Goal #20: Start a mini business selling my jewelry (Complete)

So this is one that I had debated listing as "complete" or not, but I figure I've done enough to qualify it as such.  I have loved to bead jewelry since I was little.  What started out as my stringing plastic beads onto string eventually led to buying nice glass beads and real jewelry wire, and becoming more creative with my designs.  For awhile, I had just made jewelry for myself and as gifts for friends, but during the summer of 2009, I was unable to find a job, so it led to my creating a website and posting my jewelry designs.  I called my business Beading Bee.  The website isn't really in good condition anymore (I need to update it, I haven't had the time to do anything to it in awhile), but the website itself was something I was very proud of because I had done it by myself and all in basic HTML code.  And considering, it came out really well!  And of course, I was very pleased with the creations that I had been producing.  And I sold more
jewelry than I thought I would.  All of my customers were people that I knew, whether they were friends, family, or my mom's coworkers, but I had really loyal customers!  Between June 2009 and March 2010 (when Beading Bee was active), I had 22 different customers and sold 70 items!  I say that's pretty darn good!

Beading Bee isn't really active anymore, but I'm hoping to start it up again.  A lot of work goes into it.  I've already made a few different pieces over the past couple weeks, so we'll see what happens!

Goal #9: Get a minor in Marketing (Complete)

As previously mentioned, I have finally earned my degree in Broadcast Communications, and with that, I have also earned a Marketing minor.  I wanted to pick up marketing because a few summers ago, I started a small jewelry business and decided it would be interesting to find out more about business.  I decided marketing would be the most interesting.  I liked Marketing, but some of the classes were almost too easy to just slip by in.  I really liked Consumer Behavior.  It really looks at all the variables of how to attract consumers, in ways I wouldn't have really thought about before.  Maybe I can find a job in it?

Goal #8: Get my BA in Broadcast Communications (Complete)

I have just finished my final semester at MCLA, majoring in English/Communications, concentrating in Broadcasting.  In fact, I finished a semester earlier than I was supposed too!  I should be receiving my diploma in the mail in a few weeks, and I'm still planning on attending the graduation ceremony in May.  I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing with it - I'm not interested in Broadcasting anymore, but I didn't know what else to study.  The Broadcasting program at MCLA wasn't bad, but I have decided it doesn't really fit me.  At least I've got a BA in something, now let's see what I can do with it.

Here's a PSA I made for fun.  It's not great, but I enjoyed doing it, and my friends were the talent for it =)

Goal #1: Get My Driver's License (Complete)

I received my driver's license in August of 2008, when I was 18.  I originally had no desire to drive, and didn't even get my driver's permit until I was 17.  Both my parents taught me how to drive, but my mom spent the most time driving around with me.  When I finally decided I was ready to take my test, I went with my dad and found out that I needed a car that had a hand break.  Guess I didn't read the test information close enough.  I had to call the local driving school and take a lesson with them so I could borrow one of their cars for the test.  On the day I finally went to take the test, it was raining out, so I was very nervous about driving.  Luckily, the man that I took the driving lesson with came with me and the tester for the road test.  It seemed that the two men knew each other, so the entire ride, the instructor was talking to him.  Despite my nerves, I did well and passed my test!  I sometimes wonder, though, if I passed because the instructor was distracting the tester while I was driving, haha!

My Goals

1. Get my driver's license
2. Get my motorcycle license
3. Learn Japanese
4. Go to Japan
5. Do volunteer work overseas
6. Lose weight and keep it off
7. Wear a bikini
8. Get my BA in Broadcast Communications
9. Get a minor in Marketing
10. Get at least a minor in Asian Studies
11. Adopt a child
12. Live in the country
13. Fall in love
14. Get married
15. Own a Volkswagon Beetle
16. Buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle
17. Get a tattoo
18. Have a garden
19. Gain more self-confidence
20. Start a mini business selling my jewelry
21. Become a better singer
    
22. Get a dog
23. Travel to at least ten other countries
24. Meet my Kenyan pen pal, Hilda
25. Go on a cross-country trip
26. Learn how to sew
27. Write a book
28. Learn how to hot wire a car
29. Learn self defense
30. Work on my signature
31. Learn more origami
32. Make a quilt
33. Swim with dolphins
34. Figure out the mystery of Gramma's family
35. Read Shakespeare's complete collection of works
36. Learn how to salsa
37. Learn how to ballroom dance
38. Go into an airport and buy tickets for a random flight
39. Donate my hair
40. Beat a videogame
41. Run in a 5K
42. See Wicked 
43. Learn how to make pottery
44. Learn how to read palms
45. Learn how to play an instrument
46. Become better at doing manicures and painting nail designs
47. Meet somebody famous
48. Learn sign language
49. Get a job I love
50. Learn how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop
51. Read The Art of War
52. Learn how to play Go
53. Learn calligraphy
54. Learn how to read tarot cards
55. Take yoga classes
56. Learn how to pole dance
57. Be a bridesmaid
58. Have my own home library
59. Finish the dolphin cross-stitching I've been working on for years!
60. Visit all 50 states
61. Go skydiving
62. Volunteer at a nursing home
63. Make a scrapbook for my trip to Poland
64. Visit the Harley Davidson Motorcycle Museum
65. Follow a presidential election and vote
66. Go to graduate school
67. Do a cosplay
68. Survive 2012
69. Be in a musical
70. Learn how to make chain mail jewelry
71. Learn how to belly dance
72. Learn how to throw knives
73. Learn to to meditate
74. Go surfing
75. Visit 6/7 continents
76. See the Northern Lights
77. Go on a cruise
78. Go stargazing
79. Live in another country
80. Ride an elephant
81. Model for something or someone
82. Learn to fly an airplane
83. Hike the Appalachian Trail
84. See the Grand Canyon
85. Buy my own diamond
86. Live on my own
87. Learn CPR
88. Go snorkeling
89. Learn how to drive a stick shift
90. Drink from a coconut
91. Go to Hawaii
92. See the Amalfi Coast in Italy
93. Learn how to sword fight
94. See Pompeii
95. Go to a cherry blossom festival in Japan
96. Learn glass blowing
97. See all of Mae West's movies
98. Go to a drive-in movie theater
99. Dye my hair a fun color
100. Learn how to snowboard

The Beginning

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."  -Mel Brooks

I am twenty-one.  One of my biggest fears is growing old and realizing that I haven't done anything with my life, of waking up and saying, "How did I let my life pass me?  Why didn't I really live my life?"  I am part of a generation that is constantly connected to technology.  We are always on the computer, watching television, playing videogames, etc.  Like many others, I know I am one of those people who just stares at the computer when I'm bored, not really doing anything to fix my boredom, constantly refreshing Facebook hoping for something interesting to happen.  I'm not satisfied with that.

In my freshman year of high school, my Health teacher, Ms. Mickey, assigned my class project options that would illustrate who we are.  I chose to write a list of 100 life goals.  It wasn't an easy assignment.  While I could have just made up goals, I really wanted to think about what I wanted out of life, no matter how impossible it may seem.  While I have since lost that original list, I have continued to focus on goals that I really want to reach in my lifetime, and made a second list of these goals a few years ago.

I would like to use this blog to record my goals and to write about achieving them.  It is my hope that, in doing this, it will help me be more motivated and will keep them in mind.