Hey friends, Elizabeth here from Plant Based Bride and welcome back to
another video! In today's video I'm going to be filling in my 2020 bucket list
spread that I set up in my 2020 BuJo set up video. So this is basically 20
things to do in 2020. This was adapted from my last bullet journal where I had
a 27 before 27 spread, and I think I achieved maybe 1/3 of my goals on that
but I only gave myself a few months to do all 27 of those items and I just
didn't have time to do every single one. So I thought I would repurpose some of
the bucket list items from that list that I didn't end up getting to and at a
few more in the hopes that this would encourage me to do some more things that
feed my soul or take me out of my comfort zone! There are things that I
love to do but I put off and don't make a priority and I really want to
start living my life to the fullest and giving myself the kick I need to really
pursue my passions on a regular basis as possible and to live my life in a way
that I can be proud of. That I can look back and not feel that I didn't do the
things that I wanted to do because I was afraid or because I was too stuck in the
routine of my regular life. And I know I'm not the only person who struggles
with this. I know in conversations with friends and family this comes up a lot,
that it's really easy to just fall into the day-to-day and all of the things
that are required of us to live lives as adults in our current world, you know?
Most of us work the vast majority of our waking hours and the rest of our waking
hours a lot of us are spending cooking and cleaning and dealing with
administrative duties of living a life as an adult or taking care of your
animals or your kids or family members who are
relying on you, and there's always something... and then if you have a spare
moment where there's nothing a lot of us just want to be a potato because we're
so inundated with constant stimulation from all sides that sometimes we just
need to turn off to not short out. So I definitely struggle with this and I'm
hoping that this spread is going to help me get my priorities in order. Of course
my first priority is to make sure that my family is safe and taken care of, so
all of those things like working and cooking and cleaning and taking care of
the cats and doing administrative things and all of those things obviously are a
big deal and are not something that can be left to the wayside, but I can also
shift my perspective on my free time and try to make that time more targeted
towards things that I think will make a bigger difference to my general life
satisfaction level rather than just doing the easy thing like watching
YouTube videos for two hours straight or watching a whole Netflix series about
people falling in love through a wall. So with all that said here are the 20
things I would like to do in 2020.
1. Wake up early to see the sunrise. I'm not a
morning person. I do not wake up early enough to see the sunrise very often.
2. Visit my grandparents. My grandparents are lovely and I don't get to see them
that often, so it's important to me to make time to go see them. They are
getting older and I want to make sure to spend some quality time with them while
they are still able to.
3. Donate blood. This was on my last list and I put it
off because I do have very low blood pressure and fainting is an issue for me,
so I was feeling pretty anxious about the possibility of fainting while
donating blood, but I'm hoping to get to it
in 2020.
4. Spend a week off of social media. This one is hard for multiple reasons. I
think it would be hard for a lot of us to spend a week off of social media just
because we're so accustomed to it and in some cases addicted to it, but it's also
part of my job. So it's a very weird feeling to think about disconnecting
from all social media for a full week. But I'm hoping at some point in 2020 to
take a real vacation from work and take at least a full week where I just don't
think about work; I don't go on any social media for any reason. I feel like
it will be very freeing. 5. Write the first draft of my musical. I've had an
idea for a musical I want to write for years and I bought the biography about
the person I wanted to write this musical about and started reading it and
I had all these ideas and then life took hold of me... so I'm kind of hoping to use
NaNoWriMo this year to try to write the first draft of my musical and I'm really
excited about that! 6. Donate to charity. I have
already done this but I hope to donate more throughout the year! 7. Get another
tattoo. I've had an idea for a tattoo for years that I haven't gotten around to. I
only have one tattoo that I actually got 5 years ago now so it's time for another
one. I love my current tattoo but I can be a bit indecisive so I've put it off
even though I know what I want. 8. Read 100 books. As you all know I've
been working on this goal of reading a hundred books. I'm doing pretty well so
far! I'm already more than 20% of the way to my goal so I have a feeling I'm going
to hit it which is amazing. 9. Volunteer. I love volunteering and I didn't get
much time for volunteering in 2019. 10. Record an album. I am a singer as some of
you know, I went to college for musical theater so I studied singing, but I loved
a lot of classic songs especially from the 40s/50s sort of era and I've always
wanted to record an album of covers of some of my favorite songs, so that's kind
of the album that I've been wanting to do and been putting off for a long time.
