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 or 33 months) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
Some common goal setting tips:
- Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
- Stay Focussed. 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.
Bold - Completed tasks!
Start Date: 01/01/2009
End Date: 29/09/2011
Well, I'm going to do it. I'm going to give you a very long list, and in 1001 days I'm going to do them. That's til
29 September 2011
which seems like a LONG time away! But it isn't really...
- Ruthlessly clean my closet out
- Organise a craft retreat
- Write a will
- Watch ManFriend graduate as a real Dr
- Throw him a party to celebrate!
- Become a marriage celebrant
- Get my ears pierced some more (3 more times)
- Do some preserving
- Get married
- Finish my Bachelor of Midwifery
- Go overseas
- Visit my paternal grandparents
- Give blood
- Save $1000 for baby
- Go bushwalking/hiking
- Get something published
- Eat from the garden 10 times (4 / 10)
- Make foot stools
- Buy no new clothes for 3 months (within guidelines - there are still things I'm going to need to buy underwear occassionally during that time)
- Sort out superannuation and consolidate
- Write to 5 people by hand
- Shop once a month at the Central Markets for a year (5 / 12)
- Plan a surprise birthday party
- Take a weekend away with my sweetie
- Try a new cuisine
- Get engagement/wedding tattoo
- Take a photography course
- Learn tai chi
- Go camping for a weekend
- Finish 10 knitted items in 2009 (8 / 10)
- Start and keep alive a worm farm or bokashi
- Go to the snow for a holiday
- Visit Tasmania, Northern Territory or WA
- Have friends over for a meal each month for 6 months (6 / 6)
- Sew 5 items of clothing and wear them (4 / 5)
- Something in = something out for a month
- Learn to quilt
- Go on a winery tour of the Maclaren Vale
- Buy and learn to use a power drill
- Bake and decorate a cake a month for 6 months (2 / 6)
- Paint 2 inspirational canvases
- Take a beginner's piano course
- Exercise 3 times a week for 6 months
- Instigate a backup process for my laptop
- Get 5 singing lessons
- Decorate the bedroom wall
- Visit someone interstate by surprise
- Do a "photo a day" for a month
- Cook for a camp
- Master 5 fabulous recipes for the crockpot
- Do a burlesque class
- Have a slumber party!
- Buy 5 pieces of lingerie
- Catch a train across the country
- Go somewhere tropical
- Celebrate 4 pagan festivals
- Make my handwriting into a font
- Go horseriding
- Go on a girly road trip
- Find a volunteering gig
- Convene a festival
- Do a pottery class
- Go fruit picking in autumn
- Sort out my CDs and iTune them
- Sort out my books and sell / give away what I don't want to keep
- Attend a wine vintage festival
- Get pregnant
- Get a pair of real stud earrings to replace the crap novelty ones I have
- Swim naked
- Celebrate my 30th in style
- Dye my hair platinum blonde
- Celebrate Australia Day
- Take 6 'us' photos and frame them
- Host a photo scavenger hunt
- Make a list of 100 things that make me Happy
- Have my innards and eating investigated
- Write out 10 family recipes in a cook book and share them with siblings (6 / 10)
- Inspire 3 people to make a list like this!
- Send someone flowers
- Spend a day in a day spa - massage, scrub, pedicure
- See someone amazing in concert
- Buy a digital SLR camera
- Get a cleaning timetable - every two weeks thoroughly, doing the dishes each day - and stick to it
- Taste 5 ciders (3/5)
- Infuse vodka
- Watch 5 musicals
- Go away for a trip by myself
- Get another kitten
- Buy a pair of blue high heels
- Make a new friend
- Learn how to cut hair
- Attend a book signing
- Learn how to make great coffee
- Learn how to surf
- Go to a never-before-visited museum
- Buy a cast iron frying pan and learn to cook with it
- Go to the cricket
- Attend a homebirth
- Lose 5kg
- Make bread
- Write another 101 things list
2 comments:
I've been wanting/meaning/procrastinating making a 101 in 1001 list for forever! Maybe you have just motivated me.
Doooooo iiiiittttt!!!
It was a lot of fun to write - it's not easy, and I spent a lot of time looking at other lists for inspiration and seeing what people completed and what they didn't, as well as advice like "put something in there to stretch yourself as well as ones that are easily achievable".
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