101 in 1001
PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT
1. Turn off TV more
2. Do items on health list
3. Go back to college
4. Take creative writing class
5. Finish genealogy
6. Get two merit badges a year from the book “You Can Do It”
7. Learn to use computer for something other than a typewriter.
8. Make 101 list General Plan
9. Make 101 list Action Plan (how am I going to get all this accomplished?)
10. Pay more attention to Spiritual needs
11. Start journal
12. Get eight hours of sleep
13. Be more patient with mother (she’s so critical, ignores her health but complains all the time-drives me crazy)
14. Take a Great Courses course
15. Relearn my Arabic (its been 20 years since I’ve spoken it, and so many here have expressed an interest in learning it, maybe we can group together)
HOME IMPROVEMENT
16. Restore Carriage House
17. Learn to make own repairs instead of calling repairmen all the time
18. Get landscaping done
19. Get home garden together
20. Get backyard patio built
21. Get bedroom decorated and organized (I need a peaceful beautiful retreat.
22. Get office organized
23. Keep with the laundry and ironing
COMMUNITY
24. Get Green committee back together
25. Get all restaurants in area registered Green.
26. Do another big project
27. Write about Arab-American discrimination
28. Run for office
29. Learn about our water here
30 Learn about our homeless here.
31. Save the Bees
32. Fight development
33. Take recyclables to the center
RELATIONSHIPS
34. Have friends over once a mth (need to get space to do that first)
35. Make a larger circle of friends
36. Keep in touch with old friends
37. Get a divorce (I haven’t seen him in 12 years-what am I waiting for?)
38. Stay in better contact with my cousins
FUN
39. Read one fun book a week
40. Take a class and learn something new
41. Get a dog.
42. Train dog
43. Try to get on a reality home or self improvement show.
44. Cook more
45. Go to Egypt/Morocco/Tunis
46. Take daughter to Palestine
47. Help mom fill out Story of My Life book
48. Help mom make her family cook book
49. Read a 1001 Nights (hey, why not?)
50. Take a Tofurkey picture.
51. See more plays
52. See more international films
BUSINESS
53. Get website together
54. Get photos
55. Redo promotional material
56. Network
57. File receipts
58. Do taxes on time
59. See lawyer and get incorporated
60. Get a publication write up.
61. Improve online ratings
62. Learn call forwarding
62. Answer messages the same day.
64. 2009-double business from 2008
65. 2010-triple business from 2008
66. Look more presentable-wear makeup and more professional clothes
67. Make a profit!!!
68. Develop policy and procedures manual
69. Write business plan
FINANCES
70. Make a will
71. Make a living will
72. Write last wishes
73. Get all affairs in order-just in case.
74. Start retirement fund
75. Start savings account
76. Stop impulse spending
77. Cut expenses by at least 10%
78. Make Suze Orman proud of me
79. Find out credit score and improve it
80. Understand my finances
HEALTH
81. Get health insurance
82. Get physical
83. Get MRI and knee surgery
84. Lose 50 lbs.
85. Keep them off
86. Exercise three days a week min.
87. Get teeth fixed.
88. See dentist twice a year.
GENERAL
89. Finish stained glass gift
90. Make a chair
91. Get something published (besides a letter to editor)
92. Find out how to do lj cuts DONE!!!
93. Unpack all boxes (I’ve lived here two years now, for gosh sakes)
94. Stop letting things go…If I’m cheated, abused, insulted, taken advantage of-SPEAK
UP and DO SOMETHING!
95.
96. Stop procrastinating or being wimpy.
97. Do something crazy and out of character.
98. Get out more
99. Finish the True Blood book series
100. Read all my financial books
101. Finish library