I take 100% responsibility for my life.

How I do what it takes to create and live the life I want.

1000 weeks represents 20 years.

I am living my life with a view to being healthy at 90+ years old.

I know I can’t predict what my future will be but I know that any future I have will be mostly by my design.

I’m very proud of the way I’ve worked on my physical fitness and nutrition and the way I’ve worked on my mental fitness over the last 10 years.

When I was about 50 I had a vision of retiring and walking on the beach like I would see in the superannuation ads on the tele. With that vision in my mind I made a lot of intentional decisions based on as much information as I could gather at the time of each decision. Sometimes some bad luck affected my decisions and sometimes I was lucky and had better things to choose from but I always decided on a direction to go.

It’s no accident that I don’t need to work anymore and I walk on the beach every day.

I have taken 100% responsibility for my life. I have a framework that I work within so I cover all aspects of my life on a regular basis. After nearly 10 years defining myself as a doll clothes pattern designer I have learnt that I am much more than that.

For the next 20 years (2024 - 2044) I am going to live life to its fullest. I will be journaling about all the things that interest me and all the things that I do to create the life I want.

Each week I share ideas that have brought me success so far as well as all the ways I am growing my future. I like to write about goal setting and planning, sewing doll clothes and patchwork and quilting, gardening and housework. I write about the strategies I use to focus on learning and growth such as reading, travel and skill practice.

Most newsletters will include downloadable resources for paid subscribers and the monthly sewing newsletters will include patterns for crafty sewing.

There is no time like the present to start designing the life you want. I hope you decide to join me on this journey.

Val