miian

Feb 15 2009

101 goals in 1001 days

I came across this idea and thought it was great. 101 goals in 1001 days.
This is an experiment.
Create 101 goals you wish to accomplish in the next 1001 days. I will try to make, and link to tumblr posts when I accomplish a goal. I will cross out the items I have finished.

my 101 goals:

  1. remake a 101 goal list after 1001 days, including any unfinished goals
  2. vegan for a week
  3. vegetarian for 3 months
  4. write an email to Devin Castro thanking him for this idea
  5. go to all of clints recordings i can
  6. buy a radiohead album
  7. ride my bicycle 200 miles in one day (lotoja?)
  8. catch a fish
  9. learn a song on the piano
  10. visit 2 new continents [1/2] South America
  11. fly through chicago, new york, and atlanta airspace
  12. go to church for 3 months and genuinely give it a chance
  13. land at every airport in utah [19/46]
  14. shoot 100 different instrument approaches (microsoft counts) [15/100]
  15. touch my toes without bending my knees
  16. do a solo 100 mile hike
  17. stay awake for 50+ hours
  18. delete my myspace
  19. complete P-90x
  20. hike kings peak
  21. hike cascade
  22. see 5 new broadway plays [3/5] In the Heights, Chicago, Avenue Q
  23. find/memorize my 5 favorite poems [1/5] 
    -he wishes for the cloths of heaven (william butler yeats)
    -how to be alone (tanya davis) 
  24. watch every film that has won “best picture” [47/82]
  25. watch all the “afi best 100 movies” [100/100]
  26. travel abroad alone
  27. watch waking life once a month [5/12]
  28. get my MEI
  29. get my CFII
  30. sign off a private pilot student
  31. sign off a commercial student
  32. sign off an instrument student
  33. find twenty new (to me) musicians [20/20]
    jon foremanradioheadrilo kiley/jenny lewisrocky votalatoalexi murdochbrett dennen, death cab for cutie, queen, garfunkel & oates/kate micucci, ray lamontagne, bright eyes, tegan and sara, elliot smith, cocorosie, the xx, joanna newsom, jay-z, mumford & sons, adele, lily allen
  34. complete an ironman triathalon
  35. begin learning a new language
  36. try 50 different alcoholic drinks [38/50] white russian, amf, long island iced tea, red headed slut, lemon drop, root beer barrel, irish car bomb, gin & tonic, cape cod, screw driver, orange creamsicle, glenlivet neat, martini, bloody mary, 7&7, highball, rusty nail, whiskey sour, rum/whiskey & coke, black & tan, blue goose, drewskie, cotton candy, kamikaze, nz sauvignon blanc, hot toddy, side car, smitty, mario, meltito, sangriatini, bota box wine, foreign affair, el diablo, tini bikini, clover club, amazing blonde, mimosa, 
  37. play 25 games of chess [8/25]
  38. run a marathon
  39. watch the rambo “quadrilogy” in one sitting.
  40. see all the cirque du soleil shows in vegas (excluding criss angel) [3/5] (Mystere, KA, Zumanity, O, Love)
  41. learn to play tennis
  42. learn to play golf
  43. participate in, or start a book club
  44. watch brandon’s 5 favorite films [5/5]
  45. send in 3 postcards to postsecret
  46. cut credit card debt in half
  47. motorcycle trip down the west coast
  48. get a tattoo
  49. grow a beard for 2 months
  50. skydive
  51. go telemark skiing
  52. ride in a hot air balloon
  53. fly a helicopter
  54. purchase an original piece of art
  55. go to a sporting event, excluding basketball
  56. ride jp’s 5 favorite semi-local trails
    -the ridge trail
    -ireland
    -the crest trail
    -green valley
    -barrel roll 
  57. descend/canyoneer 10 canyons[10/10] subway, pine creek, keyhole, behunin, mystery, telephone, orderville, englestead, birch hollow, spry
  58. go to (or revisit) every national park in utah [2/5]
    Arches, Zion
  59. learn to swim
  60. ride a motorcycle 1000 miles in a day
  61. don’t cuss for a month
  62. read 3 kurt vonnegut books [1/3] slaughterhouse five, breakfast of champions
  63. climb a 5.12
  64. completely sober for a month
  65. go to a wine tasting
  66. be able to do 20 pullups
  67. go on a date, go on a second date
  68. find and maintain a hairstyle
  69. no screens for a month (tv or computer)
  70. get a dog
  71. vote
  72. beat starcraft broodwar
  73. get a professional palm/tarot reading
  74. 1 year
  75. participate in project 365 (photos on flickr, and tumblr)
  76. beat the original mario brothers without warping
  77. make a $1000 bet on a basketball game
  78. see a garfunkel and oates show
  79. get a job flying an airplane (besides instructing)
  80. read the book of mormon
  81. one month without eating out
  82. re-read my half finished books:  the selfish gene, requiem for a dream, stick and rudder, all the pretty horses, the brothers karamazov, walden, slaughterhouse five, franny and zooey, great expectations, a tale of two cities, catch-22, the satanic verses
  83. see sytycd in concert
  84. read 25 new books [16/25]
    -watchmen (moore)
    -the selfish gene (dawkins)
    -the brothers karamazov (dostoyevsky)
    -great expectations (dickens)
    -vagabonding (potts)
    -the road (mccarthy)
    -slaughterhouse five (vonnegut)
    -ford county (grisham)
    -requiem for a dream (selby jr.)
    -the male brain (brizendine)
    -the demon haunted world (sagan)
    -breakfast of champions (vonnegut)
    -where men win glory (krakauer)
    -shop girl (martin)
    -eiger dreams (krakauer)
    -unbroken (hillenbrand)
  85. go on a multiple day bicycle trip
  86. buy a suit
  87. kick a 30 yard field goal
  88. go to 50 yoga classes [10/50]
  89. land at furnace creek airport (-211’)
  90. land at leadville airport (9927’)
  91. try an oyster
  92. buy a car
  93. go rollerskating 10 times [1/10]
  94. go to oshkosh
  95. get tased
  96. motorcycle across vietnam
  97. see a ballet
  98. see 5 woody allen films [6/5] (annie hall, mighty aphrodite, sweet and lowdown, manhattan, deconstructing harry, sleeper, match point)
  99. ride (or re-ride) 15 moab trails hazard county, slickrockporcupine rimklondike bluffs, canyonlands overlook, sovereign trail, dalton wells
  100. drunk for 12 straight hours
  101. make and sleep in an igloo

Start Date: February 13, 2009
End Date: November 11, 2011

Jesseca’s Goals
Jaclyn’s Goals
Kristi’s Goals
Matt’s Goals
Alex’s Goals

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