It’s that time of year again. Everyone is making their New Year’s resolutions. I am sure most of those resolutions last 24 hours if even that. Certainly there are people that are very diligent about making and achieving their resolutions. I am very type B, resolutions aren’t for me. Now don’t think of being type B as a bad thing. I just stress out easy and need calm.
So I do 100 goals. Some years I don’t think of that many, but I really tried this year. I know that sounds stressful, but for me it is opportunities of growth and fun when I am ready for them. I try to stay away from the lofty stuff people usually do, though I do have a weight loss goal anyway.
Last year I did 13 of my 73 goals. The intent is not to do ALL of them, but have a guideline for when I feel like doing something new. I expect this year I will get more done. Some I am sure I won’t. I carried over many from last year. Not really fair to carry over the train to San Francisco since I know I likely won’t be able to do that, but I was running out of ideas so I kept it. And since writing this paragraph I added another thing. 🙂
What are your goals for 2024? What should I add to mine? I don’t mind going over 100.
2024 Goals
1. Cook a recipe from 12 community cookbooks
2. Learn to juggle
3. Make paper mache antlers
4. Use my tagine
5. Do more meetups
6. Get down to 200-210 pounds
7. Start learning a language
8. Walk more
9. Make a sculpture
10. Maybe take a pottery class
11. Take more artsy photos or photos of the world in general
12. Wear earrings more consistently
13. Learn chess
14. Create a milk and honey cheesecake
15. Make a cookbook zine
16. Make a fictional map
17. Make peach cobbler
18. Use instant pot more
19. Finish crochet blanket
20. Take train to San Francisco
21. Have a vegan week twice
22. Have a makeup lesson
23. Do monkey bars
24. Make some videos
25. Do more art
26. One veggie centered meal a week
27. Practice ukulele
28. Try an accordion
29. Refamiliarize myself with the night sky
30. Do more activities at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
31. Go to zoo by myself, preferably when it is spring or fall
32. Go somewhere new
33. Do a 30 day challenge
34. Try stand up paddleboarding
35. Use apple peeler, make apple crisp, cake, or pie
36. Take a class in something new
37. Make dal Makhani
38. Make dal tardka
39. For cooking, buy what you use, don’t waste food
40. Cook from my regular cookbooks once a month if not more
41. Make croissants
42. Re-create a dish from a restaurant
43. Make a dish popular from a different decade
44. Cook a regional dish from a region I don’t live in
45. Make paella
46. Bake whole fish and/or make fish curry
47. Make spam fries
48. Lahmacun
49. Khachapuri
50. Okonomiyaki
51. Blueberry octopus pie
52. Fruit roll up
53. Paint Brianna’s apple pies
54. Knit a brioche project
55. Knit socks
56. Get a book about trees
57. Orange/blood orange marmalade
58. Lumberjack cake
59. Go to Los Angeles
60. Journal every day
61. Try out morning pages on weekends
62. Create a zine
63. Write on my blog once a week
64. Do a weekend workshop if have money
65. Do a collaborative creative project
66. Go to a concert
67. Do a term/research paper for the fun of it
68. Get published somewhere other than my blog
69. Write a poem once a week
70. Write a short story once a month
71. Create a half hour of silence every day.
72. Go camping
73. Take a Domestika class
74. Learn a new game
75. Have a two night staycation at a local hotel
76. Do a 5k
77. Play frisbee golf
78. Make a champagne cake
79. Find an inland lake in the greater Milwaukee area to swim in
80. Post something on TikTok
81. Get nails done
82. Learn rollerskating
83. Eat at a nice restaurant alone
84. Find places for letter writing
85. Learn how to make a candle
86. Take a day trip
87. Make a style board
88. A tech free day
89. Make sourdough bread
90. Yoga
91. Go charter fishing
92. Chicago pen show
93. Make ice cream
94. Read a book
95. Go to all the Brady Street businesses that aren’t strictly bars or smoking related.
96. Visit a lavender field
97. Take a walk in the rain
98. Try canoeing or kayaking
99. Finish knit WIPs
100. Create an evening wind down routine!
101. Take an urban ecology class
Rainy Saturday Creative 