The concept is simple: Think of 101 goals that you can accomplish in 1,001 days. They can be big or small. When you do accomplish one, cross it out and share your progress with everyone. If you are interested in participating, click here for more information.
My Goals:
001. Spend an entire day in complete silence.002. Listen to one CD for an entire week.
003. Participate in an open mic and share my writing.004. Move out of Corpus Christi.005. Eat something exotic.006. Spend an entire day reading books at the library.007. Go back to school.008. Get my own apartment again.
009. Spend an afternoon in a buffet, until I am kicked out.010. Get a pen pal.
011. Participate in a nude photo shoot.
012. Paint something that I am proud of.
013. Spend a day at Disneyland.
014. Climb a mountain.
015. Begin writing a book.016. Read all of Hemingway’s works.
017. Make a commemorative scrapbook for someone.
018. Re-read all of my favorite books.019. Spend one night doing nothing but watching childhood films.020. Turn a stranger into a friend in the course of a day.021. Reach one full year of sobriety.
022. Go skydiving.
023. Visit somewhere outside of the United States.
024. Meet at least twenty people from Tumblr. [18/20]
025. Spend a weekend on the beach in a tent.
026. Learn Spanish fluently.
027. Spend a rainy day watching Hitchcock films.
028. Get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters.
029. Get tattooed by Kat Von D.030. Make a wish on a falling star.
031. Write a poem for someone.032. Re-connect with someone from my rehab.033. Watch every episode ofWeedsabsolutely sober.
034. Learn to play the guitar and the violin.
035. Start exercising again.036. Smile at every person I see.037. Write old-fashioned love letters to someone.038. Listen to a new song each day.039. Re-read all of theHarry Potterbooks.
040. Attend a costume party dressed as Ponyboy.
041. Take a homeless person out to lunch.
042. Go to a concert and sing every song.043. Participate in a rally of some kind.
044. Learn how to make my own sushi.
045. Call in to a talk show and share an opinion.046. Spend an entire day barefoot.
047. Memorize a Dr. Seuss book.
048. Turn off my phone for a full 24 hours.
049. Dance with someone in the rain.
050. Learn how to dive.051. Come out with my bisexuality to my family.052. Spend a day speaking with a different accent.053. Create a mixtape.
054. Visit a zoo and spend the whole time in the bat exhibit, like I used to as a child.
055. Attend a funeral for someone I have never met before.
056. Purchase a monocle.
057. Help someone plant a garden.
058. Win a stuffed animal for someone at a theme park.
059. Write a letter to my birth mom.
060. Go strawberry-picking.061. Take the time to match all of my socks.
062. Set aside a day to ride the busses until nightfall and see where I end up.
063. Start eating breakfast, instead of skipping it each morning.
064. Read the manual for my MacBook.065. Look in the mirror and tell myself, “I love you.”But really mean it.
066. Run through a field until I collapse.067. Purchase a new phone.
068. Try everything on the menu at the Olive Garden.
069. Keep a journal of my dreams.
070. Ride an elevator up and down, having conversations with the different people who get on.
071. Hand out Valentines to strangers on a day that isn’t Valentine’s Day.
072. Have a meaningful conversation on a swing set.
073. Look through all of my childhood photo albums.074. Pick flowers and give them to someone significant.
075. Go an entire week drinking only green tea.076. Make a Grateful List every morning.
077. Spend an afternoon volunteering at a homeless shelter.
078. Learn Sign Language.079. Take one walk every night; just me and my thoughts.080. Write one poem a day.
081. Build a piece of furniture.
082. Attend an art festival.083. Learn something new each day.084. Go through my phone’s contact list and delete all the people who I no longer talk to.
085. Spend a day without looking at a clock once to practice living in the moment.
086. Carve my name into a tree.
087. Purchase a bike and ride it more than I drive.088. Frequent less Starbucks, and more independent coffee shops.089. Tell my friends that I love them every day.090. Pay off my debts.091. Meet someone’s parents.
092. Win a game of chess.093. Jump into a pile of leaves.094. Get to at least four Narcotics Anonymous meetings a week.095. Look up a new word each day.
096. Replace my entire Disney VHS collection with their DVD counterparts.
097. Color every picture in a coloring book.098. Write a letter to no one and release it into the wind.099. Learn how to make balloon animals.
100. Climb to the top of a water tower.101. Fall in love.
Start date: February 22, 2009.
End date: November 20, 2011.
