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The 101
Things on 1001 Days Project is a really neat and rapidly spreading internet
meme where one commits to doing 101 'things' of their choosing in 1001 days.
This sort of grand internet project just
my kind of thing. So, I'm joining.
Here is my list!
101 Things to do in 1001 Days
Start Date: August 15, 2007
End Date: May 12, 2010 Completed Items OR items where habit is established and I am no longer tracking: Noted in red
Fitness
1. Get weight down to 130 pounds
2. Do 250 exercise sessions
3. Do 30-day trial on eating vegetarian
4. Do 30-day trial on doing yoga every day
5. Complete Leslie Sansone's 10-Day Challenge
6. Do a walk for charity
7. Get a personal trainer certification
8. Learn a martial art
9. Learn to swim properly
General Health
10. Do a 30-day trial on following a 10 p.m. computer curfew
11. Get up before 10 am every day for a month, even on weekends
12. Take CPR and first aid course
13. Develop flossing habit
14. Get a pedicure
15. Eat no candy for a month
Financial
16. Pay off my credit card
17. Switch to a no-fee chequing account and save $5000 base
18. Accept money from my mother no more than three times
19. Put all monthly savings over the $5000 base into an ING account to be
invested
20. Start an RRSP account and put it as much money as possible
21. Pay off at least half of my student loan
Self-Improvement
22. Read "Simple Abundance" book every day for a year
23. Write every day in my journal
24. Keep a "one sentence per day" journal to remember events and activities
25. Have a planning session each month to stay on track and reduce stress
26. Make five new friends and stay in touch with them
27. Learn to drive
28. Read all 244
Wikipedia country entries
29. Go to synagogue on ten non-holiday Saturdays
30. Read the complete Bible/Tanakh
31. Learn to scrapbook and make scrapbook page for each completed item on this
list
32. Go on a date with 25 different people
33. Find a charity I love and donate time/money to it
34. Complete the course from the 8-Minute Meditation book
35. Learn to light matches
36. Send a postcard to PostSecret
Professional
37. Get a full-time teaching job
38. Log 196 teaching days to get upgraded to full certification
39. Take two more additional qualification credits
40. Set up website to get tutoring and babysitting clients
41. Consistently maintain at least 3 tutoring and babysitting clients at a time
42. Read one French book a month
43. Watch the news in French for 30 days
44. Attend a Toast Masters meeting
Entertainment
45. Read all works of Charles Dickens, in order of publication date
46. Read all works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in order of publication date
47. Read all works of Jane Austen, in order of publication date
48. Read all works of Susanna Moodie, in order of publication date
49. Read all works of E. Nesbitt, in order of publication date
50. Read all works of Mark Twain, in order of publication date
51. Read the Court Musketeers and Anne of Green Gables series
52. Do a 30-day trial on reading Project
Gutenberg e-books for 30 minutes a day
53. Read Beowulf and Canterbury Tales (translation in Modern English is
acceptable)
54. Read poetic works of Tennyson, Browning, Eliot and Whitman
55. Finish reading every book I own
56. Watch fifty new-release movies in the theatre
57. Watch fifty classic
movies at the Internet Archive
58. Join Bookcrossing and give away 10
loved books
59. Learn how to re-mix music and post results on
cc-mixter
60. Catalogue my books on Library Thing
61. Go to a concert
62. Buy a new TV
63. Go to a live theatrical production, preferably a musical
Writing
64. Edit my Nanowrimo 2005 novel into
publishable manuscript
65. Query five literary agents about my Nanowrimo 2005
novel
66. Get a romance novel published with Harlequin Books
67. Do another successful Nanowrimo
68. Do another successful Script Frenzy
69. Publish an e-book on-line and sell it through
Booklocker
70. Write a play and get it produced somewhere
71. Sell a short story
72. Win a writing contest
73. Post 100 more Creative Commons songs to my media
blog
Travel
74. Visit my older sister in California
75. Go on a Yoga Bootcamp trip
76. Spend a week in Vancouver
77. Teach/work in Japan for a summer
78. Go on a cruise
79. Go back to New Zealand and see South Island this time
Home
80. Host the family Hanukkah party (note: this will involve having a bigger
house!)
81. Learn how to bake good muffins
82. Vacuum apartment every week
83. Change sheets more often than once a month
84. Host a nice dinner party for each of my parents
85. Organize my recipe collection
86. Get one piece of furniture (new or used) that does not come from my mother
87. Cook every recipe I have bookmarked in
del.icio.us
88. Learn to enjoy a new alcoholic drink
Hobbies
89. Learn how to sew
90. Learn how to knit
91. Make ten beaded necklaces
92. Become involved in crafting community
93. Complete both Mark Kistler drawing books
Other
94. Take my younger sister on a spa day/weekend
95. Spend a day at the Royal Ontario Museum
96. Visit a water park, perhaps with littlest brother
97. See a live NHL hockey game
98. Buy a collection of nice lingerie and wear it daily
99. Spend Christmas Eve volunteering in a soup kitchen
100. Go on a roller-coaster
101. Get prints made of my New
Zealand pictures and make album
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