47 things for my 47th year of life
Hello family, friends & strangers! You make me smile.
I wonder if my family will read this. I wonder if my friends will read this.
I’m positive a stranger will stumble across this and read it. You stranger reading this. DM me on Instagram. You can find me @heady.coleman.
My mother has a 47 year old son now.
My children have a 47 year old father now.
My wife can now say she is married to a 47 year old man.
You can’t hear me but I’m thinking about what I was like when I was 4 years old.
Now I’m thinking of what I was like when I was 7.
Oh 11. I got to 11 by adding the 4 and the 7.
I can’t remember what I was like. I wonder what I wanted to be at that age..
As I got older, I did want to be a motivational speaker. I wanted to be an attorney at some point. I wanted to be a teacher. A professor. And a few other things.
I still think about what I want to be.
When I turned 45 I did a post about 45 things I wanted to do during my 45th year of life. I thought I would do it again for 47.
One of the things I wanted to do was wear red socks everyday for my 45th year of life and I’m still wearing red socks everyday. Red socks is all I own now.
Well, let me stop rambling and start making this list.
47 things I want to either do, become more consistent at, get better at or start doing.
Spend more quiet time with God.
Write a devotion everyday around the reading plan from church.
Share the gospel with 365 people.
Quality date once a month with the wife.
Sit and talk with my wife once a day for 15 minutes uninterrupted.
Couple meeting once a month.
Take my daughter on a date once a month.
Jump out a plane.
Read over my goals daily.
Coach african-american high school boys raised by single moms.
Spend more one-on-one time with my team around their goals and personal growth.
Spend way more time with more sons. Just us.
Don’t go out to eat unless for work purposes.
Start 10 new groups.
No shopping.
Play tennis once a week.
Write a blog post once a week around achieving your goals.
Upload a video once a week talking about my blog post for that week.
Send out an email once a week.
Do a Go Win Workshop tour to high schools.
Tell 1000 people about The Exchange.
Tell a 1000 people about Made Possible By.
100 moms and 100 students in the Go Win Community.
Write 1000 handwritten notes.
Create a spreadsheet to track who I’m spending time with.
Time block my day every day.
Do monthly themes.
Take more walks.
Take a sabbath every week.
Have harder conversations quicker.
Greet 10,000 people.
Look at my calendar every morning.
Hug my sons.
Block out time for monthly self check-ins.
Read for 1 hour everyday around the theme for the month.
Monthly dinners at my house with people from my church and community.
Have a schedule on when I will check social media and respond to comments.
Learn more about people so I can connect more people.
Cut hair weekly or maybe twice a week.
Run/Walk 20 to 30 miles a week.
Share an inspiring/motivational quote everyday.
Check this 47 things list weekly.
Cut sugar from my diet.
2 vacations with my family.
Produce a podcast weekly
Organize cousins night once a month.
Get 52 new people to GuthrieAmerica.
This list isn’t in any particular order and I give myself the freedom to change it at any time.
I’m going to get someone to meet with me once a month to go down the list for a check-in on how I’m doing with the list.
My 47th year of life will be my best year yet.
I have decided to do my year based on my birthday instead of January.
Your Greeter,
Heady
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