101 Things to do in 1001 Days: Day 193

Monday, October 15, 2007

Day 193

4) Paint your room 10/05/07

So, Zack called me on the 21st of September inquiring if I still had a vacant room in my apartment. "Why, did you break up with Nicole?" I asked. And low and behold, he had. Two weeks later he was moved in, and I had painted my room a lovely spring green... with random chunks of blue grey, because I ran out of the green and the guys at Home Depot just couldn't recreate it. It's not terribly noticeable as the room is dark. I'm going to be painting cherry blossom branches on the wall too, which should further deter from the two tones.

34) Have a game night every other week for 3 months (1/6)

This past Saturday Trin's friend Tommy and his girlfriend Binky were in town, so the three of them, along with Serena, Zack and I, gathered at the apartment for a game of Therapy. It was a very long game since we kept getting side tracked by conversation, but we had a great time, laughing and drinking tea. Trinity won.

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101 in 1001

Goals remaining: 87
Days left: 686
MY ASPIRATIONS
bold = complete
italics = in progress
1) Go swimming once a week for 3 months (0/12)
2) Increase typing speed to 40wpm
3) Start a membership at The Mission Cliffs
4) Paint your room 10/05/07
5) Write Raphael at least 4 letters while he’s in Honduras (3/4) 4/21/07, 8/26/07, 12/01/07
6) Visit Italy
7) Visit the SF Academy of Science 5/5/07
8) Eliminate acne Nature's Gate Organics Acne Treatment System purchased 5/3/07; Zinc supplement arrived 6/22/07; started Bikram yoga 6/23/07; started accupuncture 11/9/07; having more fun as of X-mas break 1/29/08
9) Visit New York
10) Master 10 dinner recipes (0/10) Baked Chicken Breast with Honey Mustard Sauce (6); Homemade Chili (2); Shrimp & Cherry Tomatoes with Quinoa (3); Carrot Coconut Soup (1); Sesame Braised Chicken & Cabbage (1); 15-Minute Asparagus, Tofu Stir Fry (1); Black Bean Burrito, Indian Style (2); Red Kidney Bean Soup with Lime Yogurt (5)
11) Try 10 new breakfast recipes (2/10) Tropical Breakfast Risotto; Grapefriut Sunrise
12) Try 10 new lunch recipes (2/10) Greek Garbonzo Bean Salad; Mediterranean Pasta Salad
13) Either read or donate all the unread books you own 5/6/07 sold $17 worth and donated two bags to library
14) Learn to sew
15) Finish the koi fish table
16) Complete and send out “memories” holiday cards
17) Take Acting for Camera class enrolled 7/4/07; 8/16/07 - 12/13/07
18) Take a woodshop class
19) Paint five oil on canvas; one must be a self portrait (0/5) SIGN THEM!
20) Plant a vegetable garden
21) Run a charity race
22) Do 30 min of Yoga every morning for a week
23) Swim with a dolphin
24) Get your bowling ball drilled 4/14/07
25) Take a road trip
26) Write and illustrate a children’s book (with or without Maggie)
27) Complete the Artist’s Way
28) Visit Vegas (and preset gambling amount)
29) Pay off car loan early
30) Have $6000 saved
31) Take a yoga class - began 6/23/07; 6/25/07; 6/28/07; 6/30/07; 6/1/07; 7/3/07; 7/5/07; 7/7/07; 7/8/07; 7/10/07; 7/12/07; 7/14/07; 7/15/07; 7/17/07; 7/19/07...
32) Learn to make your own website
33) Complete 35 books: 5 must be from Banned-books(0/5); 5 must be from Guardian's top 100 books (0/5); 5 you must already own (0/5); Total - (3/35) What Would You Do If You Had No Fear, by Diane Conway 5/2/07; Healing Emotions:Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health, Edited by: Daniel Goleman 6/28/07 Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class, by Bikram Choudhury 8/6/07
34) Have a game night every other week for 3 months (0/6) 10/13/07, 10/27/07, 11/11/07 - interrupted; 12/01/07 - blah
35) Attend 10 sessions of therapy (0/10)
36) Visit Disneyland 7/21-7/22/07
37) See a show on Broadway
38) Get cast in a musical or play
39) Receive acupuncture 11/09/07, 11/21/07, 12/07/07, 12/21/07
40) Take a self defense class
41) Set up a weekly cleaning schedule for the apartment 4/23/07
42) Copy all your CD’s to your computer or blank CD’s and get an I-POD
43) Keep a journal documenting the progress of this list; 4/6/07
44) Visit the library and check out 5 books 5/13/07
45) Buy a red dress that looks fabulous on you and wear it out
46) Create a filing system for all your papers 8/5/07
47) Visit Anna in Michigan
48) Make holiday themed arts and crafts
49) Sell something you made
50) Spend 150hrs drawing (10/150) 5/11/07, 5/26/07, 6/29/07, 7/8/07, 4/22/08-3hr, 4/29/08-3hr
51) Buy a reading chair
52) Buy a comfortable, stylish, and affordable couch
53) Volunteer 50hrs (26/50) Food Bank 4/18/07, Homeless Children (2) 5/2/07, 6/20/07, Sprucing up the Botanical Garden 5/19/07, Breakfast for Abused Children 6/2/07, Fixin' Feral Kitties in Oakland 9/16/07, SF Green Festival 11/10 & 11/11/07
53) Go for a manicure 4/5/08
55) Take Moira out 20 times (2/20) 4/13/07; 7/14/07
56) Find a home/homes for all your action figures
57) Paint zebra stripes on your mirror
58) Buy furniture for the deck 9/15/07
59) See a school counselor and decide on a degree
60) Move out
61) Visit your grandparents' graves (1/2) 4/13/07
62) Take a vocal coaching class 4/15/07
63) Photograph at least 50 of the items on this list (5/101) #62-4/15/07, #93-4/23/07, #7-5/5/07, #44-5/13/07, #64-6/3/07, #17-12/13/07(on DVD)
64) Schedule appointment to see if you qualify for Laser Eye Surgery; if yes, begin saving for and have procedure; if no, contacts: appointment on 5/26/07; contact fitting on 5/30/07
65) Go camping
66) Perform 5 acts from this site (or something like them): Good Deed Ideas(1/5) 4/8/07
67) Make a budget 4/10/07
68) Save $10 for every item completed on your 101 list to be spent as you choose but subtract from this $25 towards a charity for every uncompleted task (hold money in a “piggy” bank) ($160/$1010) #67-4/10/07, #24-4/14/07, #41-4/23/07, #7-5/5/07, #44 and #78-5/13/07, #64-5/30/07, #77-6/2/07, #31-6/23-7/19/07, #36-7/21&22/07, #46-8/5/07, #58-9/15/07, #4-10/05/07, #39-12/21/07, #53-4/5/08, #72-4/24/08
69) Frame “toilet paper rolls” and display
70) Spackle and touch-up apartment
71) Re-design main room, bedroom, and kitchen of apartment 5/28/07
72) Get a bikini wax 4/24/08
73) Start dating
74) Participate: 26 Things
75) Make curtains for your bedroom
76) Weed out clothing 4 times (3/4) 4/7/07; 7/15/07; 10/7/07
77) Walk on the beach 2 times a week for a month (8/8) 5/6/07, 5/12/07, 5/18/07, 5/19/07, 5/20/07, 5/23/07, 5/29/07, 6/2/07
78) Collect in a book 50 quotes that inspire you (50/50) 5/13/07
79) Determine what key clothing pieces you’re missing from your wardrobe and make or purchase them Pencil Skirt 12/9/07
80) Stay a size four (or less)
81) Create a list of family and friends birthdays, phone numbers, and addresses
82) Watch the sun rise
83) Drive to Tahoe to visit Dad and Joan
84) Take a dance class
85) Take an Excel/Word class
86) Color an entire coloring book purchased 5/13/07
87) Join a chess club
88) Attend 10 year high school reunion
89) Eat at ten SF restaurants you’ve never been to (1/10) Cafe Gratitude 7/12/07
90) Get diagnosed for a learning disability
91) Do a cleanse purchased 4/24/08
92) Attend 10 live performances (4/10) SF Mime Troupe: Making A Killing 7/4/07; Aladdin Jr. 8/4/07; Ahh! Rosebud 8/24/07; Out Damned Spot 8/31/07
93) Get a decent camera
94) Host a theme party
95) Throw a surprise party for someone
96) Put loose change into rolls every 6 months (2/5) 4/9/07, $36; 11/17/07, $55.50
97) Paint the chest the action figures are in
98) Go horseback riding
99) Call Dad once a month (10/33) 4/8/07, 5/13/07, 6/1/07, 7/7/07, 8/18/07, 9/15/07, 10/21/07, 11/27/07, saw him @ X-mas, 1/13/08, 2/11/08
100) Purchase or borrow and complete The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life: 100 Essential Questions for Tapping into Your Inner Wisdom arrived in mail 4/26/07
101) Complete another list and start again (transfer any uncompleted tasks)

