So I’ve found this idea on a couple people’s blogs and I really like it. The idea is to make a list of 101 things you are going to do in 1001 days. The deadline of 1001 days works out to roughly 2.75 years, and gives you more time to get tasks done – because they can sometimes be things that will take a considerable amount of time and effort. Tasks must be concrete and measurable, so you have a way of determining if you completed it or not. I’ll post my list here and keep track of my progress on this page.
Make your own 101 in 1001 list!
(If you do, leave a comment here so I can check it out!)
Start date: December 28, 2009
End date: September 24, 2012
Current Count: 45 items complete / 56 items to do
CRAFTS
1. Make our wedding album
2. Make wedding albums for our parents
3. Buy a nice camera (thanks mom and dad!)
4. Create an Etsy page and fill it with my crafting projects
5. Finish knitting the blanket I started about three years ago
6. Knit a sweater
7. Create a blog to go with my Etsy page
FOOD
8. Eat clean for 1 month (00 of 30 days complete)
9. Eat vegetarian for 1 month (and continued to do so!)
10. Eat vegan for 1 week (and continued to do so!)
11. Cook dinner 3x a week for 1 month
12. Give up peanut butter for 1 month (0 of 30 days complete)
13. Take a cake decorating class
14. Plant a garden
15. Bring lunch to work for two weeks
16. Create and organize my recipe binder
17. Try one new recipe per week for three months
18. Make a thanksgiving dinner
HEALTH
19. Complete a half marathon
- Completed Buffalo Half Marathon: May 30, 2010 (Time: 2:33:00)
20. Complete a full marathon
- Completed ADK marathon: Sept 26, 2010 (Time: 5:11:15)
21. Complete a sprint triathalon
22. Complete an olympic triathalon
23. Complete P90X
24. Get down to and maintain a healthy weight where I don’t obsess about my middle
25. Complete a trail race
- Hairy Gorilla Half Marathon: October 31, 2010 – Stopped at 7.5 miles due to ankle issues. Will do another in the future.
26. Meditate daily for 1 week (0 of 7 days complete)
27. Do 100 push-ups straight (25 of 100 pushups complete)
28. Bike to work
29. Get my black belt in TKD (9 of 11 belts attained – current status: Black stripe)
30. Start working on becoming a 46er (0 of 46 mountains climbed)
31. Run 10+ miles every week for 1 year (??? of 52 weeks complete)
32. Teach my husband how to ski or snowboard
33. Run the DC marathon with my sister
34. Run in a 5k with my husband
HOME
35. Buy a house
36. Do laundry once a week for three months
37. Vacuum and dust once a week for three months
38. Paint and decorate the living room
39. Paint and decorate the bedroom
40. Organize the kitchen
41. Get a full set of silverware (serving eight)
42. Purge our home of things we don’t need/use
43. Take things to be donated to salvation army (or equivalent)
JUST FOR ME
44. Treat myself once a day for a month (0 of 30 days complete)
45. Identify 100 things that make me happy (25 of 100 complete)
46. Identify 25 things that I like about myself (25 of 25 complete)
47. List one thing I am grateful for every day for 3 months (1 of 90 days complete)
48. Learn more about my Jewish heritage
49. Go to temple once a week for one month (0 of 4 weeks complete)
50. Update my wardrobe
MARRIAGE
51. Have a monthly dinner date with my husband for 1 year (0 of 12 months complete)
52. Write my husband love letters weekly for 3 months (0 of 12 weeks complete)
53. Get photos printed
54. Change my name on my passport
55. Change my name on my student loans
56. Change my name on my college transcripts
57. Take a romantic weekend getaway
58. Play a board game with my husband once a week for three months (0 of 12 weeks complete)
59. Go on a successful canoeing trip with my husband (we had a bad experience!)
60. Call my mother in law by her first name, to her face
MISCELLANEOUS
61. Compete in an agility trial (Sunday, April 4th)
62. Use reusable grocery bags
63. Give up TV for a week
64. Improve my Spanish skills
65. Get a haircut
66. Get another dog
67. Spend gift cards
68. Write a new blog entry at least once a week for one year (20 of 52 weeks complete)
FINANCIAL
69. Build e-fund to 20k
70. Get my husband’s car paid off
71. Get an accountant
72. Max out our 401k contributions
73. Roll my old 401k into a Roth IRA
MUSIC AND ART
74. Create another painting
75. Be in a musical again
76. Play my viola every day for one month (0 of 30 days complete)
77. Do another charcoal drawing
78. Join an orchestra
79. Learn how to play guitar (more than the one song I already know)
80. Learn how to play saxophone
READING
81. Read the Twilight books
82. Read 50 books in 1 year (0 of 50 books complete)
SOCIAL
83. Host a dinner party
84. Host a cookie swap
85. Host a girls poker night
86. Make a new friend (Yay for Carrie!)
TRAVEL
87. Surprise my husband with a vacation
88. Go to Chicago
89. Go to Yellowstone
90. Go on a cruise
91. Go to Alaska
92. Go to the Grand Canyon
93. Go to Glacier National Park
WORK
94. Create a volcanology course
95. Decide on a Ph.D.
96. Go to another active volcano
97. Attend the GSA conference
98. Attend the AGU conference
99. Attend the LPSC conference
LIST RELATED
100. Donate $1 for every task I don’t complete to a charity (TBD)
101. Put $5 into savings for every task I complete
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December 31, 2009 at 3:54 pm
merediththegreat
Let me know what you do your vegan week, because I’ll do it with you. Also, woo-hoo, vegetarian for a month!:-)
July 10, 2010 at 9:13 am
thenheathersaid
i love love LOVE your list related ideas. Thats a GREAT idea.
i’ve been working on my list a lot the last few weeks. My expiration date is 10-11-2011, so i have over a year to go, but i still have about 75 things to do yet. I have been scheduling them and have created a spreadsheet of “first steps” for example on my task “read Captivating” the first step is “get a library card” (which, now that i right that, i think i am going to do today
) Or “watch my fair lady” was “add to netflix queue”. I look forward to keeping up with your progress as well (and i just made a note to check out threetogetready.etsy 
)
July 10, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Sarah
Hahaha. You are too funny! I love making spreadsheets too
I’m making a dent in mine but it’s slow going!
September 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Carolyn
Give up PB for one month. I’ve so been there. ADDICTED. I have kicked the habit though…. but I LOVE peanut butter. But I can’t go there. no. it is bad.
September 30, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Sarah
I LOOOOOOOOVE peanut butter. I’ve gotten much better – to the point that I have self control! But it was a long road.
November 16, 2011 at 3:53 am
Cris
i’ve been working on my list a lot the last few weeks. My expiration date is 10-11-2011, so i have over a year to go, but i still have about 75 things to do yet. I have been scheduling them and have created a spreadsheet of “first steps” for example on my task “read Captivating” the first step is “get a library card” (which, now that i right that, i think i am going to do today ) Or “watch my fair lady” was “add to netflix queue”. I look forward to keeping up with your progress as well (and i just made a note to check out threetogetready.etsy )
+1