The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days. The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part). Start date: 1 January 2009 End date: 29 September 2011 Key Completed In progress Not yet started

The List

1. Write the list

Creativity and Cupcakes and Mace

2. Earn $2000 from blogging (439/2000)
3. Design a new blog header
4. Complete Project 365 [failed] Complete no less than 15 photography projects (2/15)
5. Learn to use Photoshop
6. Create and sell 10 pieces of jewellery
7. Sell 1000 items from Cupcakes and Mace (1000/1000)
8. Have 200 subscribers to cupcakesandmace.com (200/200)
9. Complete all 31 tasks in the ProBlogger 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge (4/31)
10. Set up sales and accounting system for Cupcakes and Mace
11. Set up the office so it’s usable
12. Learn to play a song on my bass
13. Blog everyday for a month

Responsibility

14. Be on time to work (not 5 minutes late) 300 times
15. Take lunch to work 4 times a week for a month (4/4)
16. Subscribe to Idealog or another appropriate creative/entrepreneurial/business focussed publication
17. Quit my current customer service role
18. Put a battery in the smoke alarm
19. Back up photos, music, and business information regularly

Purchase stuff

20. Get a new lounge suite
21. Get a big petticoat
22. Own the Matrix on DVD
23. Get new glasses
24. Get a copy of Wreck This Journal
25. Get another external hard drive
26. Invest in a digital SLR camera
27. And tripod

Create a me I love

28. Go to the dentist
29. Decide on and get a tattoo designed
30. Get the tattoo
31. Stretch ears to 8mm
32. Change my hairstyle
33. Document and implement a personal style
34. Use a swiss ball as a chair at work
35. Eat no sweets (deserts, cakes, cookies, lollies etc) for a week
36. Find a fruit and vege juice I like and buy it with my groceries every week
37. Get engaged or get single
38. Get flexible enough to touch my toes
39. Do a cartwheel
40. Get my weight back down to under 70kg

Try new things

41. Make ambrosia
42. Make a trifle
43. Kiss a girl
44. Post a secret to PostSecret
45. Read 50 books (11/50) Panic; The Lovely Bones; The Lost Symbol; Wicked; The Life of Pi; American Psycho; Fight Club; Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass; The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
46. Watch 150 of the top 250 IMDb movies (99/150)
47. Watch 100 of the next 250 IMDB movies (63/100)
48. Visit a sex shop
49. Send a love note (even if it’s anonymous)
50. Listen to songs by 101 artists I’ve never listened to before (67/101) Sonic Altar; Babylon Bombs; Them Crooked Vultures; Tesla; Fire House; S.O.T.U; Warrant; Stryper; Saint Demon; Pink Cream 69; Lauren Harris; Fucking Lazy; Santogold; Prabhu Deva; Sonic Youth; Katharine McPhee; Demi Lovato; Pixie Lott; N.E.D.; Grizzly Bear; Parry Gripp; The Feathered Friends; Tegan and Sara; Jealous Itch; FloRider; Winger; Ke$ha; Electric Six; David Byrne; Late of the Pier; A Static Lullaby; Silverstein; Mayday Parade; Four Year Strong; The Cab; Breathe Carolina; The Sequence; Alesana; We The Kings; A Smile From The Trenches; The [New] Shining; Watcha; Sea Of Treachery; Out Of Your Mouth; Mushmellow; Otep; Sick Puppies; Rivethead; One-Way Mirror; Rotation; Blowsight; La Roux; John Murphy; Semi Precious Weapons; Kate Nash; Florence and the Machine; Y&T; Jesse Rivest and the Recent Developments; Richard Cheese; Metric; Sex Bob-omb; Gogol Bordello; The Baseballs; The Decemberists; Jason Webley; Amanda Palmer; STOPPED COUNTING. Listened to heaps of new things.
51. Try 50 new recipes (22/50) Courgette and mushroom loaf; Damper; Mediterranean tuna rice bake; Teriyaki fish; Lemon spritz cookies; Carrot and mushroom loaf; Breadmaker frittata; Ambrosia; Aioli; Prawn cocktails; Orange semolina cake; Crock pot vegetable soup; Sushi bowls; Spinach and feta cannelloni; Lentil pasta sauce; Thai beef salad; Crock pot beef stew; Poutine; Asparagus pasta; Quinoa salad; Chicken cutlets with asparagus and capers; Trifle;
52. Go to a hip hop dance class
53. Wear togs without board shorts in public
54. Wear a bikini in a public space
55. Fall in love again

Clean up the clutter

56. Declutter – Regift, donate, or bin 101 things
57. Name, tag and arrange all of my photos on my computer and my Flickr account
58. Throw out any socks or underwear that are past their use-by date

Go places

59. Learn conversational German
60. Book tickets to Germany
61. Visit the South Island of New Zealand
62. Get my restricted licence
63. Go on a boat
64. Visit 5 new countries
65. Move to a nicer house
66. Drink Bia Laos in Laos
67. Ride an elephant
68. Communicate with someone who speaks no English

Extra fun

69. Send 101 postcards, letters or packages (not including purchased jewellery) (16/101)
70. Watch every episode of Gilmore Girls
71. Learn a dance
72. Go to a midnight movie screening
73. Swim in the sea
74. Write a new list