Should I Try 52 New Things In One Year?
I often plan my year in the spring when my birthday comes around. I am not quite a full year postpartum with my third baby. So, I thought to have a somewhat laid back year.
Then my curiosity peaked when I came across the idea to try something new every week for 52 weeks. This is a challenge I am not sure I want to undertake, but it is tempting.
For one thing, it would likely be an expensive year. It would also, probably interfere with my social life, not to mention my weekly routines as a mom of three littles.
It does seem less difficult than a one-month challenge with a new idea every day. Yet, I am still a little intimidated by the idea.
I guess 52 new things isn't that much more than 30 things, and 52 things stretched over 356 days does sound more doable.
The intention is to seek one new experience once a week on average. So theoretically, I could knock out two or three items on my list in one week.
If I was going to attempt this challenge, I would sit down with a calendar and plan as much as possible before starting. I would be hard pressed to arrange something new-to-me every single week.
Also, I wouldn't wait until January first to start because:
1. It's a terrible time of year to make goals.
2. Why wait?
Below are 52 ideas I came up with off the time of my head. I haven't done a single one of these before, but I would like to. So, hey, why not see if I can do it in a year? No one knows how much time they have left, right?
If I were to do it, I might modify the list as I go.
Maybe I will try to complete it all in the next 52 weeks. Maybe.
What do you think?
1. Take a phone photography class
2. Try an aerial yoga class
3. Eat fufu
4. Have an omakase sushi dining experience
5. Make a profit selling a floral arrangement
6. Tour a chocolate factory
7. Teach a casual kimbap/sushi making class
8. Make chocolate dipped pistachio macarons
9. Swim in the pink water at Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake
10. Eat lucuma flavored ice cream
11. Attend a book signing
12. Volunteer at an animal shelter
13. Attempt yoga or hula hooping on a paddleboard
14. Go to a honey festival
15. Take a cold plunge in a lake in winter
16. Learn a song on the guitar
17. Go to a Powwow
18. Attend a service at a Greek Orthodox church
19. Experience a float spa
20. Make a pavlova
21. Finally brave a Stephen King horror novel
22. Try a Bikram Yoga class
23. Master a card trick
24. Solve a Rubix cube
25. Make a Hurricane mocktail
26. Eat Kao Soi
27. Take my kids horseback riding
28. Take my kid on the Skycoaster
29. Learn Heart Shaped Box on the piano
30. Make an ube cake
31. Make a friendship bracelet
32. Attempt indoor surfing
33. Get an oxygen facial
34. Try a kickboxing class
35. Make crumpets and clotted cream
36. Rope swing into water
37. Make sourdough bread
38. Create a pumpkin head video
39. Take a hip hop class
40. Make an Oogie Boogie Halloween costume
41. Host a Summerween party
42. Learn how to play backgammon or Go
43. Attend Oktoberfest
44. Ride on an alpine slide
45. Run in a Ragnar Relay
46. Dance on the countertop
47. Learn how to skin a rabbit
48. Make and eat rabbit gumbo
49. Hike to Delicate Arch
50. Check out Fifth Water Hot Springs
51. Go Camping in the Sawtooth Mountains
52. Run around the block with an empty suitcase at midnight on New Year's Eve
So, what are your thoughts? Should I attempt to complete my list in the next year?
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