A new year...
I know 1st of January is just a random day among all the other equal days, but 1.1. has magic. It feels like one is taking the first step of a whole new game. After all, no-one knows what will happen the next 365 days...
So. Let's do things a bit differently this time.
1)
a) Write down all the things you'd love to know more about, you'd love to do, experience, try, that you enjoy doing, get excited when you read or see someone else doing.
Really, ALL. The more the merrier. If you get to 1000 things, I want to know what you have on your list!
Go through the list and remove the things you aren't that interested, really. Choose the things that, if someone ringed the doorbell tomorrow and told you, that you have been chosen in random to participate in this "thing", you'd say "yes!"
I choose all the things in my Pinterest boards and all my blogs :-D
b)
There is 8760 hours in year 2021.
Adults work approximately 40 hours a week, that's 2080 hours a year
Adults should sleep 8 hours a night, and that's 2920 hours a year
That leaves 3760 hours for other things. Of course, you will be using about half of that to things like transport, toilet visits, washing yourself, cleaning, eating, and other things like that, but it is also possible for you to do other things while doing those things, so I'll just ignore them. There's quite a little things that demand your 100% attention, or where you can't do other things at the time.
Anyway, that leaves you 10 hours every day to do what ever you want to...
Divide the hours with the things you want to do, and dedicate that amount to each of the things.
Let's say there's the following things on your list:
- learn to dance tango
- streamline holiday decorations etc.
- write a book
- illustrate a book
- translate a book
- learn kitchen etching
- write a movie script
- design patterns
- create wardrobe
- make a corset
- make miss Fisher doll
- balcony
- box of chocolates
- get better with French and German
- practice guitar playing
- illustrate a divination card deck
- baking
- arts
- crafts
- photography
You could use a "school day model" - divide the day's 10 hours to these subjects, for example, you write 1 hour, sew 1 hour, design 1 hour, make art 1 hour, craft 1 hour etc.
If you are like me, you aren't much interested in more than 1-2 subjects / season, and I would then divide the whole amount of hour with everything here; 188 hours per subject. Divided as one feels like it. That would be about 2 1/2 weeks courses when everything is about one subject.
There are some things on this list that would do fine with such time plan, but some others would not. Like languages. You should give each language at least 15 minutes every day. Also, I think guitar playing would do well with 15 minutes a day.
Some things here are easier to do while doing other things. You can watch television while crafting, and practice languages while brushing your teeth, and you can listen to audiobooks while you do arts and baking and such.
Other things to consider:
What about the 52 week money challenge?
Adjust it for your purposes. You can count up from $1 to $52, or down from $52 to $1. You can divide the whole sum ($1378) to 52 equal amounts, and save $26,5 every week - or more or less, as fits your budget. You could save as much as you can up to $50 every week. For me it would be best if I saved $50 every time I get my salary (twice a month) and then what I can the weeks I don't get my salary. (That would mean I save $7 dollars every week I don't get my salary, and end up with $20 more :-D
It wouldn't be too noticeable in my budget, but the $1400 in December would be a very nice bonus indeed :-D
"Stretch your comfort zone by taking on a new challenge–or doing something differently than you normally do– every day for a year."
Maybe write a list of 365 things you are scared of, and do them?
