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I try to do a mini-retreat every year for my birthday. This year I focused on doing a 101 Goals in 1001 Days<\/a> project. It’s very easy for me to go crazy-unrealistic on something like this, so I tried to rein myself in after coming up with 121 goals initially. I left 10 empty slots for new “I’ve got to do this!” inspirations which otherwise might lead me to abandon the whole thing!<\/p>\n

Start Date: December 8, 2007
\nEnd Date: September 4, 2010<\/p>\n

Blue and crossed-out are completed
\nGreen are in progress<\/p>\n

Daily habits focus on one per month<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Lights out at 11pm, wake up at 6:30am
\n2. Drink a glass of water first thing in the morning
\n3. Exercise for 20 minutes
\n4. Pilates 10 minutes<\/span><\/span> (December 2007 Challenge at ZenHabits<\/a>)<\/span>
\n5. Swish & swipe the bathroom
\n6. Put away all clothes
\n7. Wipe down the kitchen counters
\n8. One email to friend\/family
\n9. Wash any pots from the day before
\n10. Shine kitchen sink
\n11. Perform morning routine (2-10) consistently for one month
\n12. Process that day’s snail mail
\n13. Sweep kitchen floor
\n14. 3 minutes of filing
\n15. 10 minutes of paperwork or Quicken
\n16. Process that day’s email
\n17. 5 minutes on old email
\n18. Perform get-home-from-work routine (12-18) consistently for one month
\n19. ZenHabits<\/a> and\/or Habitzer<\/a> check-in
\n20. Log any books finished that day
\n21. Check calendar
\n22. Check next day’s weather
\n23. Review goals
\n24. To-do\/plan for tomorrow
\n25. 5 minutes to patrol hotspots<\/span> (January 2008 Challenge at ZenHabits<\/a>)<\/span>
\n26. Floss every single day<\/span><\/span> I’ve been doing this consistently for 3 months! Go me!<\/span>
\n27. Cleanser & moisturizer on face
\n28. Moisturizer on hands & feet
\n29. Maintain cuticles
\n30. Perform evening routine (19-29) consistently for one month
\n31. Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables
\n32. Do one (but no more than 5) DP<\/a> pages<\/p>\n

Weekly habits focus on one per month<\/strong><\/p>\n

33. Fix one thing from the mending pile
\n34. Write one blog post or essay
\n35. Back up my computer
\n36. Clean purse & totebags
\n37. Write one letter or card
\n38. Phone family members
\n39. 30 minutes of decluttering
\n40. Read or get rid of one old magazine
\n41. Make a weekly plan on Sundays
\n42. Shred papers<\/p>\n

Big and bold<\/strong><\/p>\n

43. Edit the turkey book<\/span> I’m about a third done…<\/span>
\n44. Turkey book accepted by a publisher or agent
\n45. Write CIN database<\/a> as a Joomla component
\n46. Get involved in the Joomla calendar group; add “email the admin” feature
\n47. Write an open-source payslip tracker for Ruby on Rails<\/p>\n

Health<\/strong><\/p>\n

48. Get weight down to 114 pounds and stay there for 4 months
\n49. Bike up the killer hill from 858 without walking
\n50. Do the NYC 5 boroughs
\n51. Get an Excellent on endurance and a Good on flexibility here<\/a>
\n52. Do the Wyalusing triathlon
\n53. Break 29 minutes in a 5K
\n54. Weight training twice a work week
\n55. Write our wills & get them notarized<\/p>\n

Fun<\/strong><\/p>\n

56. Visit Quabbin reservoir
\n57. Get a portable canoe or kayak
\n58. Go to a movie in a theater once a month
\n59. Four times a year, spend a few hours in a big bookstore
\n60. Be a listener contestant on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me<\/span><\/span>
\nI played “Carl’s Countdown”<\/a> on the 12\/22\/07 show; Carl Kassel is now on our answering machine<\/a>!<\/em>
\n61. Get in the pool for Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
\n62. Guest on A Word A Day
\n63. Read Les Misrables<\/a><\/span> (I’m half-way through Tome I, “Fantine”)<\/span>
\n64. Re-read all of la recherche du temps perdu<\/a>
\n65. Learn to raise one eyebrow
\n66. Learn to juggle
\n67. Visit PA Grand Canyon
\n68. Hike Rickett’s Glen
\n69. Keep a dream journal for a month
\n70. Work through piano books for “Madame Uvula”
\n71. One craft project per month
\n72. Be able to recite 10 poems, including Tithonius
\n73. Focus on learning Italian for one month
\n74. Read & learn Botany in a Day<\/p>\n

Volunteer\/Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

75. Teach a Montrose Adult School class on web content<\/span> First class on Blogging is tomorrow. Class blog<\/a><\/span>
\n76. Donate blood 5 times a year<\/span> (I got deferred for low iron–first time ever!–on 12\/18\/07. Argh!) (But succeeded on 2\/19\/08 after making sure to take a multi-vitamin regularly again.)<\/span>
\n77. Become CPR certified
\n78. Do my trash pickup 3 times a year
\n79. Do my own re-qualification for P3 at DP<\/span>
\n80. Upload and manage five DP<\/a> projects I adopted an orphan project, Dictionnaire d’argot fin-de-sicle (1894)<\/a>, which I am now PM’ing–not sure if that should count)<\/span>
\n81. Upload five Sony Reader books to MobileRead<\/a><\/p>\n

House<\/strong><\/p>\n

82. Grow sunflowers
\n83. Do Square Foot gardening vegetables
\n84. Cut down all multiflora rose and Russian olive
\n85. Repaint trim
\n86. Repaint walls
\n87. Repaint ceilings
\n88. Fasten down carpet joins
\n89. Shampoo carpets
\n90. Declutter the garage
\n91. Fix the chainsaw<\/p>\n

Extra to add as I go along<\/strong><\/p>\n

92. Move my 3 blogs to WordPress
\n93.
\n94.
\n95.
\n96.
\n97.
\n98.
\n99.
\n100.
\n101.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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