TheĀ ā30 before 30ā² list
Hi! Welcome to the first post of our ā30 before 30ā blog. What is this you ask? We - AJ and Shal - are going to turn the big Three-Oh next year. We want to spend the last year of our 20s, doing all kinds of things. Things we love doing, things that improve the quality of our lives, things that help us grow and things that are fun! So weāve created a list of 30 things we want to do, before we turn 30. Hopefully, at the end of this year, weāll get through all the things in this list and find ourselves to be older, wiser, fitter and more inspired as we head into our thirties.
The List
Teach Shal DSLR photography
Learn scuba diving together
Go on a long multi-day road trip
Enjoy a āfine-diningā experience at The French Laundry
Watch "O" of Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas
Practice, rehearse and perform a song-duet on stage at a live bar or put it up on YouTube
Go to Yellowstone/one of the Southwestern National Parks
Do a solo silent retreat each
Go skiing/snowboarding in Tahoe
Learn a new musical instrument (piano)
AJ gets a tattoo
See Adele live in concert
Watch a play on Broadway in NYC
Make a budget and stick to it
Hike Half Dome together
Go Kayaking together
Increase fluency in Spanish (AJ) and German (Shal)
Work out 200 out of 365 days
Take a cooking class together
Read 12 books in 12 months
Go to a multi-day music festival
Take yoga classes on weekends
Get the perfect backyard
Learn to hold a plank for 3 minutes
Publish an app on the app store
Go to LA's Harry Potter kingdom
Throw a big house party with home cooked meal (Parenthood style)
Run a 15 K together
Go to Italy
Make a "30 things we want do before turning 30" blog - THIS!
In the following months, weāll publish more posts as we accomplish things from the list. Some things on the list are meant to be ongoing throughout the year and weāll post periodic updates about how those are coming along. Weāll also do a post about why we picked the things we picked :)
Follow us if youāre interested in what we are doing and curious to see what we accomplish!








