Introduction

I saw the above quote today and it made me think. So much of the time we hear people talk about 'finding ourselves' or maybe we even say it ourselves. I'm sure I have at some point or other. But actually we are who we want to be. Our lives are what we make them. Instead of trying to find somebody who hasn't existed yet (afterall we're all unique so this is me living for the first time) I want to start living my life as I want it to be. Our lives are what we create them to be and from now on I am going to knowingly and more consciously create mine! The life I want to create is a life full of having good times, doing the things that I want to do and what I enjoy!

The person to blame for my new hedonistic ideals is Dannie. She is a good friend of mine who are at the beginning of this year started a challenge to do 101 things of her choosing in 1001 days. Her enthusiasm for getting out and about doing stuff soon rubbed off on me and got me drawing up my own list of what I want to do. Knowing me as I know me I realised that setting a goal to get that many things in that time scale was probably setting myself up for failure before I even begun so I decided to choose just 30 things to do before I turned 30. That gave me just over two years!

I'm just 4 months into my 30 before I'm 30 Challenge and I've been sucked right into the challenge bug! To be honest I think it is down to the fact that I have a list with the things I'm to do and I get to tick the things off when I've done them. Ok, so I'm a complete sucker for lists! I am doing more things with my time mainly down to my friend dragging me along to all the things she's got on her list but also because I have my own to do too. Dannie has now created a 'life list' which incorporates everything she wants to do at some point before she dies. This blog is basically me stealing that idea and using it for myself!



As you will see to the right there is a list of things to do (I did warn you I was a sucker for lists!) and as I do them they will gradually get crossed off. But some of them may take some time. That's ok though as this is about creating me, creating my life. I have the rest of my life to do them in which why it is called to 30 and beyond. There is no time scale. Okay so I realise that I'm not going to live forever and I accept that I may die before I complete all of these things. Having said that it is my intention to do every single one of them.

I take my vow before you all today that from this day I will live my life looking for opportunities to complete tasks that are on the list today and the tasks that will gradually appear as I want to do more and more things. You will NEVER hear me say "Oh I would love to do that but I doubt I ever will" because from now on if there is something I think I would enjoy and will hurt no-one in the process of doing it I will make it my aim to make sure I do it. So if I don't do anything which is written on my things to do it won't be for want of trying!