Complete 101 preset tasks in 1001 days
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of effort on your part).
The Tasks:
- Set up an emergency fund of at least $500 and maintain it
- Put at least 10% of each paycheck into savings account
- Apply to graduate schools
- Apply to AmerCorps NCCC program
- Read War and Peace
- Watch all movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture (12/84)
- Watch all of the movies on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list (25/100)
- Travel to Europe
- Get a DSLR
- Take a photography course
Apply for the San Pietro Travel Prize(Completed 2/27/2009)Try out Postcrossing by sending 10 postcards (10/10)(Completed 4/4/2009)- Knit a wallet
- Try vegetarianism for a month
- Complete the One Hundred Push-Ups Program successfully (i.e. stick with it until I can do 100 push-ups, not just for six weeks)
- Get re-certified in CPR and First Aid
- Participate in NaNoWriMo
- End a year with a higher net worth than I started it with
- Cook all weekend meals for three months (0/3)
- Drink only water for twenty (not-necessarily-consecutive) weeks (0/20)
- Avoid all fast food for three months (0/3)
- Do my own taxes (1/3)
- Get my own place to live
- Get a decent bike and use it
- Learn how to maintain the bike
- Start and complete the Zelda title screen cross stitch
- Knit a goomba hat
- Give only handmade gifts and/or donations to charity for Christmas
- Register and release a book through BookCrossing.com
- Get down to a healthy weight, either as determined by BMI or by plateauing at a weight for a couple of months with a healthy diet and regular exercise
- Implement an organization system (e.g. GTD) and test it for at least two months
- Read 10 "classic" books (0/10)
- Complete all of my homework and exams on-time for a term
- Learn how to tie a full windsor knot
- Visit a counsellor at the career center
- Don't eat or drink anything other than water after 9 PM for at least two months (0/2)
- Put loose photos in a photo album (or albums)
- Create a binder full of recipes I like
- Visit SE Asia
- Visit South America (probably Argentina)
- Start an herb garden
- Play Brain Age every day for three months (0/3)
- Play Brain Age 2 every day for three months (0/3)
- Use My Weight Loss Coach every day for three months (0/3)
- Take Aikido lessons
- Read the Constitution again
- Read Thomas Paine
- Calculate how much time on average I spend on the computer in a week
- Reduce that time by 10%
- Contribute to an open-source project
- Buy produce at a farmer's market
- Read all the books I have before buying new ones (new textbooks, Scott Pilgrim, and Queen and Country exempt)
- Go to five concerts (0/5)
- Make a family tree
- Try six new recipes (2/6)
- Go camping five times (0/5)
- Sign up to be an organ donor
- Vote in every election (not just the major ones)
- Learn to play guitar (achieved by being able to play two songs well)
- Complete Couch-to-5K program
- Read a book in Japanese
- Spend a day a week off of the computer for at least ten weeks (0/10)
- Clean out my room in Oregon
- Finish the computer games I have now before buying new ones
- Learn to make three different cocktails (0/3)
- Eat a piece of fruit a day for a month
- Write an article for The Tech
- Set up a 401k plan
- Read a page of The Intellectual Devotional each day (165/365)
- Go through my music collection and purge music I'm never going to listen to
- Take a cross-country road trip
- Organize my digital photos
- Participate in a GimmeYourStuff swap
- Drive up the Pacific Coast (at least from Southern California to the Canadian border)
- Learn to Salsa dance
- Have a celebration to remember for my 25th birthday (it's a quarter of a century after all)
- Learn how to drive a car with a manual transmission
- Volunteer in a foreign country
- Learn Esperanto
- Brush and floss daily
- Attend Comic-Con International one year
- Make an electronics project found in MAKE Magazine
- Build a MAME cabinet
- Learn Morse code
- Volunteer at a zoo or animal shelter
- Document my travels in a travel blog
- Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
- Learn two magic tricks
- Learn how to play craps
- Learn blackjack and craps strategies
- Get in touch with two old friends (0/2)
- Take a photograph of an astronomical object through a telescope
- Treat my social anxiety
- Develop and implement a strategy to curb my procrastination habit
- Be able to identify and locate five new constellations (0/5)
- Know the mythology behind five constellations (0/5)
- Learn to identify five species of bird from their call (0/5)
Learn Python(Completed 3/11/2009)- Learn Common Lisp
- Set up a media server
- Paint a portrait of Emmy
