101 things to do in the next 1001 days.
I don't post on lj very often, but I was reading my cousin, stepsthename's lj (I can't do user links on my mac), and she is doing this list of 101 things to accomplish in the next 1001 days. I liked the idea, and as I started thinking, more and more ideas came up. So, here it is. I want to do these things. Let me know if you're going to do it too. :)
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. 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).
(From Triplux.com)"
start date
july 28, 2008
end date
april 25, 2011
strikethrough text means that the task has been completed.
Text in italics means that the task is in progress.
101 THINGS TO DO IN THE NEXT 1001 DAYS
Financial
1) Build up an emergency fund as defined by Dave Ramsay
2) Read Smart Women Finish Rich and follow some of the advice
3) Pay off credit cards
4) Be financially stable enough to buy a house/condo
5) Pay off car/sell car to buy more fuel efficient car
6) Create and stick to a budget
7) Buy a Sunday paper twice a month to clip coupons, and actually use the coupons (1/66)
8) Keep a balanced ledger for my bank account for 6 months (0/6)
Health/Beauty
9) Go to the dentist every 6 months (0/5)
10) Get Hepatitis vaccine and any other shots recommended by a doctor
11) Work out regularly, i.e. 2-3 times a week
12) Eat fresh fruit and/or vegetables three times a week at least (0/429)
13) Eat fast food no more than twice a week (0/143)
14) Save up for and get Lasik
15) Go to an orthodontist for an evaluation
16) Wash face EVERY night before bed (1/1001)
17) Get a proper bra fitting somewhere OTHER than Victoria’s Secret and purchase at least 2 bras that are really the right size
18) Take a vitamin EVERY day
19) Drink milk twice a week. (0/286)
20) Try a detox diet
21) Get a massage twice a year (0/4)
Around the House
22) Eat leftovers, don’t just freeze them and throw them away at least twice a month. (0/66)
23) Properly maintain my car: oil change every 3000 miles, rotate tires, etc.
24) Get a nice set of pots and pans
25) Frame some of my photographs and hang them in my home
26) Organize file box (i.e. throw away old papers that are now irrelevant, shred old bills, properly file new items)
27) Hang up/fold laundry when I take it out of the dryer instead of letting it sit around for days
28) Invest in nicer clothes, instead of always t-shirts and jeans, even if it means getting things tailored to fit
29) Buy a juicer and make my own fresh fruit juice once a month at least <0/33)
30) Buy a new cookbook and try at least 50% of the recipes in it
31) Put change in my piggy bank and cash it in on day 1001
32) Thoroughly clean my apartment once a month, this includes dusting, scrubbing, scouring, etc. (0/33)
33) Save and track my receipts so I can itemize my taxes
34) Clean out my work email inbox, forward things I want to save to another email account and file them
35) Get more fish for my aquarium so Bob isn’t alone
36) Keep the interior and exterior of my car clean. Wash the car at least once per month.
37) Shop at the farmer’s market at least once a month (0/33)
38) Switch to “green” cleaners only in my home
Education/Career
39) Finish my biology degree with at least a 3.2 gpa
40) Quit or be in a position where I can quit flying
41) Become fluent or at least solidly conversational in French
42) Learn conversational Spanish
Travel
43) Visit Washington, D.C. including the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, National Zoo, the White House, Congress, and the Smithsonian.
44) Visit Tekla in St. Croix
45) Visit 6 new states (0/6)
46) Visit Cat and Travis in England
47) Go to Graceland
48) Swim with the manatees in Florida (there’s a place to do this in Orlando)
Leisure/Culture
49) Use the library for books at least once a month (0/33)
50) See the 100 greatest films of all-time as voted by AFI, www.filmsite.org/afi100films_2007.html
51) Read at least 25 of the “100 classics you must read before you die”, penguin classics www.listofbests.com/list/11632
52) Listen to at least 100 of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All-Time” www.listofbests.com/list/5413
53) Go out to eat alone once every two months to somewhere that is NOT fast food
54) Visit the art museum twice a year at least (0/4)
55) Go to the symphony at least once a year (0/2)
56) Audition for at least 2 community/local theatre productions (0/2)
57) Get headshots made
58) Get an agent
59) Take at least 3 arts/crafts classes (0/3)
60) Learn more about wine - try new wines, learn about their origins, etc.
