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 my part).
Why 1001 Days? Many people have created lists in the past - frequently goals such as New Year's resolutions. 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 or outdoors activities.
START Friday, 18th September 2009 FINISH Friday, 15th June 2012
The List
Red - means task in progress
1.Write a list of tasks to do in 1001 days 2.Set up a blog about this task 3.Take photo's of certain tasks as I complete them 4.Start a scrapbook to record this task 5.Donate 101,000 grains of rice at freerice.com (2310/101,000) 6.Read 150 books (3/50) 7.Start a memory box to give to Brandon on his 18th birthday 8.Watch a sunrise 9.Watch a sunset 10.Eat fish and chips by the sea 11.Walk along a moonlit beach 12.Go on a roadtrip with no predetermined destination 13.Go to a beach i've never been too before 14.Go on a 'date' with Chris 15.Write out a cleaning routine and stick to it! 16.Cook a three course candlelit meal for Chris 17.Have a 'come dine with me' style competition with family/friends 18.Grow strawberries 19Grow gooseberries 20.Make a pizza from scratch 21.Make a cheesecake 22.Make homemade bread 23.Have a coffee in starbucks 24.Visit Cheddar Gorge & Wooky Hole 25.Visit Chessington theme park 26.Visit Stonehenge 27.Send a parcel to anysoldier.com 28.Watch 50 films that I haven't seen before (2/50) 29.Buy a copy of A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 30.Read 5 'classics' (0/5) 31.Read 10 books off the RISI must read list 0/10 32.Read Crime and Punishment 33.Sleep under the stars 34.Start a blog about my RISI reading challange 35.Fill a notebook with my favourite quotes 36.Fill a notebook with at least 20 recipes (0/20) 37.Give Chris a massage once a month 38. Decorate the hallway 39.Get voile and lined curtains for the front door 40. 41.Buy a wine rack and fill it with wine 42. 43.Have a picnic using the picnic basket and making homemade food 44.Have a BBQ party 45.Have afternoon tea at home with homemade cakes 46.Do 50 tarot readings on sofeminine.co.uk (7/50) 47.Make homemade chocolates 48.Make a hamper of homemade produce and give it to someone as a gift. 49.Have a halloween party at home 50. 51.Make homemade lemonade in the summer 52.Take Brandon to collect conkers 53.Teach Brandon apple bobbing at halloween 54.Get a memorial plaque for dad put in the garden 55.Keep a birthday book and send everyone in it a card 56. Keep an address book 57.Write and send all christmas cards by December 12th 58.Make up a first aid kit for the house 59.Grow a herb garden 60.Straighten my hair everyday for a week. 61.Go back to London again 62.Inspire someone else to do their own 101 tasks in 1001 days. Thanks Tina! 63.Take Chris to where I grew up and show him the local haunts 64.Eat a fruit I have never eaten before 65.Take part in a 'beach cleaning' event 66.Paint my toenails a different colour every month 67.Watch a thunderstorm from the beach cliff top 68.Try sushi 69.Make tomato soup from scratch 70.Get a bonsai tree and learn about bonsai 71. 72.Put photos in all my empty photoframes. 73.Go and see a westend show 74.Complete a crossword 76.Cook a christmas dinner with all the trimmings from scratch 77.Bake a chocolate gataux 78.Host a New Years Eve dinner party at home 79.Buy a bottle of perfume I have never worn before 80.Make an Indian themed menu from scratch 81.Have a professional massage 82.Take Brandon to a local show/pantomime 83.Visit thye Roman baths in bath 84.Visit Hampton Court Palace 85. 86.Document my hometown in photographs 87.Try a fresh coconut 88.Buy and complete a 'wreck this journal' 89.Look up one word a week in the Urban dictionary 90.Wear silk stockings 91.Experience a seance 92. 93. 94. 95.Go to the Isle of Wight 96. 97.Have a duvet day just watching TV 98.Go on a local boat trip 99. 100.Start and complete a 10k running programme 101.Drink a bottle of champagne when the 1o1 tasks are complete!
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