A Work in Progress

So it turns out that creating a list of thirty things I want to do before I'm thirty is harder than anticipated. It took me a couple of months to come up with my first draft. Now that I have it posted (and hanging on the chalkboard above my desk), I'm not sure I've finished it to my liking. First of all, I have four substantial reading-related entries. I mean, I love reading, but at some point this is going to start feeling like homework. And then there's "Finish my Rubik's cube" or "Knit a sweater." With all the other things I have going on in my life, what if I just don't have the time to devote to mastering these skills within the next three years? After all, these don't fall in the "try something new" category, but are squarely in the "get really good at something new" category.

So Lesson #1 from this project is to be flexible. I'm not going to change my list right now. I legitimately want to do everything I've added, so why not keep them? But I'm going to let myself keep the list fluid. If something comes up that I decide is more important to me than something on the list, I'll swap it out. And I reserve the right to "dumb down" a goal if it proves to be too hard. I mean, they're my goals, right?

So now it's time to get down to business. Greg made a list too, and he's already done with two and making good headway on a third. I'm way behind...