Here we go! The challenges are finally live on the blog with their own page (later than planned, as usual 😅), and I've been working on some of them for a while now. 😎
I aim to post an update and reflect on my progress once a month, but I thought an initial post with some additional info might be a good start... so here it goes! Thoughts, comments, suggestions are all welcome at the end.
The first group of challenges are the ones I intend (hope?) to achieve over my birthday year (so until the end of July 2027):
１- Celebrate my birthday with over 50 people who are important to me.
These are of course family, friends and close colleagues. I actually started this one back in March in the Philippines! 😉
ï¼’- Send 50 postcards to people who are important to me.
Every trip I take, I try and send a few postcards - if I can find cards or stamps! This time I want to stop for a moment and reflect on the person I'm sending the card to and what they mean to me.
３- Visit 50 new places.
What counts as a new place? Well obviously any new country. Or a new region or city I haven't been to before in a country I have visited. But also any new specific places within familiar sites. Like a museum I haven't been to. Or a park, a monument, a cultural space... I hope this will get me appreciating the "known" a bit more. Oh! And any new country /region /city only counts as 1 new place on the first visit, independent of how many individual spots I explore within it!
