I am one of those people who has a million things that I want to get done at any one time, but can never pick one to start doing. Then I stumbled across the 101 goals in 1001 days idea and it had everything I wanted: goals, lists and super happy funtime. And so I wrote my list. And I wrote, and I wrote. It took a loooooong time to finalise it, but ( Read more... )

Achieved?
An event at the Brisbane Writer's Festival has been attended by me

Why?
This goal really filled a couple of criteria for me, first, it regards writing, a new passion of mine. Second, it is a (mostly) free event on Brisbane, which I have been making an effort to attend more of. The festival is pretty much as it sounds, a 5 day literary event ( Read more... )

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20 documentaries will have been watched by me

Why?
I have to say, growing up in the UK I was fairly spoiled by the splendour that is a BBC production. Their documentaries, among other things, are superb and I miss being able to flick one on the telly most nights. So, I decided that it would be a goal, to watch more documentaries, not all BBC ( Read more... )

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100 new (to me) words will have been learnt and used in a sentence upon learning at least once.

Why?
I think a wide vocabulary and the ability to use words in sentences correctly is one of the classic signs of intelligence. Nothing, to me, says that somebody doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, if they resort to cliches or ( Read more... )

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20 random books will be selected and read from the library using the random Dewey Decimal generator

Why?
First perhaps I should explain what I mean. The random Dewey Decimal generator is basically as it sounds: I generate a random number between 001 and 999 and then a random sub-number between 1-99 and the number that generates is the book ( Read more... )

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Five ways to be more eco-efficient in my daily life have been identified and carried out until they are a regular occurrence

Why?
Really, this is pretty self-explanatory, however, I am ashamed to say I used to be of the mindset "what difference can one person make?" and "why should i bother?" when it came to being 'green'. Maybe it's because ( Read more... )

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71 items will have been mailed from me to family or friends.

Why?
It is so nice to get something handwritten in the mail, even if it is a postcard or a short note just to say hello. I hope by doing this with my family and close friends to start receving things in return as it is much nicer to open the mailbox and see something other than a ( Read more... )

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143 of my dad's stories will have been read and filed

Why?
My dad is a terrific writer, not only in the stories that he writes, but the amount that he can produce every week. The more he writes the less of his writing I have read, and so this goal is an attempt to remedy that. Plus, a lot of what my father writes is autobiographical (though ( Read more... )

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All 100 films ranked by the AFI as the funniest films of all time will have been watched

Why?
I wanted to have a 'film watching' goal on my list as I have got in a bad habit of not watching movies, and there are too many good movies out there to 'not' watch. But which list was I going to follow? At first I thought about watching the top 100 ( Read more... )

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Every entry in the book "1001 Foods - The Greatest Gastronomic Sensations on Earth" will have been eaten*

Why?
You may be realising that I love food a fair bit. A lot of my books relate to food, one way or another. I bought this book a few months back and absolutely adore it. It is, of course, only one persons opinion of the greatest food on ( Read more... )