101 things in 1001 days - end date passed...

[ali_in_london]

I meant to post this last month, but have been epically lacking in motivation and follow-up powers on pretty much all fronts recently. Considering this, you can probably guess how well I did.

Comments

[hazyjayne]

I like the idea of having lists, but I think I prefer them to be smaller and more on a project by project or by area basis.

[katstevens]

I would recommend doing a list of things you *want* to do but otherwise wouldn't get round to (eg going on the London Eye), rather than things you think you *should* do but don't really enjoy (eg exercise, chores). Any vaguely important chores (eg phoning landlord about problem X) would have probably got done eventually anyway, so to me there wasn't much point having them on the list after all.

I also had no qualms about swapping things I realised I didn't want to do (or didn't have time to do) with something similar but more fun/achievable, e.g. 'go to Barcelona' was swapped with 'go to an English county I had never before visited'.

[syllopsium]

I got part way through writing a list and gave up. It's not as if I've been excessively lazy this year - I've got a whole lot done, so why do I need a list to tell me what to do?

I do have a list of 24 projects to do, though, and that's daunting enough by itself..

[shermarama]

Still doing mine, up until the end of this year. Right now I've done 44 and I reckon I'll make it up to sixty-something by the end of that time. There have been some things that have proved impossible, and some sections that actually I've done a lot more of that than I thought I would. There have definitely been things on the list I'm not sure I'd have got round to if I hadn't challenged myself to do it, and I've been glad to have done. Overall I think it's been quite positive. There are some things I won't make this time that I'd like to keep on some sort of long-term to-do list, but I'm not sure that doing another complete list is the way forwards.

Avoiding vague, open-ended targets is definitely the way to go - I knew that when I wrote mine originally but still managed to include some through uselessness.

[sashajwolf]

I started writing one recently and then realised that it was going to feed an unhealthy tendency I have to make unnecessary rules for myself and then stress about them, so I stopped. The process did make me realise that it's good for me to have a project to focus on, preferably one that requires me to use or develop multiple skills, but I don't think it's good for me to have anything quite as involved as a 101 things list. My current major project is to make a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 2011 or 2012, which involves various lesser goals in the areas of fitness, language and such.