Sunday, December 18, 2011

101 Goals in 1,001 Days - Original Goal List

I am going to try to accomplish 101 goals in 1,001 days.  Brian gave me this idea when he came home with a list of some other guys goals.  Maybe he was trying to hint at something, I'm not sure.  Either way, I decided it was a good idea and I'd like to give it a go.  I mean, why not?!  Worse-case scenario is that there are things that don't get accomplished.  Best-case scenario is that I accomplish a bunch of these things and not only will I have the satisfaction of knowing that I was proactive in my life, but I get to have a bunch of wonderful experiences at the same time.  I've also been encouraging my friends to try it...if they dare!  

Here are my 101 goals, not in any order whatsoever.

1.  Take a painting class
2.  Take a cooking class
3.  Take a yoga class
4.  Take a cardio fitness class
5.  Play a team sport other than volleyball
6.  Play 18 holes on a Par 3 course and keep score
7.  Run a half marathon
8.  Start a business
9.  Finish Google Search Engine Optimization course for certification
10.  Build a website
11.  Start my etsy site
12.  Produce 2 paintings on my own time
13.  Finish the upstairs bathroom renovation
14.  Organize the office into useable space
15.  Learn how to do Brian's administrative stuff
16.  Go on 2 foreign country trips
*Canada (Vancouver)
*Costa Rica
17.  Visit 3 never before visited National Parks
*Black Canyon of the Gunnison
*Mesa Verde
18.  Start a new job
19.  Read Anna Karenina or give it away
20.  Make something with jicama in it
21.  Eat breakfast every day for 2 weeks
22.  Take a sushi making class
23.  Take a sauce making class
24.  Grow 3 vegetables
25.  Grow 3 types of herbs
26.  Change red woodchip area in front of house
27.  Buy a new car
28.  Landscape front of house - bushes/trees area
29.  Build a marketing calendar for ShadyWolfDesigns
30.  Complete 12 new blogs
31.  Take a certification course to help career/skills
32.  Eat a food I've never eaten before - Persimmon
33.  Volunteer to work an event
34.  Handout baked potatoes, hats, gloves, socks to homeless people
35.  Assemble 20 pictures of local graffiti murals and add to blog - currently in progress...
36.  Build a scarf and belt organization station
37.  Go mountain biking and like it
38.  Sip wine and Paint with friends
39.  Learn how to make bread
40.  Hike 2nd 14'er
41.  White water rafting trip
42.  Get Kona to stop whining
43.  Hike to a waterfall
44.  Go cross country skiing
45.  Read 3 classic novels
*The Old Man and the Sea
46.  Visit Dinosaur Ridge
47.  Get creation station set up in yellow room
48.  Go on the Royal Rush SkyCoaster at Royal Gorge
49.  Go to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio
50.  Visit Niagara Falls
51.  Visit Brian's hometown of Hornell, New York
52.  Colorado Christmas with the family
53.  Complete a sketch book - currently in progress...
54.  Finish batik wall hangings - currently in progress...
55.  Go ice skating
56.  Buy a sewing machine
57.  Make curtains with sewing machine
58.  Make pot holders with sewing machine
59.  Learn photo editing techniques to produce better pictures - currently in progress...
60.  Plan VanDeed Field Day #2
61.  Host a crafting night with my friends
62.  Make 10 homemade cards and give them out for no reason
63.  Learn calligraphy
64.  Bake Christmas cookies
65.  Have a fondue party
66.  Make homemade chocolate covered foods
67.  Document how to make something and post it on Pinterest
68.  Go climbing
69.  Find and subscribe to 10 new blogs - currently in progress...
70.  Go to Grand Junction for a winery weekend
71.  Take a ballroom dance class
72.  Take a latin dance class
73.  Learn how to make green chili
74.  Learn how to make homemade beans like Granny used to make
75.  Go sledding
76.  Go to Brian's college town, Buffalo, New York
77.  Go on a winter sleigh ride
78.  Buy snow shoes and dog booties and go on a winter snow trek with the dogs
79.  Go to a derby party wearing a fantastic hat
80.  Run the BolderBoulder
81.  Go to Cheyenne Frontier Days
82.  Have a picnic with a group of 10 friends at Jazz in the Park
83.  Go to the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
84.  Organize a pumpkin carving party
85.  Go to the hot air balloon festival in New Mexico
86.  Have afternoon tea
87.  Go on a dessert date
88.  Surf in the ocean
89.  Run the steps at Red Rocks
90.  Go on the Winter Park Alpine Slide
91.  Go on the Durango alpine slide
92.  Go on a river tubing trip with friends
93.  Get dressed up and go to a ball
94.  Visit Lakewood's 70+ parks - currently in progress...
95.  Go to a Murder Mystery dinner
96.  See the wildflowers at peak bloom in Flat Tops Wilderness
97.  Make a meal from a cookbook
98.  Go to an Opening Day baseball game
99.  Go to 3 art or food festivals
* Denver Chalk Art Festival
100.  Take Kona and Petra to Bark and Splash Bash
101.  Send 10 handwritten notes to people for random reasons

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I was born and raised in Rapid City, SD. Loved growing up there and am a little sad that my theoretical kids won't be able to grow up there - unless, God forbid, I move back. I moved away for college to Omaha, NE. I went to Creighton University. Great education, great professors - not a good place for young people with an itch for action! I moved to Denver in August of 2004 and love it! I recommend that all people live in at least one other place besides their hometown - the world is so full of opportunities, we just have to move out of comfort zones!