55 ways to celebrate turning 55

May God Bless me with another year of adventure

55 ways to celebrate 55 years over the next year...

1. Read 55 books (currently at 36)
2. Try new red wines
3. Travel to 10 new destinations
4. 55 acts of kindness
5. Donate blood
6. Save for a Peloton treadmill 
7. Create a daily meditation practice
8. Spa day
9. Dinner in Little Italy
10. Lunch in Ohio City
11. Run my fastest 5k
12. Win 1st place for new age group running
13. Run a half marathon
14. Train ride
15. Bike ride
16. Plank 1 min a day for 55 days
17. Give away copies of Loss, Survive, Thrive
18. Write daily
19. Write my book
20. Take a new writing course
21. attend writing conference/workshop
22. Pay off debt
23. Attend floating lantern festival
24. Discover a new water fall
25. Build a new house
26. Get a tattoo
27. write daily gratitude
28. Send 55 notes 
29. Relax at the Omni resort 
30. Go see a comedian
31. Dates with my grand girls 
32. Visit the Bellamy-Ferriday house and garden/Connecticut
33. Make artists dates a routine
34. Learn a new hobby
35. read the bible daily
36. coffee with two hands
37. Make a new friend
38. Run 19 races (only ran 3 so far)
39. 55 new recipes
40. Visit Napa
41. learn to cook on Kamando Joe
42. publish articles in Bella Grace
43. publish articles at Tiny Buddha
44. Go to Arizona
45. Go to Pennsylvania
46. Go to the Carolina's
47. Relax by a campfire
48. lunch dates with girlfriends
49. paint at All fired up
50. paint at Board and Brush
51. Run Hinckley in under 30
52. Practice self care
53. Bike ride in Carolina's
54. run on the beach
55. Remember age is just a number