I frequent the blogs of many successful photographers and I ran across a post from Melissa Jill where she made a note that she had recently completed #26 on her 101 in 1001 list. Wondering what this list was all about I dug around and found out, and I think it’s a great idea!
So basically 101 in 1001 are 101 goals I’ve come up with to complete in 1001 days. Some are large and others are small and some are just really random! Some I’ll probably never get to do just because of finances, but I might as well set my goals high! ;) Here are my goals, listed in no particular order…
Start date: May 1, 2008
End date: January 26, 2011
1. Blog every day, with at least one photograph, for 2 weeks - COMPLETED June 25, 2008
2. Take a road trip and stop along the way at cool places to take photos
3. 2nd shoot at 2 weddings
4. Buy a fish eye lens
5. Take a cruise - COMPLETED October 2010
6. Sit in the front row at a Kenny Chesney concert -woohoo!
7. Carve a pumpkin - COMPLETED October 2010
8. Enter some photos in a print competition
9. Thin my thighs ;)10. Buy a Shoot-sac - COMPLETED 10.12.08
11. Go to my 5-year college reunion - COMPLETED May 2010
12. Go to Hilton Head and hear the Simpson Brothers again
13. Attend at least 3 photography workshops/seminars (3/3 completed by Oct 2008)
#1- Bellies & Babies Tour - attended September 2008
#2- Learnfest - attended September 2008
#3- Image X - attended October 2008
14. Photograph a birth story
15. Build a Snowman
16. Buy a Wii - COMPLETED, Summer 2009
17. Go to the Biltmore
18. Send a care package to a soldier in Iraq
19. Try two new recipes a month for 3 months - COMPLETED
20. Go one week without drinking soda
21. Vote in the ’08 presidential election - COMPLETED 10.27.08
22. Read 3 books to learn more about photography / business
23. Read 10 (non-business related) books COMPLETED 2.27.09
#1 *Something Borrowed by: Emily Giffin (completed May '08)
#2 *Something Blue by: Emily Giffin (completed May '08)
#3 *Love the One Your With by: Emily Giffin (completed June '08)
#4 *Kentucky Rich by: Fern Michaels (completed July '08)
#5 *Ana's Story by: Jenna Bush (completed July '08)
#6 *Questions to Ask Before Marrying (completed July '08)
#7 *Baby Proof by: Emily Giffin (completed Aug '08)
#8 *The Tenth Circle by: Jodi Picoult (completed Aug '08)
#9 *The Lucky One by: Nicholas Sparks (completed Oct '08)
#10 *How to be Lost by: Amanda Eyre (completed Feb '09)
24. Travel to Europe
25. Get all of the 6 Jones grandkids together with their significant others and kids - COMPLETED did a few times but in December 2010 we were able to do so & get a photograph for my grandparents as a Christmas gift!
26. Visit one of the US states I haven't been to yet
27. Spend the day with another photographer (non-workshop related) - COMPLETED Danelle Barco
28. Organize my home-office
29. Spend a whole day with a friend - COMPLETED June 8, 2008
30. Go to the Roanoke Island Aquarium - COMPLETED September 2009
31. Go to a movie alone
32. Go snow skiing
33. Solve the Rubik's Cube
34. See a musical on Broadway
35. Figure out how to get videos onto my blog and then post videos - COMPLETED May 13, 2008
36. Go camping
37. Take my lunch to work for a week
38. Take a carriage ride in Central Park
39. Go on a picnic
40. Find good legal music to use on my photo slideshows
41. Meet a friend for lunch/dinner/cocktails once a month for 6 months straight! COMPLETED
42. Do something to help the Spinal Cord Society - COMPLETED September 8, 2009
43. Take photos of my parents and each set of grandparents
44. Go to the Zoo
45. Donate blood
46. Watch a sunrise - many times after becoming a Mom
47. Pick strawberries - COMPLETED
48. Watch the movie "Born into Brothels"
49. Go to a photography gallery - October 2009, NYC Museum of Art
50. Get some canvas prints made - COMPLETED July/August '08
51. Keep my email inbox down to 5 emails or less for 2 weeks
52. Be the greatest maid-of-honor for Bridget’s wedding - October 2008
53. Do charity work overseas
54. Go to see the Vagina Monologue’s
55. Go ice skating
56. Have one of my images on the cover of a magazine
57. No computer for a week
58. Read the bible completely
59. Buy an Ipod - COMPLETED
60. Participate in a book club
61. See Jack Johnson in concert
62. Write and send one snail mail letter per month for a year, just because
63. Visit the Elizabethan Gardens - COMPLETED Summer 2009
64. Have a yard sale
65. At least once, give a homeless person some money/food. COMPLETED June 26, 2008
66. Dress in costume for Halloween
67. Go to an NC State Football game - COMPLETED 2009 and 2010
68. Document “a day in my life” with photos
69. Upgrade and redesign my website - September/November 2009
70. Get engaged ;-0
71. Climb Jockey's Ridge COMPLETED 2.20.10
72. Can at least 10 jars of tomatoes COMPLETED September 13, 2008
73. Create a cookbook with all of my great-grandmothers recipes
74. Try deep sea fishing again (without getting sick) COMPLETED November 2009
75. Learn how to play Bridge
76. Have my photo taken in a photo-booth that does the old school photo-booth strips
77. Visit and photograph all the lighthouses in NC
78. Learn to belly dance
79. Draw on a sidewalk with chalk
80. Go kayaking
81. Get 5 people to create their own 101 things list (any takers??)
#1 BB Vo
#2 Lavonna Chilton
82. Plant a tree
83. Have a girls night / weekend
84. Go to Nashville, TN
85. Stick with this list (such a cop out, I know)
86. Visit New Orleans - COMPLETED Oct 2008
87. Go bowling - COMPLETED January 2010
88. Tie-Dye
89. Meet the teachers I taught with at HSES for dinner
90. Spend a day at the beach COMPLETED July 2008
91. Drive a tractor
92. Go white-water rafting
93. Ride in a convertible
94. Watch The Lost Colony
95. Pay off my Car
96. Blog about each of my 101 tasks as completed
97. Italy!!
98. Fly a Kite
99. Near the end of the 1001 days, create a new list including those tasks left undone
100. Have $1001 in my bank account on day 1001
101. For every goal I don’t complete, I will donate $1 for each goal to charity!
Any encouragement or help is welcome! If this has motivated you to started your own 101 list, let me know so I can work on crossing off #81 of mine! ;) Hugs!
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This is great! If you do the charity work over seas make sure you donate blood first :). I couldn't do it for 1 or 2 years after the Philippines and I highly doubt I can now after Africa!
ReplyDeleteI love it! Nothing like setting goals and then being able to say that you actually achieved them, such a sense of accomplishment. Come spend a weekend with us and you can cross of several at one time. The kids love sidewalk chalk, flying kites and there is a strawberry farm right down the road.
ReplyDeleteHey, Megan! GREAT list! Mark off #81...might be able to help you with a couple more! Love your blogspot!
ReplyDeleteBB
You go, girl! Let us know when you get them done. I wish I had your time--I probably would've put more meaning in it than I did when I was your age.
ReplyDelete♥Susan
I thought that you saw Jack Johnson in concert recently. Brad said that he saw you there... :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea!!