Last week I was talking to my best friend about health goal gripes, mainly because the final 5 lbs I’ve been wanting to lose seem to be harder than I planned. These extra 5 lbs aren’t necessarily a “must” since I reached my long term weight loss goal last year. It took years of fluctuating weight loses and gains, but Weight Watchers finally helped me reach my goal weight. But the mention of losing an extra 5 lbs has been to simply see if I can actually do it. And I still think I can will, I just haven’t really pushed myself hard enough.

While my friend, Jo, and I we were discussing our fitness goals, she suggested the possibility of setting a different fitness goal for myself, like running a 5k marathon. Now I know a lot of people have goals of this type, but for whatever reason it never seemed to interest me much. Maybe because I never thought there would come a day where I’d actually say that I enjoy running. Yet, ironically each time I run on the treadmill, I (for the most part) love the feeling I get.

Our conversation then took shape into the subject of overall goals and creating goals to accomplish by the time we’re 30. As I mentioned in a previous post, I certainly have a bucket list and also a 2011 goals list, but not a list of things to accomplish before my 30th birthday. So, we both agreed to think about what we’d like our 30 goals to be and share our list. I came home that night and thought about what I really wanted most to be able to accomplish – regardless of it being big or small. Though, I think most of these are character and interest related goals. (For instance, buying a house or townhouse isn’t on this list because it will happen regardless.)  The items in bold are goals currently in progress.

1. Go camping
2. Finish The Artist’s Way
3. Speak Spanish fluently
4. Participate in the Sketchbook Project
5. Take an art class
6. Volunteer
7. Attend an Outstanding in the Field event
8. Take a workshop with Sabrina Ward Harrison
9. Create my own “street art”
10. Bake a delicious dessert from scratch
11. Finish a journal of sketches
12. Sign up for a professional cooking class
13. Have a girl’s only weekend with my mom
14. Visit Mexico during Dia de Los Muertos (Planned for 2012)
15. Set up an online shop on Etsy to sell my “art” (this could include photography, mixed media, jewelry, etc.)
16. Visit a winery
17. Learn the basics of another language besides Spanish (language still to be determined)
18. Ride in a hot air balloon
19. Walk in a AFSP Out of the Darkness Walks
20. Go to Burning Man (Already predetermined this will be in 2013)
21. Try rock climbing
22. Pay off debt
23. Learn how to make jewelry using metal clay
24. Make my own books/journals (bookbinding technique)
25. Complete a photo series or challenge
26. Learn embroidery
27. Actually get a handle on investments
28. Go on a cruise
29. Parasail
30. Participate in a “flash mob“