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mission101. X-posted there.When I started this project back in September 2006, I quite fervently decided that I would do none of this silly rearranging my list. Oh no, I would set out to do exactly what I aimed to do. I would do it or consider myself Fail.
We must grow or be conquered by life. Point taken, life. I should know better than to feel all staunch and high and mighty, than to continue to let my perfectionism defeat me when it comes to trying to get better.
Since I began this project, I have gotten engaged and spent considerable time and energy into planning a wedding. That wedding fell through when my mom was in a horrible car accident four days prior, and though we got married anyway, I still have the 'wedding' part to replan. I also spent several months really doing nothing in the wake of her death (Mother's Day, 2008). I've kind of dropped my SCA plans altogether, which I barely ever dipped the surface anyway, and my doula work has taken a back seat to my writing and reiki as I deal with these other issues. I've also left my church, so all remaining goals related to that – and correlating to the wedding – need to be dropped or revised anyway. I'm also still up in the air about whether I'll have the time & resources available to do Meals on Wheels or Body for Life this round, but we'll see.
So I have revisited and revised my goal list, though I've decided to maintain the finish date of May 30, 2009. We were married May 9, and I want that new part done by our first anniversary anyway! Then hopefully everything regarding my mom will be settled, and I can make my second list with a fresh eye to the future.
My last update was New Year's. I'm a bit surprised that I have so few done yet! It seemed like more. Yipes! I have many in progress, but I really need to buckle down. If anyone wants to be motivator/encourager/accountability buddies, please let me know! I'm great with both virtual hugs and haranguing.
I have eight months to knock out 83 more items. Go me.
Start date: Saturday, September 2, 2006
Ending date: Saturday, May 30, 2009
Miscellaneous
4. Plant a garden
lahermite!6. Find another female friend
7. Send a message in a bottle
8. Make a scrapbook
Doula
Reiki
14. Lead a Medicine Reiki Ceremony
16. Make a Manifestation Grid
17. Find a new place to hold Reiki Shares
18. Complete my distance course
Writing
19. Read 101 Books
20. Get an article published
21. Get a short story published
22. Complete NaNoWriMo Nov 07: 12,643
23. Submit to the Writers of the Future contest
simplydorei! 06 – I have maintained paid status since.FLY-ing
25. FLY consistently for 28 days
28. Get blue FlyLady water bottle
Home
30. Make fruit baskets for the kitchen
31. Take a Home Depot class & fix something on the house
32. Redecorate the bedroom
lahermite!Family
36. Make a basket for Ivy
37. Take the girls camping
38. Take the girls to the ocean
39. Go to Cherokee
40. Make a gingerbread house with the girls
43. Offer to braid Josh's hair 3 times I
44. Take Josh to Carowinds
45. Go a full day without scolding or yelling
46. Finish reading Little House series with the girls/
47. Find a reliable, relatively local babysitter
Personal Improvement
49. Make lasagna
50. Learn a new language
51. Learn a song on the guitar
52. Read the Complete Idiot's Guide to Beating Debt
53. Read the Complete Idiot's Guide to Investing
54. Invest in the stock market
55. Take a Continuing Education course
56. Take a small business course
58. Pay all of my bills early I've done good recently – let's see if it lasts through the whole month.
Spirit
60. Learn about & visit at least 5 other churches
61. Fast for a week
62. Participate in a drum circle
Love
65. Be a Secret Santa
66. Leave a book
67. Take food to the food bank
68. Bake something to give away at least 6 times 10/27/06, 06/08
Month Long Projects
69. Do Bellydancing videos three times a week (Health)
70. Meditate every day (Spirit)
71. Do a shamanic journey every day (Spirit)
72. Make breakfast every day (Family)
73. Keep a journal (Personal Improvement) I am keeping a homeschool log and blogging more, so I consider this working even if I can't seem to keep long-hand journals.
74. Fast 2 days/week (Spirit)
75. Volunteer for Meals on Wheels (Love)
76. Write a letter/wk (Love)
77. Write 100 words/day (Writing)
Six Week Projects
78. Do Flash Challenges at Liberty Hall every weekend (Writing)
79. Reiki Gaia every day (Spirit)
80. Do at least one Random Act of Kindness/day (Love)
81. Send a card/wk (Love)
82. Do EFT every day (Personal Improvement)
83. Drink 64 oz of water/day (Health)
Three Month Projects
84. Take the family somewhere new every week (Family)
85. Do Body For Life (Health)
Wedding
87. Finish thank you cards from the first time!
88. Find a new place to hold wedding
89. Send out save-the-dates
90. Invitations again
91. Find a fourth bridesmaid
92. Have some sort of real music plan this time. Dj, band, kazoos, something.
93. Interview and hire a professional photographer
94. Have a real cake, freeze the top layer, that whole shebang
95. Take a Dance class with Josh
96. Have that bonfire/drum circle I wanted. Book separate reception place, if necessary
98. Have wedding by May 9, 2009
99. Have a real honeymoon
100. Research Married-Across-The-World idea. If viable, book two more spots
101. Make new 101 list! I'm kinda-but-not-really counting the revision on this list. I still have to make another once this is completed.
Items dropped:
Miscellaneous
* Attend Shindig on the Green
Doula
* Get one birth per month
* Get an article published in International Doula
* Make pamphlets
* Get a website
* Take out an ad
Reiki
* Get clients
* Get attuned to one other reiki tradition
Writing
101 books including 3 from:
- * The New York Times Bestseller list
* Oprah's Book Club
* Banned Book list
* 'Best of' Anthologies
* Poetry books
SCA
* Make garb
* Go to event
* Choose a persona
* Learn to fight
Personal Improvement
* Make petits fours
* Improve handwriting
Spirit
* Do church potluck 3 times
* Read the New Testament
Love
* Sponsor a child for a church event
* Take snacks for Sunday School
* Have a community cookout
