a 1000 days 100 list

It is aggressive. It is challenging. It is exciting. It is inspiring. It is doable.

Over the next 1000 days, that is 2 years 8 months and 27 days, I am planning on completing some personal and travel goals. And, I've written them down for sort of an accountability to myself. The list is out there. I'm pretty well stoked! The travel goals will be the most difficult because I'll need to get my husband on board - somehow; approach it like he's helping me complete a challenge - and succeed. All of the personal items are just that - personal. They won't require my husband's participation. He's got his own things. Do I hope he'll encourage me? Absolutely! Do I hope he'll check up on me? Definitely! But, this is about me and a personal challenge to nourish - ME!

For me to accomplish even one thing on this list I will have to be intentional. I will - no - I must make time and be committed! 

Let's do this!

Personal

1. Finish my 10,000 blessings book (I’m writing 10,000 Reasons to Bless His Holy Name)
2. Return to my 52 Gratitudes project
3. Learn how to use chopsticks
4. Become a swimmer – again
5. Be part of a learning course, weekend retreat, or trip to document life
6. Write a bible study
7. Take a hands-on photography course
8. Learn my DSLR camera in manual mode
9. Learn to take good photographs
10. Write a memoir
11. Make a set of ceramic mugs
12. Learn hand-lettering
13. Make homemade cheeses
14. Eat more locally, fresh, Farmer’s Market
15. Make pies from scratch – especially the crust
16. Read 300 new books
17. Document a food (eating) journal
18. Memorize the book of James
19. 52 Weeks of Giving in a row
20. Write a high school Meteorology homeschool curriculum from scratch – for sale
21. Make and Send out Christmas cards
22. Learn how to crochet
23. Swim with dolphins
24. Participate in a color run/walk
25. Buy a pair of Tieks
26. Save an additional $5000
27. Initiate and participate in a Progressive dinner
28. Lose 100 pounds
29. Macramé something (a wall hanging)
30. Make homemade bread (from scratch)
31. Make 52 new recipes
32. Read through the entire Bible
33. Complete 10 Bible studies
34. Go to 3 concerts
35. Finish my 1000 gifts project
36. Participate in at least three- 5K walks
37. Make 300 scrapbook pages
38. Make homemade Pina Colada’s
39. Do as many random acts of kindness on my birthday as the age I am turning
40. Pay off our car note
41. Put together a 1000 piece puzzle
42. Paint a canvas for my living room
43. Re-do my photo wall with updated photos
44. Make homemade pop tarts
45. Have a spa day
46. Become a mentor
47. Sponsor a child through Compassion International
48. Start a prayer journal – again
49. Drink a 16 ounce glass of water every day before I do anything
50. Make and can homemade hot pepper jelly
51. Can a vegetable or marinara sauce
52. Take Taekwondo or Karate lessons
53. Snail mail 52 cards and letters and packages
54. Kiss in the rain and document it
55. Complete a 30 day No Spending Spree
56. Finish decorating our bedroom
57. Make a cheesecake using a spring form pan
58. Complete a one week no internet, no television, no phone (except phone calls) challenge
59. Make homemade vanilla
60. Complete all 12 lessons of my One Little Word class
61. Improve to the point I can walk 10,000 steps a day
62. Complete all 12 lessons of my FIT class
63. Make 3 scrapbooking pages for each Story kit
64. Go to the movies and watch movies from opening to closing
65. Go horseback riding
66. Go Ziplining
67. Read a 800+ page book
68. Read 25 classics
69. Make 10 things from my CREATE52 Pinterest board
70. Try out for a Creative Team (ie. Ali Edwards, Paislee Press, Sahin Designs, Sahlin Designs, or One Little Bird)
71. Go to the Vidalia Onion festival
72. Go strawberry or berry picking
73. Find a good recipe and eat Brussel sprouts
74. If a book is made into a movie read the book first
75. Go to a Steelers football game

Travel

78. Have a 25^th Anniversary trip
79. Take a Viking River Cruise
80. Complete 4 vacation in a day trips
81. Go on a weekend spiritual retreat alone
82. Visit waterfalls of Georgia and South Carolina
83. Spend several days in Philadelphia
84. Take an Alaskan cruise
85. Visit Washington DC
86. Travel up the west coast of the US
87. Vacation in Australia
88. Bali
89. A week in NYC
90. Short term mission trip overseas
91. Visit the Oregon (Northwest) coast
92. Visit Nova Scotia
93. Travel First Class
94. Visit Niagara Falls when it’s cold
95. Walk behind a water fall
96. Soak in the hot springs of Iceland
97. Go on a hot air balloon ride
98. See a Broadway musical
99. Go camping
100. Be a tourist in my own town and write blog posts about it