Day Zero
The Mission:
Complete 101 pre-set tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Taexalia's 101 Things To Do In 1001 Days
- To do
- In progress
- Complete
- Lose 95lbs (-17.6lbs)
- Raise £500 for WDCS (+£15)
- Buy a house
- See/photograph a wild otter (28/12/08)
- Develop a repertoire of 30 stories
- Visit Sandwood Bay
- Have a piece of writing published
- Create a vegetable garden
- See/photograph Rainbow (adopted Moray Firth Dolphin)
- Run a SoulCollage workshop
- Visit Callanish
- See/photograph wild pine marten
- Start swimming regularly
- Make polymer clay jewellery most profitable line
- Learn Spanish
- Complete one of the Scottish History courses
- Fix my front tooth
- Get a snake tattoo
- Write a novel
- Develop and maintain healthy eating habits
- Make up tree pattern curtains
- Walk Fife Coastal Path
- Go wild camping alone
- Be debt free
- Climb Stac Pollaidh
- Climb Ben Macdhui
- Learn Gaelic
- Learn to sing
- Knit the top I have a pattern for
- Learn to bellydance proper
- Become conversant in coding/designing websites/blogs
- Commit to memory the entire contents of Scots Poems to be Read Aloud
- Perform Storytelling to an audience of strangers
- Have solar panels on my roof
- Have a wind turbine on my roof
- Set up a composter
- Wear my purple PVC trousers again
- Sleeve left arm
- Get my eyes fixed with laser surgery
- Take my camera and @ to Madagascar
- Be a day volunteer with the wolves at Highland Wildlife Park
- See the Fjords of Norway
- Visit Bergen Old Town and Wharfs
- Go horse riding
- Go to Wacken Festival
- Go whale watching
- Visit the Fortingall Yew
- Visit Miegle Museum
- Travel the Inverness/Kyle rail link (again)
- Spend a week exploring Kilmartin Glen
- Do a boat trip on the Corryvreckan (again)
- Teach myself to play my bodhran
- Get a mohican
- Get my tongue pierced
- Organise all my photos into albums
- Finish that oil painting for Mum
- Have written 1000 blog posts
- Take part in the Faslane protest camp
- See as many Palm d'Or winners as possible/available (5/47)
- Develop a yoga habit
- Develop a meditation habit
- Learn metalworking
- Identify 25 things I like about myself
- Fill the sketchbook I made
- Buy a laptop that is ONLY for creative writing (and use it!)
- Do a detox week
- Reclaim my ability to do the splits
- Pay into shares ISA once a month (0/32)
- Catch the boat from Anstruther to the Isle of May
- Learn to cook
- Host a dinner party (and cook it myself!)
- Create a wildlife pond
- Participate in MoonWalk with Mum
- Learn to use my Poi
- Win a NaNoWriMo
- Knit 10 pairs of socks (2/10)
- Join/start a book group
- Save £1001
- Finish importing/organising all my past blog posts (2006, 2007)
- Do something creative every day
- Run a mile
- Teach Mum eBay
- Read 100 fiction books (1/100)
- Complete Creative Journey Board
- Climb Ben Nevis
- Walk Lairig Ghru again
- Walk all the tops of Bennachie again
- Visit Philadelphia
- Visit a country I haven't been to
- Go on a spa day
- File my tax returns before it is January
- Do a massage course/class
- Clock 2500km on elliptical (25.020)
- Buy and use a trampoline exercise thingy
- Get a library card
- Do writing practise in a public place once every week
- Walk the labyrinth in George Square Gardens
- Buy a shit hot camera
- Learn to design Celtic knotwork
- Learn to identify 10 tree types and a piece of lore for each
- Make the CD I have been promising D for ever
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Quite a list. Will there be anything left of you if you lose 95 pounds?
Oh yes! My healthy whole self!
Hello again!