11. Create my dream studio. I've been redesigning the back room of our house
which was sitting unused for many years into my home office/
studio and it's so beautiful already! There's been such a transformation and I
just have basically the finishing touches to do before I can share it
with all of you, and I'm just so excited about it!
12. Take a weekend trip with Jason.
I love the idea of just hopping in a rental car and going on a trip
somewhere for the weekend. Trying to be spontaneous which is not in my nature.
13. Spend a day with horses. I love horses. I grew up riding! Hopefully I can find a
way to spend time with horses this year. I would love to combine that with
volunteering and find maybe a shelter of some kind to donate my time to.
14. Learn to cook some easy, healthy meals. I'm not the best cook in the world. I'm okay, I
know how to follow a recipe, but I want to take this year to learn a few staple
meals that I can whip up easily without having to check a recipe for dinners and
lunches that are just really nice wholesome healthy vegan meals for my
husband and myself to eat.
15. Try a pole dancing class. I've wanted to do this for
a long time, it seems like a lot of fun! I've done some aerial work throughout my
life and I feel like it's a very similar sort of craft involving a lot of the
skills that I have through dancing for such a long time, but I love the fact
that the strengthening aspect of it is focused on your upper body because my
upper body has always been the weakest part of my body. Plus I hate working out
so the idea of doing something that's a workout that is also fun sounds awesome!
16. Sew a dress. I mentioned this in a video back in December I think, but I
would really like to sew a couple basically recreations of dresses that I
have been lusting over but can't justify the cost. So dresses from brands like
Reformation that are sustainably made but just out of my price range, taking a
look at those dresses and trying to come up with my own dress and sewing it
myself to sort of fill that need in a more creative and economical way.
17. Get my French back. So as a lot of you know, I speak French. I was in
French immersion from first grade to grade eleven before I moved schools and
couldn't be in French immersion anymore and my sister is pretty much fully
bilingual, her husband is francophone, and I love French. I love the language, I love
speaking French, and my French skills are so rusty at this point it's quite
embarrassing, so it's something that I have been meaning to do for years but I
just want to set up a framework for myself to maintain my French in a more
realistic way.
18. I want to declutter 50% of my belongings.
That seems like a lot but I think it's possible. I have started already, I
haven't really been counting but I did make a huge pile of clothing to donate
as well as books to donate so I'm on track for that. I just really feel like I
can go even further on my minimalism journey. I've accumulated some things
that I just don't need in my physical space, so I'm looking forward to that
this year! 19. Record an original song. As I said, I want to record an album of
covers but I also want to push myself to fully finish one of my original songs. I
struggle with finishing a song and being happy with it, you know, that
perfectionism coming out. And lastly, 20. Deepen friendships. This one is something
that is a bit hard for me. I feel like I'm in that time of my life where it's
been enough time since college that a lot of my college friendships have kind
of faded, a lot of us have gone our separate ways or don't live anywhere
near each other anymore, and those friendships have sort of evaporated. And
because of the type of career I've led and the types of jobs I've done and the
amount of traveling I've done I've really struggled to develop new adult
friendships just based on who I am as an adult person and I do want to try in
2020 as much as it's hard for me because I'm an introvert and I get uncomfortable
in social situations, I get some social anxiety, but I do want to push myself to
continue to nurture the friendships that I do still have from earlier times in my
life and to deepen friendships that I have been developing as an adult.
So there you go, there are the 20 things I am going to try to do in 2020.
My little 2020 bucket list! I would love to know in the comments something that's
on your bucket list for 2020, what's something that you were hoping to
accomplish or finally make the time to do? I'm sure that I won't accomplish
every single one of these 20 things, and that's okay, but I'm hoping to do as many
of them as possible to really feel like I focused on things that matter to me
this year and really truly lived my life. That's it for this video, thank you so
much for watching as always and I will see you very soon in my next one. Bye friends!
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