Making Lists
I am five days into my 101/1001 project and I have already completed two tasks. Yeah! I have completed my “50 Books in 1001 Days” and “25 Places to Travel Someday” lists and believe me, they weren’t as easy to put together as one might think.
The travel list was fairly straight-forward as I have a basic idea of the places that I would like to visit someday. However, I may expand upon it because while it is nice to say that I want to go to Mexico for example, Mexico is a big place and I think it would be better if I knew exactly where I wanted to go, what I wanted to see, and/or what I wanted to do.
In contrast to the few hours it took for the travel list, it took me over two days to do the book list. This list was pretty labor-intensive because I wanted to have a good mixture of “fun” books and contemporary literature.
I already have a few of the books on the list and I plan on starting with them. The reason they made it on the list is because even though I already have them, I have never gotten around to reading them. (Shame, shame) I am not planning on buying any of the books that I don’t already own after that though: Instead I will use the opportunity to fulfill another goal that relates to the use of my local public library.
And finally, I have about two dozen recurring goals that I had to try and figure out how I was going to track in relation to this project. I didn’t really want to have to edit my main page and add little notes concerning whether or not I did something all the time, so I finally settled on creating a spreadsheet. It lists my annual, biannual, monthly, weekly, and other recurring tasks and each month when I update my list I will check the spreadsheet and tick the corresponding boxes. At the end of my 1001 Days I can then specify how each task was (or was not) completed.
With the exception of trying to get a job, I am not sure which task I will tackle next… Even though with this chilly weather the idea of starting to knit an afghan (#79) sounds awfully tempting!
