Life should never be boring.
There are so many things to do to enrich life,
to gain knowledge, to experience, to find inspiration.
Life is truly beautiful and remarkable.
I am so grateful for being alive.
Here is a list of my Life Goals.
- Eleanor -
- Read 3 Self-Help books, 3 non-fiction books, and 10 fiction book ✓
- Learn to write a book review ✓
- Learn to play chess
- Make a list of books read in 2015 ✓
- Make a list of books read in 2016 ✓
- Make a list of books read in 2017 ✓
- Get rid of cable television ✓
- Start meditating ✓ (Began 05/01/2015)
- Eat at least 3 fruits a week for one month (still doing this) ✓
- Run a 5K Race ✓
- Complete a 30 Miles in 30 Days Challenge ✓
- Continue with 60 Miles in 30 Days Challenge ✓
- Transition into Paleo Nutrition Lifestyle ✓
- Transition into Vegetarianism ✓
- Transition into Veganism ✓
- Do not drink soda for a month ✓
- Go canoeing or kayaking
BEAUTY / EGO
SOUL- Find 10 favorite Bible verses and memorize them ✓
- Write a daily gratitude list (in my mobile using an app) ✓
- Learn to play two new piano pieces
- Send a secret to Post Secret
- Don’t swear for a week
- Confess to my parents that I am no longer a vegetarian ✓
- Participate in the 100 Happy Days Challenge ✓
- Live a kind life free of animal creulty: beauty products, wool, leather
GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
- Color my fingernails black
- Play piano at church regularly (began 10/03/2015) ✓
- Go sledding for the first time
- Indoor rock climbing
- Buy a lottery ticket ✓
- Attend a zumba class
- Walk on stilts (10/02/15) ✓
- Go on a romantic weekend getaway at a Bed & Breakfast (02/10-12/17) ✓
- Rent a cabin in the woods (02/10-12/17) ✓
- Recreate our very first date
- Draw each other and compare photos
FAMILY / PETS
- Go on a long weekend family vacation by Lake Michigan ✓
- Send my parents on a weekend getaway ✓
- Potty train our toddler ✓
- Maksim off to school for the first time ✓
- Build our dream home ✓
- Save up for my dream car ✓
- Cook more than going out ✓
- Go Apple Picking ✓
- Pumpkin Patch ✓
- Get my father-in-law to the United States ✓
CAREER
- Write a book using Scriviner
- Work with a Professional Basketball Team ✓
- Work with a Professional Hockey Team ✓
- Work with a Professional Football Team
- Be a part of a production team shooting an episode for a television series pic 01, 02, 03 ✓
REWARDS FOR MY SANITY
- Purchase a Kate Spade Bag and Wallet for my birthday (my husband actually bought this for me) ✓
- Beach Body Les Mills Body Pump ✓
- Assemble a first aid kit for the car
- Assemble a first aid kit for the home
- Get a new RSS reader ✓
- Make the switch from Firefox to Google Chrome ✓
- Write a will
- Organize all digital photos into proper year and month ✓
- Establish a categorized breakdown of my family’s Emergency Fund
- Pay off student loans
- Collect quarters from 50 states
TRAVEL
- Go on a cruise
- Get My Passport Stamped ✓
- Ride the Amtrak
- Down Under & Etc
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Bora Bora
- Maldives
- Asia
- Philippines ✓
- Japan
- Thailand
- China
- Europe
- Ukraine ✓
- Odessa ✓
- Black Sea ✓
- Kiev
- England
- Spain
- Portugal
- France
- Louver Museum
- Russia
- Germany
- Italy
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Vatican
- Greece
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Central & South America
- Mexico ✓
- Brazil
- Venezuela
- Columbia
- Chile
- Peru
- Carribbean
- Bahamas
- Puerto Rico
- Cuba
- Haiti
- Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario ✓
- Visit Niagara Falls (Canada, USA)
- Visit the Nightmares Fear Factory (link)
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
- Visit every state in the United States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona ✓
- Arkansas
- California ✓
- Disney Land ✓
- Colorado
- Connecticut ✓
- Mystic Aquarium ✓
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- White House
- Florida ✓
- Miami Seaquarium ✓
- Isla Morada, Key West ✓
- Wetlands Tour ✓
- Coral Castle ✓
- Miami Zoo ✓
- Disney World
- Wizarding World Of Harry Potter
- Georgia ✓
- Hawaii ✓
- Kawaii ✓
- Oahu ✓
- Idaho
- Illinois ✓
- Springfield, IL ✓
- Visit the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum ✓
- Visit Abraham Lincoln's house and neighborhood ✓
- Visit Abraham Lincoln's tomb ✓
- Visit the old and the new Illinois State Capitol Buildings ✓
- Chicago, IL ✓
- Millennium Park ✓
- River Architect Tour
- Navy Pier
- Taste the local Chicago pizza that everyone raves about
