(no subject)

Nov 26, 2006 23:13

The task: To complete 101 preset tasks within 1001 days. (See mission101.)

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 your part).

Cross them off as you do them, and add the dates. Include the date you started the list and the finishing date.

Start date: 26th November 2006.
End date: 23rd August 2009.

Struckthrough items are completed, underlined items are in progress.

---
  1. Post this list.

    TRAVEL
  2. Visit a country I've never been to before.
  3. Go back to Darwin.
  4. Go back to Jakarta.
  5. Start a checklist of countries visited.
  6. Travel overseas independently.

    HEALTH AND BODY
  7. Go for a morning walk every day for a month.
  8. Get a menstrual cup.
  9. Look into getting contacts.
  10. Go 100% raw for two weeks.
  11. Learn to like green smoothies.
  12. Be in bed when it gets dark and up at first light every night for a week.

    FAMILY AND FRIENDS
  13. Meet Sean.
  14. Re-connect with a friend from primary school.
  15. Bring flowers and balloons to school for three different friends on their birthdays. (1/3)
  16. Give three genuine compliments to people I don't like. (0/3)
  17. Ask someone out.
  18. Come out to Dad.
  19. Switch Hazel over to better food, either tinned or from a people-butcher.

    STUDY AND WORK
  20. Hand in every single assignment for a semester.
    ----- So, so, SO proud of myself. :D Not everything was on time, and not everything was done well, but I at least attempted each part of each assignment and even when one or two were over a week late (meaning, at my school, that they were worth zero marks) I still managed to get them in. How good am I?
  21. Finish a major assignment at least three days before the due date (bonus points if I hand it in early too).
  22. Get straight A's at least once.
  23. Get straight A's and B's at least once.
  24. Do some work experience.
  25. Get a job.
  26. Get a "real" job (will define "real" when I get to it - year-round, non-entry-level and in the field I want to stay in are all good).
  27. Get the top two spots in LOTE at the same time.
  28. Graduate Year 12.
  29. Get into university.
  30. Get my Certificate III in Children's Services.

    OUTSIDE-OF-SCHOOL LEARNING AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR
  31. Take a self-defence course.
  32. Take an intensive language course.
  33. Do a course in a language I've had no previous experience with (this can tie in with the previous item).
  34. Learn to touch-type on Dvorak.
  35. Get my L's.
  36. Get my P's.
  37. Learn basic car maintenance (changing a tyre, etc).
  38. Learn to tie a tie.
  39. Learn to whistle.
  40. Learn to juggle.
  41. Try yoga.
  42. Get a first aid certificate.

    ENTERTAINMENT
  43. Read at least enough of my own books that the "to read" ones fit on their shelf.
  44. Read a novel originally written in (not translated into) Indonesian.
  45. Finish reading The Hobbit in Indonesian.
  46. Read a novel in another language (that is, not English or Indonesian).
  47. Go to a movie marathon (at the cinema).
  48. Find 10 new (musical) artists to fall in love with. (5/10)
    ----- The Poems, Scissor Sisters, Rilo Kiley, Damien Rice, Norah Jones, HorrorPops.
  49. Get everyone to nominate one book that I must read and read them all, whether or not they're my usual thing.
    ----- List here.
  50. Try three new board games. (2/3)
    ----- Balderdash, Bartog.

    HOME
  51. Move out.
  52. Plant ten different kinds of vegetables or herbs (not all at the same time). After a while, I should have much better soil and be a competent enough gardener that I consistently produce a reasonable amount of food.
    ----- Tomatoes (semi-productive), silverbeet (productive), pumpkins (never productive), coriander (never very productive), broccoli (productive!), parsley (never very productive), chives (never productive), snow peas, strawberries, spinach, zucchini.
  53. Pay my own rent, either at home or elsewhere.
  54. After completing #43, set up that shelf as a display area.

    CREATIVE
  55. Submit something to the newspaper or a magazine.
  56. Become confident sewing without help.
  57. Sew something that I'm completely happy with.
    ----- My purple bag!
  58. Sew a complete outfit for myself (it doesn't have to match well, it just has to be a top and pants/a skirt or whatever).
  59. Sew a gift for someone.
  60. Finish knitting my scarf.

    COMMUNITY/USEFUL THINGS/BEING A GOOD CITIZEN
  61. Run three vegan-oriented events. (1/5)
    ----- World Vegan Day (Year 11).
  62. Donate blood.
  63. Volunteer at a new charity.
  64. Go to a protest or pride parade.
  65. Volunteer at five more book fairs. (3/5)
  66. Memorise phone numbers for Mum, Dad and Isabelle.
  67. Have a computer file AND a hard copy of all my phone numbers.
  68. Come up with a signature that I'm comfortable with.
  69. Send at least three bday_packages. (3/3)
  70. Leave three more notes in library books. (0/3)
  71. Release five more BookCrossing books into the wild. (0/5)
  72. Switch to 100% renewable energy at home.

    FOOD
  73. Try a new kind of fruit.
  74. Do a whole day in veganfoodpics (or wherever).
  75. Bake someone a gift.
  76. Come up with five dishes that I can call my own (and that I can really be proud of).
  77. Test for three cookbooks. (1/3)

    MONEY AND POSSESSIONS
  78. Get no library fines (i.e. have no overdue books) for three months.
  79. Put away all my silver coins and put them in the bank at the end of the 1001 days.
  80. Keep track of my spending for two months.
  81. Have $5000 saved by the end of Year 12.
  82. Buy a trenchcoat.

    JUST BECAUSE
  83. Climb a tree.
  84. Stay up for 24 hours.
  85. Buy a set of matching underwear.
  86. Fly a kite.
  87. Win at least 10 games of chess (playing against five-year-olds and very new players doesn't count). (0/10)
  88. Get three books signed by the authors. (2/3)
    ----- Isobelle Carmody, John Marsden.
  89. Spend the day bus-hopping at least twice. (0/2)
  90. Have ten or less items checked out or on reserve at the library at some point. (Read: stop abusing your poor library!)
  91. Be in the paper.
  92. Go in a hot air balloon.
  93. Go in a helicopter.
  94. Go to a Harry Potter release party when DH comes out.

    COMPUTER AND INTERNET
  95. Make an LJ layout that I'm happy with.
  96. Persuade Dad to give me administrator priveleges OR get my own computer.
  97. Revive canberra_vego.
  98. Get the Avatar Collector avatar.

  99. Donate $2 to charity for every item not achieved.


Completed: 35.

101 things

Previous post Next post
Up