My deadline to complete all of the goals is:

June 29, 2011

57 down – 44 to go…

Here is the website to read more about it.

The Mission:
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 my part).

Inspired to make your own list?  Let me know because I want to inspire TEN people to follow suit.

Ok so here’s my list.  I’ll let you know as I cross them off (because that’s part of my goal) YAY!!!

To get my creative juices flowing: (5/18)

1. Finish the short story for my brothers’ children
2. Complete three abstract-ish paintings  (3/5)
3. Do this 26 thing project http://www.sh1ft.org/26things/
4. Paint something australian
5. Buy a writing prompt book and do 48 of them (4/48)
6. Enter a photography contest
7. Do a photo shoot for a friend
8. Start a photoblog
9. picture a day for 120 days
10. Print up pics from Australia
11. Write one full chapter in LMDE
12. Make a list of 100 things to do when bored
13. photo scavenger hunt
14. Compile 1 year blogoversary blurb book
15. Blurb book of family memories
16. write a novella for national novel writing month
17. photo book of Australia

Personal Development – to make me a better me (7/15)

1. Read Emotional Intelligence
2. Read the book on the Psychology of Love
3. Come up with list of most basic goals/needs for life
4. Read Boundaries – Where you end and I begin
5. Read 10 of the Modern Library’s top 100 (0/10)
6. Make a list of 100 things that make me happy
7. Journal every day for 30 days
8. Finish writing the 101 list
9. Play the Piano for 30 minutes every day for 30 days (0/30)
10. Gratitude journal/blog for 30 days (repeat?)
11. Have a special dinner when I complete all 101 things
12. Set-up the list on my blog with countdown
13. Prioritize list of 101 (with time frames)
14. tbd
15. Write a list of my worst fears for the future
16. Write a list of how these fears prevent me from meeting my goals
17. Read the Alchemist

Being intelligent is NOT overrated. (5/8)

1. Read Carnegie Book
2. Read No Excuses
3. Memorize a new song for the piano
4. Take 2 community education classes (0/2)
5. Graduate with a Masters or some post graduate degree.
6. Get an HD on at least one essay or a “Distinction” on 4 essays (1/4)
7. Get a distinction in at least one class
8. Attempt to change masters to Organizational Psych or create a working plan for current Masters

Vanity and looking my best (6/9)

1. Drink 8 glasses of water everyday for 2 weeks (0/14) repeat
2. Exercise 5 days a week for 4 weeks in a row (5/20)
3. Lose 10 pounds (10/10)
4. Take a multivitamin everyday for at least one month without missing a day!
5. Improve Flexibility with 5 days a week stretching for 1 month
6. Do the splits
7. Go Gluten Free – 100% for 90 full days in a ROW
8. Herbal Detox
9. low sugar for 20 days

Domestic Goals (7/12)

1. Plant and grow a little herb garden
2. Plant and grow a flower
3. Plant and grow a vegetable or fruit
4. Attempt to make gluten-free chocolate chip cookies
5. Learn enough about Gluten Free Dining to successfully cook that way
6. Make gluten free bread.
7. Make hamburger cupcakes
8. Make something from the cooking classes I attended
9. Completely decorate my bed in Australia
10. Quilt 4 more blocks on the Christmas quilt
11. 109 – send Christmas cards
12. 110 – do a holiday picture for Christmas cards

Relationships but not just romantic ones (9/14)

1. Watch an entire sunrise with someone
2. Learn to play 2 new games (2/2) – Boa and Briscola – thanks Davide!
3. Be open to falling in love
4. Write a letter to my parents and brothers telling them what I love about them and why I appreciate them
5. Go camping overnight in the real woods
6. Go camping overnight in my backyard like a slumber party and cook s’mores.
7. Attend or host a murder mystery party
8. Hold a bug
9. Go on a picnic
10. Throw a surprise party
11. Personal
12. Stay in a bed and breakfast
13. Play Monopoly
14. Watch Fireworks at Harbour bridge

Because girls just want to have fun (7/12)

1. Build a snowman
2. Go skinny dipping
3. Go to a creepy cemetery at night
4. Make a list of 25 top movies and watch all 25 (0/25)
5. Anne of Green Gables Marathon
6. Sneak attack someone with water balloons
7. Buy Acquire
8. Join or start a Book Club
9. Visit New Zealand
10. Great Barrier Reef
11. Visit Tarronga Zoo
12. fraser island

Because I’m an adult and think I should give it a go (2/7)

1. Go to church 8 times in one year (0/8)
2. Go to church for Christmas and probably easter (2/3)
3. tbd
4. Volunteer for a Homeless Pet Shelter.
5. Read The Screwtape Letters
6. Give up a habit for 40 days  (like Lent but not at Lent)

Service (and yes there are a few more than 101) (2/5)

1. Pay for someone in the drive through behind me
2. Take cookies to the neighbors
3. Do the 12 days of Christmas
4. Give my niece flowers
5. Inspire 10 people to make a 101 list (10/10)  – AUS Scott, Lindsay, Dana, Jenny, Jason, Crysta, Pam, LC, Sdaly, Tonya