The Challenge:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
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).
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple challenges such as New Year's resolutions or a 'Bucket List'. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks.
Start Date: April 7, 2011
End Date: January 2, 2014
Italic- In progress
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2. Read the entire Bible
3. Have a baby
4. Eat a tomato I grew myself
5. Get down to my driver's license weight
6. Make it on Jimmy Fallon's hashtag list
7. Send 100 postcards on Postcrossing (30/100)
8. Find 100 caches with Geocaching (0/100)
9. Take a trip with Mom and Anna
10. Go to a Paramore concert
11. Be able to play 5 songs on my guitar well (0/5)
12. Visit 5 new states in my quest to visit all 50 (0/5)
13. Open an Etsy shop
14. Finish writing my first novel
15. Take a cake decorating class
16. Crochet a scarf
17. Run a marathon
18. Go water-skiing
19. Visit NY
20. See SNL live
21. Read all of Jane Austen's novels (0/6)
22. Sponsor a swap on my blog
23. Learn to use a sewing machine
24. Style my hair every day for a week (0/7)
25. Complete a course on learning French
26. Complete a course on learning Spanish
27. Take a cooking class
28. Paint a self-portrait
29. Have fresh flowers on my table for a month
30. Finish the 365 Poem Challenge (26/365)
31. Write a song
32. Be an extra in a movie or TV show
33. Act in a play
34. Do a cartwheel
35. Bake a pie from scratch
36. Bake biscuits from scratch
37. Buy a nice camera
38. Buy a piano
39. Get a new house
40. Plant a vegetable garden
41. Tell a stranger she's beautiful
42. Write 100 letters to penpals (9/100)
43. Visit my Great-Grandmother
44. Blog every day for a month
45. Drink only water for 2 weeks
46. Take my vitamins every day for 2 weeks
47. Finish up my bachelor's degree
48. Read 5 biographies (0/5)
49. Go to an opera
50. Color an entire coloring book -- I had to take that one, Lauren!! : )
51. Reread all the Harry Potter books (0/7)
52. Take Matt on a picnic
53. Make a snow angel
54. Go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal
55. Go to Disney World
57. Sit outside (on a porch) and enjoy a thunderstorm
58. Dance in the rain
59. Pay for the person behind me in the drive-thru 5 times (0/5)
60. Don't eat fast food for 2 weeks
61. Get an eye exam
62. Watch a sunrise while sitting on a beach
63. Take a photography class
64. Blog about each of my completed tasks (4/101)
65. Go to a murder mystery dinner
66.
67. Go on a cruise
68. Shoot under 90 on the Bonnie Crest golf course
69. Play at 20 different golf courses (2/20)
70. Put all our Disney '09 pictures in an album
71. Build a sand castle on the beach
72. Reread all the Twilight books (0/4)
73. Complete a course on learning Vietnamese
74. Reread all the Hunger Game books (0/3)
75. Write a 2nd novel
77. Grow a pineapple
78. Participate in 100 swaps on swapbot (85/100)
79. Host a tea party
80. Go camping
81. Read 100 new (i.e. never read before) books and post a review of them (9/100)
82. Make a list of and sort all our DVD's
83. Watch all of our DVD's (0/not sure yet)
84. Crochet Maggie a hat
85. Complete the Guitar Lessons DVD series Matt ordered on QVC
86. Get a pet fish
87. Sing karaoke
88. Have a yard sale
89. Play putput
90. Solve a rubix cube
91. Eat breakfast in front of Tiffany's and Co.
92. Go somewhere exotic on a 2nd honeymoon
93. Go snow-skiing
94. Wear a dress I made myself
95. Throw a huge 30th birthday party for Matt
96. Become a Zumba instructor
97. Fly a kite
98. Visit an aquarium
99. Complete a puzzle
100. Get a couples massage with Matt
101. Make a new 101 in 1001 list when I complete this one!
