101 things in 1001 days

Anyone who knows me that I love lists, goals, and data. Each year, I set new year’s resolutions/goals and I publish them on my website, and review my success at the end of the year.

I’m always looking for more interesting ways to document my goals. Since last year’s site death of 43things (on which I was pretty active for 8 years) there hasn’t been much of a general online goal setting community. Recently, though, a successor to 43things has popped up: dayzero project, which encourages users to set a list of “101 things in 1001 days”.

Of course, I’m eager to do it. So here is my list of 101 Things in 1001 days, which ends on October 29th, 2018.

Travel

1. Travel on the trans-siberian railway
2. Travel to 30 countries (currently 20 on 2/1/2016)
3. Travel to China
4. Walk on the Great Wall of China
5. Travel to Russia
6. Travel to Japan
7. Save $6,000 in a “random travel” fund
8. Travel to all 50 US states (currently at 47 on 2/1/2016)
9. Travel to Greece
10. Take a bike trip >3 weeks
11. Publish a travel zine
12. Stay in an ice hotel
13. Witness the Northern Lights
    

    
    Creative

14. Finish NaNoWriMo
15. Write my personal manifesto
16. Write my “political platform”
17. Sew pants
18. Publish a zine for each birthday
19. Publish a comix
20. Write in 1-line-a-day journal every day for 6 months
21. Learn how to draft patterns from scratch
22. Make a robot
23. Sew a duvet
24. Go on a writing retreat
25. Sew a regency gown
    

    Financial

26. Save 50% of my income
27. Publish expenses/income every month for a year
28. Max out my 401K (if I have one available) + Roth IRA
29. Get paid to speak
30. Identify a second stream of income
31. Make $5,000 from side hustles
32. Do a no-spend month
33. Save a $10,000 emergency fund
34. Ask for a raise
35. Be paid to teach a personal finance class
36. Have a net worth >$20,000
    

    Professional Development

37. Learn SQL
38. Learn to work with VAN
39. Learn Pro Tools
40. Be nominated for Skidmore Prize
41. Learn Adobe Audition
42. Submit a talk to OSBridge
43. Speak at a TedX event
44. Attend toastmaster’s regularly for 3 months
45. Learn every country in Africa on a map
46. Get paid to write an article
47. Make a person-to-person fundraising ask >$50,000
48. Land a major federal grant
49. Apply for a Fulbright
50. Pass the C1 Level test in German
51. Pass the C3 Level in German
52. Apply to a professional development/learning intensive program
    

    
    Fitness & Health

53. Run a half marathon in <2 hours
54. Be able to do the splits
55. Be in the “best shape of my life”
56. Back squat my body weight
57. Do a 30×30 challenge (30 minutes of physical activity for 30 days)
58. Learn a choreographed dance
59. Learn to swing dance
60. Take a season of ballet classes
61. Compete in a swing dance competition
62. Participate in a public dance performance
    

    Experiences

63. Go a week without the internet
64. Take a vacation in my own city
65. Complete whiskey club at Holmans
66. Fill out my whole whiskey tasting journal
67. Host a private karaoke party
68. Grow habeneros
69. Grow an herb garden
70. Elaborately decorate a cake
71. Go paragliding
72. Organize a clothing swap party
73. Host a board games night
74. Host a dinner party
75. Host a house party fundraiser
76. Write an op-ed
77. Lobby in Salem
78. Go cross-country skiing
79. Volunteer on political campaign
80. Run a conference
81. Lead a library scavenger hunt bike ride
    

    Indie Web 

82. Blog weekly for a year
83. Redesign my website
84. Launch German version of my website
    

    Radio/Podcasts

85. Volunteer for OPB
86. Launch podcasting network
87. Go on a podcast/radio tour
88. Host a radio show
89. Publish a season of Transportini
    

    Emergency preparedness

90. Have 6 weeks of food storage
91. Have one week’s water storage
    

    Random (AKA I was running out of things)

92. Write a letter to three people who have made a difference in my life
93. Read A Random Walk Down Wall Street
94. Publish an ebook
95. Read 50 books in a year
96. Take a sabbatical
97. Read all of Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone in German
    

    Meta

98. Write a letter to myself to be opened when the 1001 days is over
    
99. Donate $10 to charity for each task I don’t complete
100. Document each task on my website
101. Put away $10 for every goal completed