101 Goals in 1001 Days

Someone I respect recently told me, "Go.For.It! If you have the tenacity, intelligence and determination, what are you waiting for?" Inspried by her "101 in 1001", I've decided to borrow that idea and create a list of my own 101. I am a huge advocate of setting goals, I wouldn't be where I am, if it weren't for goals. So here it is, as of November, 13 2008, here are my goals for the next 1001 days (2.74 years):

*marked in italic when completed

1. Write at least three blogs a week for one month
2. Pitch one new business and win the account
3. Speak in front of a large group with confidence (at least once)
4. Travel to New York
5. Paint at least one room in the house
6. Run a half marathon
7. Read Homer's "Iliad"(front to back)
8. Pay off all credit cards
9. Write my dad "the letter"
10. Take a cooking class with Chad
11. Buy a bike
12. Volunteer at a local charity
13. Take a class to learn something new
14. Bake a cake
15. Grow an herb garden
16. Buy a proffesional digital camera
17. Go to a business mixer, by myself
18. Participate in a sprint triathalon
19. Landscape our back and front yard
20. Add patio furnature to our backyard
21. Do one activity that is completly out of my comfort zone
22. Go to San Francisco again
23. Find a new hobby
24. Buy one piece of great art
25. Visit my grandparents
26. Go on a ski trip
27. Land a client in the New York Times
28. Frame our vows
29. Find one new restaurant client
30. Save at least 20% of our combined income each month
31. Cook a turkey
32. Take an art class
33. Go to church at least twice a month
34. Select one charity to donate time or money to during Christmas
35. Purchase a couch for the living room
36. Attend a social media workshop
37. Go on a trip with my sister
38. Do something special for our one year anniversary
39. Purchase re-useable shopping bags
40. Take a bootcamp class
41. Buy a puppy
42. Organize my closet
43. Decorate at least one room in our house
44. Buy a Mac Notebook
45. Hike the Grand Canyon
46. Make at least two photo albums
47. Go to a drive-in movie with Chad
48. Eat at Salt Cellar
49. Replace lighting in bathrooms
50. Cook a recipe in Barbara Fenzl's cookbook
51. Write a journal entry while in Central Park
52. Watch a great sunset with Chad
53. Go to the Frank Lloyd Wright museum
54. Try to surf
55. Ride the new light rail
56. Go to a Sun's game
57. Mount our television on the wall
58. Rent a library book
59. Go on a NY media tour
60. Use the herbs from my own herb garden
61. Ride our bikes to Old Town
62. Go to at least one great concert
63. Secure a feature article in Phoenix Magazine
64. Get at least one client signed onto a social media plan
65. Get at least 10 people to follow my blog
66. Get a facial
67. Go to a First Friday in downtown phx
68. Attend a play at Gammage
69. Get my scuba certification
70. Go one week without Starbucks
71. Go two weeks without Starbucks
72. Lead EBLU topic
73. In roughly 700 days attempt to become parents
74. Go to Rocky Point
75. Submit artwork for an EBL artshow
76. Ski Snowbowl again
77. Take one great photograph
78. Hang that photograph in our house
79. Attend a comedy show
80. Join a new proffesional dev. group
81. Plant new flowers by the pool
82. Buy a real Christmas tree
83. Workout before work five days in a row
84. Become Senior Account Manager
85. Eat at a sit down restaurant by myself
86. Bake cupcakes
87. Go camping
88. Buy vegetables at the farmers market two weeks in a row
89. Stay at a W Hotel
90. Mentor someone
91. Ride the trolley
92. Go to the Phoenix Art Museum
93. Write a published piece
94. Take a spin class twice a week for a month
95. Enter my time each day for a week (really, how hard is that?! HARD!)
96. Hike Camelback Mt.
97. Learn the ins and outs of Illustrator
98. Collect 10 new business cards/contacts
99. Complete at least 60 of these goals in 365 days
100. Run on the beach
101. Write my mom a thank you letter

"Don't go through life - grow through life." - Jack London