30 things to do before you're 30! | Victoria Jiju

As the years go by we all get older. One minute we are waiting for the day we turn 18 and the next you're thinking about how to advance in your career, are you on the right path? Should you be married? Children? Who knows? It's no lie your 20's are probably some of the most exploratory years of your life from naive teenager to the painstaking reality of work and bills, we've all been through an experience or two. This year I will be turning 25 and thought it would be nice to make a list of things I hope to achieve by the time I'm 30. 

Travel 


1. Visit New York
2. Explore the South of France
3. Travel to Italy 
4. Go Glamping
5. Explore the South of England and all of its beauty (Cornwall)
6. Go to India 

Life 
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7.  Have a child or potentially be thinking about one in the next few years
8. Keep blogging and hopefully be more established
9. Learn a language
10. Become more environmentally friendly, grow herbs, spices, and vegetables, compost, use reusable makeup pads, reduce the use of plastic.
11. Find a new hobby and make new friends 
12. Read lots of new books and expand your knowledge both fiction and non-fiction 
13. Place more importance of physical health and workout three times a week
14. Experience more live entertainment, comedy, music, and theatre 
15. Be financially independent and don't owe money to anyone besides a mortgage
16. Eat at a fancy restaurant 

Home 
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 17. Either own your own home or have a substantial deposit saved
18. Have a lovely garden with cozy nooks to enjoy a book in 
19. Own a single piece of quality furniture that is self bought and not hand-me-down
20. Have you (rented) house fully decorated and enjoy every room of the house 
21. Host a dinner party and have friends and family over more regularly 
22. Grow our own Christmas tree 
23. Have lovely self-bought Christmas decorations
24. Host a Christmas  

Work
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25. Be a fully qualified in your line of work
26. Look into options to keep progressing at work
27. Start adding more funds to my pension pot
28. Enjoy work
29. Try to get one piece of work published 
30. Go for drinks after work with the girls like they do in the movies 


As I've mentioned this list is quite personal and everything may not apply to you. However, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from taking the four main categories and adapting them for yourself.  I hope you achieve everything you want and more but remember you gotta work for what you want. 





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