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Monetary

  • Cash in my change jar
  • Create a budget and stick to it
  • Save 10% of my income
  • Have at least $1,000 in savings
  • Start a retirement savings fund
  • Sell something on eBay

Photography

  • Learn the basics of photography
  • Learn how to use my DSLR camera properly
  • Learn how to use Photoshop
  • Complete the 100 Snapshots Challenge
  • Have pictures taken in a photo booth
  • Go on a photography walk
  • Take a digital photography class
  • Post 100 pictures to Flickr
  • Document a "day in my life" in photographs
  • Take a self portrait every week for one year

Books

  • Read a biography of someone I admire
  • Reread all 7 of the Harry Potter books
  • Choose 10 countries and read a book by an author from each
  • Choose an author and read all the books he/she wrote
  • Find 10 books that inspire me

Writing

  • Note one good thing that happens every day
  • Write and illustrate a children's book
  • Write a letter to myself to be opened when the 1001 days is over
  • Answer the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind"
  • Write a book
  • Write a haiku
  • Write a love letter
  • Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
  • Write something and submit it for publication
  • Write a screenplay
  • Make a list of the simple things that make me happy
  • Write my personal manifesto
  • Write myself a mail via www.futureme.org
  • Write on 20 creative writing prompts. http://creativewritingprompts.com/
  • Enter a writing contest
  • Write a list of everything I want to change about myself
  • Complete the 5000 Question Survey

Work/Volunteer

  • Volunteer at an animal shelter
  • Get a job
  • Get an internship
  • Plant a tree on Earth Day

Charitableness

  • Do something for a person that has made a difference in my life

Movies

  • Watch every Disney animated classic
  • Watch all films by Miyazaki
  • Go to the cinema on my own
  • Attend a film festival
  • See a drive-in movie
  • Watch 10 movies in 10 different languages
  • Watch all the Harry Potter movies in a row
  • Watch 10 documentary films
  • Go to an outdoor movie

Personal Development

  • Improve my posture
  • Say "yes" to something I would not normally do
  • Don't complain about anything for a week
  • Quit using "like" as a verbal filler
  • Spend one weekend with only my music, art and books. "Unplug"
  • Go a month without buying anything that isn't a necessity
  • Don't swear for a whole week
  • Keep my room tidy for a month
  • Make a list of friends to keep in touch with regularly
  • Watch no TV for a week
  • Make a list of my fears and what I can do to face and defeat them
  • Go without Facebook for a week
  • Make two new friends
  • Make a list of 25 things I like about myself and stick it to my mirror
  • Be strong, confident and comfortable on my own

Food

  • Go to a wine tasting
  • Eat at 10 new restaurants
  • Try a new recipe each month
  • Keep a food diary for a month
  • Make a pizza from scratch

Art

  • Create an inspiration notebook
  • Get a notebook and keep track of quotations from books I love
  • Fill a sketchbook
  • Take a painting class
  • Buy and complete a "Wreck this Journal"
  • Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor
  • Make a comic strip

Crafts

  • Learn to sew
  • Knit a scarf
  • Try and finish 5 ideas from Instructables
  • Complete a sewing project
  • Make a stuffed animal

Hobbies

  • Make an iTunes playlist of 101 of my favorite songs
  • Design a website
  • Join Postcrossing.com and send 10 postcards
  • Redecorate my bedroom
  • Blog at least once a week for a year
  • Start a photoblog
  • Make a short film

Health/Body/Fitness

  • Find out my blood type
  • Drink 8 cups of water a day for a month
  • Go a month without junk food
  • Make a workout routine and stick to it
  • Learn yoga
  • Take a self-defense class
  • See a dermatologist
  • Whiten my teeth
  • Develop a skincare routine
  • Run a 5K race
  • Wake up early every day for 5 days and go for a run
  • Do the 200 squats challenge (www.twohundredsquats.com)
  • Complete the 100 pushups challenge
  • Do the 200 sit-ups challenge
  • Meditate daily for 30 days

Events to Attend

  • See a Broadway show
  • See The Nutcracker Ballet
  • Go to a festival
  • Attend a stand-up comedian show
  • Go to a Renaissance Fair(e)

Places to Go

  • Go to the botanical gardens
  • Go to San Francisco
  • Go to the zoo
  • Spend a day at the beach
  • Go on a picnic
  • Go to 5 different museums
  • Go on a road trip
  • Travel to New York City
  • Go laser tagging
  • Visit a planetarium
  • Visit a butterfly garden
  • Go to a haunted house

Want to Buy

  • Buy something from Etsy
  • Get a polaroid camera
  • Buy myself flowers

Extreme Activities/Sports

  • Go bungee jumping
  • Go rollerblading
  • Go ice skating
  • Go skiing/snowboarding
  • Learn to ride a horse
  • Go ziplining
  • Go hiking
  • Go to the batting cages
  • Go paintballing
  • Go on a day long bike trip

Fashion

  • Build a capsule wardrobe
  • Learn how to French braid
  • Find the perfect pair of jeans
  • Get a new hairstyle
  • Wear a bikini

Languages/Educational

  • Learn a new word every day for a month
  • Learn to identify 10 constellations
  • Make a list of 100 interesting English words and add to my active vocabulary
  • Learn how to parallel park
  • Graduate College
  • Read three books in Spanish
  • Complete a first aid course

Build

  • Build a blanket fort and sleep in it
  • Build and fly a kite
  • Build a bonfire and toast marshmallows
  • Build a snowman

Dance

  • Learn how to ballroom dance
  • Learn to swing dance

Love

  • Ask someone out on a date
  • Get a boyfriend
  • Fall in love

Miscellaneous

  • Make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011
  • Have a snowball fight
  • Dress up for Halloween
  • Host a game night
  • Stay up for new years countdown with friends
sep 9 2011 ∞
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