make the most of my 30s

I’m doing horribly at this goal. And I’m halfway through with this decade. I think I need to redefine my definition of “make the most of” before I can even begin to attempt this goal.

Getting some qualifications I’ve wanted for years. Hopefully will sell my house. Have booked a cruise to take in 9 cities in 5 countries. Went to see Crowded House and The Police, this year I see Morrissey. Not too bad as yet!

J.

...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!