Love your goals 2 through 6 especially. Your list of 43 reasons for girlfriends is a hoot. As for the others… I think most of us could certainly use some buffing and polishing in the home upkeep, physical and fiscal categories.

On home upkeep, if you can get over the corniness of it andd embrace the babystep approach, httP://www.flylady.com is REALLY good.

Another thing: spring for a really good mattress and bedding and make your bed every day. It is a HUGE gesture of self-love, will make you sleep better and feel better, and should you ever get a girlfriend willing to tread over and around the pizza boxes et al, she will be very impressed.

And maybe want to spend more time in it.

With you!

Good luck. Persistence; babysteps, or as I have said on 43T a zillion times, “relentless incrementalism.” When I can remember that I subvert brutal self-criticism (I would never be as mean to my friends as I sometimes am to myself)... change and alteration happens in slow small bits and pieces. But keep at it, and…

May your 43 year be filled with 43 gently life-altering discoveries / ideas / habits / new thoughts, etc.

I just realized that we missed your birthday :-(