make the most of my 30s

...my thoughts.

Now is the time to incorporate all my learning into daily living. I feel the most mentally healthy that I have been…probably ever. I want to devise a strategy to maintain that throughout the challenges I am sure to face.

Defo need a scribble session. I also really want to complete my 30 year diary project as I think it will be really helpful in identifying my development and give me a nice black and white document to refer back to.

Oh, I’m definitely going to make the most of my thirties.

...to reflect upon where I’ve been, what I’ve learnt and where I’m going. My 30s feel like a time for solidifying my learning/ideas etc and sharing them somehow.

There have been a number of things recently (synchronicity?) pointing me in a particular direction and I think I’m going to explore it further. Hmmmmmm.

A little reflection today had me come to the conclusion that I do not want to spend my 30s agonising of the same issues I did in my 20s. I see some people I know still coming back the the same problems decade after decade. I don’t want to be in the same place in my 40s or 50s.

When I think back to my early 20s I did a lot of agonising over love and finding Mr Right – it’s certainly a relief not to be doing that right now! In my mid to late 20s weight and body image predominated.

Here’s some better themes for my 30s:

• Family
• Fitness
• Developing knowledge of my choice
• Creativity
• Travel

To start with I am going to redirect my focus. E.g. if I find myself agonising over my body I’ll focus instead on fitness. Let’s see how that goes for a while.
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I dont know what happened to my 20s – one relocation to london and everything that was set in motion beforehand crashed, burned and morphed into another direction that I kept meaning to change but now Im almost 31…

not sure at all about this one, but will first stop lamenting the loss of the later 20s and focus on getting it right in the early 30s…

...to make some of our own Christmas traditions.

In my 20s Christmas to me was about following my parents Christmas traditions…for example, we always have our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve.

Now I’m in my 30s I would like to begin some traditions that are ours. This is also the first year we have the dog which makes it harder to stay overnight at my parents but easier to create some of our own traditions.

This year we will be coming home Christmas Eve and hanging our stocking by our fireplace ready for Father Christmas!! Yay!

...just seem to have flown by. I was remembering something earlier and realised it was TEN years ago. How did that happen?!

I really want to enjoy my 30s and make the most of every minute. I have been quite looking forward to them…hoping that some of the insecurities of my 20s will have passed and given me a new freedom.

We’ll see!

my mom, was so kind to remind me, that in 15 years I’ll be 50!
that makes 35 seem like a whole other place. Can’t wait to see what happens in the next 15, should be quite entertaining!

I seem to be ramping up the flirting. this is a good sign. Signaling that I am moving on, recovering, coming out from under depression…. all those things! I would like to take the next few years to date around, and just seek out fun. No more heavy duty, emotional roller coaster relationships, enough already!

I’m just coming down off an amazing hiking weekend in mammoth. I’m so in love with the mountain air, and the stars…..... oh the stars sang to me! Looking at the stars was so intimate, religious, awe inspiring, no words for those stars! Feeling so damn good after pushing myself physically. thinking I’d like to really go for it for the rest of my thirties, biking, walking, hiking, jogging, climbing, dancing, everything!

I’m single, educated, financially self sufficient, not in debt, healthy, strong…..seems like a good time in my life. How can I make the most of my mid-thirties, or rather the next five years…..??? I’m chewing on this question. Travel comes to mind. There is so much of the world I have yet to see. I would also like to go diving again! I would like to get into amazing shape! I want to climb mountains and have muscles! I want to have an adventure, and maybe some romance? dare I hope… Keep up my friendships, let my friends and family know I love them. I would like to make peace with things, be content/accepting/grateful/and generally in a good mood. I think that is the one thing that will make the biggest difference in my life, thirties, forties, fifties, whatever age. To get a handle on the monkey mind…..I believe I have a goal of taming the wild horses of my mind.. Maybe they are untameable, but I could still try to put them in a pasture, right? I think all of my 43things (or 35 things rather) are pointing me at this, to just see the beauty no matter what. To be married to amazement…..