Seeing these lists on others’ blogs has inspired me to start my own. It’s a pretty neat thing. You should start one of your own!!
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 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 organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
For more info visit Day zero Tasks that look like this are completed and tasks that look like this are in progress. Start date: Sept 9, 2008
End date: June 7, 2011
Things for the enrichment of myself:
1. Pierce my ears a second time completed 9/9/08
2. Get a tattoo
3. Write a book
4. Start taking classes again towards my BSN
5. Read 35 books (5/35)
6. Enter a photography contest
7. Follow the speed limit all day
8. Email at least 1 friend a week
9. Blog daily for a week
10. Get in touch with an old friend completed 12/08
11. Carry notebook with me at all times to make notes for self-betterment in
12. Update the About Me section on this blog completed 2/4/09
13. Update my email contacts list completed 9/15/08
14. Get rid of all the e-newsletter subscriptions I don’t read completed 6/05/09
15. Read the paper daily for 2 weeks
16. Complete an online photography class
17. Read a classic novel
18. Identify 100 things that make me happy (visit here for more info)
19. Put the 100 things that make me happy on my blog and the 43 things site
20. Try a new food at my favorite restaurant instead of ordering the same thing all the time.
21. Register this list on Day Zero completed 10/7/08
Things for the enrichment of my Spirituality:
22. Read the bible
23. Fast for Lent correctly in 2009–already messed this one up 
24. Fast for Lent correctly in 2010
25. Fast for Lent correctly in 2011
26. Buy a book on how to pray better completed 9/20/08
27. Read a book on how to pray better
28. Pray daily
Things for the enrichment of my kids/family:
29. Write 10 letters to my Gramma (0/10)
30. Start my “what if” books
31. Take the kids to play in the puddles on a rainy day
32. Not go past my cell minutes for 3 months in a row (3/3) completed once I changed my cell plan 03/25/09
33. Save all my son’s Kindergarten projects completed 6/09
34. Sleep in the backyard in a tent with the kids
35. Go tent camping
36. Complete a family tree
37. Finish my revamping of Jennifer’s blog
38. Volunteer in B’s K classroom 3 times (0/3) never got to do
39. Volunteer in B’s 1st grade class 3 times (0/3)
40. Volunteer in S’s K classroom 3 times (0/3)
41. Volunteer in J’s K classroom 3 times (0/3)
42. Take the kids to pick apples three times (2/3)
43. Attend a PTO meeting at my kids’ school
Things for the enrichment of my house:
44. Tackle my closets (1/4)
45. Put photos in the frames my hubby bought me years ago
46. Purge the kids toys completed 11/15/08
47. Clean grout in kitchen floor tiles
48. Declutter my laundry room
49. Shampoo the carpets in the house completed 9/15-9/16/08
50. Declutter my dresser in my bedroom
51. Redo my flower garden in the back of the house
52. Grow a garden in summer 2009 and actually take care of it grew it, didn’t do a great job of caring for it as usual
53. Make magnets for our calendar completed 10/05/08
Things for the enrichment of my health:
54. Do a pilates class
55. Start exercising regularly
56. Walk part of the Appalachian Trail
57. Eat no fast food for 1 week
58. Take lunch daily to work for 2 weeks straight
59. Drink no soda for 1 week
60. Lose 10 lbs
61. Buy and use a pedometer at work Bought 10/7/08
Things to do for the enrichment of others:
62. Do a charity walk Done 10/09 Walk for cyclic vomiting syndrome
63. Register on the bone marrow registry
64. Give blood Done 9/09
65. Volunteer at a meal kitchen
66. Send 4 letters of praise to someone who did something nice for me (0/4)
67. Pay for the person behind me at a drive thru
68. Update recipe section of my mspi website
69. Take dinner to one of my friends for no particular reason
70. Participate in a grape harvest at a vineyard completed 9/14/08
71. Make an apple crisp with the picked apples and give it to a neighbor
Things for the enrichment of my artistic, crafty and chef sides:
72. Publish a picture on here that I took every two weeks
73. Crochet an afgan
74. Restart my scrapbooks
75. Complete at least one of the twins’ year one scrapbooks
76. Reorganize my scrapbooking stuff into my new container
77. Complete and publish 3 “26 things” photo projects found here (1/3)
78. Sort and organize my recipes
79. Make freezer jam
80. Make canned jam
81. Have a cookie exchange party
82. Make ice cream
83. Try 10 new recipes (2/10)
84. Do 1 craft a month with the kids (0/33)
Things to do just for fun:
85. Go to a MLB game
86. Do a fantasy football league
87. Go to an NFL game
88. Do a corn maze completed fall 2008
89. Go on a letterboxing adventure/hike
90. Spend an afternoon at the batting cages
91. Go to the driving range
92. Go to a wine tasting/wine festival
93. Ride the swan boats in Boston
94. Ride a rollercoaster
95. Take a train ride completed 12/08 North Pole Express with the kids
96. Go to Disney completed July 2009
97. Go to a fair
98. Send a message in a bottle
99. Ride a motorcycle Done fall 2009
100. Spend a night with my hubby away from the kids completed Nov 2009
101. Mark 25 bills for Where’s George? (0/25)
