101 things in 1001 days

The idea originates at the Day Zero Project. The idea is to take your life list and goals and create a list of 101 things, some big some small, to try to complete in the next 1001 days (about 2.75 years). Assigning a time limit a little ways out helps you focus on completing goals and many of us work a little better with a deadline. This is my second 101 in 1001 list. I accomplished (or partly accomplished) about 50% of the things on my last list. My goal is to do even more this time.

July 1, 2012 to March 29, 2015

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[highlight1 variation=”orange”]Getting my priorities straight[/highlight1]

• Work on balance – work, house, training, me time, Mike time, friend time
• Minnie training – someday maybe she will be half normal
• Renovate a house

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[highlight1 variation=”yellow”]Planes, trains, automobiles and adventure[/highlight1]

• Say yes to 10 things I would normally say no to
• Visit at least 10 new places (cities, parks, etc)
• Visit 3 US national parks that I haven’t been to
• Learn to surf
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Skydive
• Visit DFW like I was a tourist
• Go to 5 museums I haven’t been to
• Go to the shooting range to get comfortable with the gun
• Do an urban race or urban challenge
• Ride a segway
• Zip Line
• Skinny dip
• See penguins in their natural habitat
• Travel to 3 countries and 3 states I haven’t been to
• Climb a mountain
• Learn to play golf

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[highlight1 variation=”green”]Mama nature[/highlight1]

• Have a garden full of food and flowers
• Join a CSA and/or go back to the locally grown food co-op and/or make more regular appearances at the farmer’s market
• Vermiculture – worm farm
• Adopt a new green habit every month

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[highlight1 variation=”olive”]Building up my karma[/highlight1]

• Give 10 anonymous gifts
• Write anonymous notes and leave them for people to find
• Tell 5 teachers/people how much they have influenced me
• Compliment someone I don’t know well every day for 30 days
• Complete at least 1 cycle of 29 days
• Give blood regularly

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[highlight1 variation=”teal”]Let’s get physical . . . it’s better to look good AND feel good[/highlight1]

• Re-establish yoga practice – studio and home – 3x per week – be able to do splits, scorpion and handstand
• Maintain standards for push-ups, sit-ups and 2 mile run
• Be able to do 3 pull-ups
• Lose 10-15 pounds
• Incorporate small bits of exercise/stretching into work/nomal day
• Learn how to do flip turns in the pool
• Brush/floss/wash face/creams/vitamins/take out contacts every night
• Lotions/potions/hair done/jewelry/nails/girlyness

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[highlight1 variation=”blue”]Social Butterfly[/highlight1]

• Host a party at least every two months
• Host a mystery dinner party
• Host a theme party
• Learn 100 new facts about my family and friends
• Accompany 5 friends/family members on one of their favorite hobbies that I have never done
• Recognize birthdays/events in people’s lives with more than a text and/or facebook post

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[highlight1 variation=”deepblue”]Food, food, and more food[/highlight1]

• Try 25 new foods that I haven’t tried before
• Try 20 foods that I think that I don’t like
• Take a cooking class
• Develop 15-20 great go-to dishes in each category (apps, mains, sides, etc) that I can throw together quick and without a recipe
• Weekly/bi-weekly baking day to share with family, friends and co-workers
• Master cooking on the grill
• Cook my way through a cookbook
• Eat a 20 new restaurants – no chains
• Eat breakfast at least 5 times per week

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[highlight1 variation=”purple”]For my sanity[/highlight1]

• Create and celebrate an annual “me day” – half birthday maybe?
• Start each day for one month with 15 minutes of quiet time/meditation
• Write letters to myself to open on future milestone events/birthdays
• Write down and save childhood memories and help others do the same

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[highlight1 variation=”hotpink”]Just call me a polymath[/highlight1]

• Learn to make candles with my beeswax
• Take another dance class – ballroom maybe?
• See more live music
• Take a class every year
• Be able to recite a poem
• Teach myself a skill left handed
• Learn to juggle
• Learn to knit
• Learn a cool magic trick
• Learn to play chess
• Take a fencing class
• Learn how to make at least 5 origami shapes
• Learn a great joke and go-to toast
• Come up with a signature cocktail
• Read 20 more of the 1001 books to read before you die
• Help on an archeological dig
• Solve a rubik’s cube
• Be able to identify 10 constellations
• Read 50 books
• Exercise my brain – puzzles, crosswords, new words, etc
• Learn a large basic set of utility phrases in another language (or 2)

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[highlight1 variation=”slategrey”]It’s all about the Benjamins[/highlight1]

• Be debt free (mortgage not included this go-round)
• Write will/get papers in order
• Create a budget and stick to it

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[highlight1 variation=”mauve”]Creativity is cool[/highlight1]

• Repair and re-cover turtle footstool
• Project 365 (photo a day)
• Buy original artwork
• Begin a family tree and geneology project (recruit family members to help)
• Take an art class – painting or ceramics or such
• Take a glass blowing or stained glass class
• Create my own personal stationary
• Scrapbook – finish Terri’s running book gift and get current with my own
• Send out scanned family photos to everyone
• Create a yearly photo book for travel photos

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[highlight1 variation=”pearl”]Free my chi[/highlight1]

• Get rid of 1001 things
• Answer 5000 questions
• Work through Chakra book
• Work through Da Vinci book
• Re-establish household routines
• Closet clean out – if it doesn’t fit and look fabulous, out it goes
• Clear clutter and organize/re-design back 40

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[highlight1 variation=”steelblue”]Rules, there must be rules![/highlight1]

• Maintain and update blog
• Put $10 in savings for every goal completed, and donate $20 to charity for every goal not done
• Have a party to celebrate the end of the 1001 days

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