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.
Some common goal setting tips:
1. Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
2. Stay Focussed. Any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. Constantly evaluate your progress.
3. 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.
4. Write down your goals. It clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
5. Keep your goals in sight. Review them frequently, and ensure that they are always at the forefront of your thinking.
Here's my list
- Go a week without spending a cent
- Buy new carpeting
- Buy myself a great fitting chair
- Install new vanity sink
- Buy headboard
- Eat shrimp
- Bake a souffle
- Host a dinner party for my friends
- Learn to use chop sticks
- Make curry
- Eat home grown fiddleheads
- Have a candle lit dinner in the middle of the week
- Go out for fancy dessert first!
- Eat vegetarian twice a week for a month
- Drink water with my meals
- Organize our family photos
- Trace my Johnston roots
- Have a sleepover with the grand kids...no parents
- Spend Christmas at home
- Watch all the Oscar winning Best Pictures available
- Attend an opera
- Read the classics
- Watch a rugby game
- Read The Bible
- Go TV free for 2 weeks
- Drive the Cabot Trail
- Visit the Stratford Festival
- Plant a tree for Alex & Jonathan each
- Tour a BC winery
- Learn basic conversational French
- Exercise daily for 6 weeks
- Have a pj day just because
- Learn to back up the camper
- Spend a day in silence
- Complete a 10K walk for charity
- Complete a 10K walk for me
- Pay for someone else's coffee in drive thru
- Purge my excess paperwork
- Volunteer for spring clean up in my community
- Finish Alex's pinwheel quilt
- Make Jonathan's quilt
- Go caffeine free for 2 weeks - maybe longer
- Tole paint my mailbox
- Be a secret Santa
- Crochet a round tablecloth
- Make a copper trellis
- Make some hypertufa planters
- Get a passport
- Learn to sign some basic words -please, thank you, hello, good bye
- Sew new living room drapes
- Make a roman blind
- Cross stitch a Paula Vaughan design
- Learn to appreciate scotch
- Fly a kite
- Build a bird house
- Sew a skirt
- Grow out my nails
- Wear dress shoes
- Nap in the afternoon
- Star gaze with my telescope
- Reduce my garbage output
- Use totes & bags, refuse plastic shopping bags
- Hand write letters to all my friends
- Send someone flowers just because
- Wash and detail Joe's truck
- Switch to all compact fluorescent light bulbs
- Attend a town council meeting
- Complete a sudoku puzzle
- Listen to a different CD each day until I've gone through them all!
- Wear earrings
- Write my will & living will
- Walk the stairs off Fox Drive
- Stay up all night
- Golf 6 different courses
- Learn to type with all my fingers!
- Play cat's cradle
- Paint kitchen cupboards
- Paint a piece of good wood furniture just because
- Roast marshmallows
- Learn to cross country ski
- Try snow shoeing
- Paint my front door
- Tour the Royal Tyrell Museum
- Visit the Royal Alberta Museum
- Go to a U-Pick and pick lots
- Camp the May long weekend, snow or shine
- Visit the Muttart Conservatory in the dead of winter
- Use my SLR camera
- Tour the Devonian Gardens
- Push mow the lawn for 2 weeks
- Hand dig lawn dandelions
- Join St Albert library
- Write a fan letter to someone I admire
- Re-work the front sidewalk
- Learn to make a signature cocktail
- Learn to dance & then dance
- Get a foot rub
- Skinny dip
- Sleep naked
- Ride with Joe
- Complete my list and maybe start another one
I will keep you posted as to my progress...and don't be shy about keeping me honest. I'd love to have some company, so feel free to join in!
7 comments:
Is that really 101 things? I guess that'll give Aaron and I something to work on for the drive tomorrow. Can't wait for the unparented grand kids sleepover! WOOT WOOT! Alex keeps talking about having a baby brother...
Leave it to my loving family to lend me some support. First Heather calls me in french, Lesley is already planning the kids' sleepover and then Joe sends me info on a 5K walk in June...and the offer of curried shrimp washed down with some of his best scotch. Life is wonderful.
Looks like a good list.. and I think I will join you.. no I won't think I will join you. 101 things to do in 1001 days..
Alli
I can help with a few things! I love Sudoku puzzles and can e-mail you some easier ones, I am pretty good with sign language, I use my SLR camera all the time, and I'll ture a BC vineyard with you!
Good luck and let me know if I can be of assistance!
Krista.
Watch for list updates! Thanks for the support and good luck to those brave enough to give it a try!
Uggers! Aaron was so proud of himself for posting a comment w/o my transcribing and it didn't work. I think he said he'll gladly help you with stairs or maybe stairmaster?
Nathan Can Help you with the signing thing.. He Can Sign the basics and a bit more..
Nathan/Alli
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