In an attempt to make my life more interesting and perhaps even give me something to write about, I have joined up with the day zero website and added my name to the list of people pledging to do 101 things in 1001 days.
The Mission: 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).
Cross them off as you do them, and add the dates. Include the date you started the list and the finishing date.
101 in 1001
Those in italics are in progress.
Those in bold are completed.
Adventure
1. Fly a plane – Lesson booked for 28th July 2008
2. Go to a Formula One grand prix
3. Go white water rafting
4. Go rally driving
5. Go kite surfing
6. Drive a monster truck
7. Fly in a helicopter
8. Go skinny dipping
9. Go quadbiking
10. Take a trip on a boat
11. Go kayaking
12. Do four things that scare me (not including anything else included in this category) [0/4]
Skills and Crafts
13. Knit a scarf
14. Buy/Hire a piano so I can play again
15. Complete a first aid course
16. Go to a pottery class
17. Get a scuba diving PADI certificate
18. Take golf lessons
19. One year make all my Christmas cards myself
20. Go to the circus skills day in London
21. Go to the cowgirl skills day in London
22. Draw a self portrait
23. Make a patchwork quilt
Food – Eating & Cooking
24. Bake a cake
25. Cook five new recipes [0/5]
26. Have lunch at Claridges
27. Go out to a top notch restaurant dressed up to the nines
28. Go to a pick your own strawberries farm
29. Try ten new foods [0/10]
30. Go to Robbie’s restaurant in Spain
Writing
31. Set up this writing journal properly – Started by adding this page and transferring old entries
32. Write fifteen entries in my writing journal [0/15]
33. Have a piece of writing published
34. Write a letter to my future self, not to be opened for ten years
35. Post 101 positive entries on my journal about things that make me happy [0/101]
36. Write a letter and leave it somewhere for a stranger to find
Goals
37. Unpack every single box full of my possessions
38. Work for AQA again
39. Get a fulfilling job – Have applied for one I’d really like and I’ve passed the application stages so now I’m waiting to hear what’s next…
40. Live in one place for six months
41. Run two Race For Life races [0/2] – Next race is on the 27th July 2008
42. Make three new friends in Bristol (geniune friends I really like) [0/3]
43. Write a separate list of 1001 things to do before I die [0/1001]
44. On day 1001, make another list.
Health and Body
45. Give blood five times [0/5]
46. Have my teeth whitened
47. Do pilates classes (must go at least five times to count) [0/5]
48. Go to the gym (must go twenty times to count) [0/20]
49. Get a personal trainer (must see them ten times to count) [0/10]
50. Become a size 12 (or lose 31.5lbs) [2/31.5]
51. Go to a spa for the day again and have a massage
52. Have a make up session with Mac
Recreation / Just For Fun
53. Go to the cinema at least once a month [0/33]
54. Read fifty books [0/50]
55. Watch one hundred films [0/100]
56. Organise and go on a monopoly pub crawl with friends
57. Build a sandcastle
58. Fly a kite
59. Take 101 polaroid pictures of people, places and things that make me happy and make into an album [0/101]
60. Sleep out under the stars all night
61. Have my face painted
Money Matters
62. Make £200 from selling things on ebay [0/200]
63. Sell something I’ve made on ebay
64. Buy a convertible car
65. Win something (anything!) on the lottery
Travel
66. Go abroad for more than a month (in one single trip)
67. Camp in the Lake District
68. See the Northern Lights
69. See a baseball game in New York
70. Visit 4 new countries [0/4]
71. Spend new year’s eve in another country
72. Go to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in one year.
73. Camp in another country
74. Go away / camp with at least four friends
75. Get three more stamps in my passport [0/3]
Romance
76. Organise a nice surprise for my boyfriend
77. Spend one evening a month with the boy with no internet, telephones/mobiles, computer games or TV [0/33]
78. Sit and watch a sunset
79. Sit and watch a sunrise
80. Do something fantastic for our anniversaries [0/2]
Days Out
81. Go to The Comedy Store
82. Go to the races
83. Go to a film festival
84. Watch tennis at Wimbledon
85. Go to Carols in Candlelight at the Royal Albert Hall at Christmas time
86. Go to a party
87. Go to a music festival
88. Go to the hot air balloon festival in Bristol
89. Go to a kite festival
90. Go to Laser Quest
91. Go to the theatre three times [0/3]
92. Go for a day out, letting the person at the ticket office decide my location
93. Spend an entire day in a coffee shop reading, writing, doing puzzles and generally enjoying myself
I’ve run out of inspiration for now (having spent at least four hours so far!), but I’ll add to it as I think of things. It’s easy enough to fill the list with any old things but I want it to be things I genuinely WANT to do rather than just things I’ve thought of.
Start Date: Monday 7 July 2008.
End Date: Monday 4 April 2011.
Completed [0/101]
In Progress [5/101]
Rules I’ve set myself:
1. I’ll photograph everything wherever possible and blog about each task as I go along.
2. For every one of the tasks that remains incomplete, I’ll donate £2 to DebRA.
