On June 24th I created a
list of 101 goals to accomplish in 1001 days. And while I accomplished a lot, I
got no where near accomplishing them all! Friday marked 1,001 days, so in hopes
of kickstarting the habit of blogging again, I figured I’d update this ol’ list
before starting fresh with a new one!
Start Date: June 24th, 2011
Goal Completion Date: March 21th,
2014
Goals Completed: 60/101
Food
6.
Do the “Daniel Diet”
for 14 days. Perhaps soon with the
Biggest Loser competition at work!
Fitness
14.
Do 50 real push-ups in one sitting. Short breathers permitted. Ha! No where
close! More like 25 girly push-ups!
17.
Do the splits. See above comment. :)
18.
Complete a duathalon. Pregnant two out of the three possible summers didn’t
help with accomplishing this one!
Personal
26. Limit my closet to 20
pairs of shoes. Accomplished!
27.
Get a new Passport with current last name.
31.
Deposit a dollar outside.
Relational
33.
Host a dinner party.
34. Invite friends—outside of Girls Group—into
our home 6 times over the course of 3 months. We were intentional about having family/friends over, but I
don’t think this one was actually accomplished!
35.
Read 100 complete books to our child. Not a 100 different ones!
36.
Go on a double date.
37. Plan a surprise party. Accomplished!
After really dropping the ball for Chris’ birthday last year, I planned a
surprise 29 and 2 months birthday party for him in September. His mom even made
a cake with “Happy 29 1/6th Birthday, Chris!”
38.
Take a “flip coin” road trip with Chris.
39.
Stay at a bed-and-breakfast as a weekend getaway. We’ve got one in the works
for our anniversary!
Awareness
45.
Read 43 books from BBC Top 100
books. [2/43] This was like pulling teeth to enjoy them at first.
Now I barely make time to read! :S
46.
Sew an article of clothing and wear it in public. [Beyond a simple seam and
hem.] Nope, sewing machine’s a bit dusty!
Blog
48.
Blog about each of my 101 accomplished
goals, unless supposed to be anonymous or uber personal. Accomplished. ;)
50.
Answer 50 Questions
that will Free Your Mind, perhaps blog about them. I started with
questions 1-5.
Spiritual
51.
Read the Bible every day to our lil’
bean for 30 days. Accomplished! We ready the Bible every night for two
months before bed, but haven’t been doing so well in March!
52.
Pray every night with Chris before bed for 30 days. :(
54.
Memorize the books of the Old Testament, in order. [27/39]
55.
Study a book of the Bible with Chris.
Outdoorsy Stuff
56.
Sleep under the stars.
58.
Go fishing.
59.
Play in the rain.
61.
Camp out in our backyard.
62.
Build a fire without a match/lighter.
63.
Build a snow_____ [fort, man, etc].
64.
Go skiing.
65.
Go sledding.
Just For Fun
68.
Complete a photo challenge. I tried to accomplish this one about 5 times, each
time a failure!
70.
Submit a post to PostSecret.
72.
Learn to tie a tie.
73.
Create a font in my handwriting. I printed the paper work to do this one about
5 times, but never actually did!
75. Go to Cedar Point. Accomplished! Chris
and I went! We were only there a couple hours before it started to rain so we
decided to leave without getting our hands stamped. As we left Olive Garden for
lunch, we walked outside to an absolutely gorgeous day. We kind of kicked
ourselves for not getting our hands stamped, but decided not to be upset about
it and enjoyed a leisure ride home!
Giving Back
78.
Pick 5 people who have changed my life and write each of them a letter. I wrote
one!
79.
Leave 25 Operation Beautiful notes.
80.
Write three “Dear Stranger” letters and leave them in random spots around Lima.
81.
Donate blood 3 times. I donated twice. Pregnancy took me out so much on this
one!
82.
Plant a tree.
84.
Write our Compassion Gospel for Asia sponsor child once a month
for a year. Ugh! This was much more difficult and more ambitious than I thought
it would be!
85.
Send hand-written notes of encouragement to 10 friends/family members. I
probably got close on this one, but didn’t really keep track.
87.
Leave a 100% tip.
89.
Put together 5 Christmas shoe
boxes. I got the boxes this past Christmas but never put them
together! Perhaps I should do it now, so I’m actually ready for next Christmas!
90.
Contact 5 managers about the good work a specific employee has done. Only once
did I do this!
Finances
93.
Pay off 2 student loans. Accomplished!
We’re doing well with this! Looking forward to throwing a party when they are alllllll paid off! For.real.
94. Continue to have $0 debt outside of
Mortgage and Student Loans. Accomplished! Yep! Yep!
96.
Save half of my “Rachel Money” every week for 2 months. I changed the way I
budget and no longer have “Rachel Money”.
97.
Do not buy anything for myself for one whole month. Eek. Nope!
98.
Teach someone the basics of couponing. I’ve given pointers and tips but not
actually sit down and teach anyone. I’ve kind of fallen of the couponing
bandwagon now too.
99.
Make no withdrawals from savings
accounts [excluding possible car purchases]. Accomplished!
100.
Save $5 for each completed task. I didn’t do this as I went! I should of!
101.
Donate $5 for each incomplete task. Accomplishing. I didn’t do this either
as I went, but am going to donate now!
Looks
like it’s time to make some more goals!! :)
