101 Things in 1001 Days is the brainchild of Michael Green, a blogger and developer from NZ. He created a list of tasks to achieve within a defined period, and the idea quickly spread around the web as a tool for helping people accomplish their goals.
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.
Stats
Start date: January 1st, 2009
End date: September 29th, 2011
Days: 1001
Weeks: 144
Months: 33
Years: 2,75
General
- Find a job
- Keep this list updated
- Get accepted to the JET Programme
- Move out
- Save back what I spent in Japan
- Keep a jar of money (and determine what to do with it XD)
- Do the big kitchen-cleaning twice a year
- Clean my room at least once a month
- Cook
- Make a snowman
- Give money to street musicians playing Bob Marley songs
- Live abroad for at least three months
- Make smoothies
- Do something nice for my birthday instead of hiding and ignoring
- Donate money to Peter Tosh’ grave/mausoleum
- Find out what I want to do with my life
- Celebrate new year’s not at home
- Make a calendar with family/holiday pictures for my mom
Body, health, appearance
- Lose 9 kg
- Lose 14 kg
- Exercise 90 minutes per week
- Touch my toes without bending my knees
- Get a -classy- handbag/purse
- Make a walk on the beach
- Go somewhere else for walking/hiking
- Get a haircut
- Buy a new kind of perfume
- Drink only water and tea once a week
- Eat no sweets/crips/cookies once a month
- Go ballroom dancing
- Get up before 11 on free days
- Go to bed before 1 on working days
Travel
- Visit 10 foreign countries
- Visit at least one country I haven’t been to before
- Visit at least one Spanish speaking country
- See the Northern Light OR see pyramids in Egypt
- Make photos of trips and the like and put them in my Picasa account with commentary & map indication
Education
- Learn 50 kanji
- Learn 100 kanji
- Learn 150 kanji
- Learn 200 kanji
- Pass JLPT5
- Find someone to practice Japanese with
- Become better at speaking Japanese
- Read my Japanese grammar book in its entirety
- Understand all the Spanish verb tenses
- Make my Spanish homework on time
- Follow a course
- Pass TEFL course
- Practice more with illustrator
- Get a better grip on d’s and dt’s (Dutch language)
- Talk Frisian (for giggles)
- Learn how to properly park in a row (fileparkeren)
- Re-learn the Cyrillic alphabet
Social
- Meet Stefan at least 5 times
- Visit Stefan
- Do something social once a month
- Attend at least 20 concerts (and not all of them my own)
- Make at least three new real-life friends
- Attend a reggae party/concert
- Go on a date that is not a movie/dinner
- Make a CD for steps class
Online
- Finish 33 reviews for JaME
- Make sure the JaME Weblog has at least one new post per month
- Make my [info]asaikenichi Asai Kenichi LJ community a lively place
- Make a new collective/portfolio and keep it updated
- Respond to Tessa’s emails more quickly
- Post in my LJ once a week
- Be more patient and nicer to my team members, give more positive feedback
- Do not take longer than 1 month to write a live report (preferred finishing time within 2 weeks)
Creativity
- Put photos in my room
- Write 15 short stories
- Finish that one story I started ages ago
- Play keyboard more often
- Learn to play all of my favorite Yann Tiersen songs
- Write 5 (real) letters
- Make Japan 2008 Travel Report
Culture
- Watch Princess Mononoke
- Watch Brokeback Mountain
- Recognize Classical music composers and titles more easily
- Read 33 books (language does not matter)
- Read at least 10 books of this list
- Visit 5 museums, exhibitions or art galleries
- Write nice comments to authors of stories I enjoyed reading
- Read poetry and find authors I like
- Listen to Blankey Jet City and determine whether I like them or not
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