I realized this weekend that I have a lot of goals that have cumulative totals - donate this much money, swing on this many swingsets, you know - and that, rather than cluttering up the Master List with all of their progress tallies, I should create a separate post where they can all aspire to be completed together, as one big happy family. I have been updating the "Charity" post every night this week after I finish with my Free Rice learnin', and I will continue to do that in addition to this new post. This post, however, has the advantage of being privileged enough to get a coveted spot in the prestigious and exclusive Quick Links sidebar.
And remember! This is not a complete list of goals in progress, just those that have specific tallies associated with them. You can always see all of the officially In Progress goals by viewing the master list and seeking out the terra cotta colored goals, or get more detailed progress reports by clicking the "In Progress" tag on the sidebar.
4. Discover AND LIKE 101 new bands or solo artists.
New artists approved of: 7
12. Rosetta Stone: Spanish
Lessons completed through: Level 2, Unit 1, Lesson 3
16. Donate at least $500.50 on Donors Choose.
Amount donated: $100.00
23. Visit at least 25 cathedrals.
Cathedrals admired: 1
24. Swing on 101 unique swingsets.
Swingsets swung: 8
38. Volunteer at least 101 hours with Habitat for Humanity.
Hours completed: 4
44. Raise $500.50 by doing Walks for the Cure.
Amount donated: $23.00
54. Finish the Discworld series.
Books read: 5
55. (re)Read the complete works of Tennessee Williams.
Plays read: 0.66
58. Read the complete works of Salman Rushdie.
Rushdies read: 1
59. Read every book on the shelf that has not yet been so.
Backlog finished: 3
68. Loan $101 on Kiva; recycle all repayments.
Loaned out: $25 Recycled: $0
70. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice on Free Rice for Spanish vocabulary.
Grains donated: 2500
71. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice in all other subjects.
Grains donated: 14790
73. Write 101 letters to Washington.
Complaints lodged: 4
78. Accumulate 101 postcards.
Postcards owned: 25
84. Go to ten special exhibitions at museums.
Exhibitions visited: 1
85. Read ten books that are recommended to me.
Recommended reading completed: 2
86. Watch 25 of the Greatest Movies of All Time Ever that I've never before seen.
Movies Consumed: 2
93. Learn to identify at least ten things under the hood of a car and how you can tell when they break.
Car Parts Understood: 0.2 (Yeah zero point two, I know an engine when I see it.)
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Okay, so what are you going to do?
Here is the master list, in numerical order, which only loosely signifies the order in which I thought things up. It should be noted that all reading goals were originally goal #3 but have since been broken down for manageability reasons.
For quick, skimmable, status-reporting purposes, I will be implementing a color coding system on this list, as well as the subsequent category breakdown lists. Standard font color will signify that a goal is neither completed nor even begun. Terra cotta will signify goals upon which I am currently making headway, while blue will be the color of completion. Additionally, completed goals will be turned into links to their corresponding write-up posts. Handy, no?
1. Participate in NaNoWriMo.
2. Score ≥167 on the LSAT.
3. Be able to do all three splits.
4. Discover AND LIKE 101 new bands or solo artists.
5. Go to the Continent.
6. Go to Alaska.
7. Go to Indonesia.
8. Plant things. Make them grow and stuff.
9. Learn to properly knit a human-sized sweater.
10. Run a real world mile in less than ten minutes.
11. Buy $10 of stock during the first week and do NOT look at its earnings (or losses) until Day 1001.
12. Rosetta Stone: Spanish
13. Rosetta Stone: Arabic
14. Turn off the internet for a week [in preparation for...]
15. Turn off the computer for a week.
16. Donate at least $500.50 on Donors Choose.
17. Volunteer in a battered woman's shelter.
18. Write at least one quality drabble weekly.
19. Read at least 3 articles in each of these weekly: The Economist, New Scientist, and the New Yorker. Bonus points for taking out a subscription.
20. Learn at least thirty ethnic food recipes. Prepare each satisfactorily.
21. Replace every lightbulb in my living space with an energy-saving equivalent.
22. Learn to play June on the West Coast on guitar.
23. Visit at least 25 cathedrals.
24. Swing on 101 unique swingsets.
25. Adapt a favorite novel into a screenplay.
26. Spend at least 24 consecutive hours on an Amtrak train.
27. Go to Antigua.
28. Find out with certainty why "A Save Situation" is named after a baseball thing.
29. Visit an old house on the Danforth.
30. Go to Islands of Adventure.
31. Take an oral history.
32. Go to Big Sur.
33. Learn to be good at chess.
34. Clean out iTunes ratings; begin anew with Standards. Have more than half the library genuinely rated by the end of the 1001.
