On the weekend, my daughter met up with a few of her friends and they all decided on their 30 by 30 lists. They’re 25 and it’s a list of thirty things that each one of them wants to get done by the time they turn 30.

Kind of like a bucket list. But with a smaller time frame.

It’s a more focused bucket list.

And it’s probably more realistic when you think about what you want to get done within five years. Instead of coming up with things to do in the scope of your lifetime.

When I turned forty, I figured it was time to start doing some of the things on my bucket list. It was a bunch of things that I kept telling myself I wanted to do.

The first thing being: to run a marathon.

It took me ten years after that to write out my bucket list. It was a list of 100 things. Kind of a 100 by 100, I guess.

But the problem was that I started accumulating things to put on my bucket list years before I wrote it down. Many of the things on the list were for “far” in the future.

And does sixty-year-old me still want to do something that 40-year-old me thought would be cool? Or 30-year-old me?

Some things, maybe. Many other things, not so much.

And it’s not so important that you do everything on your list.

Plans change. Tastes change. Life changes.

The important thing is to have a list so that you have a sense of direction. Life goes by so fast. Having the occasional plan is a good thing.

It might be time to make my own 30 by 30. Would it be 65 by 65?

Yikes. That seems like a lot. Especially just to have a catchy title.

What about 30 by 65?

Hmm. Not as catchy.

Still working on a title, I guess…

But I’m going to spend some time this weekend to see if I can come up with 30 things that I’d like to do in the next five years.