Update
As a compulsive list maker I love nothing more than conjuring up an endless variety of To Do - and Wish lists, thereby feeling like my scattered brain has some control over my life. Let's call it my specific way of dealing with the constant chaos in my head - once an idea or thought is written down on paper I feel it can be released from my overcrowded mind. A day after my 29th birthday last year I came up with a list called "Thirty things to do before I'm 30". If you're curious, you can find it here.
The reason for this was that I saw the big 3-0 as an excellent opportunity to get a whole lot of things done that I've been talking about for aaages but never got round to. Rather than viewing 30 as the end of an era I was really excited about the notion of starting afresh. So no "quarterlife crisis" or "turning 30 blues" for me, thank you very much! My "Thirty things to do before I'm 30" list was a rather random collection of future activities and achievements; some quite trivial, others more serious, and a few just overly ambitious. I managed to tick off only 17 out of 30, which is't a great mathematical result, but some of the ones I got done were pretty major:
- Buy a house (just two days before my 30th last week!!)
- Come up with some kind of career plan
- Spend a short break on a Pacific island
- Walk the Tongariro Crossing
- Plan a big around-the-world trip
- Keep this blog going
I didn't manage to learn Arabic, drive a scooter, climb the summit of Mount Taranaki or accept bad hairdays but there's plenty of time left for that, right?
As a compulsive list maker I love nothing more than conjuring up an endless variety of To Do - and Wish lists, thereby feeling like my scattered brain has some control over my life. Let's call it my specific way of dealing with the constant chaos in my head - once an idea or thought is written down on paper I feel it can be released from my overcrowded mind. A day after my 29th birthday last year I came up with a list called "Thirty things to do before I'm 30". If you're curious, you can find it here. The reason for this was that I saw the big 3-0 as an excellent opportunity to get a whole lot of things done that I've been talking about for aaages but never got round to. Rather than viewing 30 as the end of an era I was really excited about the notion of starting afresh. So no "quarterlife crisis" or "turning 30 blues" for me, thank you very much! My "Thirty things to do before I'm 30" list was a rather random collection of future activities and achievements; some quite trivial, others more serious, and a few just overly ambitious. I managed to tick off only 17 out of 30, which is't a great mathematical result, but some of the ones I got done were pretty major:
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Meer dan de helft van je taken afgewerkt lijkt fantastisch!
Proficiat!
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