101 Things in 1001 Days: The List

Fitness

1.  Do a 30x30 Challenge (30 minutes of physical activity for 30 days)

2.  Complete a 30 Day Yoga Challenge

3.  Try hot yoga

4.  Take a body combat class

5.  Buy a bike

6.  Climb a mountain

7.  Exercise 100 times in a year

8.  Average 7000 steps a day for a month

9.  Do Spark People sleep challenge

10. Get to a healthy BMI

Food

11. Bake 10 different healthy snacks

12. Keep a food diary for a month

13. Make a gingerbread house

14. Go vegan for a month

15. Cook a different breakfast everyday for a week

16. Go berry picking and make jam

17. Cook 5 meals from 5 different countries

18. Make a pie on Pi day

19. Go to a sushi bar

20. Eat at 10 new restaurants

21. Eat at Fredericks for our silver wedding in 2017

Books

22. Read books set in 10 different countries

23. Complete 50 book reading challenge

24. Read 10 books about science or scientists

25. Listen to 10 history books on Audible

26. Read 5 Booker Prize winning books

27. Read a book in a day

28. Spend an afternoon at the park reading

29. Do a 48 hour reading challenge

30. Read a book in French 

Music / Film / Theatre

31. Go to an outdoor concert

32. Go to a Prom concert

33. Go to the National Brass Band finals

34. Attend a folk festival

35. Go to 10 events at The Stables

36. Listen to music by 20 singers or bands I’ve never heard of

37. Listen to works by 20 unfamiliar composers

38. Spend a rainy day watching movies in PJs

39. Watch a film beginning with each letter of the alphabet

40. Watch 3 films in French

41. See three RSC plays

42. See a play at the Globe

Hobbies

43. Learn to play high Bb on the trombone

44. Play trombone in an orchestra

45. Scan at least 200 old photos

46. Take photos of the same place every month for a year

47. Write 15 blog posts a month for at least 6 months

48. Complete knitted square blankets 

49. Crochet a blanket

Travel

50. Visit Austria

51. Visit Prague (Czech Republic)

52. Take DD2 to Italy for a weekend

53. Visit Edinburgh

54. Visit Lincoln Cathedral 

55. Ride on the London Eye

56. Visit Stonehenge

57. Visit Buckingham Palace

58. Visit Liverpool

59. Visit three castles I have never been to before

60. Go to 10 different museums

61. Go ice skating

62. Walk the Ridgeway (or other long distance path)

House and Home

63. Do a 40 trash bag challenge

64. 52 Weeks to an organised home challenge

65. Clear out the garage 

66. Redecorate the bathroom

67. Redecorate DD3's room

68. Redecorate the dining room

Personal Development

69. Learn conversational Italian 

70. Write an iOS app

71. Take a free online class

72. Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia

73. Work on family history in greater detail (3 generations)

74. Make a list of the 100 best experiences of my life

75. Decide on five life goals for retirement / semi-retirement

76. Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for 6 months

77. Make a list of 101 quotes that inspire me

78. Photograph 101 things that make me happy

79. Keep a gratitude journal for at least three months

80. Go on a silent retreat

81. Meditate daily for 30 days

82. Go a week without complaining about anything 

83. Answer the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind" 

84. Spend a week with no computer or TV

85. Go a month without buying anything that isn't a necessity

Other

86. Find a hat I don't look silly in

87. Dye my hair a new colour

88. Get a manicure

89. Get an Apple Watch

90. Stay up all night and watch the sunrise

91. Spend a whole day in bed

92. Do the Race for Life

93. Donate blood

94. Sign up to be an organ donor

95. Send flowers anonymously to a friend in need

96. Save 100 two pound coins

97. Build a snowman

98. Host a board games night

99. Compliment someone everyday for 10 days straight

100. Achieve 3 goals in a week

101. Achieve 7 goals in a month

101 Things in 1001 Days

Back in 2010 I found the Day Zero Project (http://dayzeroproject.com - I am using a Blogger app to write this post which I have now discovered does not have any way to add hyperlinks. How very helpful of it!) and started a 101 Things in 1001 Days list. As is my usual way I started enthusiastically and then forgot about it, but recently stumbled across it again and thought I would have another try. Looking back at my original list over four years I managed to check off a third of the items; this time round I will be extremely impressed with myself if I manage half. 

Why am I doing this? Mostly because I like lists! Having a checklist gives me a point of reference for ways to spend my time. I don't have a great deal of "spare" time, but what I do have tends to get frittered puttering around on the internet (or just plain aimless puttering). Having a list of ideas will, I hope, help me to spend that time more productively and make my leisure time more satisfying. Thinking of ideas for 101 things to put on the list gave me an opportunity to consider what I would like to do more of - reading, live concerts and theatre, decluttering, developing existing hobbies, and so on. Then there are fitness and food goals which should give me ways to keep exercise and healthy eating interesting and varied, places I would like to go (some of this is blithe optimism and unlikely to be possible), what I have termed "personal development" which is mostly things to think about or ways of focusing on what is good in my life, and some items which are just plain fun stuff. It isn't a heavy list. It is not intended to be about major long term goals or big ambitions (though I don't think I have any of those!), and I have intentionally not included anything to do with work, faith or family. 

A number of the items on the list are "challenges within a challenge" - yoga challenge, sleep challenge, trash bag challenge, listen to 20 composers, read 10 science books, that sort of thing. To keep tabs on the list in general and the individual items within it I am using an organising app called Trello which looks as though it will work very nicely. I'll report back once I get properly underway. Nominally I am starting on 1st January 2015 because I like neat dates, but in practice I am starting now. You may place bets on how long I will keep this up - three months, six months, a year, one month, a week, never get off the ground at all? 

I am putting the list into a separate post as this one is already getting rather long.