Anna’s post reminded me that I recently passed the deadline for my 101 Things in 1001 Days. In the end, I completed 62 Things in 1001 Days.
As far as my “Professional” goals went, I didn’t seem to cross a lot of the tasks off the list, but in reality I am pleased with the progress I made. I didn’t get a professional position until I was about half-way through the list and most of the tasks were made under the assumption that I would get a tenure-track position. Since my current job isn’t tenure-track, I simply didn’t need to do some of those things.
One thing the “Personal” section of the list taught me is that I am not very charitable with either my time OR money. 
I picked a couple of charitable things that, because of my interest in them, I really thought I might do, but in the end I was too stingy with both my time and money.
Some other observations:
- The “Cat Care” section tells me that my cats get better health care than I do… and I have insurance!
- I did better on the “Financial” tasks than I originally thought I might. One of my personal goals when I came back to the States was to keep my finances under control and now, “with this economy,” I am glad that I managed not to get in over my head.
- I did quite well in the “Family” department. Of course, the fact that I lived at home with my family for a year before I moved to Texas probably had something to do with that…
- The “Stitching/General Crafts” sections were moderately successful. The main problem with the tasks on this list is that I overestimated how much time I would be willing to spend on things that are outside of my cross stitch comfort zone. I only have a finite amount of time to spend on my hobbies and the actual act of cross stitching beats anything else almost every single time!
- Although I only accomplished two things in the “Health/Fitness” section, I made progress towards all but one of those goals.
- It was tempting when I was putting this list together to add a lot of “Travel” goals. However, traveling takes money, so I tried to be realistic and managed to travel to four of my seven destinations
I have also annotated my list if you are interested in seeing what I did (and didn’t) do.
Although I only accomplished 62 of my original 101 Things, I will probably do another 101 Things list because it motivated me to at least attempt to do all those things I always say I am going to do but don’t.