I tried this once before but didn’t manage to complete it, partly because I lost my list half way through and sort of gave up on it, but I am going to try again.
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.
I am starting my list today so it will be completed on 24th August 2014. Keep reading my blog as I will keep you updated on my progress
- Read those history books you keep buying and never opening
- Use my kindle more
- Listen to everything in my iTunes library at least once
- Give up alcohol for a month
- Give up fizzy drinks for a month
- Give up chocolate for a month
- Drink only water for a month
- Cook something from each of your recipe books
- Finish Doctor who scarf
- Spend more time with sisters
- Pick up the last of my stuff from my parents
- Rejoin the British Library
- Enter NaNoWriMo each year and complete it
- Complete NaNoEdMo
- Submit one of your books for publication
- Start my own War of the Roses research so I don’t have to rely on what other people tell me
- Tidy my room and keep it that way
- Give yourself regular manicures
- Experiment with make up more
- Stop biting nails
- Pay off debts
- Complete couch to 5k programme
- Complete the 100 push up challenge
- Complete the 200 sit up challenge
- Go vegan for a week to see if I can
- Ask 20 friends to suggest a book and then read them all
- Meet up with friends you haven’t seen in years
- Complete 100+ reading challenge
- Attend a music festival in another country
- Complete project 52 with both loupie.co.uk and ukgoth.info
- Complete weff riddles
- Learn BSL
- Improve posture
- Learn to swim
- Update address book so I have an email address, phone number and address for most people
- Learn 25 origami shapes I don’t already know
- Apply and test for Mensa
- Complete at least one scary crochet character
- Produce enough craft items to sell at the goth bring and buy
- Update my elf wood account
- Get my ears pierced again
- Complete cover to cover bible notes
- Start a diary and write in it every day for a year
- Do the 750 words challenge every day for at least a month
- Go to Whitby Goth Fest
- Rejoin the MSS and go to more events
- Get involved with Woodhouse more, don’t just turn up once a year
- Tell bank, DVLA, Skirmish magazine etc. I have moved
- Go for the lunch date to Petticoat Lane that me and Carrolle have been talking about for ages
- Get my legs waxed
- Go through all the unread books on my shelf and either get rid of them or read them.
- Write a post to celebrate each goals completion
- Write to Mike Gayle in response to his book; ‘The To-Do List’
- Listen to at least one song by each band in Amy‘s great big list of goth bands
- Sleep under the stars
- Get a massage
- Host a dinner party
- Get a better job
- Visit a place of faith other than a Christian one
- Compete my London’s Dead walks
- Become a London tour guide
- Host a themed party
- Make everyone a birthday card for a year
- Make and decorate a birthday cake for someone
- Find a frame for my bat picture and somewhere to hang it
- Work out an exercise regime and stick to it
- Try to plot my family tree
- Obtain my CBT license
- Write a panto
- Get into a 22” corset
- Tag all my photos in iPhoto
- Complete Bogle
- Clear out wardrobe
- Wear a dress on a regular non-special occasion day
- Set aside a day to make my iTunes perfect (artist/album/artwork)
- Make it to the top of an indoor climbing wall
- Learn another language
- Read a book in that language
- Complete ECDL
- Enquire about getting a bat handling license
- Watch a bat colony emerge
- Customise a my little pony
- Finish Skippy’s trenchcoat
- Go on a wolf walk
- Get a pet
- Have inner by candle light
- Do something nice for everyone in family
- Gt rid of everything I don’t need
- Dye my hair again
- Watch a sunset
- Watch the sun rise
- Build up enough muscle mass to comfortably pull my long bow
- Go to Paris with Skippy
- Learn Quenya
- Extract my DNA
- Learn to recognise 5 constellations
- Make a new kirtle
- Get some male medieval kit
- Do 5 random acts of kindness
- Spend a rainy day watching movies in my PJs
- Start a new list on day 1001
