101 Goals in 1001 Days

[ravnsdaughter]

I decided a couple of months ago, as the changes in my life started happening with my move (and getting rid of the roommate and moving in with Ian happened), that once the move was done, I was going to begin the Day Zero project, to give myself some goals to work towards. From the founder's website:

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in 1001 days

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measureable, or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of effort on your part).

Today is day 1, and 1001 days is up on May 10, 2012.

And... my list! Cut to spare your friends list, broken down by category

Health - 11 goals
- Lose 50 pounds (22/50)
- take my pills every day for 6 months straight and keep a record of it
- eat fish once a week for a month
- exercise for a minimum of 10 minutes three times per week for three months (1/36)
- buy a home blood pressure cuff and get my blood pressure under control without the use of medication
- get my eyes tested and get glasses if necessary
- stop drinking pop for 3 months (no pop at all, not even diet)
- take a beginner tai chi course
- brush my teeth twice a day and floss once a day for 3 months (2/90)
- get a dental checkup done and find out what work needs to be done, and work on a plan for fixing my teeth
- get a professional massage


Media & Art - 9 goals
- read every one of Shakespeare's plays
- see 2 different plays performed at Bard on the Beach
- organize my music library so that iTunes will finally not have any duplicate entries
- add one new album per month to my music library (5/whatever)
- add all of my books to my online book listing on goodreads
- read 10 of the books in my collection that I've never read before (2/10)
- Watch 20 of the movies from the IMdb top 250 movies of all time list that I have never seen before
- Read 10 books from the list at http://www.best100novels.com/ that I've never read before (compare list to Time's All-Time 100 Novels and see how different the lists are)
- Read 5 books on the reading list for the Personal MBA


Financial - 5 goals
- remain debt free for the entire duration of the project (except for possibly financing a car) (so far, so good)
- save $1000 in an emergency fund - done!
- get a credit card and use it responsibly
- open an RRSP account and deposit $500 in it
- keep track of every penny spent for 6 months


Spirituality - 12 goals
- celebrate every full moon for a year
- celebrate every solstice and equinox for a year
- meditate for a minimum of 10 minutes at least once a week for a year
- finish my ADF dedicant program
- attend a public Oakstone ADF ritual
- get a "professional" divination of some sort done for me
- get a past life regression done
- get my first degree reiki attunement done
- receive a reiki treatment from someone else
- set up an altar - done!
- create a Book of Shadows type book
- find some sort of storage device for herbs and start working with them more


Organization/Career - 2 goals
- create a proper precedent system including a binder with printouts, and remember to take it with me when I change jobs (which should be after I finish my paralegal) (started working on it on December 28, 2009)
- Complete my file organization project at work before February 24, 2010 (my 1 year anniversary of my job)
- Get my computer swapped over to the big harddrive and install Ubuntu/Windows as dual boot, and get all my files completely organized


Creativity - 14 goals
- start working on the AS 50 challenge (http://www.artsandsciences50.org) - complete the first 25 projects within the 1001 days, as AS50 goes til 2015 (1/25)
- take a beginner bellydance class
- enter all of my yarn and completed projects into my Ravelry profile
- take photos of all of my completed craft projects that I can round up, and take
photos of all finished projects from now on.
- go to a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performance
- learn to play the harp well enough to feel comfortable playing for friends at an SCA event
- learn to proficiency and memorize at least 10 piano pieces so that I can play for people at the drop of a hat, and play them regularly so that they stay memorized
- practice the piano for a minimum of 30 minutes a day for three months straight (days spent entirely away from home excepted)
- take a class in photography
- design and create 2 sets of casual clothing myself (underwear excluded)
- make 5 new pieces of jewelry for my collection
- learn how to use my camera properly and take 5 *good* photos a week for 6 months
- bake once a week for 3 months and share my baking
- brush up on my leatherworking and start making a leather book cover for my BoS


Education - 3 goals
- increase my fluency in a language to the point where I can hold a simple conversation (spoken or written) with a native speaker
- learn enough of a programming or coding language to write a simple application


