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).
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. 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, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
Some common goal setting tips:
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Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
- Stay Focused. Any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. Constantly evaluate your progress.
- Welcome Failure. Frequently, very little is learned from a venture that did not experience failure in some form. Failure presents the opportunity to learn and makes the success more worthy.
- Write down your goals. It clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
- Keep your goals in sight. Review them frequently, and ensure that they are always at the forefront of your thinking.
Start date: Monday, 1 December 2008
End date: Monday, 29 August 2011
Number of Items Completed: 9/101
Red Bold Text = Finished with Completion Date
Green Bold Text = In Progress
1. Blog about each 101 things [5/101]
2. Get someone else to join the 101 in 1001 challenge
Career/Finances/Independence
3. Save to go on a missions trip
4. Type up notes within 2 days after hearing the lecture!
5. Get an average of H2A each semester [2/2]
6. Become a Uni Graduate [10.12.09]
7. Get into the JD (Post-grad Law) [17.08.09]
Creativity/Music
8. Learn 4 songs on the guitar
9. Write 5 songs (lyrics and music)
10. Work on improvising on the piano
11. Achieve LMusA on Piano
12. Go to an outdoor performance
13. Join a jazz choir (after completing LMusA)
14. Play flute in a uni ensemble
15. Host an annual piano concert for my students [1/1]
16. Go to the International Arts Festival
Fitness/health
17. Swim twice a week for 3 months
18. Get a fitness plan [Semester 1, 2009]
19. Go to the gym at least twice a week for 6 months
20. Go to a fitness class every 2 months [Semester 1, 2009]
Food
21. Try 50 new restaurants/cafes/food joints [20/50]
22. Try 5 new ice-cream flavours [1/5]
23. Learn 5 family recipes
24. Try 5 new recipes [23.10.09]
25. Cook a 3 course meal for friends/family
26. Keep a food journal through photos for a week
Fun
27. Host a board games night
28. Watch 50 movies and blog about each [15/50]
30. Document an entire day through photos
31. Project 365 (starting on 21st birthday)
32. Go to the Melbourne Show
33. Watch a movie at a drive-in/roof top/outdoor cinema (08.01.09)
34. Go to a Live concert
35. Take a friend to their first musical
36. Wear makeup and nail polish for an entire week
37. Audition for Australian Idol
38. Sing at a Karaoke Bar
Gaining Knowledge/Intellectual Pursuits
39. Learn 25 new English words and use them 5 times in one day
40. Find a way to maintain my French
41. Read or re-read 25 books [1/25]
42. Blog about each book read
43. Read 250 of 1001 list of Quality Reads
44. Learn 5 new (useful) Vietnamese phrases
45. Learn how to use all the functions on my Canon IXUS 960 IS
46. Finish my Suzuki Primary Piano Teacher Training
R&R (rest and recuperation/relaxation)
47. Get a facial
48. Get a pedicure and manicure for the first time
49. Get a massage
50. Get a wax of some sort
51. Take mum to a spa
Relationships/Family/friends
52. Have dinner with the Norsworthys [04.09.09]
53. Write snail mail letters to 10 friends, just because
54. Get together with cousins on mum’s side of the family (outside of Christmas) [1/5]
55. Change my relationship status
56. Write 50 letters to my future mate [6/50]
57. Take Scottie for a walk at least 3 times a week
Spiritual Life
58. Intentionally share the Gospel with 15 people [1/15]
59. Read the whole Bible at least once
60. Read through the Book of Proverbs for 6 individual months
61. Write in a prayer journal at least once a month
62. Keep a blessings log
63. Listen to 50 messages on cd/via podcast [20/50]
64. Write 20 articles on faith topics [3/20]
Sports
65. Try a new sport
66. Join a sporting team
67. Learn to ride a bike
68. Learn to surf
69. Take a dance class
70. (Learn how to play poker?)
Self-Improvement/Personal
71. Achieve a 20 year old brain (Brain Training)
72. Find 101 things that make me happy (32/101)
73. Do 25 unselfish things
74. Do 25 kind things to strangers
75. Stay off Facebook for an entire month (will be the hardest!)
76. Watch the sunrise 5 times
77. Make Sam’s room liveable [September 2009]
78. Clean desk and room once a semester (1/6)
Social
79. Go paintballing
80. Go to the races with the girls
81. Go to the Australian Open (21.01.09)
82. Attend 4 university social events
83. Host a movie marathon
84. Go to 5 different beaches [2/5]
85. Go on a picnic (20th birthday picnic-18/04/09)
86. Go to Cirque du Soleil
87. Host my 21st birthday celebrations J
Community/Altruistic activities
88. Give blood 3 times [2/3]
89. Go to the Shrine on Remembrance Day
90. Run a marathon for a good cause
91. Write a letter to our Sponsor Child (once every three months)
92. Set up a library at church
93. Give $1 to a charity for every goal I don’t complete
94. Serve at a soup kitchen
Travel – General
95. Take a road trip
96. Go on an overseas mission trip
97. Go camping
98. Go on an exchange program for 6 months
99. Visit the Chinese Garden of Friendship just because
100. Visit Monash Clayton (0/5)
AND FINALLY….
101. On Day 1001, publish a new 101 Things in 1001 Days list that includes anything I haven’t finished already (hopefully, none)
Posted by mookxi on November 5, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Where’s your list ?? Publish what you’ve got so far ! ;-D
Posted by 1st days of summer « in my corner of the world. on December 3, 2008 at 10:41 am
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Posted by mookxi on June 7, 2009 at 2:37 am
you still keeping up with this ? ;-)
Posted by 1st Blog-O-Versary :) « in my corner of the world. on October 31, 2009 at 9:19 am
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Posted by gilligan on December 19, 2009 at 9:39 pm
WOW! this is so cool! I wanna start one now too!!! :P
Keep up with the 101!!!
Posted by ames4eva on December 19, 2009 at 9:47 pm
If you start one, I may complete my no. 2 ;) let me know when/if you do!