Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast - Or The Impossible List.

I recently came across the idea of the Impossible List. I like the idea and I want to expand on it a bit here, what I believe it to be about. I linked to College Info Geek's post about it because I like his video, but he has a link to the official page too.

I think it's about writing down ALL of your goals, from those which are easy to those which seem impossible. It's about seeing how your perspective shifts. It's adaptable, which I love. I like the way goals can be broken down into smaller, manageable steps and when they're achieved, they can be expanded to add newer, bigger ones. It's almost a gamification of life, which is quite nice.

Anyway, here's mine.

My Impossible List

Professional Goals

• Go to and graduate from university 
• Run a How To Talk workshop online
• Pick small, private audience (July 2017)
• Look through the book to establish topics
• Start discussion thread (abandoned 2017)
• Finish chapter 1
• Evaluate helpfulness
• Run a How To Talk workshop in person
• Have 20 posts on my parenting blog
• Teach a parenting course
• Publish a book
• Attend an ELT workshop or conference
• Do a TYLEC
• Do a DELTA
• Get one week ahead in lesson planning
• Have all my folders organised with sections
• Have a collection of tried and tested lessons which work well
• Get my transcription ratio down to 1:3

Skills Goals

• Get my driving licence
• Take driving lessons (Summer 2016)
• Try a new driving school
• Become fluent in German
• I can communicate and hold basic, stilted conversation (2017)
• Complete Duolingo tree
• Complete online German course
• Take a German course in person
• Become fluent in a third language
• Maybe Afrikaans or Dutch
• Learn to read another script
• Learn to swim underwater

Financial Goals

• Make at least €1000 a month
• €520ish (Jan 2017)
• Finish paying off driving lessons
• Get a month ahead in budgeting
• Save €5000

Family Goals

• Raise a family pet
• Train a dog using positive methods
• Have my husband adopt my son
• Contact a solicitor
• Complete a Love Languages for Kids challenge
• Have two children close together
• Read all the Harry Potter books with my son
• Philosopher's Stone
• Chamber of Secrets
• Teach son to swim
• Hold a family Achievement Goal Weekend

Creative Goals

• Display my own photography
• Play guitar at a party with friends
• Be able to play 5 songs from memory
• Learn to fingerpick
• Learn how to play Spanish guitar
• Make more than 10 blog posts in 2017
• I made 8!
• Make more than 15 blog posts in 2018

Lifestyle Goals

• Complete The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
• Develop my wardrobe/sense of style
• Have a harmoniously decorated home
• Live somewhere with outdoor space
• Coming February 2018!
• Live in a house
• Own a house
• Overcome fear of injections
• Get my ears pierced
• Donate blood
• Travel to a country which requires extra vaccinations
• Get to a point where I feel my ADHD is manageable
• Help reduce male violence/domestic violence
• Help reduce financial inequality
• Visit America
• See the Harry Potter Studio Tour
• Meet J. K. Rowling