The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: July 1st 2008
End Date: March 29th 2011
Legend: Bold = in progress, Strikethrough = completed
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. ~Frank Duff (Health)
1. Set a reasonable Goal Weight
2. eat 3 meals a day
3. eat at least 3 servings of fruit/vegetable a day
4. start & Keep a meal plan
5. get 20 minutes of exercise a day
6. Make and keep appointments for the dentist, doctor, etc.
7. Take up Bike riding
8. Complete the Ultimate Walking Challenge
9. Do all the hiking trails on Cape Breton Island (8/?)
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~A.A. Milne (Creativity)
10. Finish at least 2 ongoing projects (2/2)
11. Catalogue all photos on both computers, upload images still needing to be uploaded, print faves
12. Take a new picture everyday for a month (0/30)
13. Sketch/write for ten minutes everyday
14. Participate in 26 Things at least twice (0/2)
15. Create a portfolio
16. Document a day in my life in pictures
17. Take part in a creative writing class
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quote from Time Magazine (Environment)
18. grow a plant
19. Plant fifteen trees (0/15)
20. volunteer to clean up local beach/park etc
21. grow an herb garden
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder (Organization)
22. Gut my bedroom/closet
23. Buy one/two bookcases and organize personal library
24. Have yard sale
25. organize both computers (one organized and reformatted the next one is on the list)
26. backup files
27. remove all of my stuff from spare bedroom, file it between trash, keep, sell,
28. Type handwritten stories for safekeeping
29. Keep room clean for a month
30. Make a list of things I spend money on and try to reduce each list item by at least 10%
31. Keep an organized and pretty agenda for at least six months (even an online one)
32. Return library books on time 5 times.
33. Set up a Tickler File System. (tried it, it doesn’t work for me)
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” ~C.S. Lewis (Learning)
34. Learn German
35. Learn Italian
36. Create a book Club (even if it ends up only being the three of us)
37. Read the top 100 books listed here
38. Start an idea File
39. Write a Children's book
40. Finish my course with marks I'm proud of.
41. Do both prompt tables for
42. Study a new topic each year. (1/3)
43. Finish my Bachelors degree
44. Get my driver's license
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life. ~Bo Bennet (Mental/Spiritual wellbeing)
45. Give Blood
46. Make a Family Tree
47. List 101 things I like about myself
48. Begin each day with a “Today I'm going to ________” for a month (0/30)
49. Keep a dream journal
50. Rediscover my faith
51. Go on a detox weekend
52. Take mom on a health spa weekend
53. Get a tattoo
54. List 101 things that make me happy
55. Learn to Meditate and stick with it for at least a month
56. List 101 random things about me.
"Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?" ~Anon (Computers)
57. Create a website from the ground up
58. Learn a programming style (Ruby on Rails/Python/C++/php) – I learned enough about drupal to consider myself proficient
59. Create a complete css for lj/ij
60. Create a wordpress template
61. Finish Autumnwrite once
62. Finish one of the prompt tables out there
“We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.” ~Henry James (Artisan Crafts)
63. Knit a blanket
64. Finish at least four jewelry sets (1/4)
65. Knit gifts for everyone
66. Create a cookbook
67. Create a scrapbook did one for class but I might do a personal one just for shits and giggles
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end. ~Walter Savage Landor (Cooking)
68. Create a 9 course meal
69. Index all recipes
70. Try five new foods
71. Try five new recipes a year (5/15)
72. Create a three tier cake
73. Make at least five healthy foods from http://www.foodgawker.com
74. Create a new recipe
75. Bake the 50 Best Cookie Recipes On the Internet
"In the beginning it was fun. In the end, it was all for fun. And in between is where it tickles most." (Fun Stuff)
76. Fill a room with balloons.
77. Host a Theme Party
78. Visit a graveyard at night
79. Visit a haunted House
80. See the sunrise
81. see the sunset
82. get drunk on the beach
83. have a bonfire on the beach
84. go to a fetish ball
85. take the train
86. take a belly dancing class
87. Take horseback riding lessons
88. Create a time capsule
89. Go camping
"Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two." (Financial):
90. Start and Keep a budget
91. Save enough money to go to Italy for 2011
92. Move out 2009 (Not fiscally able at this time)
93. Pay off credit card
94. Cut superfluous spending by 10%
“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.” (Writing/World building)
95. Re-write and put all of Aruinnbith's Mythos
96. Finish Blaize's mythos
97. Head up and finish a story for Aruinnbith
98. Create and finish the character website
99. Post a blog entry for every item on this list
100. For every item completed put $5 in my travel fund. For every incomplete item $10
101. Create a new 101 in 1001 list on completion of this one.
