So, I feel like now that I am nearly finished with school my life is about to begin and I want it to be intentional. So I have started praying about my goals, asking God to form my dreams and give me directions.
Growing up we are provided with so much direction and so many goals: finish high school, make good grades, get into college, etc etc. Now all that is quickly (and joyfully) coming to an end. I want to life my life with a purpose and I also want to live my life to show what I believe. So in order to help me accomplish my goals I going form a list of 101 things to accomplish in 1001 days.
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 1001 Days? Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple challenges such as New Year’s resolutions or a ‘Bucket List’. 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 organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips, study semesters, or outdoor activities.
- Take a photography class to learn to use my new camera
- Watch “The Business of Being Born”
- Learn and be able to identify 5 constellations (0/5)
- Identify 100 things that make me happy and make a list of them
- Take a family vacation
- Have a night out with friends at least once a month (1/33)
- Take a picture of Daniel and I once a month (2/33)
- Have a date night, out of the house, once a month (2/33)
- Take Daniel to a National Championship Game
- Travel to New York City with Daniel in the fall
- Take a walk with Daniel at least once a week (3/132)
- Work out at least 2 times a week (3/132)
- Complete the Couch to 5K program
- Run a 5K
- Save 3 months of expenses in a Money Market Fund
- Find 5 events in San Antonio that are free and attend them (0/5)
- Blog every day for a week (0/7)
- Loose those 15 pounds
- Pay for the person behind me in the drive-thru
- Play with the dogs in the yard once a week (3/132)
- Send a care package to a soldier
- Make our backyard a retreat we can enjoy
- Grow a strawberry plant that produces strawberries we can eat
- Use reusable bags everywhere – not just the grocery store
- Begin composting. Use it in our garden.
- Seriously consider with Daniel moving to Washington D.C. (ie look at cost of living, taxes, pros and cons of moving from Texas)
- Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
- Sleep with Daniel under the stars
Graduate Nursing School- Pass State Nursing Boards
- Get a nursing job that I actually love
- Start on bachelors degree in nursing
- Begin the process of international adoption
- Don’t complain about anything for a week
- Answer 50 question that will free your mind, post on blog as proof
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Become a mommy
- Seen 10 classic movies I have never seen
- Go sky diving
- Learn a poem by heart
- Take guitar lessons
- Learn to play a whole song on the guitar
- Go rock Climbing
- Learn Basic Spanish
- Visit Spain with Daniel
- Get a massage
- Finish the floors in our house
- Finish the Master bedroom (touch up paint, baseboards, paint molding, furniture, and hang pictures)
- Finish Painting the interior of the house
- Buy living room furniture
- Redo the fireplace
- Buy a new dining table that actually seats my family
- Read 50 books (1/50) (Books so far: Inkheart)
- Clean out and organize my closet
- Expand my vocabulary by 100 words (0/100)
- Visit the Grand Canyon
- Do mission work for Africa (can be a community effort)
- Go a whole week without internet
- Finish My Africa and Panama Scrapbook
- Finish 2008 family scrapbook
- Take a road trip with D
- Do a Texas wine tour
- Learn how to use my sewing machine
- Enjoy a candle lit dinner
- Take a girls vacation
- Backup all my digital pictures
- Attempt to make sushi
- Read the bible cover to cover
- Cook dinner once a month (0/33)
- Organize files and store away
- By a fireproof safe to store important documents
- Take a bible study (Such as Disciple 1)
- Go camping at 2 state parks I have never visited each year (0/6)
- Pay off our cars (0/2)
- Help Daniel get on a hunting lease (I know he has been dying to)
- Let something that D does that normally upsets me go once a month (0/33)
- Go to two states I have never been to before as an adult (0/2)
- Go to a Rangers game
- Use every tool I have in my kitchen, ie the icing thing, the cookie shape thing, the blender, etc (seriously why do I even own half the things?)
- Empty and donate the old Toshiba
- Buy Photoshop
- Learn to use Photoshop (otherwise #80 would be a waste)
- Finish all outstanding thank-you notes from the wedding (my “nursing school keeps me busy” excuse is quickly running out!)
Fix the WiiI am counting this one as done, we did our part and sent it off to nintendo to be fixed… unfortuatly they could not. We bought a used one from game stop and can now be finished with the old one. Yay!- Have a Wii Dance party for friends and family (Oh yes, Its coming people)
- Go on another mission trip
- Leave a 100% tip
- Go scuba diving again
- Try my luck at batting cages
- Buy a pair of jeans I love from somewhere other than AE
- Eat at Peanut Butter & Co. in NYC
- Memorize 10 bible verses
- Learn how to make and Italian dish from scratch
- Go to a Dallas Cowboys Game… I know, I know. Why? I’m not a fan, I dont even particularly like profootball but I have the stadium is A-MA-Zing.
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I left the last few open for a few reasons. Firstly, I wanted to leave room to grow in these last few months. Second, I couldn’t think of anything else I really wanted to do. Sure I could fill up the empty spaces with various things easily but that seemed to defeat my intention in this to do list anyways. So its November 1, 2010. Lets get this 1001 days rolling! 🙂
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