I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want to accomplish in the next 5 years, 10 years and beyond. I don’t have a set bucket list, however I do have things that I would like to someday do, most of them on my GTD Someday/Maybe List.

• Learn photography (or simply, learn how to take amazing photos)
• Learn another language (you would think with my world travel I would already have already been inspired to do this)
• Organize my digital photos (boring) or just hang photos on my wall
• Visit Scotland, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and all 50 states with Nick.
• See the Northern Lights
• Watch the The Ohio State Buckeyes win a national championship. Again. Watch them play in the Rose Bowl. Visit all Big 10 (12?) Stadiums.
• Play Piano more
• Eat at a Taco Truck here in town and have a burger at The Thurman Cafe
• Ski the Rockies, the Appalachians, and the French Alps (Did the Swiss Alps already. Got engaged there and hurt my neck. Those two things were unrelated.)
• Live in a different city. Zurich? Maybe.
• Have kids. Or kid.
• Become a GTD Certified Trainer
• Attend an English Premier League game. Probably a Tottenham game.
• Buy a house. Decorate it pretty. Have lots of people over.
• Go to Reds games in different ballparks. Especially a Spring Training game in Goodyear, Arizona. This and the Tottenham game are for Nick. He would love them and I while I love sports, I would enjoy his enjoyment most.
• Make a budget. Keep it for a whole year. Stop spending all of our money at Target.
• Writing something valuable. Don’t know what that is yet. Perhaps this is just keep a journal. Or a blog. Or something to look back and reflect on.

And the list grows. So then the questions becomes, when? When do I start trying to tackle or enjoy or start these things? When I’m 100% healthy? I struggle with that one. I’m not seriously ill but it’s always something. Gallbladder. Tonsillectomy. Right now I’m in Physical Therapy and Massage Therapy for re-injuring my neck. It’s not greatly impairing me, however, it’s well, a pain in the neck. Ha. Or maybe when I have time? I’m starting to believe that if I wait for extra time, I’m never going to have it. It’s up to me to determine what I want to do with my time.

Then I read posts like these: Reclaiming Wife: Do Things That Scare the Sh*t Out Of You and read about my coworker spending the next year exploring the US by RV at his aptly named website: “Someday I’ll Do It, Why Not Today?” And I read about the couple sailing across the Pacific Rim. Now that’s dedication. I admire all of these people – I know they all had fears but that didn’t stop them.

If I think back on when I felt the happiest about my accomplishments the past few years, it was when I was physically strong such as when I was able to pull myself into the white water raft with only my arm strength in the summer of 2007. When I trained and swam in a tri relay in June 2011. When I took 3 overseas trips in a row and didn’t get sick. When I skied the Alps and somehow kept up with the Swiss skier much more advanced than me.

All of the above is pointing me to one Someday/Maybe that I’m starting to believe I can accomplish within the next year and that I didn’t list above: Completing a Full Triathlon By Myself. Most likely a Women’s Only Tri. This was something I didn’t even realize that I wanted to do until I competed in the tri relay. I’m not a runner. I hate running. Oh and I don’t own a bike nor have a place to store a bike. And yet, the more I think about it, the more my workouts are starting to center around swimming, running, and (stationary) biking, I’m starting to realize that I’m getting excited. That I Really Want To Do This. And that’s how things move from Someday/Maybe to Yes, I’m Going to Do This.