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2014 Bucket List

First, let us start with the 13 things I learned in 2013:

  1. When life seems to get stressful or overwhelming-make cuts. Sometimes it is the simple life that brings the most gratification.  And no amount of money is worth your sanity.
  2. Our capacity to love knows no bounds.  Just when you think you couldn't love more or deeper, you fall in love all over again.  Love my little family. 
  3. If it is something you want to do, you will find the time to do it.  
  4. I love the internet, but internet is not love.  Real friends, are real.  
  5. What other's think of you is not more important than what you think of yourself.
  6. One can never know what another is thinking--so don't play mind reader.  And don't fill in blanks.  Your assumption is likely to be much worse than reality.
  7. Treat what you post on the internet like considering a tattoo.  It's permanent, even after deleted.
  8. Old Navy's tall selection is amazing. 
  9. The worst-case-scenario usually never becomes the scenario. 
  10. Being alone and being lonely are two very different things.
  11. The serenity prayer is not just for alcoholics. 
  12. Yoga pants are completely acceptable attire.
  13. It's okay to relax.  

Evidently I didn't make any resolutions last year.  And 81 percent of people who set "New Year's Resolution's" fail at reaching them or maintaining them.  So instead of kidding myself, I decided to make a bucket list for 2014.  A list of things I would like to experience or accomplish over the next year.  And then around this time next year, I will check in and see how I did.
  1. Half marathon--full maaaarrathon?
  2. Visit Adventure Zip KC in Bonner.
  3. Volunteer
  4. Pay for a strangers meal without them knowing
  5. Go old school. Turn off my cell phone/ Facebook--for a week straight.
  6. Go on a wine tasting.
  7. Run a race in a different state.
  8. Go-karting
  9. Visit a museum
  10. Go on a spending freeze for a month.  Nothing unnecessary.
  11. Host a garage sale.
  12. Go fishing
  13. Make it a full year breastfeeding
  14. Go on a hike
Boom.  There you have it.  Now let's bring on a new year.

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