35. Participate in the 24 pictures/24 hours thing at least 3 times.
36. Reupholster something successfully.
37. Selfportrait Thursday
38. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity for at least 101 hours.
39. Learn to build my own desktop. Do so.
40. Create an entire outfit by hand.
41. Learn the constellations. And how to tell the damn planets apart from the stars on a consistent basis.
42. Learn how to program a website.
43. Learn the Kiddish, the Kaddish, and the prayer for breaking bread.
44. Raise $500.50 by doing Walks for the Cure.
45. Learn to snorkel.
46. Serve on a grand jury.
47. Perform a daylight fast - 3 days
48. Perform a daylight fast- 5 days
49. Perform a daylight fast - 7 days
50. Sell baked goods at a farmer's market.
51. Make a real green dress.
52. See a staged version of Angels in America.
53. Learn to tell the difference between wines.
54. Finish the Discworld series.
55. (re)Read the complete works of Tennessee Williams.
56. Read 25 "Classics."
57. Read 3 "Russian Classics."
58. Read the complete works of Salman Rushdie.
59. Read every book on the shelf that has not yet been so.
60. Stand at the foot of a mountain. Possibly climb up it a little bit.
61. Join the Foreign Service OR be taking significant educational steps (ie be in grad school) to do so.
62. Stand on a cliff and throw little things off.
63. Become a faux-expert in the tasting of cheese.
64. Visit Atlantis.
65. Volunteer in a public library (or more than one) for at least 101 hours.
66. Collect 101 new characters.
67. Fill a watercolor journal.
68. Loan $101 on Kiva; recycle all repayments.
69. Perform community awareness to raise an additional $500.50 for Kiva loan seekers.
70. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice on Free Rice for Spanish vocabulary.
71. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice in all other subjects.
72. Learn the dance from Dirty Dancing.
73. Write 101 letters to Washington.
74. Be a member of the live! studio audience of The Daily Show.
75. Begin and maintain a mixtape-exchange between friends for one year.
76. Listen to "Goodbye Sky Harbor" as I'm leaving Sky Harbor.
77. Follow at least ten pieces of advice from Everybody's Free.
78. Accumulate 101 postcards.
79. Write a children's story and find someone to illustrate it.
80. Bake my own bread for a month.
81. Buy something from a local artist.
82. Have a picnic in a park with a bottle of wine and at least one good friend.
83. Handmake and send ten no-occasion cards to friends and family.
84. Go to ten special exhibitions at museums.
85. Read ten books that are recommended to me.
86. Watch 25 of the Greatest Movies of All Time Ever that I've never before seen.
87. Complete my 1000 piece Kandinsky puzzle and frame it.
88. Throw a dinner party for at least six people (myself included).
89. Keep detailed accounting data for one month.
90. Intentionally go out in the pouring rain and soak through.
91. Write down dreams first thing in the morning for two weeks.
92. Stand on a frozen lake.
93. Learn to identify at least ten things under the hood of a car and how you can tell when they break.
94. Donate at least two articles of clothing at the end of every season.
95. Write a full page with my right hand.
96. Go to bed before midnight for one full week.
97. Make a baby onesie out of a Stewart/Colbert '08 shirt.
98. Have at least five indoor plants alive for at least three months all at once.
99. Drink a Soco Amaretto Lime.
100. Remember a pretty good year.
101. Accumulate $5005 in the Imaginary Fund.
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For quick, skimmable, status-reporting purposes, I will be implementing a color coding system on this list, as well as the subsequent category breakdown lists. Standard font color will signify that a goal is neither completed nor even begun. Terra cotta will signify goals upon which I am currently making headway, while blue will be the color of completion. Additionally, completed goals will be turned into links to their corresponding write-up posts. Handy, no?
