The Challenge:
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 your part).
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple challenges such as New Year's resolutions or a 'Bucket List'. 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, study semesters, or outdoor activities.
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Note: If anyone wants to help me do any of these tasks, shoot me an email or get a hold of me somehow, I'd love to have company :)
The Facts:
Start Date: November 6, 2011 [age: 21]
End Date: August 3, 2014 [age: 24]
Key:
- Write 3 letters to myself:one to be opened: when the 1001 days are over, on my wedding day, and 10 years from now
- Sleep in a hammock
Learn to golf(July '12) Read about it here- Read Hinds Feet in High Places
- Adopt a dog
- Make it to a gymnastics meet
- Ride a crawler or a high crop (they both would be fun)
Learn chess (again)(3/8/12)- Have a me & Corey day
- Build a blanket fort and sleep in it
- Learn how to use Photoshop
- Find a pen pal
- Carve pumpkins with friends
Travel outside of the US(3/4/12)- Make Mom's raspberry jam
- Do a pull up
Go on a zip-lining course(June '12) Read about it hereGet my passport(2/4/12)- Find a local bookstore/coffee shop/nook near home to spend time at
- Drink milk straight from a cow
Learn to sewRead about it here- Take a photo of the same place every month for year and then turn it into a calendar for the next year
- Learn to drive stick
Travel with Mom and Grandma(3/4/12)- Befriend an Amish Family
- Sew my t-shirt quilt from high school
- Finish the Old Testament
- Learn to drive a tractor (not a garden tractor)
- Upload all my pictures to Shutterfly
- Pick a bouquet of wild flowers
- Finish redoing my bedroom
- Go spelunking
Graduate from college(5/5/12) Read about it hereTake pictures with my dad on campus(5/5/12) Read about it here- Skydive-again
Go to an airshow(9/1/12) Read about it here- Finish my crocheted rug
- Get someone to sing to my cousin on her birthday
- Fast
- Watch something my brother made
- Visit my brother [wherever he may be]
- Make a duvet cover
Learn Guitar(Spring '12) Read about it here- Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
Shoot a gun(1/2/12)- Sponsor a family at Christmas
- Create a photobook for my years at BG
- Have a real mud fight [the kind where it's not even worth trying to clean the clothes afterwards]
Golf with Dad(July '12) Read about it here- Actually rock climb (no more 'rock walls')
Make my blog unique(11/7/11)Go canoeing(June '12) Read about it here- Make peanut brittle
- Learn how to sodder
Celebrate graduation with Brandy(June '12)- Visit Jasmine
- Go to a concert at a county fair
- Build a sandcastle
- Cut my wardrobe in half (at least)
- Ice skate on a frozen pond
- Read the entire Bible
- Give 5 "Just Because" gifts
- Make my own wine
- Change the oil in my car [not by taking it somewhere]
- Sled ride on a cafeteria tray down BG's one hill [and not hurt a rib like my dad]
Learn to drive a four wheeler(May '12) Read about it here- Play Mozart duet with another bassoonist
- Learn how to can veggies
- Read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
- Learn to cook tofu
- Take pictures with the Thinker at BG
- Pick apples from an apple orchard
- Grow some sort of tea leaves and drink my own tea
- Swim under a waterfall
- Canter bareback
- Eat at a wild game dinner
- Write a letter to the people who most influenced me when I graduate college
- Go hunting
- Watch a drive in movie at the Lynn's [with lots of bug spray]
Get a pedicure(Spring '12) Read about it here- Tie a secret to a balloon and let it go
- Para sail over the ocean
- Watch 10 of the movies David thinks I should watch
- Learn a skill only Grandpa Charlie can teach me
- Camp with friends and study the Word for the weekend
- Take a pottery class
- Redo my closet
- Sponsor a child
- Help deliver a calf
- Go on a train ride
- Start or join a Bible study for people my age (not at college)
- Learn a skill only Grandma Carole can teach me
- Knit a big blanket
- Do a photo shoot with a friend
- Catch a fish, prepare it, then eat it
- Go on a road trip
Swim in the ocean(3/4/12) Read about it hereWatch a meteor shower(Aug '12) Read about it here- Go tubing
Get a job(11/23/11)- Visit Ashley, Laura, and Lauren in their hometowns
ooooh I can be your pen pal! Please please please. I've been trying to find a pen pal. seems like you'd be perfect!!!
ReplyDeleteemail me: mslilygaray@gmail.com
and I can help you do a duet cover:D
oh and since you want to cut your wardrobe in half.... I can take the clothes you do not want...hahahaha. or you can send the clothes to my mom's thrift store that helps orphans in need: thethriftconnection.com
ReplyDeleteWow that is a great list. Good luck in accomplishing everything. I set up an Adventure list, and it feels nice accomplishing things. Only one down so far so but we'll get there. I love some of yours, I hope you don't mind if I borrow some. :) I'm following your progress too :)
ReplyDeleteI also wanted to thank you for following me. :) Have you seen my new place yet?! It's so pretty if I do say so myself :) Hope you'll follow me there.
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