Eight months ago I wrote my 30 by 30 Update giving myself the deadline of tomorrow night to complete my list. I did all but one! Not bad 🙂

1. Meditate with a Zen master ✓
2. Live in California ✓
3. Start something that lasts ✓
4. Go all natural ✓
5. Eat tapas in Spain ✓
6. Sangha-hop in 6 different countries ✓
7. Teach children English ✓
8. Follow my advice to prospective students (find what I’m passionate about) ✓
9. Learn a language ✓
10. Only own 100 things that spark joy ✓
11. Go to Europe ✓
12. Volunteer in 12 different food related places ✓
13. Live in the Philippines ✓
14. Spend a whole day just walking (or a coffee hunt) ✓
15. Be part of a flashmob ✓
16. Produce a book ✓
17. Make an app a system ✓
18. Simplify our home ✓
19. Travel overseas with a luggage weighing only 10kg ✓
20. Grow a herb garden human (x3) ✓
21. Teach my nephews daughter Plum Village songs and maybe also Zumba ✓
22. Take care of something -> Myself ✓
23. Go to my name ✓
24. Do 100 pushups ✓ Do 50 push ups in a row
25. Visit 25 15 (I’m pretty sure I only meant 15!) of the most liveable cities in the world (according to Monocle) ✓
26. Travel around the world without dipping into our savings ✓
27. Touch my toes while sitting down <– Having two pregnant bellies since writing this to do prevented me from completing this, and I’m okay with that
28. Attend a conference ✓
29. See cherry blossoms in Japan ✓
30. 30 films in 3 years ✓