101 Goals Update 2.0

It’s amazing what can happen in only a year! Exactly a year ago today I posted my first goals update (you can view this here) a little over a year after creating my original list of 101 goals (original post here) for one of my internships. A year later, so much has changed: I’ve been at my full-time job for a year now, Ryan and I are over halfway through beating long distance, and the thought of grad school has become very, very real.

Here is where I’m at so far:

1. Graduate college – completed April 29, 2016!
2. Swim with dolphins
3. Get published
4. Visit all 50 states – Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, bonus: DC
5. Travel to Europe multiple times – first trip to Italy completed April 2017!
6. Go sailing
7. Be spontaneous for a whole day 
8. Rescue a dog from the shelter
9. Buy a puppy
10. Get married to the man of my dreams (he knows who he is;))
11. Have children
12. Start our own family traditions
13. Own a boat
14. Be a role model
15. Take up yoga regularly
16. Eat more vegetables – try to have them with every meal!
17. Try a new food/drink every week – I’ve actually been very good with this one
18. Own a house
19. Be generally successful in all of my endeavors
20. Become an exceptionally strong writer
21. Learn not to get frustrated over mistakes – still working on this, but I’m getting better!
22. Live a happy life
23. Own a pair Louboutins
24. Make six figures before I die
25. Finish reading the Outlander series – I’m nearly finished with book 5!
26. Write for a magazine
27. Have a fun career
28. Get a tattoo– BIG maybe
29. Make at least one person happy every day for the rest of my life
30. Make a difference in someone’s life
31. Host a holiday meal for my family
32. Cuddle a pygmy goat
33. Make a second job out of blogging
34. Donate a copious amount of money to charity
35. Complete at least five Pinterest projects I’ve pinned by the end of the year – Didn’t get it done by the end of the year
36. Read at least half of BBC’s Top 100 Book List – Pride & Prejudice, HP & the Goblet of Fire, Winnie the Pooh, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, Catcher in the Rye, HP & the Sorceror’s Stone, HP & the Chamber of Secrets, HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Hobbit, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Christmas Carol, Of Mice and Men, The BFG, Black Beauty, Artemis Fowl, A Tale of Two Cities, Holes, The Princess Diaries
37. Take my mom on the vacation of her dreams
38. Buy my dad a boat – Dad just purchased his own boat so this is no longer a thing!
39. Be in Times Square for the ball drop
40. Go on a wine tasting tour–  completed at the Biltmore!
41. Spend an entire day without touching my phone or laptop – I’m discovering that this is more and more difficult especially being in my field of work
42. Sleep under the stars
43. Take a cooking class
44. Read the Bible in it’s entirety
45. See Les Miserables on Broadway
46. Go to Disneyworld and ride every single ride
47. Make diamond boards for my littles  – Became an alumna
48. Take the train to Chicago
49. Speak French fluently
50. Win the lottery
51. Have excellent credit
52. Pay back my student loans by the time I’m 40 – I will if I continue on my current path!
53. Watch the sunset in Hawaii
54. Honeymoon in Paris
55. Start an IRA  – Shoutout to my full-time job!
56. Perfect my ice skating skills
57. Maintain a budget
58. Road trip to Alpha Delta Pi’s Executive Office
59. Learn to sew
60. Make my future husband breakfast in bed
61. Learn to drive a manual
62. Visit Nantucket
63. Obtain my CPL
64. Have my own business cards
65. Volunteer at least once a week
66. Purchase a new laptop – bought my first Mac in June 2017!
67. Get an international phone plan– lame goal, but necessary for my long distance relationship – We’re making it work with different messenger apps!
68. Give up caffeine for a month – gave up pop for Lent last year, now only if I could give up coffee
69. Meditate regularly
70. Stop biting/peeling my nails
71. Purge my bedroom at my parents’ house before I move back in – Done!
72. Leave a lasting impact on my sorority; I want to be remembered – Became an alumna
73. Have a date night at least twice a month (girls’ night when Ryan is away)
74. Strive to learn at least one new thing a day
75. Keep a journal of something I learn every day
76. Buy coffee for a stranger
77. Send flowers to a friend
78. Answer the 50 questions that will free your mind – Completed on my blog in two separate posts (first and second)
79. Write a freelance article
80. Get a massage – Treated myself post-graduation
81. Drink only water for a month
82. Explore New England/the east coast in it’s entirety
83. Perfect my handwriting
84. Attend a conference (nothing that has to do with my sorority) – Women in Automotive Conference last year for work!
85. Actually bake cookies instead of just eating the cookie dough – Made them and sent to Ryan May 2017
86. Try Tropical Smoothie – Done and I’m obsessed!!
87. Get head-shots taken
88. Go on a spontaneous trip
89. Attend New York Fashion Week
90. Attend the Kentucky Derby
91. No fast food for a month
92. Become a morning person
93. Strengthen my Instagram game
94. Get a professional blowout
95. Read for 30 minutes every night – So far, so good!
96. Upgrade my iPhone – Done this past Christmas
97. Throw diamonds with Luke Bryan
98. Go on a road trip with Ryan  – Done May 2015
99. Make a blog friend
100. See 10 classic movies – Half way there! Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Schindler’s List, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Jaws, Westside Story,
101. Buy a monogrammed stationary

Looks like I’m doing pretty good so far! A lot of these are long-term so I’m still working hard on them every day. What are some of your goals? Share a link to your own lists below!

-K.