- Start-up City ✓
- Indiana ✓
- Notre Dame University ✓
- Iowa ✓
- Iowa 80 World's Largest Truck Stop ✓
- Maquoketa Caves ✓
- Capitol Building, Des Moines, IA ✓
- Kansas ✓
- Kentucky ✓
- Louisiana
- Maine ✓
- Maryland
- Massachusetts ✓
- Boston Harbor ✓
- Old Sturbridge Village ✓
- Quincy Market ✓
- JFK Museum ✓
- Plymouth Plantation ✓
- Ocean Spray Cranberry Farms ✓
- Michigan ✓
- Minnesota
- Mall of America
- Mississippi
- Missouri ✓
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire ✓
- New Jersey ✓
- New Mexico
- New York ✓
- See a broadway music in NY, NY
- Statue of Liberty
- North Carolina
- Visit the Biltmore Estate
- North Dakota
- Ohio ✓
- Visit husband's Alma Mater, Cedarville University
- Oklahoma ✓
- Oregon
- Visit the Oregon Redwood Trees
- Pennsylvania ✓
- Rhode Island ✓
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee ✓
- Texas ✓
- Toyota Center ✓
- Utah
- Vermont ✓
- Virginia ✓
- Washington ✓
- Seattle Needle ✓
- Boat Tour ✓
- Museum of Flight ✓
- EMP Museum ✓
- Washington D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin ✓
- Madison ✓
- House On The Rocks
- Wisconsin Dells (02/10-12/17) ✓
- Wyoming
- Try an exotic restaurant (Kaiyo Grill) ✓
- Learn to say and write the Russian Alphabet
- Watch a live Civil War Reenactment
- Attend a Comic Con Convention
- Get a Henna Tattoo
- Go on a safari
- Learn how to say “Hello” in 10 different languages
- Send and receive more postcards via PostCrossing.com ✓
- Create a canvas painting original to hang in my office at work
- Draw more. Improve doodling skills
- Record a cover of a song
- Knit a scarf
- Make an old furniture look new again
- See Broadway musicals ✓
- Phantom of the Opera ✓
- Miss Saigon ✓
- Mama Mia! ✓
- Wicked
- Les Miserables
- See a ballet
- Go to Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament ✓
- Go to any Legoland ✓
- Participate in Fat Mum Slim’s Photo A Day Challenge ✓
- Take a picture of each letter of the alphabet
- Take my DSLR with me everyday for a month
- Get some of my Instagram pictures developed ✓
- Print a poster sized photo of one of my photographs
- Participate in OperationBeautiful.com
- Tie a note to a balloon and let it go
- Do some volunteer work
- Sponsor a child in a third world country
- Boycott companies that do animal testing
- Stop purchasing leather, wool, and any animal derived shoes/attire
- Use less paper napkins - one per meal - for a week
- Learn to start a fire in the woods
- Build a bird seed feeder from recycled goods
- Build a mini green house
- Start an herb garden
KITCHEN / FOOD
- Cook 10 new recipes ✓ (At least 2 new recipes every week beginning 8/2015)
- Build a Gingerbread House ✓
- Prepare and take my lunch to work everyday for a week ✓ (Began 8/2015)
- Learn how to can foods
- Eat some Macarons for the first time ✓
- Bake a Birthday Cake ✓
- Learn how to make macarons
- Make a list of my 20 favourite movies
- Make a list of Things That Make Me Happy ✓
- Make a list of 25 Things I Like About Myself
- I married the man of my dreams ✓
- I have gorgeous thick hair ✓
- I'm fairly optimistic ✓
- I'm a great wife (says my husband) ✓
- I'm a great mom (says my son) ✓
- I focus on my own happiness/goals and have a healthy outlook in life ✓
- I eat whole foods with no junk, healthy eater (began 8/2015) ✓
- I actually play the piano well ✓
- I never want to stop learning ✓
- I'm a bookworm ✓
- I'm a sci-fi geek ✓
- I have an eye for taking good pictures ✓
- I believe that the Universe is for me, not against me ✓
- I believe in meditation ✓
- I achieved a Masters Degree with a decent GPA (MCL) ✓
- I have compassion for animals and no longer support companies that abuse animals/animal testing and no longer believe in wearing leather ✓
- I choose LOVE. - "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." MLK ✓
- Meet a celebrity ✓
- Go tubing down a river
- Go to a drive-in theatre to watch a movie
- Embark on a worthless mission
- Go to the local farmer's market ✓
- Go Ziplining
- Go Paddle Boarding
- Explore a cave ✓
- Drop a coin in a fountain and make a wish ✓
- Build and fly a kite
- Fly a Sky Fire Lantern ✓
- Be an extra in a movie
- Swim with the dolphins
- Ride a River Pedal Boat
- Watch an NBA game LIVE
- Ride a horse
- Go to Disney World
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- See the Eiffel Tower
- Ride an elephant ✓
- Go to a Harlem Globetrotters game/show
- Go to an Ice Castle (02/10/17) ✓
- Go to Ripley's Believe It Or Not (02/10/17) ✓
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