50 Quotes of Inspiration

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." - Zeno
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein
"As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, is our protest against being disturbed, forced to think or to change our habits." - James Harvey Robinson
"Adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them." - Dr. Seuss
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encourage; missing me at one place, search another; I stop somewhere waiting for you." - Walt Whitman
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." - Oprah Winfrey
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." - George Harrison
"Force is all-conquering, but it's victories are short lived." - Abraham Lincoln
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
"Law is mind without reason." - Aristotle
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R Tolkien
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management can not be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." - David M. Ogilvy
"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." - Zelda Fitzgerald
"I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it." - Federico Fellini
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." - Sir Francis Bacon
"Develope interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller
"Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own?" - Piero Milani
"If you are not criticized you may not be doing much." - Donald H. Rumsfeld
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." - Eugene Delacroix
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." - Jack London
"Little by little, one travels far." - J.R.R Tolkien
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds." - Mahatma Gandhi
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." - Edith Wharton
"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism." - Herbert Hoover
"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions." - Dorothy Day
"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient, and thin." - Katharine Butler Hathaway
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Cicero
"We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Svent-Gyorgyi
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R Tolkien
"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt
"If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him." - Thomas Fuller
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." - Aristotle
"As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." - Mary Pickford
"The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis Boone
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity." - Thomas J. Watson
"I have found that you only have to take that one step towards the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will be supported." - Joseph Campbell
"...and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - Edward Stanley
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of work on my part).
Why 1001 Days? Many people have created lists in the past — frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
Goal setting tips
• Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
• Stay Focused. Any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. Constantly evaluate your progress.
• Welcome Failure. Frequently, very little is learned from a venture that did not experience failure in some form. Failure presents the opportunity to learn and makes the success more worthy.
• Write down your goals. It clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
• Keep your goals in sight. Review them frequently, and ensure that they are always at the forefront of your thinking.