101 Goals

THE MISSION

Complete 101 preset tasks within a period of 1001 days.

This list of tasks will begin being processed on the March 2010. The list will be completed by December 2012. I’ll be keeping this page up to date from now until the end date, and I’ll periodically write blog entries when I manage to complete particularly important tasks.

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).

Goals that are bold are the ones I am currently working on.

Goals that are bold and slashed are completed.

THE PROGRESS SO FAR

THE LIST

School

1. Graduate with my MSW

Family/Friends

2. Join a book club

3. Get a dog

4. Eat a traditional picnic (with a basket) under a tree

5. Have all the family over for Christmas

6. Have another child

7. Take monthly family photos

8. Attend a Renaissance festival

9. Wear family themed Halloween costumes

10. Ride on a horse drawn sleigh during Christmas time

11. Create a large family calendar

12. Read a book to my daughter every night for a month

13. Take my daughter and my husband to swim lessons

14. Go on a date with my husband one day a month

15. Go to a drive-in movie

16. Have a professional photo shoot

17. Have husband and wife time, no distractions, once a day for a month

18. Host a summer BBQ 

19. Sponsor a family for Christmas

20. Build a snowman family

Travel

21. Finally have a honeymoon

22. Close my eyes and where ever my finger lands on a map, go

23. Visit Coney Island

24. Go camping for a weekend

25. Go to a bed and breakfast somewhere in the New England states for a weekend

26. Take a stroll in Central Park while eating a hotdog or pretzel 

27. Attend my undergrad homecoming in 2010

Body/Mind

28. Read 4 novels in 6 months

29. Subscribe to a magazine

30. Have a professional massage

31. Go out dancing with my husband

32. Write a thank you card every time I receive a gift or kind gesture for a year

33. Complete one entire month of not buying anything that is not absolutely essential. (no fun purchases, no clothing, no food that is not groceries, etc.)

34. No eating after 8PM for one entire month

35. Attend a lecture about something I have no interest in

36. Make a year’s worth of my own laundry detergent

37. Write daily in my blog (exceptions: in labor, deathly ill, away from electricity)
38. Devote 30-45 minutes a night, for a month, to God

39. Go zip-lining

40. Go offline for a week (only using the web when my job requires it and to blog)

41. Don't watch TV or Movies for 1 week.

42. Give 10 unexpected gifts (1/10)

Art/Craft

43. Attend a play with my husband every year (one must be on Broadway) (1)

44. Take photography classes

45. Take one photo a day of something that interests me for one month

46. Sew a pillow

47. Attend a crafting class

48. Attend a craft convention

49. Attend a craft party

50. Paint my own ceramic mugs

Finances

51. Save something from every pay check

52. Create a monthly budget for three months (without altering)

53. Set up a retirement fund

54. Start Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps

Home

55. Re-furnish a dresser, chair, and table bought second hand

56. Buy a home

57. Buy a welcome mat

58. May my own holiday wreaths (Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas)

59. Have my own crafting space

60. Make my bed everyday for a month

Me

61. Go to Anthropologie and buy something at full price

62. Get a hair cut every six weeks

63. Tend to my eyebrows every month

64. Buy a designer bag

65. Buy a little black dress

66. Do make up every work day of the month, for a month

Food/Fitness

67. Make two new recipes a month for six months

68. Make a batch of French macarons

69. Grow my own herbs

70. Grow my own vegetables

71. Throw a sit down dinner party

72. Go berry picking in the summer

73. Go apple and pumpkin picking in the fall

74. Loose 100lbs (5/100lbs lost) by March 16, 2012

75. Eat locally

76. Sign up and attend a series of cooking classes

77. Drink only water for a month

78. Track my calorie intake for two months

79. Can 10 jars of jelly/jam (10/10)- I've done way more, I lost count

80. Construct my own family recipe book

81. Host a holiday themed party

82. Make a homemade pie, crust and all

83. Bake something for new neighbors: Coffee Cake for Ben

84. Stop eating any fast food for a month

85. Make homemade ice cream

86. Try 20 new restaurants – (15/20)

87. Go to a wine tasting event

88. Go walking 4 days a week for a month

89. Attend a cake decorating class

90. Get a personal trainer for a month

91. Take a picture of everything I eat

Misc.

92. Write and illustrate a children book

93. Plant a tree

94. Attend a bonfire

95. Attend a wedding

96. Watch the news every morning for a month

97. Participate in a protest

98. Go on a family vacation

99. Go on a road trip

100. Spend a weekend in NYC

101. Pay off our car