From mission101. August 8 2007-May 5 2010
DONE: 38 DELETED: 3 TODO: 65
General
- Donate blood.
- ✔ Get my ears pierced.
- Find & keep a regular pen pal.
- ✔ Stay offline for a week.
- ✔ Keep a pet.
- Identify 100 things that make me happy.
- Get over fear of talking on the phone.
Education + Work
- ✔ Get a part time job.
- ✔ Earn for doing something creative.
- ✔ Finish college with at least a Merit.
- ✔ Write CV.
- ✔ Make post-college plans.
- ✔ Do some volunteer work.
Ethics + Environment
- Go vegan for a week.
- ✔ Buy only bunnyfriendly cosmetics.
- ✔ Convert to using more environmentally friendly cleaning/household products.
- ✔ Use less plastic bags.
- ✔ Recycle 50% of my rubbish.
- ✔ Stop leaving things on standby, turn them off at the mains.
- Find 10 ways to reduce the amount of packaged products I buy.
Habits
- ✔ Keep a record of my spending for at least 2 months.
- ✔ Update my website regularly: get up to once a week.
- ✔ Cut down internet use: get down to 2 hours a day at most. (not quite done this, because I need it to work a lot, but I have cut down on non-work internet use to less than an hour a day)
- Touch type.
- ✔ Become a regular early-riser.
- Create a morning routine.
- Journal more: one sentence/drawing a day till it becomes habit.
- Write down dreams.
- Keep up to date with replying to e-mails.
Health
- ✔ Cook properly at least twice a week.
- Find a weekly exercise I can enjoy.
- Drink more water: get up to a regular 6 glasses per day.
- ✔ Eat better: get into 5-a-day.
Learning & New Things
- Learn how to use my sewing machine well.
- Learn how to knit & create at least 2 things.
- Learn how to alter clothing.
- Start to learn a new language.
- Start learning how to play an instrument.
- Learn how to make sushi.
- Improve web design skills and create a CSS zen garden design.
- Be able to develop my own film without assistance.
- ✔ Try 30 new recipes.
- ✔ Try 10 new foods.
- ✔ Eat at 20 new places.
- ✔ Visit 101 new (various non-food, eg. pubs/shops/galleries) places.
- Read 40 new books.
- ..including 5 non-fiction ones.
- ✔ Watch 101 new films.
Creative projects
- Take a photo-a-day for a month.
- Create a thing-a-day for a month.
- ✔ Take a polaroid-a-day for a month.
- Make 10 mix cds with casings. [2/10]
- Do "a day in the life" photo post.
- ✔ Try embroidery.
- ✔ Create a zine.
- Complete About Me personal project.
- ✔ Finish 10 rolls of film.
- ✔ Try 10 new mediums/materials.
- ✔ Design some badges.
- ✔ Make some cards.
- Attempt at least half of these projects.
- Take part in Illustration Friday 5 times.
- Take part in Learning To Love You More
- Attempt at least half of Keri Smiths 100 ideas .
- ✔ Keep an inspiration book
- ✔ Send at least 10 postcards randomly. [10/10]
- Leave notes in books
- Decorate a tree/something similar in public
Experiences
- Go camping
- Take a solo day-trip somewhere new
- Watch a sunrise from some place nice
- Have a proper picnic
- ✔ Visit a 2 new countries
- Fly a kite
- ✔ Build a fort :D
- See 50 bands.
- Go rollerskating
- Seriously look into backpacking
- Go to the cinema on my own
Organisation
- Organise my music: makes sure all cds are ripped, organise music files, listen to everything, make a cd wishlist
- Create at least 10 decent playlists
- Organise/back-up/print-off my photos
- ✔ Clear out/back up computer
- Finish my website
- Complete my scrapbooks
- Finish project
- Clear out my things - have nothing left that I don't actually need
- Sort and tag my del.icio.us links
- Scan in family photos
- ✔ Have a decent physical portfolio organised
- new LJ layout
- Update all online profiles
- ✔ Clear out inbox
- ✔ Organise flickr account: tag all photos and sort in sets
- Fill in address book
- ✔ Come up with 101 things! Then organise + print it out.
- Write a new 101 things list to do when this one ends
Replaced goals
- eBay all my shite
- ✔ Get the flat sorted - all unpacked etc.
- ✔ Take some kind of evening/weekend course.