SCA
- register my SCA name and device (in progress, working with a herald)
- attend four consecutive principality or kingdom events
- enter an SCA bardic competition
- enter an SCA Arts & Sciences competition
- create an entire norse outfit, head to toe, including underwear, socks and shoes, and beads, but not brooches, by hand
- get back to archery practice, score a Royal Round and then improve by at least 20 points over a season


Relationships/Family - 2 goals
- do something special and a surprise for my boyfriend at least once every two weeks for 6 months
- call my grandparents once a week for 3 months


Online - 5 goals
- redesign personal website/weblog and post twice a week for 6 months
- design cooking weblog and post twice a week for 6 months
- design craft weblog and post twice a week for 6 months
- design gaming weblog and post twice a week for 6 months
- get one character of each class in WoW to level 80 (faction unimportant) (5/10 complete)


Miscellaneous - 31 goals
- try absinthe
- buy a car (didn't buy it, it's on long-term loan, but I call this complete)
- fly on a plane
- eat at a new restaurant once a month for 6 months
- try a dish that is completely out of character for me when eating out 6 times (1/6, had shrimp at anniversary dinner)
- decorate the new apartment, including painting at least one wall
- get a passport
- draft and execute my Will (in progress, still deciding on things)
- get a tattoo
- visit a foreign country (USA only counts if there's at least one state between BC and my destination)
- have a proper IQ test done
- look into joining Mensa and if feasible, join
- learn to drive a stick shift - done!
- attempt to reconcile with a particular former friend
- Plant and grow a container garden on my balcony containing at least 6 herbs, and successfully harvest at least one large handful of herb from each plant
- Pack my lunch to work every day for 2 months (1/40)
- eat breakfast at home and not purchase anything on the way to work for 2 months (1/40)
- learn a basic poi spinning routine
- take a road trip somewhere
- go 3 weeks without having to throw out ANY spoiled food from the fridge
- donate blood (and thereby find out my blood type)
- find a geocache
- find a hairstyle that suits me and doesn't require much maintenance
- take a weekend trip to Seattle
- visit/tour a winery/cidery/meadery and do a tasting
- try 10 different foods that I've always thought would be gross (1/10; shrimp)
- get a sourdough starter and bake sourdough at home
- learn to brew mead
- bake all bread products consumed in our household for 1 month
- pare down my wardrobe to only things that fit and what can fit in my closet without being stuffed to the gills
- get 10 pictures of friends and family and frame them and put them up around the
house (2/10)


I will be posting updates on a periodic basis, as well as anytime I finish anything significant on the list. Encouragement is much appreciated! :)

Edited 08-27-09: Removed 2 goals as I've completely changed my mind about them. Will add 2 more when I decide what I want to do. (1 added August 29, 2009)

Comments

[brienze.livejournal.com]

This may completely not apply to you, but I wish someone had warned me, so... the WiiFit ended up being really, really disappointing for me. The most fun/least cardio exercises (which I thought were a reasonable starting point for someone coming from no exercise program at all) are the yoga and the balance games, and I ended up not being able to do them, even though I'd taken yoga classes in the past.

Those exercises demand that you make tiny balance adjustments with your toes. I've got a host of problems with my feet (flat feet, plantar fascitis) and the little movements required give me toe cramps. Even the exercises that didn't... well, standing on a hard plastic board for any length of time made my feet ache all over, where standing on carpet or on a yoga mat didn't. I've heard there are gel pads or somesuch that you can buy to cover the board, but I never looked into it because of the toe cramp problem.

Anyway, unless you're sure you'd have no problems with it I'd really recommend trying out a friend's WiiFit before deciding whether you want to buy one. It's not just a matter of willpower to use it, but the physical limitations of the equipment itself.

[ravnsdaughter.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the input. I was actually kinda grasping for the last few goals when I came up with that one. Ian's sister has a WiiFit, and I do know it has a weight limit on it, and I'm sure I'm way over it right now and might not get down enough to make it plausible within the time limit, so maybe I'll have to come up with a different goal for that one.

[belowthe49th.livejournal.com]

EA Sports Active kicks the Fit's ass. Just sayin' :) We have both and the Fit is garbage compared to the Active. I lost inches (thighs, waist) just in one week on the Active.