I'm a huge believer in lists and goals and self improvement and what better time to set a to do list than for when you turn 21, to be completed before you turn 22?
21 is 'the last young year' in a way, after this the next big birthday is 30 - when you're officially an adult, so I may as well start trying to achieve things that will help me become the adult I want to be on my 30th birthday,
So - I want to be cultured, financially fine, independent, able to stop impulse buying, become slightly more intelligent (I feel as though my brain got lazier since starting uni!), stop feeling fat and generally just become happier.
My list to trying to make this happen is:
1. Lose 21lbs. Weight on birthday was 12stone 7lbs. (On 7/8/12 weight was 11stone 13.5lbs - lost 7.5lbs since birthday. On 17/9/12 weigh in was 11stone 9.5lbs - lost 11.5lbs since birthday )
2. Hand in all uni assignments on time.
3. Actually do uni assignments before the night before they're due.
4. Spend 2 months (not consecutively) on a spending ban.
5. Pay off £2100 of my debts. (On 17/9/12 paid off £200 and shut down 1 card. On 20/9/12 paid off a loan totalling £500. New total of £700 paid off.)
6. Read 21 books.
7. Visit an art gallery or museum a month.
8. Write 21 chapters of that book I want to publish one day.
9. Sell 21 items of clothing on ebay. (18/9/12 - sold 6)
10. Wear a bikini on a beach. Even if that is a beach on bloody Ayr!
11. Read a Shakespeare play.
12. Run a 5K
13. Reach 250 followers on my fashion blog.
14. Make a day a week that I tidy my room.
15. Read a newspaper a week.
16. Complete the 30 Day Shred (not including the one I've technically already started!)
17. Spend a weekend away with no phone and no internet.
18. Go on 'date night' once a month.
19. Make a meal that doesn't come from a microwave once a week.
20. Try a new recipe once a month.
21. Save up enough for an expensive handbag (the Mulberry Del Ray or the Marc Jacobs Stam probably)
21 Books to Read.
1. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
2. The Beautiful and The Damned - F.Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (technically a re-read but it was years ago and I can't remember it!)
4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
6. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (again a re-read but I loved it)
9. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
10. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
11. The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
12. War For The Oaks - Emma Bull
13. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
15. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
16. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
17. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
18. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
19. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
20. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
21. To Kill A Mockingbird - Haper Lee (Finishing on another re-read but I adore this book.)
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