I’ve always been a goal maker. When I was fourteen, I made a list of 100 things I wanted to do in my life and I’ve been working towards those things I wanted whenever I’ve gotten a chance. A lot of the dreams/wants/goals on that list won’t be complete for years or decades so I decided to make a second list with a shorter time frame.
This second list is about 101 goals and dreams I want to do to expand my business, my experiences, and just to enrich my life. I have 1001 days to complete it and since I finished making the list on July 16th, 2010, I have until April 12, 2013. No matter how many I actually complete by that day doesn’t matter to me as much as the fact that I’ll be doing things that I want to do and that make me happy. I believe written goals are way better than ones that never get written and worked towards. I hope that this list helps bring me more success and happiness in my life! (and helps me get over some fears too)
So here is my list. I’ll try to keep it updated and possibly blog about some of the items once I complete them. (I started making the list about 2 weeks ago and have already completed 3 things!)
My 101 Things to Do in 1001 Days
1. Take a self defense class
2. Try two new cookie recipes this Christmas
3. Travel to Spain
4. Write a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days! – DONE!
5. Answer the “50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind”
6. Find out my blood type
7. Start an Etsy store
8. Take a random weekend road trip
9. See the Northern Lights
10. Grow a garden
11. Go on another cruise
12. Visit Paris again
13. Visit London again
14. Organize and label all technology cords
15. Book an out of state wedding
16. Finish my degree
17. Pay off student loans
18. Visit Italy
19. Learn to play “Claire de Lune”
20. Be completely financially self-sufficient
21. See the pyramids in Egypt
22. Visit Australia
23. Send a message in a bottle
24. Visit Disneyland again. – DONE!
25. Create a wedding welcome packet.
26. Network with at least 3 new wedding professionals.
27. Make a sample wedding guestbook.
28. Get photos taken of Ryan and me.
29. Go jet skiing.
30. Get published in a magazine.
31. Paint something for myself.
32. Video record 4 different personal events for myself.
33. Get a Vimeo account to share videos on.
34. Organize my room to work well as an office too
35. Take portraits of my Oregon family.
36. Re-do my room cork boards
37. Make a posing inspiration book
38. Get a PPmag subscription
39. Get a fashion magazine subscription
40. Sell my old MBP – DONE!
41. Go to Canada
42. Make/buy 5 new Christmas templates – DONE!
43. Make/buy 5 new everyday card templates.
44. Put a note in a book for a stranger to read.
45. Write a letter to myself to open in 5 years.
46. Write a letter to Ryan to open in 2 years.
47. Read and take notes on four business books.
48. Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor.
49. Try yoga
50. Make ice cream from scratch
51. Go skiing again and try to fall less.
52. Go horseback riding for the first time.
53. Get a sample sterling album.
54. Get a massage
55. Bake a pie. – DONE!
56. Frame and hang 3 new personal pictures.
57. Write a list of 50 things that make me happy
58. Carve my name on a tree
59. Take some photos of something other than people.
60. Get at least 2 prints made of the photos not of people.
61. Write down 20 dreams I had in a dream book.
62. Make a playlist with 25 songs I truly and will probably always love.
63. Mail a secret to Post Secret
64. Own that perfect little black dress
65. Send out my own business Christmas Cards.
66. Get an apartment in Phoenix.
67. Go on a movie-marathon: three in one day at the theater.
68. Make a photo book for myself from a vacation.
69. Take a vacation awesome enough to have a photo book made from it.
70. Make a photo book of non-people photos.
71. Learn 10 new recipes.
72. Make a recipe binder/book of my favorite things to cook.
73. Write down my pp workflow and check through it for every client.
74. Get a smartphone.
75. Get a white board to further organize office.
76. Help someone make their own 101 in 1001 list
77. Learn to drive stick shift.
78. Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
79. Create an info packet all about albums.
80. Go a full day with no phone or internet.
81. Get two weddings published on an online style/wedding blog.
82. Make a get together for young wedding pros.
83. Meet 4 new online photog friends in person.
84. Get a macro for ring shots.
85. Buy a rolling camera bag.
86. Fix my off-cam lighting situation.
87. Shoot a wedding in California.
88. Shoot an engagement outside of Arizona.
89. Visit 3 new states I haven’t been to.
90. Visit the four corners
91. Go on a road trip to somewhere other than CA.
92. See a Cirque du Soleil show
93. Clean out closet of old clothes and replace 50% of the donated ones with new ones.
94. Go in a hot air balloon
95. Create a survey for past clients and have some complete it.
96. Send out 15 anytime cards to friends for no reason.
97. Get a dedicated video-only camera.
98. Grow out hair and donate it to Locks for Love.
99. Go swimming in the natural pools in Sedona.
100. Photograph around UofA before I graduate so I can remember it.
101. Read Dave Ramsey’s Money Makeover and make it work for my life.
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