kimmie

Newly Completed:

Start or join a book club
Learn to surf
Make one good friend out here

Newly Completed:

Donate half my wardrobe to AmVets
Make a craft storage shelf
Make a list of 100 things I’m thankful for
Put together First Year Journal and give to Chuck
Buy all 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls
Evaluate my relationships and rid myself of toxic ones
Go to the Dentist
Reduce paper towel use to 2 rolls a month
Research and buy a high quality, durable digital camera
Reduce my soda consumption to 2 or less a week

Newly in Progress:

Create a computerized card catalog of our books
Name, tag and arrange all of my photos on my computer and my Flickr account
Organize all of our digital music
Create our wedding photo album
Crochet a top
Create Deployment Survival Book
Replace all my VHS with DVD
Watch 10 movies that others recommended that I never would have picked for myself
Download all the songs I have thumbed-up on my Pandora

Newly Completed:

Enroll in an MLIS program
Clean out boxes and throw away junk
Completely redo the file system at work

Newly in Progress:

Make a craft storage shelf

Newly Completed:

Dye my hair back to its original color
Personal Goal 2

Newly In Progress:

Evaluate my relationships and rid myself of toxic ones
Clean out boxes and throw away junk

After seeing the 101 in 1001 project several places, I decided to give it a shot myself.  I’m really good about making goals for myself but terrible at keeping them.  I like that this project gives you such a realistic amount of time in which to complete them and requires that they be measurable and clearly defined.

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 organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

Start: Thursday, June 11, 2009

End: Thursday, March 8, 2012

The List:

Health and Physical Well-Being
1. Reduce my soda consumption to 2 or less a week
2. Do at least 60 minutes of cardio 3 times a week and 30 minutes of strength 2 times a week and maintain for a month
3. Master belly dance workout video
4. Run a mile without feeling like I’m dying
5. Reach my goal weight
6. Take a multi-vitamin every day and maintain for a month
7. Change my sleep schedule to 7.5 hours a night and maintain for a month
8. Go to the dentist
9. Go 2 weeks without eating out (including starbucks)
10. Go one week without sugar

Appearance

11. Get another tattoo
12. Dye my hair back to its original color
13. Participate in Wardrobe Remix

Mental Improvement and Education

14. Read 286 books (0/286)
15. Enroll in an MLIS program
16. Learn Spanish
17. Edit my senior honors thesis and submit it for publication
18. Take the GRE
19. Start or join a book club
20. Read the entire Oxford Annotated Bible (including Apocrypha and Essays) again

Personal Rewards

21. Research and buy a high quality, durable digital camera
22. Replace wardrobe with quality, age appropriate clothing
23. Learn to ski
24. Get a professional spa treatment of some kind every other month (0/16)
25. Make a list of 100 things I’m thankful for
26. Learn to surf
27. Go scuba diving
28. Give myself a manicure and a pedicure once a week. (0/143)

Benefit to Others

29. Volunteer at the local library
30. Donate half my wardrobe to Goodwill
31. Join the Zoological Society
32. Give blood 3 times (0/3)
33. Do a craft for charity
34. Send one “just because” care package to someone
35. Buy Chuck something he really wants but doesn’t expect to get

Family and Relationships

36. Spend one night a week with Chuck without the distraction of internet, tv, books, or video games. (0/143)
37. Call my parents at least once a week. (0/143)
38. Respond to every letter my grandmother writes me within 5 days of receiving it.
39. Email old friends that I have been meaning to catch up with
40. Make one good friend out here
41. Evaluate my relationships and rid myself of toxic ones

Home

42. Reduce paper towel use to 2 rolls a month
43. Clean out boxes and throw away junk
44. Plant and maintain an herb garden
45. Create a computerized card catalog of our books
46. Straighten the house every night before bed and maintain for a month
47. Deep clean once a month (0/33)
48. Backup both of our computers
49. Name, tag and arrange all of my photos on my computer and my Flickr account
50. Organize all of our digital music
51. Learn to cook Chicken Tika Masala
52. Master my Grandmother’s Potatoes Au Gratin recipe
53. Take a home buying class
54. Try out one new recipe each menu planning session (0/72)

Finance

55. Put $16,000 in savings for when Chuck is out of the Navy
56. Pay off student loans
57. Research and set up the best retirement fund for me
58. Pay off credit card
59. Finalize our budget and stick to it for a year
60. Learn about the stock market and make an investment

Projects

61. Make a craft storage shelf
62. Scrapbook our wedding
63. Create our wedding photo album
64. Crochet a top
65. Blog at least once a month (1/33)
66. Make my old tshirts into a quilt
67. Create a layout for my weblogs completely from scratch
68. Put together First Year Journal
69. Create Deployment Survival Book

Work

70. Create a myspace to market my etsy
71. Finish the novel I started
72. Completely redo the file system at work

Travel

73. Change my name on my passport
74. Research and plan trip to Europe to celebrate Chuck getting out of the Navy
75. Tour a Vineyard
76. Visit San Francisco
77. Meet friends in Vegas for a weekend
78. Plan a girls only trip with friends
79. Visit Mexico

Entertainment

80. Buy all 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls (0/7)
81. Buy all 11 seasons on M*A*S*H (1/11)
82. Replace all my VHS with DVD
83. See one play a season at The Old Globe
84. Watch every movie on the AFI 100 years 100 movies (0/100)
85. Visit all 47 attractions in Balboa par (6/47)
86. Go to a film festival
87. See a movie alone
88. Go to Warp Tour
89. Watch 10 movies that others recommended that I never would have picked for myself (0/10)
90. Read all of Bret Easton Ellis’s novels (0/6)
91. Download all the songs I have thumbed-up on my Pandora

Misc

92. Learn to drive a stick
93. Have a picnic on the beach
94. Shop at a Farmers Market
95. Build a sand castle
96. Learn to play chess
97. Send 5 secrets to post secret (0/5)
98. Learn to play Bourré

Personal Goals

99. Personal Goal 1
100. Personal Goal 2
101. Personal Goal 3

I’ll be adding a page in the sidebar to keep track and update on my progress periodically.

Clarifications:

• I chose the goal of maintaining certain goals for one month because 30 days is typically the amount of time it takes to turn an action into a habit
• The “Personal Goals” list are 3 things I’d prefer not to share on the internet