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My start date is the 14th of January 2008. Completion date is the 11th of October 2010
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).
The List:
3/101 Completed
- Meditate every day for a week
Practice the ukulele every day for 2 weeks.- Learn a new programming language.
- Start a website
- Go to the Theatre
- See a panto
- Watch Pete for a weekend so D can go away.
- Have a monthly "Date Night" with Dawn. 1/34
- Fast for a day
- Meditate twice a week for a month
- Make a blog post a week for 2 months.
Have a webcam chat with my Dad.- Send Flowers to D.
- Register a Domain Name
- Download some digital music
- Fly a kite.
- Potty Train Pete.
Give something away on Freecycle- Sell something I've made on Ebay
- Make some homebrew Wine.
- Spend £100 pounds on clothes in one go.
- Take Dawn on Holiday.
- Have a conversation in a foreign language.
- Join the Gregson.
- Watch a movie at the Gregson.
- See Dawn Dance.
- Make a toy for Pete
- Make a plaque for Crichton and Katcha's baby.
- Give Blood!!!
- Do yoga once a week for 2 months.
- Ride my bike to work for 3 months.
- Take a packed lunch to work every day for 2 months.
- Buy an album for a band/artist I've never heard of.
- Go to a gig.
- Do some freelance work.
- Buy a video game.
- No caffeine for 2 weeks.
- Sew something
- Learn to cook 15 new dishes.
Post this list on my soon to be created blog.- Do some volunteer work
- Set up a workflow for contacts, tasks, notes, etc. and use it!
- Comment on a blog regularly.
- Make 3 batches of Jam.
- Make 3 batches of Chutney.
- Write a restaurant review.
- Have a boardgame night.
- Do some volunteer work.
- Handwrite a letter.
- Make a recipe book.
- Carve Something out of wood.
- Write a 55, http://www.uknet.com/gallery/55-Fiction/55_G
- Practice some survival skills.
- Start using Linux at home.
- Start a new family tradition.
- Read a book by Salman Rushdi.
- Finish reading a book that D Recomends.
- Feed the ducks with P.
- Put together a memory book about Mom.
- Pratice the guitar everynight for 2 weeks.
- Buy a survival knife and firelighter.
- Climb 3 big hills.
- Go rock climbing.
- Give up alcohol for 3 months.
- Stockpile at least 3 welldone/bad day gifts for D.
- Wear Nail Polish to a party.
- Join a Wine Makers Circle.
- Get an allotment.
- Grow loofah sponges as gifts.
- Make something from Instructables.com that interests me.
- Write and Instructables.com article
- Join Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth and participate in at least one campaign/action.
- Pay for Car Tax with Post Office Savings Stamps.
- Compile a DVD of videos of P to send to family members!
- Practice taking photographs, sell some photos to www.istockphoto.com
- Be able to do 50 pushups in under 5 minutes.
- Be able to do 50 situps in under 5 minutess.
- Become a British Citizen
- Build up an emergency fund of 1 month's salary
- Write a letter to P once a month. 0/34
- Take a dance class with D.
- Take our baby sitters (K, T, B, and S) out for dinner to say thanks for all the pro-bono baby sitting.
- Watch a play in Williamson's park/Ashton Memorial
- Build a small cob oven.
- Take fencing lessons.
- Bind a book
- Make a list of household things to fix and fix 50% of them.
- Make wheatgrain/buckwheat hull/rice stuffed warming cushions as gifts.
- Send D on holiday
- Look at Google reader API and Google desktop SDK, I want to write a Google Desktop plugin for Google reader.
- Sort out a retirement plan
- Invenst £100 in Premium Bonds
2 comments:
wow it's so expensive to become a UK citizen ;-x
all the best with your list & goals.
Yeah, It is, and it's getting more so every year. Including initial fees for residency fees etc it comes to well over £1000
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