I have a goal this year, to do a few more things for me, things that I am interested in and aspire to and – mostly – will enjoy or be proud about. And not just to do them, but to notice and record doing them. With the help of some friends, I’ve 52 challenges, things I’d love to do this year. Some are new, things I’d like to do but haven’t done so far. Some I’ve done before, but I’d like to encourage myself to do in 2014.
Some of these dreams may seem absurdly modest. They sit amongst an unusually demanding family and home life, and I want to feel that they are possible. Some may seem absurdly overambitious (well, that’s unlikely). I want to aim high and feel accomplished.
So what is it that I wish to do? Here they are, categorised, because I’m like that. Feel free to be encouraging. That would be welcome.
Outdoor and adventure
- Regularly run orienteering events at a higher course level than last year.
- Camp out, probably with the boys.
- Walk to the top of a mountain (will settle for a big hill).
- Sail
- Canoe
- Cycle a trail at Alton Water or Thetford
- Spend a day on a beach
- Boulder at the climbing wall
- See sunrise
- See the ISS and / or a meteor shower
- Start up and run a Code Club.
- Fundraise: probably for the Woolverstone Project (sailability) by doing the Heritage Coast walk / run
- Talk someone on a fitness walk.
- Do something for Beavers or Cubs.
- Attend a Forest Schools introduction day.
- Register for the John Muir Award.
- Gain a new tutee.
- Start a STEM blog.
- Make some business cards for me.
- Give blood and / or register as an organ donor.
- Make things with willow.
- Finish my current “Mathematical Thinking in Schools” course.
- Complete the subsequent maths ed course.
- Learn to knit or crochet and make something.
- Visit a museum (I’ve not been to before).
- ROCKETS!
- Chop wood.
- Make hot drinks with the storm kettle.
- Cook over a fire or portable BBQ.
- Learn / relearn more constellations.
- Lose weight
- See a grown-ups play at a theatre.
- Buy new boots!
- Have a night out with people locally.
- Replace my running shoes.
- Read a novel. A whole one. To the end.
- Try a PT, yoga, or new fitness session.
- Have a birthday party. For me.
- Get a photo printed or entered in a competition.
- Have a pedicure.
- Find someone to look after eldest son sometimes. (He has autism).
- Become less scared of the house renovation tasks.
- Go fruit picking.
- Make sloe gin. (With the sloes in the freezer.)
- Keep an animal: fish or chickens?
- Grow mint in the big old sink by the backdoor. Make mint tea.
- Make that delicious chocolate gingerbread cake again.
- Send a BIG bag of fabrics for recycling.
- Make a list of films to watch as a family, on our Friday Film Night.
- Paint with blackboard paint / hang a blackboard in kitchen or library.
- Have a massage.
- Sleep under the stars.
