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 simple 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 outdoor activities
Some common goal setting tips:
1. Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
2. Stay Focussed. Any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. Constantly evaluate your progress.
3. Welcome Failure. Frequently, very little is learned from a venture that did not experience failure in some form. Failure presents the opportunity to learn and makes the success more worthy.
4. Write down your goals. It clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
5. Keep your goals in sight. Review them frequently, and ensure that they are always at the forefront of your thinking.
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Well here's my list and believe me it has taken me awhile to figure out what I was going to put on this list..
General:
Make this list..aaaahhh- Fill in a birthday card database
- Clean my car by hand, not taking it to a carwash
Clean my laptop on a regular basis - i.e. defrag, clean cookies, cache etc..- Clear all my debts and have money in the bank
- Start walking my dog every day
- Send out birthday cards BEFORE the actual birthdays
- Make all birthday cards for my exchanges
- Save all my 20p's, 10p's and 5p's for 6 months
- Release some balloons for charity
- Keep a record of all finances
- Buy all Christmas presents before Winter Solstice (21st December)
- Buy birthday presents BEFORE birthday's for family and special friends
- See a show in London
Clear ironing pile, and keep ironing uptodate- Send a postcard once a week to someone different for 3 months
- Send a friend flowers or a gift just because....
- Read The Times newspaper every day for a month
- Find a local farmers market and shop there once a month for 3 months
Feed the ducksGo to Oxford for a day trip- Be a tourist in London for a day
- Do touristy things in London
- Donate or throw away 101 items in 1001 days
- See "We Will Rock You" the musical with D
- Go back to Paris for the day
- Buy flowers every week for a month
Home and Garden: - Go through boxes in loft and throw out what I dont want *be ruthless*
Sort out boxes in spare room and throw out what I dont want or give to charity- Paint living room
- Declutter rooms in the house
- Paint toilet/bathroom
Buy new bedBuy new living room furniture- Replace kitchen units
- Redo my herb garden
- Weed the front garden once a week for 3 months
- Weed the back garden once a week for 3 months
- Paint front garden metal fence
- Bake a cake every week for 3 months *this was hubby's idea as he is addicted to my banana bread*
- Cook one receipe from every cookbook I own
- Make a gingerbread house at Christmas
- Clean windows inside and out once a month for 6 months
- Grow a vegetable garden
- Be self sufficient from vegetable garden for a month
Defrost both freezers- Clear out junk cupboard under the stairs
- Use my icecream maker at least once a month during the summer months
- Keep ontop of my "flylady" housework lists for the 1001 days
- Plan menus for our evening meals and keep to this for 101 days
- Make Strawberry/Rhubarb pie
Get the carpets cleanedMake soup in the winter- Bake bread every week all winter
Hobbies: Sort out spare room and turn into my craft room- Cross stitch something for me
- Go to stitching Get Togethers at least twice
- Join a cross stitch club
Me: - Drink 8 glasses of water a day for a week
- Have a professional massage
- Have Reiki or Indian Head Massage
- Fly a kite
- Go on a picnic
- Make 1001 blog posts
- Build a sandcastle
- Go for a romantic nature walk
- Meet a friend once a month
- Learn web design - take a course
- Build my webpage/blog on server space
- Email a different stitching BB friend every other day for 3 months
Stop biting nails- Have a professional make over
Have hair cut and highlighted at least twiceGet up as soon as I wake up and before 9am for every day for a month- Go to sleep (not read a book) before 11.30pm every night for a month
- Meet at least one online stitching friend
- Overcome anxiety attacks
Buy some really sexy underwear *the full works, suspenders, thongs etc..*- Meet up with a blogging buddy
- Learn to meditate
- Go through all my clothes/underwear and throw away/donate all I dont wear or dont fit anymore due to being too big for me now
- Have marital relations at least 3 days a week for a month
- Go for a 30min walk every other day for a month *this can be included with #6*
Get new glasses- Have a professional facial
- Get some new penpals and keep up with correspondence, write at least once every other week, mustn't lapse once during the 1001 days
- Learn to love myself
- Accept compliments
- Build up my self confidence
- Go to a Solstice party
- Go to Witchfest 2007 in Croydon
- Take a professional course in Tarot card reading
- Have three Tarot/Crystal/Palm readings
- Write a letter to my mum telling her how I feel and unleashing all the pain from the past 20 years. Then burn it and get on with my life.
- Pick wildflowers
- Renew my passport
- Go to the Zoo
- Have breakfast and lunch every day for 101 days
- Weigh less at the end of 1001 days than I did at the beginning of 1001 days
- Learn Hardanger embroidery
- Start another 101 things to do in 1001 days when this one is nearing the end
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