Kia Ora friends!
I'm not sure if I'll ever post this but I've seen a few other blogs do the "30 things I want to do before I'm 30" challenge and wanted to give it a go. I'm kinda scared that I won't actually make it to 30 things, as a lot of the inspo on other blogs are things that I've already done or can do (like drive a manual, travel solo, learn how to cook/bake, learn about politics - I have a social science degree; this comes with the trade, etc). Hitting that age of 30 is also getting closer as we speak, I'm gonna be 28 in less than 2 months - sh*t. Let's see what I can achieve in the next 2 years. The idea will be to come back to this post in 2025 and see how much I've crossed off.
30 Things I want to do before I'm 30!
Make a significant dent in my student loan (moving countries with this and then having interest is kinda scary bc you can't really buy a house with a student loan)
Travel to more countries (I really want to go to Iceland, Mexico, and Canada)
Get a cute doggo (a corgi called Waffles)
Start a YouTube channel
Save 100,0000
Find my purpose in life (e.g., my career trajectory and have better working hours to work on my work-life balance)
Get really good at baking and fancy icing techniques
Do a lot more long-exposure photography (e.g., astro, sunrises, sunsets)
Monetize my blog and social media platforms
Get 10,000 Instagram followers
Try out ghost-hunting
"Astral Project" during a meditation session (I meditate on the regular but there's only a few times I've had an out of body experience during a session OR learn to lucid dream)
Read more than 10 books a year
Fine-tune my fashion style
Become more wine-literate and do more wine-tasting
Learn to manage my IBS symptoms a lot better
Learn more Te Reo Maori (and learn where the macrons are on Wix or how to add them)
Learn to paint pretty pictures
Learn how to make a cocktail
Learn how to make marshmallows, home-made chips (crisps), and replicate the hash brown from Maccas
Take my partner Luke on a full roadie of my home land New Zealand
Get another tattoo - something more meaningful than another basic b*tch one
Get to level 50 in Pokemon Go (lol nerdy I know). I'm currently at level 42 (Sep, 2023)
Do more driving around Melbourne to gain my confidence in driving here
Give up caffeine (not altogether but for a significant period so I'm not so reliant on it)
Learn how to garden better (most of my indoor house plants have survived thankfully and I'm learning a bit about what we have in our current garden now but would love to learn how to grow herbs and strawberries outside)
Try out glamping + a spa self-care retreat/weekend
Have a better skincare routine
Learn more about AI technology
Practice gratitude more regularly
So there you have it, 30 things I want to do before I am 30! What's yours?
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