Career
• Become a nurse

Creativity
• Grow and eat some vegetables
• Create an index of excellent vegan recipes
• Make myself a dress and wear it
• Make a patchwork quilt

Health and beauty
• Get my teeth fixed
• Run a sub-30 minute 5K
• Run a 10K
• Run a half marathon
• Run a marathon
• Go vegan
• Get and maintain BMI between 20 and 25
• Have a sugar-free diet

Experience
• Visit all the cathedrals in England
• Live on £1 a day for a month
• See more concerts

Knowledge/ skills
• Pass Italian CILS level 4
• Take music lessons again (either flute or piano)

Money
• Give 10% of my income to charity/ church
• Save 10% of my income in a savings account
• Make a budget and stick to it

Reading
• Read the whole Bible
• Read a book by each of the winners of the Nobel prize for literature

Self-knowledge
• Understand the causes of my depression and know how to stop myself from getting really low
• Stop emotional eating

Social responsibility/ friendships
• Talk to my nephew and niece every week on the phone and send them thoughtful Christmas and birthday presents
• Write a letter to a friend every week for a year
• Make a concerted effort to encourage people I know who are going through a hard time
• Volunteer part-time on an ongoing basis
• Become the kind of friend who doesn’t expect her buddies to knock, and routinely finds a friend snatching food out of her fridge when she gets home from work.

I turn 27 in January so I have a little over 3 years to work on these goals. What a challenge!