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.
Lisa says:
I remember reading your original list when I first found your blog and MySpace page. I was intrigued by the idea of doing my own then but things were too hectic for me at that time.
Lately I have been very detail oriented at work, creating task lists and setting time line goals, so it seems the perfect time to apply myself to this new task!
Thanks for inspiring me to set some goals for myself and see how I do with them. 1001 days feels a little daunting since I can’t imagine how things will be almost three years from now but I figure “Why not?”
5 June 2009 at 16:21
susie says:
Congratulations on making a lot of progress in 1001 days!
Connecticut is still here whenever you have a chance to come!
9 June 2009 at 14:05
Sue says:
Sounds like you made good progress on your list, and got more done than you would of if you hadn’t made the list and had the goals to try for. Nice progress on Too Cute To Spook too, I’m loving watching your progress on her.
14 June 2009 at 18:14