61) Buy a sewing machine, and learn how to sew better than I know how now
62) Go to Schlitterbahn
63) Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans again...since I’ve said I’m going to go the past few years and haven’t.
64) Buy a Wii
65) Attend at least one LSU football game (or at least tailgate for it) each season (0/3)
66) Attend a Saints game every season (0/3)
67) Go to a Texas Rangers game every season (0/3)
68) Try 6 new foods (0/6)
69) Learn to cook lumpia
70) Take a SCUBA class
71) Learn to play golf
72) Have a girls’ night out every 3 months where we dress up, go to dinner, whatever. NO BOYS ALLOWED! (0/11)
73) Read the entire Bible from beginning to end, since I never have
74) Visit a winery
75) Attend a Taste of Dallas event
76) Host at least one dinner party per year (0/2)
77) Go to the movies once a month, even if it means going alone (0/33)
78) Attend a political event
79) Go to a flea market and buy something that is actually useful or needed
80) Host a board game night
Things for myself
81) Tube the river in San Marcos even though I’m scared of snakes
82) Have a few artists attempt to draw my tattoo and either get it or decide not to before my 30th birthday.
83) Ride the ferris wheel at the TX State Fair in an attempt to overcome my fear.
84) Buy myself 30 pairs of nice underwear (0/30)
85) Learn how to drive a stick-shift
86) Put in my application for Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
87) Buy a piece of art
Things for others
88) Get on the bone marrow donor list
89) Volunteer at the zoo/animal shelter/etc. once every three months at least (0/11)
90) Donate to the LSU Alumni Association
91) Participate in the Light the Night Walk
Friends/Family
92) Begin research on my maternal grandfather’s family since I don’t know that much about them
93) Return phone calls to friends, and take the initiative to phone people I don’t talk to regularly enough. Call once every month.
94) Mail birthday cards to my family members, including cousins and aunts and uncles too
95) Reregister and subscribe to Motley’s microchip monitoring service
96) Plan and take a road trip with Meagan
97) Visit Two Egg, FL and put flowers on my Poppy, Mima, and Great-grandmother’s graves
98) Go on a vacation/trip with just my mom
99) Go to one of Max’s sports events every year
100) Learn to play cards with my family so I can play at the reunion
101) Make a new list on April 25, 2011.
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. 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).
(From Triplux.com)"
start date
july 28, 2008
end date
april 25, 2011
strikethrough text means that the task has been completed.
Text in italics means that the task is in progress.
101 THINGS TO DO IN THE NEXT 1001 DAYS
Financial
1) Build up an emergency fund as defined by Dave Ramsay
2) Read Smart Women Finish Rich and follow some of the advice
3) Pay off credit cards
4) Be financially stable enough to buy a house/condo
5) Pay off car/sell car to buy more fuel efficient car
6) Create and stick to a budget
7) Buy a Sunday paper twice a month to clip coupons, and actually use the coupons (1/66)
8) Keep a balanced ledger for my bank account for 6 months (0/6)
Health/Beauty
9) Go to the dentist every 6 months (0/5)
10) Get Hepatitis vaccine and any other shots recommended by a doctor
11) Work out regularly, i.e. 2-3 times a week
12) Eat fresh fruit and/or vegetables three times a week at least (0/429)
13) Eat fast food no more than twice a week (0/143)
14) Save up for and get Lasik
15) Go to an orthodontist for an evaluation
16) Wash face EVERY night before bed (1/1001)
17) Get a proper bra fitting somewhere OTHER than Victoria’s Secret and purchase at least 2 bras that are really the right size
18) Take a vitamin EVERY day
19) Drink milk twice a week. (0/286)
20) Try a detox diet
21) Get a massage twice a year (0/4)
Around the House
22) Eat leftovers, don’t just freeze them and throw them away at least twice a month. (0/66)
23) Properly maintain my car: oil change every 3000 miles, rotate tires, etc.
