It takes the occasional cold email outreach for me to remember that this site is still accessible from my personal profiles and deserves a look and update from time to time. Creating these annual lists has become tougher to make and tougher to achieve, but they have been an important part of intention-setting in my life.
I turned 36 in 2024 and it feels like we’ve been hitting strides as a household, taking on new adventures and trying to figure out how to do community, family, career, and life well.
- Listen to the weekly podcast.
- Dig deeper into something I’ve been casually content in.
- Write thank you cards.
- Eat that irrationally absurd meal.
- Read more books than last year.
- Do the no-fun, adult thing: car maintenance.
- Get the backyard in order, or hire it out.
- Say yes to the long-time no.
- Consolidate a closet of junk.
- Espresso level up: deeper dives into the machine.
- Teach Swayze a new game.
- Create a new dinner/meal to share.
- Figure out Figma.
- Re-establish morning rituals.
- More neighbor hangs.
- Get that kid in dance class.
- Take the family to a Crew soccer game.
- Become a family of four.
- Help someone achieve the dream.
- Get the bike back out.
- Gift big.
- Facilitate a blind butter test and find the true best.
- Prioritize evening time over to-do lists.
- Fly first class.
- Go to a concert again (it has literally been years).
- Get back to NYC.
- Take the time to train someone.
- Turn off mobile notifications.
- Eliminate doom scrolling in downtime.
- Hire that person you’ve needed.
- Be the patient one.
- Find a new hang spot to get inspired.
- Words of affirmation where needed.
- Redefine “Date night” and be content with the current season.
- Travel internationally.
- Gift the parenting must-haves to an expecting parent
- Attend a 100th birthday party (On the LIFE LIST)