The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of work on my part).

This project was taken from Triplux.

I completed my first 101 in 1001 on September 15, 2008!

The things that I say I want to MAINTAIN will be counted as completed if they are maintained for at least two months. I figure that if I maintain something for at least that long, then it’ll be habit.

Tasks I have completed will be struck through and a completion date will be listed that is linked to a post about the completion of that task. Tasks that I have begun will be italicized and a beginning date will be listed.

Started: September 15, 2008
Due Date: June 13, 2011
Tasks Completed: 3
Tasks in Progress: 6
Tasks Remaining:98

1. Make this list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. If anything was left incomplete from my previous 101 in 1001, then figure out why I didn’t do it, and see if I can rework the goal. If so, it has to be on this list (these items have a ** in front of them). Completed 9/15/08

Religious
2. Join a small group/women’s Bible study.
3. Start writing again at Reading Red Letters and MAINTAIN it.
4. Find a church home wherever I move to after school.
5. Read at least 10 books by C. S. Lewis.
6. **Plan a religious fast and complete said fast (probably 3 days, but that’s flexible).
7. **Read the Bible from beginning to end.

Family/Friends

8. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2008.
9. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2009.
10. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2010.
11. **Go to a concert with Daddy.

Health
12. Get serious about meal planning and menus
13. Start and MAINTAIN drinking 8 glasses of water a day.
14. Get professionally fitted for a bra at a store that sells bras in my size.
15. Learn to eat at least 3 new fruits and vegetables (doing this one again).
16. **Start and MAINTAIN regular exercise.
17. **Reach my weightloss goal and MAINTAIN it.
18. **Start and MAINTAIN regular flossing.
19. **Get my stomach into fit enough condition so that a pierced bellybutton won’t look ridiculous 17. (and if I keep my courage, actually pierce the bellybutton – but even if I don’t go through with it, the option is nice to have).
20. **MAINTAIN taking vitamins regularly.
21. **MAINTAIN monthly breast self exams.

School
22. Find an internship.
23. Graduate from UNCSA.

Career

24. Find a job upon graduating.
25. Apply to AssistU, and attend (and graduate!) if accepted.
26. Find a new format for my resume and rework it. Completed 11/8/08

Financial

27. Become financially independent from my parents.
28. Save $5 a day and deposit into my savings account (doing this one again).
29. Contribute every month to saving for a house down payment.
30. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2008.
31. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2009.
32. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2010.
33. MAINTAIN using coupons as I grocery shop when able (many organic products do not get coupons).
34. Save up for tuition to AssistU ($0/$2500)

Travel

35. Get a new car - and I’m the one paying for it.
36. Visit Alaska.
37. Take another cruise.
38. See New York City when it’s decorated for Christmas.
39. Travel to a different country.
40. Go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter once it opens.
41. **Take a vacation to Atlanta with Mama – go shopping and see an exhibit at the High Museum.
42. **Travel to Washington, D.C. At least see major monuments, the White House, and the Smithsonian.
43. **Mount all my hat pins somehow (this replaces the previous “buy nice map and put a push-pin in every place I’ve been”)

Personal Betterment
44. Perform 10 random acts of kindness to complete strangers (0/10).
45. Have more involved communication with my sponsored children.
46. Get up the minute that the alarm goes off every day for a month.
47. Give blood if eligible (attempting to do this one again).
48. Write a personal mission statement.
49. Wear makeup every day for a month.
50. Write “to be read” letters to selected people (letters to be read upon my death by the people who mean the most to me).
51. Pay for the person behind me at a fast food drive thru (doing this one again).
52. **Begin creatively writing again (re-write novel).
53. **Stop biting fingernails.
54. **Update my journal and MAINTAIN it.

Organize/Purge

55. Organize, file, and store all my notes/keepsakes from my graduate classes.
56. Move a large portion of my items stored at my parents’ house to my place.
57. Sell, donate, give, or throw away 101 items (doing this one again).
58. Create a filing system for all paperwork and MAINTAIN it.
59. Sort through all clothing three times (0/3).
60. Sort through all of my books and BookCross a LARGE amount (at least 50).
61. Rearrange books so that they truly are according to the Library of Congress system.
62. **Finish entering all my books into a database.
63. **MAINTAIN cleaning my apartment (dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing the shower, etc.) on a regular basis – AT LEAST once a month.

Technology
64. Write 500 blog posts (more attainable than 1001). (3/500) Begun 9/15/08
65. Participate in Blogathon 2009
66. Participate in Blogathon 2010
67. Participate in Blog Action Day 2008 Completed 10/15/08
68. Participate in Blog Action Day 2009
69. Participate in Blog Action Day 2010
70. Participate in NaNoWriMo
71. Build up a decent audio/visual system.
72. Start a system for regularly backing up my computer(s) and MAINTAIN it.
73. Complete an email purge of all unnecessary old emails.

Entertainment

74. Read through my A-Z Challenge.
75. Join local library.
76. Decrease my LibraryThing TBR tags to at least 50% of my books (currently at 294/390 books - 75%).
77. Re-read all the Harry Potter books.
78. Re-read all the Star Wars books.
79. Read at least 150 books (0/150).
80. Reach a Gamerscore of at least 3,000 on XBox360 (currently at 1,490).
81. Go see a famous jazz musician/group in concert.
82. See a Cirque du Soleil show I haven’t seen (doing this one again).
83. Go see a movie at the movie theater alone.
84. See an opera.
85. **Complete The Sims 2 Legacy Challenge.
86. **Finish clearing my previous Netflix queue. (243/494) Begun 12/19/05
87. **Read 75% of the list of books that my friends have sent me. (24/85) Begun 12/19/05
88. **Watch 90% of the Greatest Films in 101 Things to Do Before You Die. (93/119) Begun 12/19/05
89. **See 100% of AFI top 100 movies. (74/100) Begun 12/19/05
90. **See 75% of Entertainment Weekly’s top 100 movies. (50/75) Begun 12/19/05

In the Kitchen
91. Rework my chocolate chip cookies recipe so that it is healthier.
92. **Learn to use cast iron skillets without messing up the seasoning.
93. **Find and make a good cheese fondue recipe (may require several tries).

Just for Fun
94. Find some attractive skirts that I can wear daily (not just on special occasions) and wear them!
95. Complete a New York Times crossword (any day of the week)
96. Be super silly - take Oprah’s product recommendation.
97. **Learn to drive a stick shift.
98. **Test drive a hot sports car with no intention of buying it.
99. **Win something (anything) from a lottery ticket.
100. **Shout “Drinks are on me!” in a pub or bar.

101. On June 13, 2011, publish a new 101 in 1001.