JULY 2018: THINGS I LOVE TODAY
MY KIDS ARE OFF ON BIG CITY ADVENTURES
AND MAMA GETS TO PLAY IN HER STUDIO
CATCHING UP WITH CITY COUSINS IN OUR BACKYARD

Ever since my very first itouch and Apple opened its podcast store, I have been obsessed. From the early days where I would listen to the Jillian Michaels radio show or Tranquility Du Jour, to now where my podcast list is impossible to keep up with and filled with inspiring and funny podcasts, that I will listen to ‘one day’ 😉 
 
Lately I have been obsessed with Gretchen Rubin’s Happier podcast. It is filled with life hacks to make your life easier and therefore happier! So on my walks I have been binging on her back catalogue of shows, and I stumbled onto the show called ’18 for 18’
 
Basically it is 18 things to accomplish, to leave behind or to finish by the end of 2018.
 
So I began to think. I start every year with pages and pages of things I would like to accomplish, tick off or leave behind and I would say that every year come November I find that list and am disappointed that yet again, I haven’t ticked nearly as much off my list!
 
But I love the idea of 18 things for 18, 18 things that I want to accomplish, and tick of and leave behind. 
 
So I came home from my walk and instead of jumping in the shower, I wrote my ‘18 for 18’ list. My list is a combination of everything in my life and includes:
 
 Wake up between 7 + 7.30 every school morning
 Kitchen and Pantry DONE!
 Discovering your Creative Squeak Online launch
 Visit the NGA
 A family holiday
 18 KGS gone
 Backyard or balcony – choose one.
 Mixed Media Course
 Beatrix of Skellington – illustrate one.
 Get a pet of some kind.
 Credit Card – bye bye
 Start a massage/ facial practice
 Get away with Mac
 Verandah Cleared of crap
 Read 7 non-fiction books
 Organise my super (see a financial planner)
 Do a small biz course
 Finish my desert garden.

One of my Discovering your Creative Squeak was so inspired when I told her about this she went home and wrote hers, which had things like make 18 new recipes, visit her 18^thcountry, read 18 books, etc and I loved how ’18’ her list was! 
 
So since I wrote that first list, I have now stuck it everywhere – in my diary, my planner, my computer, my bathroom mirror so I will see it and be inspired by it. 
 
And the very best thing about this list besides the fact that there are only 18 things is that they are 18 things that I am excited by and want to achieve, that I am inspired to tick of and move on.

p.s Do you have an 18 for 18 list? What would you put on it (why not hit reply and share it with me!) And if you are on insta definitely search #18for2018 to see other people lists!

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