it’s been over 1001 days since i made version one of my 101 things list… which didn’t go all that well. i did about 40% of the tasks, and reached some conclusions.
1001 days seemed like a lifetime 3 years ago, and so i sprinkled the list with wishful thinking and lots of travelling adventures… which ended up not happening (e.g. roadtrip coast-to-coast in the US). it turns out, our big travels are not conditioned by items in a list, but rather by whims and opportunities. it’s not that we travelled less, we just ended up choosing different places to go to – and that’s ok.
another thing i’ve learned is that things… change. i’ve lost interest on a lot of items (e.g. be better at iceskating) while others turned out not to be so compatible to our current circumstances (e.g. starting a compost pile). other things turned out better than i expected (e.g. instead of going 100% freelance, i work remotely).
all in all though, i liked the idea of having this big list with a set deadline – it didn’t shape my future, but it did focus me on certain goals. the second list took me a lot more time to draft, as i’ve struggled to remain more practical and make sure all the items are all “doable”. i really want to do better this time.
so, 101 fresh things for the next 1001 days:
- Do the HSK intermediate
- Make a pinhole & take some photos with it
- Take calligraphy/handwriting lessons
- Draw a font
- Read 50 new books (half of which in portuguese)
- Write 750 words for a month
- Spend a week offline
- Reach my goal weight
- Be ok in snowboarding
- Write 20 letters
- Write/draw a small guide to Ljubljana/Slovenia
- Research about Slovenia/Balkans history
- Identify 10 different trees
- Taste 30 different fruits
- Taste 20 different cheeses
- Try a autocaravan holiday
- Visit a volcano
- Fly on a glider
- Learn how to scuba dive
- Visit a mail sorting facility
- Draw and get a tattoo
- Visit a theme park
- Volunteer
- Do a photobook of our time in Slovenia
- Try 25 different teas
- Do a medical checkup
- Go to the dentist
- Draw a comic strip
- Write 20 lists
- Find 150 geocaches
- Apply to the green card lottery november 2010
- Visit 20 Unesco sites: historic areas of istanbul, october 2010
- Fly a kite
- Visit 15 different museums
- Do 5 videos
- Go to 20 concerts
- Watch a sport event live
- Climb 10 Slovenian mountains: tromeja, ratitovec
- Hot air balloon ride
- Go rafting/canoeing
- Roadtrip in the EU: slovenia-austria-germany-netherlands, september 2010
- Be halfway through our house goal fund
- Move again
- Do 20 surprises: bday parcel
- Find out what I want to do related with stationery
- Sponsor an artist on Kickstart
- Make ice cream from scratch
- Buy some Christmas lights to decorate
- Do a secret art project in the city
- Go see an opera
- Go see a ballet
- Sell something on etsy and use the money to buy something there
- Go an entire month without eating out
- Go an entire month without using a car (not even friend’s cars)
- View all of Star Wars movies october 2010
- Donate five dollars to wikipedia for each goal failed
- Track the progress of every item on the blog
- Fill my recipes notebook with recipes
- Get a Fuji Instax and start documenting our life
- Feel a baby kick inside a friend’s belly
- Try to eat local for a week
- Start laser hair removal
- Take a cooking class
- Use all the yarn I have
- Design and print a postcard
- Write something for a newspaper
- Review 25 pieces of stationery
- Lose the jumping habit
- Try 20 different sodas
- Go karting
- Blog at least 3 times a week for 3 months
- Put 200 meals on Foodspotting
- Go see the sea organ in Zadar
- Make 5 surprise breakfasts
- Drastically reduce the amount of coffee I drink
- Ride a ferris wheel
- Carve a rubber stamp
- Try sledding
- Create an herb garden
- Redesign meiadeleite.com
- Host 10 people through Couchsurfing
- Write a letter to someone once a week for 10 weeks
- Learn to cook 10 new soups: mushroom soup
- Design a tshirt
- Fill a notebook with notes from books/articles
- Straighten up the SS details + get EU health card
- Get the surgery done
- Do NaNowriMo (for the blog) once
- Learn how to do sushi
- Fix hanzillion and plan half a year of posts
- Cook pad thai
- Organize a tea swap
- Track our calories for a month
- Pick a holiday and go overboard on the celebrations
- Make a cute bento box
- Shoot only in black and white for a month
- Ride a scooter
- Buy a Dr. Seuss book
- Try 10 different types of film
- Buy something on a flea market
- Try currywurst in Berlin
some of the things i’ve already completed while the list was still a draft, like watching the whole set of star wars movie (pfeeew!), but i’ve only started the official countdown a few days ago, so the new deadline is set for jul 30, 2013. wish me luck! :)
ps – if you’re thinking of doing one, head over to dayzeroproject.com for inspiration from other people’s lists!
