There’s nothing like a significant birthday to make some resolutions. I usually do not make them because they are always boil down to the same things again and again: get on a schedule, build my relationships, make time to be creative. As I approach 50, I am mindful that half my life is behind me and I still have not met those goals. I feel this is holding me back from success.
Do you know what? I’m done making excuses. I don’t have my kids home, so I can not “blame them” for my own failure. I am finishing my half-century with a bang. I am going to close out my 40s by tying up loose ends, completing projects and having several bucket list adventures. I have 50 resolutions! My goal is to complete my list by October of 2021. That gives me 10 months to complete this journey.
I invite you to be part of my adventure. Turning 50 is a huge milestone for me and I might need some encouragement along the way.
In no particular order here is my list:
- Start a container garden to provide fresh produce
- Watch the movie “The God Father”
- Sprinkle rose pedals on my bed for a romantic evening with my husband
- Decorate my bedroom so my husband and I feel it is complete
- Install open shelving in my kitchen
- Crash a party and leave a gift card
- Become CPR certified
- Volunteer 50 hours of my time to a good cause
- Macramé a hammock
- Do a “I’m fifty and fabulous” photo shoot
- Learn to open champagne
- Teach Mary (the puppy) how to shake
- Cut out my daily cup of coffee
- Find exercises that work for me
- Have lunch with my sister
- Donate $50 to the Ronald McDonald house
- Make baked Alaska
- Make a list of 50 essential items that everybody needs in their wardrobe
- Professional wax of my upper lip ( my husband hates this one, I don’t know why)
- Wear a bikini (my husband loves this one…)
- Learn to drive a manual transmission car
- Perform karaoke
- Try to find my best friend from high school
- Read Gone With the Wind
- Donate blood
- Take a hot air balloon ride
- Participate in the Forest Gump 5k
- Dance to the song “Beautiful Things” by Gungor
- Send 50 soldiers a Christmas card
- Buy a copy of my favorite book Girl of the Limberlost
- Maintain my waist line
- Plant fifty daffodils
- Create a home “bar” so I can make a nice cocktail for company
- Learn how to change a tire
- Buy a pair of leather boots
- Transfer my wedding video from VHS to the cloud
- Finish going though all my old photos
- Make all the hard decisions to no longer need a storage unit
- Help my husband build his next sailboat
- Create my own yearly planner
- Update the look of my blog
- Go on another cruise
- Perfect the cat eye look
- Go see my family in NY
- Travel to India
- Go though my hope chest
- Research the antique china I inherited from a neighbor
- Set up my weaving loom
- Learn the proper names of the Lowcountry birds I see every day
- Learn the Electric Slide
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