101 in 1001
So here's the deal... 101 goals accomplished in 1001 days. (See Day Zero) Big, small, huge, difficult, simple, all measurable and achievable and designed to help you grow. Dream big, do big. It's daunting just to create the list. And publishing it here is giving me butterflies in my stomach.
But here's the thing, when was the last time we focused on the big stuff and a long term plan? When we're in school we just want to finish. As adults we may have goals about our retirement savings or our careers. But when was the last time you sat down and looked at what you really love to do? What you really want to do? Who you really want to be?
I have had the most wonderful time creating my list! Jodie thinks there's no way I'll actually get to take the sabbatical that's on the list (#21) because there's so much on the list that I'm going to be really busy. But really, some of the items are very small (#60) and some are admittedly huge (#17) and some have been goals for a long time (#8). Some of the items I hope will make me a better person (#98) and some I hope will make the world a better place in the very little ways that become huge when added together (#33). And one item on the list celebrates the idea that there may be such a thing as true altruism (#88).
The things I love are on there... chocolate (#50), wine (#54), travel (#16), family (#84). And the things I want to love (#30). And things I've wanted to do for a long time (#85). It's about more than just business (#91). It's about life (#70) and love (#68) and the reasons we do what we do every day (#101).
Make a list! Celebrate your list! Make lists with the people you love. Grow. And I'll keep you posted on mine...
1. Travel to France -- complete 3.1.08
2. Paint the bedroom
3. Teach a workshop
4. Publish photographs -- complete 2.19.08 Brides Colorado Spring/Summer 2008
5. Enter competitive prints
6. Photograph in Europe -- complete 3.4.08
7. Photograph a wedding in Italy
8. Walk the Camino
9. Donate photography to an auction
10. Reorganize my office
11. Put a bathroom in the basement
12. Shoot medium format film
13. Launch ‘undone’ -- complete 1.3.08
14. Launch ‘unreal’
15. Learn to make a stellar cheese soufflé
16. Travel to Italy with Jodie
17. Write/photograph a book
18. Publish and sell a book
19. Publish and sell a calendar
20. Speak at a conference
21. Take a minimum one month sabbatical
22. Organized the garage
23. Publish 101 in 1001 list on the blog -- complete 1.1.08
24. Blog every week in 2008 -- 11/52 complete
25. Bake a cake from scratch
26. Bake a pie
27. Organize the pantry -- complete 1.2.08
28. Read a non-work book
29. Pare down my wardrobe to just the essentials
30. Learn yoga -- completed first class 2.7.08
31. Go on a silent retreat
32. Make one recipe from each of my cookbooks
33. Travel to a foreign country to photograph for a charity
34. Clean off the fridge -- complete 1.7.08
35. Make a solarplate print of one of my photographs
36. Take a solar plate workshop
37. Take a workshop with a photographer I admire -- complete 1.31.08 with Jesh de Rox
38. Clean out the closet
39. Drape the bedroom walls
40. Read an epic novel
41. Watch a foreign film in a foreign country -- complete 3.10.08 Blame it on Fidel in Ireland
42. Contribute to the dream house fund every week -- 11/52 complete
43. Harvest my own lavender
44. Take at least one day off (really off) every week in 2008 -- 11/52 complete
45. Learn to make Polaroid transfer prints
46. Create something photographers need an give it away
47. Launch new wedding site
48. Learn to use Pages templates
49. Finish a needlepoint project
50. Go to an artisanal chocolate tasting
51. Make portraits of an artist
52. Make portraits of an author
53. Make portraits of a chef
54. Make portraits of a winemaker
55. Make portraits of a chocolatier
56. Make portraits of a jewelry designer
57. Go horseback riding
58. Take a cooking class
59. Take a tap class
60. Put flowers I’ve grown on the dinner table
61. Throw a dinner party with all the accoutrements
62. Silver gilt something
63. Photograph my parents
64. Photograph Jodie’s parents
65. Learn enough Castilian Spanish to get along while walking the Camino
66. Make a pillow with the embroidered ribbons from our wedding
67. Make our wedding album
68. Do a photobooth photostrip with Jodie for our anniversary in 2008
69. Do a photobooth photostrip with Jodie for our anniversary in 2009
70. Take a vacation with Lisa
71. Join a bookclub
72. Take a photosafari road trip
73. Mentor a novice photographer
74. Crochet my own snowflakes
75. Show my photography in a solo show
76. Photograph a wedding in the UK
77. Spend the whole day at the spa
78. Begin working with a mentor
79. Have a prom! (for the big birthday)
80. Photograph a wedding in Spain
81. Go to Wimbledon
82. Write and publish a magazine article
83. Read a book a month for my photography business for six months straight
84. Publish the interviews with my late Granny for my family
85. Go to the opera in an over the top dress
86. Sleep in
87. Sing out loud in public
88. Do something for nothing for someone else and don’t tell anyone what it was -- complete ;)
89. Take a wild girls weekend
90. Photograph in Santa Fe
91. Expand my business to a European city
92. Go paragliding
93. Leave the TV off completely for a week
94. Write a letter to Gregory Colbert
95. Have amazing portraits made by a photographer I adore
96. Launch ‘unleashed’
97. Have huge canvas print made
98. Write a thank you note every week for three months
99. Find a group of people to play Rummikub with
100. Lose ten pounds
101. Make sure that the people in my life know that I love them (Yes, it’s a fuzzy goal and not measurable, but it’s the most important thing I could possibly think of with which to end this list.)
