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 am I partaking in this challenge? Because why not?! If you know me, you know I love making lists. I have a tendency to put completed items on my list just to cross them off. That is how much I love lists. That being said, I used to be terrible at completing said lists. I've created bucket lists just for the sake of it, and honestly, I'm tired of dreaming and not succeeding. I want to accomplish my goals and live life fully.
How am I going to do this, you ask? Earlier this year I stumbled across a really awesome tool created by Lara Casey called Powersheets. This packet of goal-setting pages are intended to encourage people to "make things happen." I began my first set of power sheets in June of this year and I am so excited about the progress I've made. So, I plan to use these sheets to complete my 101 in 1001. Here goes nothing!
So here I go, 101 goals in 1001 days
Start Date: August 1, 2015
End Date: April 28, 2018
- Live Long and Prentiss
- Marry Stephen!
- Take a class together
- Go to a drive in movie together
- Record a song
Create a joint calendar to stay informed- Get quality photo books made for each year of dating
- Participate in a devotional together
Happy Home - Buy a comfy couch
- Build a barn wood table
- Have a creative space
- Create Stephen's "office"
- Plant and harvest my own herb garden
- Create a gallery wall
- Build a space to put all my nerdy knick-knacks
- Complete capsule wardrobe
Get Healthy - See a trainer once a week for a month
- Go to gym 3 days a week for a month
- Complete a 30 day challenge
- Complete the 21 Day Fresh Start Cleanse through Simple Green Smoothies
- Meet 1st weight loss goal
- Meet 2nd weight loss goal
Get a gym membership(Earth Treks January 2015)- Complete the Insanity workout tapes
- Make 3 healthy eating habits happen
Hostess with the Mostest - Host a party just because
Celebrate 25th birthday(November 4, 2015)Host a 25th birthday party!(Had a joint galaxy themed birthday party with Erin on the day directly between our birthdays, November 15)- Host a Sunday Super
- Host a Friendsgiving
- Host a costume party
- Host a Christmas party/white elephant
- Host a summer kick off party
- Have a movie marathon for one particular series in a weekend (Choose one: Harry Potter, The Hobbit and the LOTR, Hunger Games, etc)
- Host a NYE party
Money Money Money Money! - Have a career in UX/UI
- Pay off debt completely
- Complete FPU
- Hold a budget meeting once a week for the first 6 months of marriage
- Own my car
Makers Gonna Make (Creative) - Create a brand
- Sell my work online
- Establish a blog
- Participate in National November Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
- Complete writing a book
- Complete a Project Life album of our wedding/engagement
- Learn how to do calligraphy
- Participate in a hand lettering challenge
- Create Stephen's brand for pedal business
- Work off asthma
Wanderlust - Visit England
- Visit Ireland
- Visit Scotland
- Go on a road trip without a GPS
- Visit Boston in the fall
- Go somewhere tropical
- Go to the Doctor Who Experience
- Go on a spontaneous weekend trip
- Visit Ocean City, Maryland
- Go to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa
- Go on vacation with friends
Daring Adventures - Attend an outdoor climbing class
- Climb 5.9s regularly
- Climb a 5.10
- Learn to lead climb
- Go white water rafting
- Go camping once a year (0/3)
- Go backpacking
Faithful - Memorize a verse a week for 6 months
- Host a growth group at our home
- Go to church while traveling
- Tithe 10% and increase every year
- Read the entire Bible
- Fulfill my UpsideDown campaign commitment
- Find a cause to donate to consistently
- Go on a mission trip
- Stick to and pray through prayer journal every month for 6 months
- Participate in Lent
Oh What Joy - Read entire Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit
- Start a book club
- Audition for a musical
See a show on Broadway(September 27, 2015)- Learn to mix cocktails/take a mixology class
- Read 50 books
- Learn to cook a turkey
- Learn to grill
- Fix shoulder tattoo
- Watch "The Top 100 Movies of All Time" list from Rotten Tomatoes
- Get birth name tattoo
- Become a Maryland resident
- Complete a second certificate
- Brew my own beer
- Read the entire Chronicles of Narnia books
- Reread all the Harry Potter books
- Complete a reading challenge
- Learn how to drive stick shift
- One month of social media free weekends
- Contentment challenge
- Learn a new Hungarian recipe
- Make christmas cookies on my own
- Journal every day for a year
- Write a new 101 in 1001
Here's to new goals and the fact that there is nothing special about January 1st. Start today!
