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“52 things in 52 weeks” worked so well last year that I want to do it again for 2016.
No resolutions, just challenges to work towards throughout the year. But I want to shake it up a little bit.
I am not going to set a list now but try to find one new thing each week.
I have a few ideas already…
~ Learn to use our new camera in manual mode
~ Learn to use chopsticks
~ Eat a Japanese meal
~ Eat a Vietnamese meal
~ Put signature on my photos
~ Take reasonable aurora photo
~ Take reasonable night sky photo
~ Go to Twenty 20 cricket / Big Bash match
~ Walk 10,000 steps on 6 days each week
I also have 8 challenges carried over from last year…
~ Drive along Australia’s Great Ocean Road
~ Get a new job
~ Visit Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania
~ See moon set over the ocean
~ Skinny dip in the ocean
~ Go to a drive in movie
~ Get to a healthy BMI and maintain it
~ Visit Western Australia
There are a few things I want to continue doing…
~ Sentence a day journal
~ Photo a day
~ Take a selfie a week
~ Improve photo techniques and editing
day zero project is a useful website for ideas and prompts
Learn how to … A new skill or hobby?
Start … Develop a habit.
Stop … Break a habit.
Take a vacation to … Where would you most like to travel to?
Find … What are you looking for?
Try … One new thing you want to try.
Be more … A personal characteristic to improve.
Or I could try some of these ideas…
RuthsArc 
Last night’s BBL would have been a good one if you went Ruth, especially for you as a Taswegian 😉
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Excellent game, we watched it on tv. Hoping to go to last home game on 10th Jan.
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Thanks for the link to the website. I have signed up to do 7 things in 2016!
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Happy New Year Ruth and yes I think you should visit Western Australia! Very different from Tassie, which is beautiful in a different way (I especially loved Salamanca Place when we went there) 🙂
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Hi Ruth
I am glad you enjoyed the year of 52 challenges. I think you did remarkably well to achieve as many as you did.
I thought I would let you know of a couple that I have lined up, of which some are already organised.
1. Learn a new musical instrument. I am not yet tired of the violin and the Celtic genre, however, the viola da gamba calls me to try it out. It’s a medieval to Baroque period instrument, has 6 strings, looks like a cello, and has frets like a guitar. It sounds very mellow, and is both a melody instrument and a bass support instrument. Its place is in the solo repertoire, and small chamber music ensembles specializing in early music.
2. Loose 5kgs – yep menopausal weight is a nightmare.
3. Go out to sea, and look at pelagic birds. This is organised for 3rd February, and is my birthday present to myself. We will see the ocean going petrels, and shearwaters, and a few other birds as well. Maybe not an albatross though.
4. Buy the adaptor fitting for my telescope so I can shoot photos through it.
5. Visit Hobart – May 2016.
6. Make a photo book of my trip to Egypt.
I think that is a good start. I wonder if any of your other blog readers would care to contribute their list of interesting activities they would like to try during 2016.
Kind regards
Denise
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I like your list Den. A varied mix of challenges. Looking forward to seeing you in May.
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You’re tempting me to do something (I’m just not sure what the something is) but I am averse to putting my intentions in writing for fear of NOT doing it :). I shall ponder this some more.
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A little fear yes but the joy of ticking things off the list when you have achieved them.
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Yes, love that feeling, but I don’t like letting myself down either. Think I will just try to write 1 poem a week – even if I don’t publish them.
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That’s a great list for 2016. I quite honestly can’t even think what I want to achieve in 2016 but then I had little idea of what 2015 would hold but I managed to fill that pretty well so we shall see.
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I tend to be a planner so being more spontaneous should also be on my list. Sometimes the unexpected things are the most memorable.
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