24) Get a nice set of pots and pans
25) Frame some of my photographs and hang them in my home
26) Organize file box (i.e. throw away old papers that are now irrelevant, shred old bills, properly file new items)
27) Hang up/fold laundry when I take it out of the dryer instead of letting it sit around for days
28) Invest in nicer clothes, instead of always t-shirts and jeans, even if it means getting things tailored to fit
29) Buy a juicer and make my own fresh fruit juice once a month at least <0/33)
30) Buy a new cookbook and try at least 50% of the recipes in it
31) Put change in my piggy bank and cash it in on day 1001
32) Thoroughly clean my apartment once a month, this includes dusting, scrubbing, scouring, etc. (0/33)
33) Save and track my receipts so I can itemize my taxes
34) Clean out my work email inbox, forward things I want to save to another email account and file them
35) Get more fish for my aquarium so Bob isn’t alone
36) Keep the interior and exterior of my car clean. Wash the car at least once per month.
37) Shop at the farmer’s market at least once a month (0/33)
38) Switch to “green” cleaners only in my home
Education/Career
39) Finish my biology degree with at least a 3.2 gpa
40) Quit or be in a position where I can quit flying
41) Become fluent or at least solidly conversational in French
42) Learn conversational Spanish
Travel
43) Visit Washington, D.C. including the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, National Zoo, the White House, Congress, and the Smithsonian.
44) Visit Tekla in St. Croix
45) Visit 6 new states (0/6)
46) Visit Cat and Travis in England
47) Go to Graceland
48) Swim with the manatees in Florida (there’s a place to do this in Orlando)
Leisure/Culture
49) Use the library for books at least once a month (0/33)
50) See the 100 greatest films of all-time as voted by AFI, www.filmsite.org/afi100films_2007.html
51) Read at least 25 of the “100 classics you must read before you die”, penguin classics www.listofbests.com/list/11632
52) Listen to at least 100 of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All-Time” www.listofbests.com/list/5413
53) Go out to eat alone once every two months to somewhere that is NOT fast food
54) Visit the art museum twice a year at least (0/4)
55) Go to the symphony at least once a year (0/2)
56) Audition for at least 2 community/local theatre productions (0/2)
57) Get headshots made
58) Get an agent
59) Take at least 3 arts/crafts classes (0/3)
60) Learn more about wine - try new wines, learn about their origins, etc.
61) Buy a sewing machine, and learn how to sew better than I know how now
62) Go to Schlitterbahn
63) Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans again...since I’ve said I’m going to go the past few years and haven’t.
64) Buy a Wii
65) Attend at least one LSU football game (or at least tailgate for it) each season (0/3)
66) Attend a Saints game every season (0/3)
67) Go to a Texas Rangers game every season (0/3)
68) Try 6 new foods (0/6)
69) Learn to cook lumpia
70) Take a SCUBA class
71) Learn to play golf
72) Have a girls’ night out every 3 months where we dress up, go to dinner, whatever. NO BOYS ALLOWED! (0/11)
73) Read the entire Bible from beginning to end, since I never have
74) Visit a winery
75) Attend a Taste of Dallas event
76) Host at least one dinner party per year (0/2)
77) Go to the movies once a month, even if it means going alone (0/33)
78) Attend a political event
79) Go to a flea market and buy something that is actually useful or needed
80) Host a board game night
Things for myself
81) Tube the river in San Marcos even though I’m scared of snakes
82) Have a few artists attempt to draw my tattoo and either get it or decide not to before my 30th birthday.
83) Ride the ferris wheel at the TX State Fair in an attempt to overcome my fear.
84) Buy myself 30 pairs of nice underwear (0/30)
85) Learn how to drive a stick-shift
86) Put in my application for Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
87) Buy a piece of art
Things for others
88) Get on the bone marrow donor list
89) Volunteer at the zoo/animal shelter/etc. once every three months at least (0/11)
90) Donate to the LSU Alumni Association
91) Participate in the Light the Night Walk
Friends/Family
92) Begin research on my maternal grandfather’s family since I don’t know that much about them
93) Return phone calls to friends, and take the initiative to phone people I don’t talk to regularly enough. Call once every month.
94) Mail birthday cards to my family members, including cousins and aunts and uncles too
95) Reregister and subscribe to Motley’s microchip monitoring service
96) Plan and take a road trip with Meagan
97) Visit Two Egg, FL and put flowers on my Poppy, Mima, and Great-grandmother’s graves
98) Go on a vacation/trip with just my mom
99) Go to one of Max’s sports events every year
100) Learn to play cards with my family so I can play at the reunion
101) Make a new list on April 25, 2011.