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).
Start Date: Monday, March 1, 2010
End Date: Monday, November 26, 2012
- Caity’s 101 Things in 1001 Days
- Complete all the paperwork and actually be able to move to New Zealand.
- Hire an immigration lawyer.
- Take the leap and move to New Zealand.
- Get a job in New Zealand.
- Get residency status in New Zealand.
- Find a place to live in New Zealand.
- Decorate our new place in New Zealand.
- Make a new friend in New Zealand.
- Find a new Church in New Zealand.
- Set up a recycling system in NZ.
- Pay back all debt that I feel I owe to my family.
- Save 3 month’s salaries for an emergency fund.
- Lose the first 10 annoying pounds.
- Get myself a new iPod for the gym when I’ve kept the 10 pounds off.
- Lose 25 more pounds.
- Allow myself to get some new clothes when I lose the 25 pounds.
- Lose the rest of the weight (at least 15, but up to 25).
- Wear a skirt again.
- Wear a bikini again.
- Put on makeup and wear it out somewhere.
- Wear a form fitting dress again.
- Work out for 3 days a week for an entire month. (In hopes this will kick start me.)
- Complete the one hundred pushups challenge.
- Complete the two hundred situps challenge.
- Complete the two hundred squats challenge.
- Run a mile.
- Take my multivitamin twice daily for 30 days.
- Go on a vacation with Josh.
- Give a gift to Josh just because.
- Go to a cricket match.
- Go to a concert.
- Private. ;)
- Write a book.
- Write a children’s book.
- Write 10 poems.
- Read 30 books.
- Watch 30 movies.
- Try 10 new video games.
- Go see another Broadway play.
- Go camping. Real camping.
- Sleep under the stars.
- Go for a nature hike.
- Visit 5 museums.
- Volunteer.
- Beat a video game that I start.
- Try at least 5 Photoshop photo editing tutorials in an attempt to improve my skills
- Go to another concert.
- Keep my car clean for at least a month.
- Learn a new craft.
- Finish watching every Stargate SG-1 episode again from start to finish.
- Make a list of 101 things that make me happy.
- Make a list of 101 reasons I love Josh.
- Drink 8 glasses of water a day for a month!
- Try 5 new restaurants.
- Try 5 new foods.
- Visit 5 places on Long Island I’ve never been before.
- Do not eat any take out for an entire month.
- Cook 25 new dinners.
- Bake 10 new desserts.
- Start a recipe book.
- Host a party.
- Decorate the walls in my apartment.
- Learn to crochet something new.
- Learn to make 5 new kinds of friendship bracelets.
- Blog every day for a month for at least 10 months.
- Host a giveaway on my blog.
- Complete a 26 Things photo project.
- Complete 3 other sh1ft photo projects.
- Complete a 50 in 50mm photo challenge.
- Participate in Macro Monday for a month.
- Complete a 365 photo challenge.
- Start a photoblog.
- Send a postcard through Post Crossing.
- Create a list of 101 things that make me happy.
- Organize all of my computer’s folders and files.
- Get 5 people to join EcstasyMB and remain active.
- Randomly pay for someone behind me in a drive-through line.
- Hang a windchime in a random parking lot, just because.
- Learn how to play chess.
- Music month! Find a new musical artist to add to my list of music every day for a month.
- Buy myself a few pieces of jewelry and start wearing jewelry again.
- Send out Christmas cards on time to everyone (twice!).
- Print and frame 10 of my photos.
- Complete my Wreck This Journal.
- Make my own cookbook.
- Get a dog.
- Get my own mp3 player and fill it with my favorite music.
- Hide an inspirational message in a library book.
- Stop biting my cheek as a nervous habit.
- Look into starting my Master’s Degree.
- Spend a whole weekend with no technology.
- Compliment a stranger who seems to be feeling sad (and really mean it).
- Go on a roadtrip with no predetermined destination!
- Take a break from the internet for an entire weekend.
- Buy 5 things off etsy that I think are cute.
- Try the Diva Cup for at least 2 menstrual cycles.
- Donate all clothes I don’t need or wear anymore to charity.
- Donate blood two times.
- Donate $10 to charity for each goal not completed at the end of 1001 days.
- Inspire someone else to start a 101 in 1001 list.
- Create a new 101 in 1001 list.











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