bucket List

I have come to the conclusion that I needed to do a better job of keeping up with ALL the goals I set for myself.  Now that I will be entering into my thirties, I do not want to get to my fifties (and beyond) with any regrets! So in order to not say, "I wish I had done such and such." (like I have done with my twenties).  I "created" a bucket list.... 

My plan with this blog is to document my journey to completing my bucket list.  I want to capture my experiences with my camera and write about them. So please feel free to join me on this journey!!!

I have broken my goals down into different components:

GREEN - Done
YELLOW - In Progress

FAMILY

• Spend time with my elderly relatives
• Establish better relationships with my siblings.
• Do things with my nieces and nephews.
• Prepare for my "future" husband.

FITNESS

• Complete 10 of Jillian Michaels fitness videos! (0/10)
• Complete Insanity
• Complete P90X
• Complete Brazil Butt Lift DVD
• Run a 5k, 106, half marathon and marathon
• Learn how to swim
• Start cycling
• Compete in cycle and swim meets/events
• Complete a triathlon
• Compete in a crossfit event
• Start taking regular Yoga Classes (at least one every week or every other week for a year)
• Take tennis lessons.
• Join a running club.
• Join the "50 States Marathon Club".
• Participate in a Color Run.

FINANCES

• Become debt free (except for student loans & future mortgage)
• Start a "future homeowner" savings account
• Have $5000 in my LEVEL ONE emergency savings account
• Have $2000 in my vacation savings account
• Have $500 in my car emergency savings account
• Obtain a starter home/condo/townhouse
• Obtain rental property
• Establish a positive net worth
• Start investing
• Open an IRA

CAREER

• Obtain my MSW, LMSW and LCSW.
• Become a licensed Real Estate Agent
• Create a non-profit organization
• Entrepreneurship (Contract/Policies/Grant Writer)
• Become fluent in Spanish
• Become conversational in Japanese and a Middle Eastern language.
• Become a professor
• Become a franchise owner
• Earn the Microsoft Office 2010 Master Certification
• Professional Blogger
• Published Author
• Life Coach
• Therapist

PERSONAL
(knowledge)

• Learn to meditate and incorporate it into my life.  (see my post about Transcendental Meditation)
• Become spiritually stronger
• Read the Bible extensively from cover to cover (at least 3 different translations)
• Read each holy book for all major religions
• Become a mentor
• Take a creative writing course
• Take a Toast Masters course
• Take a self defense class
• Take a graphic design and video editing course
• Enter into a writing contest
• Take at least one continuing education course every other year.  NEVER STOP LEARNING
• Consistently write in my gratitude journal (at least once a week) for a year.
• Become an early riser.

TRAVEL

• Take a solo weekend beach trip ONCE A YEAR!
• Go on a cruise
• Go on an European cruise
• Cruise around the world.
• Take a road trip across the US (from NY to CA) over a summer (by train). 
• Visit every state in the US
• Visit every continent 
• Spend a week in New York
• Jamaica (summer 2014) 

FUN

• Go to a shooting range.
• Go see Alvin Ailey performance 
• Take a culinary class
• Stay at a spa for an entire weekend
• Go wine tasting
• See at least FIVE Broadway plays in my lifetime
• Grow a functional garden
• Take a photography course
• Learn how to use a sewing machine
• Attend a NFL Super Bowl game
• Attend a NBA Final game
• Attend at least one professional sport event a year.
• Attend at least one concert a year - New Edition 04/2012; Trey Songz 2013; 

WARNING: This list will be ever growing and ever changing of things I want to experience and accomplish in my life.  Please feel free to gain ideas for yourself!