I have signed up to a 7km run, my first fitness challenge of the year. Yesterday I did my ‘short run’ route without stopping, great feeling. Have 3 weeks to go until the 7k, lots more to do between now and then!
karee56's Life List
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1. make fitness non-negotiable
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2. be more political
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3. create a budget and stick with it
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4. live in Switzerland
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5. find my passion
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6. drink less
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7. invest in interests, not things
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8. speak german more often
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9. take life in my own two hands
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10. go to Africa
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11. donate 1% of my income
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12. grow herbs in a teapot
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How I did it: taking a sailing course to get back into it, and get to know people at the yacht club, get comfy with the boat again and find crewing opportunities for the future Read how I did it…
How I did it: I have a friend with a ten year plan, and that inspired me to start with. Then I read the book Choosing Happiness- Life and Soul Essentials by Stephanie Dowrick, and there was a part about making goals for the different areas of your life - making goals for a year or so - I had the areas of career, family, friends, health, spirituality, learning and service (that's quite a few but I guess you could choose the ones that are important to yo… Read how I did it…
Here I just mean, not necessarily LESS, but in moderation, and for pleasure, not for “getting drunk”... drinking wine I enjoy, a cold beer, nothing wrong with all of that, just leave aside the nights out in town which I don’t even enjoy that much and leave you in bed the whole of the next day!
I am starting over with this goal. Have made myself a flashy excel spreadsheet and we’ll see where we go with that. At least to record what I spend and see where it is all going might help. I want to start saving again this year, as I haven’t saved at all in the last 6 months or so. Mainly I think I need to keep busy doing the things I love as then I am busy and not get sucked into shops and sales and things things things. Interests not things. People and relationships, not things!
