It took me like 4 days to come up with this list (probably longer). And yes I took a lot of inspiration from other people (http://101goalsin1001days.com/about/) and some of them are very generic. Some of them are just things I've been putting off and never gotten around to. And others are actual habits that I want to be able to maintain. Then there are the things I want to do for fun. But looking at my list I don't think there's going to be much ticking off to do since most of them are more long term goals and all that traveling I plan to do is going to need to be carefully planned since there's annual leave and savings to accrue, not to mention my uni timetable to work around. But I did manage to read some strange and whimsical goals, like:
- colour every picture in a colouring book
- paint my own mug
- hug and kiss a friend's baby???
- buy art
- send a message in a bottle
Intended start date: 1 October, 2009
Hobbies
- Finish knitting a jumper for Gabriel
- Knit my sister a cardigan for Xmas
- Send my sister a care package with all her favourite Australian foods
- Learn how to knit a beanie
- Work out how to cable knit
- Write in my journal every day (until the pages are filled)
- Do the 26 things project (http://sh1ft.org/projects/)
- Do the 365 project (http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/)
- Work my way up to buying an SLR
- Finally get my year 12 formal photos printed out
- Sort through digital photos and remove if blurry or duplicates
- Cook one new meal a week (0/143)
- Take a self defense course
- Learn conversational Japanese
- Organise my list of “books I want to read”
- Read at least one of the books from the above list each month (0/33)
- Decide on a list of classic books it is okay to never to finish/read
- Read 5 self-help books (0/5)
- Solve a Rubik’s cube
- Buy a fish/plant and actually remember to feed it and keep it alive.
- Go over thesis – reread it and maybe fix up the code.
- When I’ve bought my first home, paint the perfect feature wall of my dreams.
- Learn how to play poker
- Learn how to drive a manual car
- Sort through jigsaw puzzles – which ones to frame, and which ones to sell/donate/throw
- Learn how to format a computer
- Attend a movie marathon
- Go to
- Go to
- Go to Toronto/Texas/Florida to visit my aunts
- Learn to ski/snowboard in another country
- Go whitewater rafting in
- Sleep outdoors underneath the stars
- Go whale watching
- Go snorkeling at the
- Visit an Australian state/territory I haven’t been to yet (WA. SA, NT, TAS)
- Finally have a White Christmas
- Go to Aria and try their most expensive Wagyu beef
- Buy my first home
- Make a will
- Increase superannuation contributions
- Put away a dollar a day into a separate savings account – then spend it on a Valentines Day present for myself from Tiffany’s (Snowflake charm bracelet)
- Put aside $100/month to contribute towards HECS debt so that I don’t owe tax
- Organise loose receipts, somehow.
- Buy a paper shredder to get rid of old receipts and statements
- Keep grocery bill to $35/week
- Finally get around to selling the pile of stuff I’ve labelled “for sale on ebay”
- Fall in love
- Give someone, who I wouldn’t usually give a chance to, a chance
- Join 5 different social groups
- Host a board games night
- Find 3 charities I feel passionately about, that I can either donate money or time to.
- Create a wardrobe database – cataloguing failsafe outfits to save time getting dressed.
- Any item of clothing that does not go into an outfit should be given away to charity.
- Clean out my
- Get a professional French manicure
- Work out how to use eyeshadow without looking weird
- Get a completely different hair cut (not a layered, shoulder length bob with a fringe)
- Visit dermatologist – to fix acne scarring
- Visit orthodontist - get the braces I’d been planning to get.
- Learn how to walk in heels properly so that I can wear them outside, and not just indoors.
- Organise computer files and backup everything.
- Go through all my old letters and let them go. Some things I just don’t need to hang onto anymore.
- Remember to call home once a week (not once every 2 weeks)
- Organise all my bookmarked webpages.
Habits
- Work on my small-talk skills. Just because I like silence doesn’t mean everyone does.
- When dining out – avoid getting the same meal every time
- Go without tossing my clothes on the bed and actually put them away in the closet or laundry basket.
- Don’t buy anything new (apart from food) unless it is for the purpose of replacing something else.
- Try to avoid swearing – have noticed that I have been swearing a little more recently.
- Change my pillowcase weekly (not whenever it starts to feel gross)
- Learn how to touch type. It’s embarrassing that I just type however I like
- Take a multivitamin a day
- Run 5km (jog – run, but try to avoid walking)
- Run 10km (jog – run, but try to avoid walking)
- Go to Body Combat every Wednesday
- Do yoga once a week
- Work up to being able to do 100 sit-ups without stopping
- Work up to being able to do 40 push-ups without stopping
- Buy some dumbbells so I can do strength training at home
- Learn to use three of the weights machines at the gym and actually use them
- Stop drinking soft drinks
- Will start drinking tea at work - buy a teapot so I can have loose tea leaves rather than tea bags
- Rid my fridge of chocolate
- Find a moisturizer I actually like and feels like it makes a difference.
- For one day of the week go completely vegetarian
- Figure out my percentage of body fat
- Replace my daily breakfast of toast and butter with Special K or yoghurt instead
- Every weekday attempt to be asleep by 11 and on weekends to be asleep by 12
- Go for an ice breaker swim
- Write down where I want to be in 5 years. What my dream job is and how I will get there.
- Volunteer to run a social event at work
- Earn $80K a year (not including bonuses)
- Study ahead of time (i.e. more than 2 weeks before the exam)
- Get a 5 (Distinction) in all subjects
- Have my fortune told
- Donate blood (and try not to faint)
- Pick a karaoke song – learn all the lyrics and become really good at singing it.
- Figure out which cocktail I like and learn how to make it
- Figure out my carbon footprint
- Make some new playlists for my ipod
2 comments:
Hehe I'm amazed that we share a lot of goals :) But then, #21?! Are you kidding me? I can't even rem the title of my thesis!
Will share my list with you once its finalised!
I want to be able to say "I wrote a thesis on..." without drawing a blank. Hahaha.
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