The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1,001 days. Tasks must be specific with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (require some amount of effort on your part).
Starting Date: 10/14/2011
Ending Date: 7/11/2014
Goals Completed = BLUE
Blogging
1. Meet 4 Iowa bloggers in real life.
2. Blog everyday for one month.
3. Complete a 365-Day Photo Challenge
4. Write 3 book reviews
5. Handwrite a blog entry and scan it to the blog
6. Open up my Google Reader and comment on every single blog that has a new post for one day.
Family & Friends
7. Adopt a Child
8. Attend an adoption support group meeting
9. Make a new friend
10. Complete our family scrapbook for the adoption process.
11. Camp in the backyard with my kids.
12. Build a snowman
13. Dye Easter eggs
14. Visit my grandfather’s grave.
15. Go camping with the family.
16. Go mini-golfing with the kids.
17. Fly a kite.
18. Go sledding
19. Make my husband breakfast in bed.
20. Have 5 Family Game Nights.
21. Take the kids to the park, just because.
22. Visit a pumpkin patch and go on a hayrack ride.
23. Go roller skating with the family.
24. Catch a fish
25. Complete a 1,000 piece puzzle
Financial
26. Put all spare change into change jar.
27. Get a promotion.
28. Work six months with no sick days.
29. Buy a new laptop.
House & Home
30. Paint living room
31. Paint family room
32. Write our will.
33. Landscape our front yard.
34. Clean out my basement
35. Clean up my office
36. Clean out my Family Room Closet
37. Organize my cookbooks and recipes.
38. Get new curtains for our living room.
39. Try a new recipe.
40. Get current on Caitlyn’s softball scrapbook.
41. Get current on Courtney’s soccer scrapbook.
42. Plan the family meals out for two weeks and stick to it.
43. Make a new breakfast recipe
44. Find some GOOD decaf K-cups
45. Organize all of my jewelry
46. Put new curtains up in my family room
47. Buy new furniture for my family room
48. Buy new furniture for my living room
49. Clean out storage cupboard in kitchen
Just For Me
50. Get another tattoo.
51. Spend a whole day on the couch watching movies
52. Put $5 in a jar for each completed task for a shopping spree.
53. Make an iTunes playlist of my favorite “pick-me-up” songs.
54. Get a funky new camera strap.
55. Learn to knit
56. Get my wedding ring repaired
57. Get a bigger jewelry box
58. Wear a skirt/dress to work every day for a week.
Mental Health
59. Read 50 books
60. Give up Facebook for one week
61. Go 24 hours with no television.
62. Go one whole weekend with no television.
63. Get up without hitting the snooze button for an entire week.
64. Vote in a non-presidential election
Physical Health
65. Take a 30-minute walk every day for one week.
66. Get my BMI out of the “overweight” category.”
67. Find out my blood type.
68. Take my lunch to work every day for one week.
69. Get new glasses.
70. Track food intake for one week.
71. Go on a bike ride.
72. Lose 10 lbs.
73. Lose 20 lbs.
74. Lose 30 lbs.
75. Get to goal weight.
76. Try the “Couch-to-5K” program
77. Drink nothing but water for one whole week.
78. Start taking a daily multi-vitamin (one without calcium carbonate)
79. Walk the dogs at least once a week for 2 months. Try to make this a habit.
80. Get my nose pierced.
Service
81. Perform 1 Random Act of Kindness
82. Tip 100% for really good service at a restaurant
83. Adopt a family during the holiday season
84. Donate blood.
85. Inspire someone else to make their own 101 in 1,001 list.
86. Pay for the person behind me in a drive thru
87. Perform 10 hours of community service.
88. Volunteer for something for each child’s school/class
89. Participate in the JDRF Walk for the Cure
90. Get rid of 101 things.
91. Send flowers to someone
Spiritual
92. Attend church four weeks in a row
93. Become members of a church
94. Join a Bible study group.
Travel
95. Visit 3 Iowa towns I have never been to before.
96. Throw a dart at a map of Iowa and go where it lands – just for the day.
97. Visit 2 tourist attractions in my county and write about them.
98. Eat at two local restaurants I’ve never tried before.
99. Go to the farmer’s market.
100. Tour the state capitol building.
Finally…
101. Start another list when this one is almost done.
