- Live in another country
- ✔ Travel on the cheap (sopchoppy spring break 2011)
- ✔ Confront a fear (my past-- during college)
- ✔ Move out of your parents' place (2008)
- ✔ Live alone (summer/fall 2012)
- ✔ Live with roommates (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
- ✔ Get in great shape (easier now than later)
- Splurge on a great pair of jeans
- ✔ Apologize to someone you were mean to in school (Heather, 2010)
- ✔ Have a guy friend who really is just a friend (Josh Cox)
- ✔ Work in retail or restaurants (Sonic, Once Upon a Child)
- ✔ Figure out what kind of wine you like (white wine)
- ✔ Try an exotic food you can't pronounce (arab food I can't spell)
- ✔ See a Broadway show (Wicked, 2010)
- ✔ Go 24 hours media-free (yl camp)
- ✔ Skinny dip (2008)
- ✔ Give back to the community (free garage sell outreach, 2009)
- Learn to do your own taxes and manage money
- Treat your parents to a nice dinner
- ✔ Start a blog about your life and update it (2009-present)
- Go to Vegas
- ✔ Learn to drive manual (September, 2012)
- ✔ Do an illegal drug (wasn't really illegal)
- ✔ Make your own Halloween costume (Juno, Tamagatchi pet, Catdog)
- ✔ Go to a concert, movie, and restaurant alone (all the time)
- ✔ Read The Iliad (world literature, 2011)
- ✔ Join a professional organization (NAMI, 2012)
- ✔ Attend a poetry reading (October, 2012)
- Go to a music festival
- ✔ Take a course on something you're interested in (2012, The Art of Dance and Movement)
- ✔ Be recognized somewhere (2009,2014)
- Have business cards
- ✔ Cook dinner for friends (Patrick and Phillip, 2010)
- ✔ Win something (photoshoot, 2014)
- ✔ Start a new hobby after college (cycling, 2014)
- Pick up the tab for no good reason
- ✔ Be irresponsible (spring break 2012)
- ✔ Eat healthy (duh)
- ✔ Do yoga (yoga, 2010. hot yoga, 2012)
- ✔ Simplify, simplify, simplify (Fall 2012, college algebra = death)
- ✔ Learn to cook (i'm a woman)
- ✔ Exercise every day, in some way
- ✔ Get outdoors (backpacking, 2011)
- ✔ Read (all.the.time)
- See the world
- Share your travel experiences
- ✔ Get a college degree (Bachelors in Social Work, 2012)
- Study abroad
- ✔ Postpone graduate school (for one semester, fall 2013)
- ✔ Don't work yourself to the bone (Summer, 2011)
- ✔ Visit the aquarium (dallas, 2008)
- ✔ Dance in the rain (w/my cousin tina @4am, summer 2013)
- ✔ Take a dance class (ballet, 2011)
- ✔ Own a camera (2010)
- ✔ Go camping (throughout childhood, again in college)
- ✔ Write a book or a good article (in the beginning chapters of book)
- ✔ Learn to swim (childhood)
- ✔ Speak to a crowd (2006, 2008, 2009.. all times 100+ ppl)
- ✔ Build something (a team of younglives leaders/mentors)
- Create a life plan
- ✔ Pay off my car (thanks mom and dad)
- ✔ Try something I hate (learning football, & I love it now!)
- ✔ Read Artistotle's Ethics
- ✔ Go surfing (South Padre
- ✔ Keep a journal (1996-present)
- ✔ Go to New York (2005, 2007)
- ✔ Take a risk (move to Arkansas)
- Visit 10 landmarks (Niagra Falls, Grand Canyon, Redwood Sequoia Trees, Yosemite, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Trade Center memorial, )
- Make a pie
- ✔ Make a large purchase without panicking (grad school, 2013)
- ✔ Write a poem (world literature, 2012)
- ✔ Meditate (yoga, 2012)
- ✔ Fall in love (1st time, 2008, 2nd time, Oct 2013)
- Change a tire
- Ride in a horse drawn carriage
- ✔ Pay off credit cards
- Avoid incurring more credit card debt
- ✔ Invest in something (myself)
- ✔ Make a decision without questioning it (summer staff)
- ✔ Go boating (Sam's birthday weekend, 2012)
- ✔ Be content (Summer, 2012)
- ✔ Make my own ice cream (August, 2012, at Meador Reunion)
- Read 100 books
- ✔ Become friends with someone random (haha)
- ✔ Regularly read a newspaper, magazine or blog (New York Times)
- ✔ Do something creative once a week (writing)
- Do some sort of adrenaline activity
- Prepare for your 30's; build framework for the rest of your life
- Get paid to do something you like
- Do something generous in Third World country
- Try working for yourself or freelancing
- Open a Roth IRA
- Own stock in a company you believe in
- Donate blood
- ✔ Go on a spontaneous weekend trip to a foreign city (w/Cara to denver, fall 2013)
- ✔ Go to a college football game and go all out
- ✔ Teach someone something (2008, Spanish to pre-school class)
- Go to a Pride Parade
- ✔ Take a road trip with your friends (Spring Break, 2011, 2012 & Colorado 2013)
may 19 2012 ∞
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