2018 list


The past few years, I have had this running list of things I can work on. So here it is again, with accomplished goals removed, and also with a few additions and deletions based on how my life has changed in the past few years.
  • Cut back on social media usage - Well, at least for 10 days, I did a social media fast. I have intentions of putting strict regulations around social media, but have yet to follow through on that 😐
  • Focus on consistency
  • Come up with a meal-planning strategy
  • Try something new
  • Read a book - 168 Hours, Make the Bed, The Power of Now, A Simple Favor, 7, and various sleep books
  • Go skinny dipping
  • Throw a dinner party for friends
  • Do karaoke
  • Join a sports team
  • Splurge on something that will last me years
  • Go on a cross-country road trip
  • Attend a major sporting event
  • Take a class that’s totally out of my element, like improv, golf, or pottery-making
  • Unplug for a full day, or maybe even a full weekend or week 
  • Say yes for an entire week
  • Learn to drive stick
  • Take a photography class
  • Learn to can food
  • Go on a little girls trip
  • Pay for the person behind me
  • Get ready every single day for a month
  • Organize my closet and get rid of anything I don’t wear - ehhh I've decluttered it, but it always needs further decluttering
  • Create a look book for my clothes and accessories
  • Stop being a slob
  • Reconnect with an old friend
  • Learn a song on the piano
  • Sew something
  • Follow a cleaning schedule
  • Memorize “The Living Christ”
  • Memorize “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
  • Go on a weekend trip
  • Learn a new make-up technique
  • Learn how to do a new hairstyle
  • Get Zumba-certified
  • Recover the jump drive - in progress
  • Compile a recipe book with all the recipes I actually use
  • Learn to garden
  • Mend all my mending things
  • Pick a Christ-like attribute to work on
  • Run in a race
  • Focus on reaching out to people
  • Focus on being a missionary
  • Focus on giving more love to Russ than usual
  • Focus on service
  • Whiten my teeth
  • Travel to a new state - Texas
  • Make a 2015 photobook
  • Make a 2016 photobook
  • Finish up 2017 photobook
  • Scan my scrapbooks from 2011-2014 and turn them into photobooks
  • Start a New Year’s tradition - I want more NY traditions than this, but I did decide we would have pot stickers for dinner every NYE. Pot stickers were a Christmastime tradition for Russ growing up, and so I decided we'd adopt it, but for NYE.
  • Visit the Red Butte Gardens
  • Get parents’ VHS tapes onto DVD - in progress
  • Digitize all photos before 2006
  • Find a way to spend one-on-one time with my dad monthly
  • Make a date night list/box/jar
  • Pare down my Pinterest boards/pins - I did do this a bit, but probably need to do more
  • Play glow stick hide and seek
  • Find a signature fragrance
  • Go for tea at the Grand America
  • Mail a care package
  • Throw a surprise party - Okay, so it wasn't a surprise party, but I did throw three parties this year! One for Russ's birthday, one for Ada's birthday, and one for my friend's baby shower (Katie)


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