Here we go! The challenges are finally live on the blog with their own page (later than planned, as usual π ), and I've been working on some of them for a while now. π
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):
οΌ- Celebrate my birthday with over 50 people who are important to me. π
Organising one giant 50-person party is impossible considering my global background and relations, so I'm celebrating with people in different places and at different times throughout the year. These are of course family, friends and close colleagues. I actually started this one back in March in the Philippines! π
οΌ- Send 50 postcards to people who are important to me. π
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.
οΌ- Visit 50 new places. π
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 place within somewhere I already know counts too. Like a museum I haven't been to. Or a park, a monument, a cultural space... I hope this will encourage me to appreciate the familiar a bit more. Oh! And any new country /region /city only counts as 1 new place on the first visit, regardless of how many individual spots I explore within it!
