My Five Year ‘List’
I’ve been re-reading a few books this week – The 4 Hour Workweek and Your Money or Your Life. Both are great books for making you think and sharpening your focus on your dreams and aspirations.
This is my five year dream list, all the stuff I’d like to achieve over the next five years…in no particular order…
* See my first and only child start school!
* Take my husband to New York for his 30th birthday
* Graduate from university with a degree
* Become fully self employed (earning a full-time income consistently)
* Replace both our cars (paying cash if we can)
* Go to Las Vegas for my 30th
* Get my garden finished (You never know, it *might* happen!)
* Go back to Florida and take Erin to SeaWorld
* Stay healthy and free from serious crohns flare ups
* Meet up with my amazing bloggy mates as many times as we can manage
* Go to Memphis and visit Graceland with my Mum
* Become an Aunty (I can’t control this one but I can live in hope!)
* Write a book and have it published
* Celebrate my tenth wedding anniversary
So that’s my list, it looks like a lot but if you think about it five years is quite a long time so we’ll see. I’ll still be happy even if I don’t achieve all of this but I think it’s important to have goals both for myself but also with my husband and my daughter. They do say couples with shared goals tend to stay together (and happy) more often than those without goals.
So what are your goals for the next five years?
Interesting list – mine is quite similar in some respects but I wanted to achieve some things before I hit 40 (slightly less than 2 years away) and I don’t think it’s going to be possible.
Oh that’s a shame, will you achieve a few of the things?
Not sure to be honest. It’s not in a negative way, more a practical sense. I am the sole wage earner for our family and need to concentrate on that initially. There are a few other elements too (personal) but it’s finding the head-space and time to fit it all in LOL!
Ah, what will be will be. As long as you’re happy that’s all that counts.
LOVE this. I’m working on a foodie ‘bucket’ list – lots of things to eat, try, visit, etc before I die. Care to join me for dinner at The Ivy, dahling? x
Would I ever!
That’s such an amazing idea, I may have to copy you. I want to eat in at least a few michelin starred restaurants in my lifetime, and eat once in a three michelin starred restaurant (maybe El Bulli)
and Alex and I WILL get to Taste next year!
I’ve got a draft blog post with all my ideas on, but I keep thinking of more so I never get to press publish! I’d like to eat at The Fat Duck too – snail porridge mmmmmmm
This is very timely, I’ve been meaning to write a list of things I plan to do before I turn 40 (in about 5 and a bit years) as a positive thing from starting work
Must get down and get on with that list
Oooh I like this. Mine will be before 40 too, gulp. I have 5 years.
Publish a book is a biggy
Sort out my bloody hormones/health
Earn my own income consistently again
Go back to Florida and take my two to Busch Gardens, Sea World and Aquatica
Own my own home
Buy a new car
Get a dog
But mainly to be happy, cheesy I know. Maybe I mean ‘learn to be happy a bit more’. Smell the roses and all that.
Great list Jo, very ambitious but that’s the point isn’t it
Good Luck!