101 things to do in 1,001 days

Today is February 4th, 2008. 1,001 days from now is November 1st, 2010.

I've built a list of 101 things that I would like to do (or make a habit) by 11/01/10. Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing this list with you. The list is in no particular order; I typed them as they came to me. Building a list like this, without taking the easy way out, was a fairly large task. Bigger than the 100 nouns post for sure.

Actually, I'm a bit embarrassed by how difficult it was to produce. Don't we all have pent up wants and desires of things we want to do, places we want to visit, entertainment and sports that we feel compelled to consume?

Not surprisingly, my list contains a lot of things that I want to purchase. Thankfully though, it also contains a number of key "stuff purging" activities. The purging activities will be tougher to do than the acquiring activities. That's how we found ourselves with so much stuff in the first place.

There are a LOT of writing and creating tasks on the list. So many that I wonder how I'll do them in 2.75 years. Only one or two job-related activities made the list, which makes sense. I am not attached to my occupation. That fact also influenced my decision to omit anything related to selling our home or buying a new primary residence. Something we are considering, but it will take more than our simple desire to drive us to do it. Moving is more stress than I want right now. Maybe that changes over the next 3 years.

There are no alpaca related items on the list either.

What triggered this? Well, the notion of 101 things in 1,001 days has been around for a few years. I was perusing various lists and I thought, this would be a good thing to do in order to keep me from wasting time on some seriously non-value adding activities and it would provide grist for the old blog mill. So, here I am.

This handy-dandy date calculator figures the target date for you.

I'm interested in your lists. You don't have to post all 101 things. For me, after about 6 (six, just six) things, I started struggling with deciding what I wanted to do. So, just post, in the comments, a couple of things that pop into your head. Just stating them will make them more real and give your brain a chance to figure out how you'll accomplish the task.

These activities need to be specific. If you think mine are not specific enough, then let me know. Already, I can see that I didn't pick a target date for the sprinkler system installation.

I'll be building my list over on the right column as I post about them. (This blog will continue with non-"101 in1001" related posts, too.)

Up next: cooking with Jocelyn...