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 organizing 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 Focused. 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.
My Start Date: January 2, 2009
My End Date: September 30, 2011
And finally, my list:
The Beginning
1. Document everything on this list and photograph as many as possible
For Me
2. Complete scrapbook of wedding and honeymoon photos
3. Plant flowers at our house
4. Visit the local farmer’s market and buy fruits/veggies
5. Go see a play at the Muni
6. Get a quilt made of our old college t-shirts
7. Stretch every day for a month
8. Visit my grandmothers’ graves
9. Create a simple family tree scrapbook starting with our grandparents
10. Read at least 3 books on my bookshelf that I haven’t read yet (1/3)
11. Take a bubble bath once a month for a year (3/12)
12. Buy a new dress
13. Go one full month without biting my nails
14. Register to vote with my new last name
15. Eat at least one fruit and one veggie serving a day for one month (0/30)
16. Buy some new makeup that compliments my fair skin17. Have a baby
For My One True Love
18. Play a round of golf with Evan19. Have dinner at Pao with Evan20. Spend a morning or afternoon hiking in Carpenter Park with Evan21. Go on a picnic with Evan
22. Plan an overnight get-away to Evan’s cabin, either alone or with friends
23. Karaoke with Evan in a town where no one knows us
24. Have a candlelit dinner with Evan at home
25. Go to Six Flags or another theme park and ride the rides with Evan
For My Friends and Family
26. Have friends over for a homemade pizza night
27. Hold a holiday potluck meal with friends28. Plan a night out to dinner with both sets of parents
29. Have a baking/cooking day with my mom
30. Meet the Rehbergs for a night at the Korn Krib
31. Get together with friends at Hill Prairie Winery on a Sunday afternoon
32. Take our niece and nephew sledding
33. Go to or rent a chick flick with my girl friends34. Take Evan’s grandpa out to dinner for some quality time35. Write a letter to my parents telling them how much they mean to me
For Others36. Sponsor a needy child through my photography business
37. Use my photography and/or writing to help the APL
38. Make 2 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child each year (1/2)
Organization
39. Clean out my gmail account inbox40. Clean out and organize our guest closet
41. Print all photos and put in albums to date
42. Complete all other past scrapbooking projects43. Back up everything from hard drive to external hard drive44. Organize photos on hard drive and external hard drive
45. Buy a safe for personal documents and photo negatives
46. Organize all film negatives
47. Digitize my parents’ negatives
48. Scan some of my parents’ old photos49. Clean out my wardrobe of clothes I haven’t worn in 2 years
50. Update my list of addresses for friends and family
Never Stop Learning
51. Read 30 novels I haven’t read before (1/30)
52. Make a list of 10 books I really want to read
53. Read those books (0/10)
54. Read the four Gospels (1/4)
55. Read Genesis
56. Listen through my Spanish CDs all the way through
57. Learn how to mow the lawn
58. Make dinner four times in one week (does not include frozen pizza)
59. Develop a favorite menu of dishes to make on ongoing basis
60. Read Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
61. Learn to drop a ski
62. Read a book about the basics of the Catholic religion
63. Learn a new word and use it in a blog post every post for a month
64. Learn to play the entire song Let It Be on the piano
“The art is not in making money, but in keeping it…”
65. Save an emergency fund of 3 months’ worth of expenses
66. Invest in a second mutual fund67. Get a rewards credit card and use it to our advantage
68. Contribute at least $2,000 to Roth IRA in 2009 and 2010 each
Creativity69. Start a portrait photography business
70. Join WPPI71. Upgrade to a new DSLR camera72. Enter a photo into a competition73. Submit my children’s book to 20 publishers
74. Publish a photo essay in Springfield’s Own magazine
75. Book at least ** portrait sessions in 2009 (I'll save my numbers to share when I reach it :) )
76. Book at least ** portrait sessions in 2010
77. Open a studio or office space
78. Attend the WPPI conference
79. Join Senior Portrait Artists
80. Write three chapters of a book (0/3)
81. Combine personal blog and photo blog
Housekeeping82. Paint the living room
83. Paint the guest bathroom84. Buy a China cabinet
85. Either paint yellow bathtub or switch it out for new one
86. Paint office
87. Buy new TV stand for living room88. Print and frame Europe photos to hang in the house
89. Paint the master bedroom
90. Replace window hardware in both the living room and master bedroom91. Turn the guest bedroom into a nursery when we are expecting
Adventures
92. Visit Yellowstone National Park
93. Spend a relaxing weekend at a bed and breakfast with Evan
94. Go see a movie at a drive-in theater
95. Spend at least a few hours at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Museum
96. See New York in the winter time
97. Tour wineries in northern California
98. Take a day trip to New Salem
The End
99. Start a new 101 list when I am finished with at least 90 of these goals
Added Later100. Purchase a property for real estate/rental purposes
101. Get my wedding dress cleaned and preserved and stored away
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This is great stuff! I hope you complete all 99 of your tasks. You've got some pretty challenging goals on there, but I know you can do it.
I know one thing that I have decided to do this year is to trust others and rely on them for help sometimes. I am also including a work smarter, not harder motto and making things work for me.
I hope you're fired up for 2009!
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