1. Participate in NaNoWriMo.
2. Score ≥167 on the LSAT.
3. Be able to do all three splits.
4. Discover AND LIKE 101 new bands or solo artists.
5. Go to the Continent.
6. Go to Alaska.
7. Go to Indonesia.
8. Plant things. Make them grow and stuff.
9. Learn to properly knit a human-sized sweater.
10. Run a real world mile in less than ten minutes.
11. Buy $10 of stock during the first week and do NOT look at its earnings (or losses) until Day 1001.
12. Rosetta Stone: Spanish
13. Rosetta Stone: Arabic
14. Turn off the internet for a week [in preparation for...]
15. Turn off the computer for a week.
16. Donate at least $500.50 on Donors Choose.
17. Volunteer in a battered woman's shelter.
18. Write at least one quality drabble weekly.
19. Read at least 3 articles in each of these weekly: The Economist, New Scientist, and the New Yorker. Bonus points for taking out a subscription.
20. Learn at least thirty ethnic food recipes. Prepare each satisfactorily.
21. Replace every lightbulb in my living space with an energy-saving equivalent.
22. Learn to play June on the West Coast on guitar.
23. Visit at least 25 cathedrals.
24. Swing on 101 unique swingsets.
25. Adapt a favorite novel into a screenplay.
26. Spend at least 24 consecutive hours on an Amtrak train.
27. Go to Antigua.
28. Find out with certainty why "A Save Situation" is named after a baseball thing.
29. Visit an old house on the Danforth.
30. Go to Islands of Adventure.
31. Take an oral history.
32. Go to Big Sur.
33. Learn to be good at chess.
34. Clean out iTunes ratings; begin anew with Standards. Have more than half the library genuinely rated by the end of the 1001.
35. Participate in the 24 pictures/24 hours thing at least 3 times.
36. Reupholster something successfully.
37. Selfportrait Thursday
38. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity for at least 101 hours.
39. Learn to build my own desktop. Do so.
40. Create an entire outfit by hand.
41. Learn the constellations. And how to tell the damn planets apart from the stars on a consistent basis.
42. Learn how to program a website.
43. Learn the Kiddish, the Kaddish, and the prayer for breaking bread.
44. Raise $500.50 by doing Walks for the Cure.
45. Learn to snorkel.
46. Serve on a grand jury.
47. Perform a daylight fast - 3 days
48. Perform a daylight fast- 5 days
49. Perform a daylight fast - 7 days
50. Sell baked goods at a farmer's market.
51. Make a real green dress.
52. See a staged version of Angels in America.
53. Learn to tell the difference between wines.
54. Finish the Discworld series.
55. (re)Read the complete works of Tennessee Williams.
56. Read 25 "Classics."
57. Read 3 "Russian Classics."
58. Read the complete works of Salman Rushdie.
59. Read every book on the shelf that has not yet been so.
60. Stand at the foot of a mountain. Possibly climb up it a little bit.
61. Join the Foreign Service OR be taking significant educational steps (ie be in grad school) to do so.
62. Stand on a cliff and throw little things off.
63. Become a faux-expert in the tasting of cheese.
64. Visit Atlantis.
65. Volunteer in a public library (or more than one) for at least 101 hours.
66. Collect 101 new characters.
67. Fill a watercolor journal.
68. Loan $101 on Kiva; recycle all repayments.
69. Perform community awareness to raise an additional $500.50 for Kiva loan seekers.
70. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice on Free Rice for Spanish vocabulary.
71. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice in all other subjects.
72. Learn the dance from Dirty Dancing.
73. Write 101 letters to Washington.
74. Be a member of the live! studio audience of The Daily Show.
75. Begin and maintain a mixtape-exchange between friends for one year.
76. Listen to "Goodbye Sky Harbor" as I'm leaving Sky Harbor.
77. Follow at least ten pieces of advice from Everybody's Free.
78. Accumulate 101 postcards.
79. Write a children's story and find someone to illustrate it.
80. Bake my own bread for a month.
81. Buy something from a local artist.
82. Have a picnic in a park with a bottle of wine and at least one good friend.
83. Handmake and send ten no-occasion cards to friends and family.
84. Go to ten special exhibitions at museums.
85. Read ten books that are recommended to me.
86. Watch 25 of the Greatest Movies of All Time Ever that I've never before seen.
87. Complete my 1000 piece Kandinsky puzzle and frame it.
88. Throw a dinner party for at least six people (myself included).
89. Keep detailed accounting data for one month.
90. Intentionally go out in the pouring rain and soak through.
91. Write down dreams first thing in the morning for two weeks.
92. Stand on a frozen lake.
93. Learn to identify at least ten things under the hood of a car and how you can tell when they break.
94. Donate at least two articles of clothing at the end of every season.
95. Write a full page with my right hand.
96. Go to bed before midnight for one full week.
97. Make a baby onesie out of a Stewart/Colbert '08 shirt.
98. Have at least five indoor plants alive for at least three months all at once.
99. Drink a Soco Amaretto Lime.
100. Remember a pretty good year.
101. Accumulate $5005 in the Imaginary Fund.
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What is going on?
