Lise’s 101 goals in 1001 days
Created by Lise on 31 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
This list of goals originated on a site called Triplux and has become popular in productivity and personal finance blog circles. I posted my own list on 7/31/2007 and the challenge to complete these will last until 4/27/2010. I will endeavor to update this list every 1-2 weeks.
Struck through items are completed; italicized items are abandoned.
Health & Fitness
Exercise 30 minutes every day for one month (19:30 - 10 days longest consecutive stretch).
Eat only home-prepared food for one month. (31:31)
Reduce total cholesterol to below 240 (265 as of 4/27/2008).
Drink only water and decaffeinated tea as beverages for one month.
Be able to bike to the Lunenburg library.
Keep saturated fat below 4g per serving for a month.
Keep sugars below 4g per serving for a month (except for fruits).
Have a mammogram.
Have one physical a year (1:3).
See a dentist for cleanings six times. (1:6)
Creative Pursuits
Finish first draft of Jewel in the Eye of the Storm.
Finish revised draft of Mode of Employ.
Complete a web design portfolio.
Create and implement a design for XORsted.
Build XORsted readership to 100 readers (9:100).
Successfully complete one NaNoWriMo.
Write ten poems and submit five for publication
Write an XORsted article daily for one month.
Write 1,000 words of fiction daily for one month
Complete a WorldCon Masquerade entry and compete.
Become a master level costumer.
Write, bid, and run a LARP for InterCon or Festival of LARP.
Submit a novel for publication.
Make three contradance skirts.
Complete at least one knitting project for someone else.
Intellectual Curiosity
Finish reading the complete fictional prose works of H.P. Lovecraft (no juvenilia or collaborations).
Read the complete fictional prose works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Read all Hugo/Nebula nominees for short story (5:5), novelette, novella, and novel for 2007.
Read all Hugo/Nebula nominees for short story, novelette, novella, and novel for 2008.
Read all Hugo/Nebula nominees for short story novelette, novella, and novel for 2009.
Read at least 10 past Hugo/Nebula novel winners.
Read at least 10 past Hugo/Nebula short story winners
Become conversational in Russian.
Take a course in graphic design.
Read all book club books for 2007 (6 :11).
Read all book club books for 2008 (3:12).
Read all book club books for 2009.
Read all of the (original) Sherlock Holmes stories.
Find a French conversation partner to keep up my French.
Learn to darn socks and knits.
Take an auto repair/maintenance course.
Learn to play Go.
Read Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Read at least three nonfiction books about Jack the Ripper.
Read a biography of Queen Victoria.
Read at least five books by Thackeray, Trollope, and Hardy.
Personal Development
Implement morning routine every day for one month.
Implement evening routine every day for one month.
Implement arriving home from work routine every day for one month.
Implement arriving at work routine every day for one month.
Implement leaving work routine every day for one month.
Shift sleep schedule from 10pm to 6am.
Quit playing computer/video games for one month (30:30).
Meditate 15 minutes a day for one month.
Financial
Calculate net worth and liabilities
Increase net worth by 30%
Create a price book for common items from Hannaford, Market Basket, and Shaw’s.
Build a $5K emergency fund.
Convert traditional IRA to a Roth IRA (Decided this was a bad move financially for me).
Fully fund IRA for 2007
Fully fund IRA for 2008
Full fund IRA for 2009.
Raise 401k contribution to 5%
Reduce non-mortgage expenses to $1000 a month.
Save 10K toward a new car.
Organize financial files.
Implement a system for keeping financial files organized.
Have a will/trust drawn up.
Have a durable power of attorney for healthcare drawn up.
Have $35K of the second mortgage paid off.
Save $5000 towards home renovations.
Donate $10 to charity for each of the goals I don’t complete.
Become a Friend of the Lunenburg Library.
Home & Garden
Paint the guest bedroom.
Set up a compost pile.
Plant and maintain a vegetable and herb garden that will provide our favorite produce.
Hang all art that needs to be hung.
Make curtains for the dining room.
Decorate the master bedroom with “decadent and yet nautical” theme
Hang a clothesline for laundry.
Career
Update and improve resume
Complete the GRE with a score above 50th percentile in quantitative and verbal sections (I was slightly below 50th percentile on math, but it was enough to get admitted to the program)
Complete MS in computer science.
Find an IT/programming positioning close to home with flexible hours and/or ability to work from home, matched 401(k), and over two weeks of vacation time.
Complete at least one paid freelance web design/development project.
Reduce the number of hours a week I work to 30.
Construct a proper address book.
Relationships
Celebrate one of Matt’s and my anniversaries in upstate New York with dinner at the CIA.
Host a BBQ/party for neighbors.
Frame Matt’s and my wedding photos.
Write a Christmas newsletter for 2007.
Write a Christmas newsletter for 2008.
Write a Christmas newsletter for 2009.
Plan a trip to a contradance for friends.
Write my mother one letter a day for one month.
Write my father one letter a day for one month.
Entertainment
Have a meal at Brasserie Les Halles in New York or Brasserie Jo in Boston.
Visit the New England Aquarium.
Attend at least one WorldCon.
Attend at least one CostumeCon.
Travel with Matt to at least one foreign country.
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Les Halles would be a GREAT experience for you and the hubby. I hear the food is top-of-the-line. Good luck with the 100 readers too, I’m currently shooting for the same goal before the end of the year and am 1/3 of the way there.
I lived in France for a year, adore traditional (not “haute”) French cuisine, and adore Anthony Bourdain - that’s my reason for wanting to go to Les Halles. Brasserie Jo will serve as a backup - though they don’t have mouclade, my most-missed French seafood dish.
Thanks for the encouragement on the readership goal. I suppose it would help if I had more time to post articles! Or if, yanno, I actually signed up with Feedburner so I knew how many readers I had.
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Hey Lise,
How are you going with these goals? I saw a guest post of yours over at http://www.modern-worker.com and thought that I would check out your blog as a result.
I like your sense of humor - $10 charity donation for every goal not reached!!! I hope, for you sake, that you do complete your goals and to celebrate, you donate to a worthy charity anyway.
Geoff
I did NaNoWriMo in 2002… you can do it!
I found your comments here:
http://www.mytwodollars.com/2008/01/29/my-thoughts-on-this-whole-mortgage-crisis-and-why-i-dont-feel-that-bad/#comment-26602
to be spot on and have now discovered your awesome blog. Great job and I’m rooting for you on these goals.
Thanks, Rachel. I’ve actually stopped reading that blog because that whole discussion pissed me off so much. So many people in the PF blog circle are totally blind to yanno, actual economics.
I’ve been doing some research recently on the myth of the overspent American (i.e. the myth that is popular in PF circles that the country is in financial trouble because people just can’t avoid buying plasma TVs), and I hope to have a post on that soon.
Do you have a blog of your own?
Thanks for your response, Lise. Sounds like an awesome article idea–looking forward to it (you are on my bookmarks now). And yes, that post was one-sided and I couldn’t relate to placing the blame on people who have been lied to/mislead/etc.
I started a women’s money group called Fiscal Chick$ and created a blog at http://fiscalchicks.blogspot.com/
I use it as a place to post our meeting files now but not to write posts.
Yesterday was pouring over money blogs….I really enjoyed this article:
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/13-stunning-differences-in-how-men-and-women-think-about-money