The Next Five Years - a list by Lydia Bolder (lydiabolder)

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The Next Five Years

Feb 28, 2020 - Feb 28, 2025

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See the taping of a TV show

Watch a Cirque du Soleil show

Go on a picnic

Being a Good Cook

Make a birthday cake for someone

Try cooking with 10 herbs that are new to me

Make a dish from a different country every month for a year

Make an apple pie from scratch

Being a Good Person

Find a regular volunteer activity

Volunteer once a month for a year

Volunteer at a local animal rescue

Being a Good Photographer

Complete a 365 day photo challenge

0/26 Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet

Take a photography class

Take a photo of the same place every month for a year

Take a selfie every day for a year

Being a Grown-Up

Keep a change jar for a year

Start a new tradition

Learn how to invest in stocks and do it

Hold a tarantula in my hand

Save an emergency fund for six months of expenses

Create a budget and stick to it strictly for 6 months

Reconnect with an old friend

Put away $10 for every goal completed

Complete the 52 week money challenge

Generate passive income

Go a month without buying anything that isn't a necessity

Meet with a financial advisor

Make a cleaning schedule and stick to it strictly for 6 months

Open a retirement account

Meet rainy day savings goal

Being a Journal-er

Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for 1 year

Start a gratitude journal, write down one thing I am thankful for every day for a year

Being a Kid

Complete a coloring book

See how many marshmallows I can fit in my mouth

Build a snowman

Being a Movie Buff

0/26 Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet

Go to the movies once a month for a year

Watch all the Best Picture nominees before the Academy Awards

0/35 Watch a movie from every year I've been alive

Watch all of IMDB'S Top 250 Movies

Finish MGA's Movie List

Being a Person Who Writes?

Write a Romance novel

Participate in NaNoWriMo

Being Adventurous

Go skydiving

Go camping

Ride in a hot air balloon

Go skinny dipping

Send a secret to PostSecret

Cage dive with sharks

Take a pole dance class

Go snowboarding

Go kayaking or canoeing

Go fishing

Being Amazed

Watch a meteor shower

Marvel at the northern lights in Alaska ALASKA

Wake up to watch the Perseids

Being Crafty

Buy a canvas and paint a piece of artwork

Paint a Bob Ross landscape

Attend a paint-a-long class

6/6 Complete all cross stitch projects I currently have

Cross stitch a sampler

Paint something with watercolors

Being Curious

Learn how to juggle

Learn how to roll a coin/poker chip across my fingers

Learn how to pick locks

Learn to whistle with my fingers

Learn to make cheese

Have a conversation in your second language with a native speaker

0/10 Learn to identify 10 constellations

See Saturn through a telescope

0/20 Learn to identify 20 birds and their calls

Attend a TED event

Grow something from a seed

Research my family tree

Learn to identify all the countries on a map

Be able to name all the bones in my body

Memorize the presidents in order

Learn the Single Ladies dance

Build an iPhone app

Being Environmentally Responsible

Buy only second-hand clothes for a year

Being Healthy

Give up soda for a year

Complete a 100 Push-ups Challenge

Do a Couch to 5k running plan

Complete a 30 Day Yoga Challenge

Complete a 200 Sit-ups Challenge

Being Kind to Me

Don't complain about anything for a week

0/100 Identify 100 things that make me happy

Fill a jar with notes of good things that happen to me for a year

Try a hot stone massage

Get that one credit

Stay in bed all day

Make a list of things I like about myself

Being Kind to Others

Leave an obnoxiously large tip

0/5 Make a list of the top 5 people who have positively influenced me and write them letters

100

Give money to a street performer

101

Send a card or flowers to someone going through a tough time

102

0/20 Perform 20 random acts of kindness

103

Reverse-pickpocket someone

104

Donate all my unwanted books to friends or to the local book store

105

Give a friend in need a care package

Being Knowledgeable

106

Complete Spanish Lessons in Duo Lingo

Being Self-Sufficient

107

Learn how to change a flat tire

108

0/7 Learn how to make 7 basic knots

109

Take a gun safety course

110

Cook a meal over a campfire you made

111

Become CPR/First Aid certified

112

Make something with my sewing machine

113

Change a tire

Being Social

114

Host an ugly Christmas sweater party

Being Well-Read

115

0/25 Read 25 Books

116

Read all the books currently on my shelf

117

Finish a book in one sitting

118

Read the Declaration of Independence

Being Well-Traveled

119

15/50 Visit all 50 states

120

Go on a road trip

121

Visit the Grand Canyon ARIZONA

122

2/7 Visit all 7 continents

123

Drink at a swim-up bar

124

Walk the Freedom Trail in Boston MASSACHUSETTS

125

Peep the fall foliage in New England UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

126

Drive the Pacific Coast Highway CALIFORNIA

127

Gaze at Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park WYOMING

128

Get lost in Redwood National Park CALIFORNIA

129

Visit Mount Rushmore SOUTH DAKOTA

130

See a lava flow in Hawaii HAWAII

131

Make a list of 50 places I would like to visit in my lifetime

132

Stand on the equator

133

Visit the Pyramids at Giza EGYPT

134

Spend the 4th of July somewhere of historical importance

135

Visit the Ground Zero memorial NEW YORK

136

Get something from VooDoo Doughnut in Portland OREGON

137

Visit Central Park NEW YORK

138

Go on a safari in Kenya KENYA

139

Visit Canada

140

Visit the White House WASHINGTON, D.C.

141

Visit New Orleans LOUISIANA

Ungrouped

142

See 10 famous paintings in real life

143

Eat a fruit or vegetable I've grown

144

Borrow something from the Art library

145

Complete Klingon Lessons in Duo Lingo

146

Learn to eat with chopsticks

147

Make a gingerbread house

148

Visit House of Balls

149

Host a themed dinner party

150

Go to a MN United Game

151

Attend a roller derby bout

152

Do a polar bear plunge

153

Save $10 for every task I complete

154

Make a list of 100 reasons I love my husband

155

Visit a fortune teller

156

Get a tarot card reading

157

Learn how to read Tarot cards

158

Create a vision board

159

Make my own cookbook

160

Host a Christmas movie marathon

161

See a great comedian live

162

Make a funny Christmas card

163

Practice meditating every day for 1 month

164

Watch a solar eclipse

165

Finish an NYT crossword puzzle with no help

166

Learn to play the ukukele

167

Write Woody a song on the ukulele & sing it to him

168

Fly a kite