Three months ago, I graduated from college.
Three months ago, I moved across the country in search of Adventure and Manifest Destiny.
Three months ago, I didn't know I would be moving back in with my parents.
Home for me happens to be a little town north of Daytona Beach, Florida - but really, that's saying too much. Home happens to be (not Miami) Florida, a place from which I and most of my friends spent our entire adolescence cooking up plans to escape. Florida, for those unfamiliar with anything but the tourist literature, is a cultural vacuum of the worst kind. Between the tourists who demand Mickey Mouse merchandise and the tourists who demand to eat at the Olive Garden, there's not much of a market for the weird, the quirky, or the unique north of South Beach and south of North Georgia.
I need to go home out of economic necessity, but I need to want to go home for the sake of my mental health.
Ergo, I need to look forward to keeping myself occupied while passing the winter months at home.
Luckily, one month ago, I encountered by chance this blog, and the world of Mission 101: set 101 goals for yourself to complete in 1001 days. Sounds easy enough, right? One hundred and one little goals spread out over 2.75 years? Not if you don't do it right.
The trick to actually completing this mission (which I personally define both as making it to the end while still actively trying to accomplish things, and as ticking off all the goals, or as many as I feel is reasonable to feel accomplished by the 1001st day) is to balance long and short-term goals with one-time things (like climb the Statue of Liberty, or something) so that I neither get too bored or overwhelmed trying to manage a lot of "good habits" daily/weekly/monthly quota things, nor too bored or too overwhelmed waiting for and trying to pay for expensive travel opportunities or adventures or whatever.
So, in the next few posts, I will put up my master list, and then detailed breakdowns by goal categories which will more thoroughly explain each goal and provide an easy way, later on, to track my progress on each. In one week, on Friday, August 28, 2009, I will begin my Mission 101. Feel free to follow this blog, add it to your RSS feed, or just plain old bookmark it if you'd like to follow my journey. On the sidebar up at the top, you can sign up to receive email updates, if that's more your style. I plan on making at least weekly progress posts, as well as updates whenever something Big and Important happens for a particular goal. Thanks for reading, and I hope we enjoy the ride!
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Three months ago, I moved across the country in search of Adventure and Manifest Destiny.
Three months ago, I didn't know I would be moving back in with my parents.
Home for me happens to be a little town north of Daytona Beach, Florida - but really, that's saying too much. Home happens to be (not Miami) Florida, a place from which I and most of my friends spent our entire adolescence cooking up plans to escape. Florida, for those unfamiliar with anything but the tourist literature, is a cultural vacuum of the worst kind. Between the tourists who demand Mickey Mouse merchandise and the tourists who demand to eat at the Olive Garden, there's not much of a market for the weird, the quirky, or the unique north of South Beach and south of North Georgia.
I need to go home out of economic necessity, but I need to want to go home for the sake of my mental health.
Ergo, I need to look forward to keeping myself occupied while passing the winter months at home.
Luckily, one month ago, I encountered by chance this blog, and the world of Mission 101: set 101 goals for yourself to complete in 1001 days. Sounds easy enough, right? One hundred and one little goals spread out over 2.75 years? Not if you don't do it right.
The trick to actually completing this mission (which I personally define both as making it to the end while still actively trying to accomplish things, and as ticking off all the goals, or as many as I feel is reasonable to feel accomplished by the 1001st day) is to balance long and short-term goals with one-time things (like climb the Statue of Liberty, or something) so that I neither get too bored or overwhelmed trying to manage a lot of "good habits" daily/weekly/monthly quota things, nor too bored or too overwhelmed waiting for and trying to pay for expensive travel opportunities or adventures or whatever.
So, in the next few posts, I will put up my master list, and then detailed breakdowns by goal categories which will more thoroughly explain each goal and provide an easy way, later on, to track my progress on each. In one week, on Friday, August 28, 2009, I will begin my Mission 101. Feel free to follow this blog, add it to your RSS feed, or just plain old bookmark it if you'd like to follow my journey. On the sidebar up at the top, you can sign up to receive email updates, if that's more your style. I plan on making at least weekly progress posts, as well as updates whenever something Big and Important happens for a particular goal. Thanks for reading, and I hope we enjoy the ride!
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