Thursday, 1 May 2008

The list

I will put in Blue the things ive finished and in italics the things im working on. And RED for the things I can no longer achieve because I mucked it up (red italics if still trying despite failure)

Work
1. Finish my VN
2. Re-evaluate my career if I don’t pass my VN (I passed - so no worries)
3. Get promoted to supervisor at work at stay in this position for a year (I dont actually want to do this anymore - not yet anyway)
4. Make an impact at work/change something big
5. Join the BVNA
6. CPD – go on at least 1 work related course a year (2/2)
7. Make actual plans about what kind of business I want to start
8. Investigate becoming a lecturer

9. Do my assessor training after I’ve been a RVN for a year - wont be able to do this before this runs out but I will do it :) 
10. Do overtime once a month only.

Play
1. Snowboard once a year (2/2)
2. Get over fear of heights by:
3. Go skydiving
4. Go abseiling
5. Climb a mountain (for the heights thing this is allowed - even though its combined with snowboarding - it was fucking high!)
6. Go camping at least once a year (not at a festival) (2/2)
7. Buy a decent camera, learn how to use it and take pictures of everyone I know

8. Throw a party

9. Go fishing
10. Go to the cinema at least 3 times a year (6/6) - I now have a cineworld pass :D 

Expanding my horizons

1. Read 2 books a year out of my comfort zone (4/4)

2. Start reading a proper newspaper (at least once a week) (20/107)
3. Visit a new country once a year (2/2)
4. Buy 1 film recommended to me by a friend every month (13/27)
5. Learn a new language well enough to speak it
6. Go to the opera
7. Go to the theatre once a year (2/2)
8. Visit a new museum
9. Do a short course of some kind
10. Accept an invitation to one thing I wouldn't normally do every month (work permitting) ( - I've not updated this enough to know how many I've done - but I know I've been to a lot of weird things :D )

Life and family
1. Move out of work
2. Be in a position to buy a house
3. Save full amount in my isa at least once
4. Write letters to my friends and family
5. Visit every member of my family at least once
6. Go out for a meal once a month  
7. Cook for people at least twice a year (4/4)
8. Learn a new style of cooking
9. Teach someone something
10. Start acquiring things for the future


Health
1. For 2 months – never drive when I could walk (2/2)
2. Take part in as many charity walks as I can

3. Sort out reasonable gym membership/buy some kind of equipment for home
4. Go to the gym once a week (at least) for 3 months
5. Go swimming twice a week for a month
6. Join some kind of class/sport
7. 5 portions of fruit and veg a day for a month
8. Get within my healthy weight range
9. Quit caffeine

10. Go to a health spa – get a massage and stuff 


Travel
1. Start travelling the world (since starting this blog: Italy (a few times), Germany, America, Bulgaria, Botswana, Namibia, Austria (twice). Already been to France, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Israel, Australia, Japan(briefly).
2. Travel Europe (this was backpack accross but I dont see it happening.) 
3. Attempt to see the northern lights
4. Get in the car with some friends and just drive somewhere
5. Actually see the sites in London
6. Take some pictures on the Cornish coast
7. Go to the lake district
8. Visit stone henge
9. Save money for the rest of the world:
10. Visit somewhere amazing - one of those once in a lifetime things.

Music
1. Go to 3 gigs a year (bands I know) (6/6)
2. Go to see 3 new bands a year (6/6)

3. Listen to new music every month
(so far) 
4. Re-learn, get better at guitar
5. Learn another instrument
6. Buy a new album 12 times a year (24/24)
7. Buy music don’t illegal download! 
8. Buy a new instrument – even if it’s only a little thing
9. Go to/work at one festival a year (2/2)

10. Try out a festival in another country. - snowbombing in austria

 

Random
1. Do some vain things (
my tattoo, piercing and hair)
2. Give blood
3. Sort out my crap and sell/give away stuff I don’t need
4. See the sun rise and set from somewhere pretty
5. Get naked! Get over my body issues.  - im getting there
6. Find a scuba diving buddy
7. Grow my own food
8. Ask someone on a date
9. Sleep under the stars
10. Bet on something for fun (horses, dogs ect)


and finally: BE HAPPY :)

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