I wrote my previous 101 in 1001 list in February 2016, my spring semester of freshman year. It is absolutely crazy to me to think back on the stage of my life that I was in then – I’ve grown and changed so much and I’m now a senior in college (!!). This is a list to complete 101 things in 1001 days. Previously, I accomplished only 63 items on my list (you can see the old one here!). It was meant to be completed by November 22nd, 2018. However, I was super overzealous in a lot of my goals.
Goals I didn’t accomplish:
- Complete all 101 items
- Have a picnic
- Keep up with an editorial calendar for a month
- My posting is very sporadic – I would love to improve upon this!
- Donate blood
- Hit 10,000 steps every day for a month
- Dialing this back to a week would have been a much more reasonable goal
- Take a self-portrait every day for two weeks
- Do a 30-day photo challenge
- Take care of a plant until it blooms
- I tried with a cactus and still maintain that my dad killed it
- Reach 1,000 followers on Twitter
- Reach 1,000 followers on Instagram
- Read ten nonfiction books
- Go to sleep at 9pm every night and wake up at 7am for a week
- I woke up at 7am almost every day for my 8am classes in the 2018 fall semester, but going to bed at 9pm was not going to happen
- Journal every night for a month
- Again, I should have scaled this back to just a week!
- Get 100 service hours in a year
- 50 service hours would have been way more attainable
- Score in intramural outdoor soccer
- I’ve never been that athletic but I still participate..oh well!
- Try cutting out added sugar for a week
- Finish all Codecademy courses
- Go without social media for a week
- Not possible with my job literally being social media!
- Go to the ballet
- Go skiing
- Make a 1-minute long stop motion video
- Take a cooking class
- Study abroad
- Wasn’t feasible the way my major worked out, but that’s okay!
- Get a 4.0 GPA
- Let the record show that I was so close with getting a 3.95 this fall 2018 semester, ugh
- Dress nice for class for a week (no leggings/tennis shoes)
- Purchase a monogrammed signet ring
- Apply for the Amazing Race
- Go to a Sporting Kansas City away game
- Go horseback riding
- Develop my own capsule wardrobe and use it for 3 weeks
- Finish giving away my deck of Sneaky Cards
- Purchase a nice piece of art
- Go to a drive-in movie
- Try Christopher Elbow’s Glace ice cream
- I have no excuse for not doing this – the shop was a five-minute walk away from my internship all summer of 2018!
- Host a friendsgiving
- Did not host, but attended one in fall 2018!
- Go on a camping trip with friends
The goals that I did complete are explained for the most part on my previous list. As the list is supposed to be somewhat of a temporary bucket list, most of my goals were college-oriented so I could maximize my college experience.
My new list
My new list is to be finished on September 30th, 2021. By that date, I’ll have graduated college and I’ll be 24, hopefully with a real job. I have no idea if I’ll still be blogging by then, but I would love to continue writing here in my own little corner of the internet through post-grad. I’ve learned to scale back my goals from the previous list and some of them are intentionally repeated.
Blogging
- 1. Keep up with a solid editorial calendar for a month
- Partner with at least 5 brands
- Make a 1/2 year’s worth of monthly videos
- Vlog every week for a month
- Collaborate with a Kansas City brand
- Reach 1,000 followers on Instagram
- Meet a blog friend in real life
- Reach 20,000 page views in a year
- Do a guest post/partnership post with another blogger
- Make a house tour video of my senior house before I move
- Take notes on the Slightly Savvy blog courses
- Pitch myself to a brand
- Back up all photos/videos from my hard drive to online storage
Food/drink
14. Cut out added sugar for a week
15. Take a cooking class
16. Go to a wine tasting
17. Try 10 new restaurants
18. Grow basil
19. Try Christopher Elbow’s Glace ice cream
20. Bake a pie
21. Try Chez Elle
22. Make pasta from scratch
23. Make my own margarita
24. Make homemade ice cream
25. Bring my mom Pyramid Pizza
26. Master my family chocolate chip cookie recipe
27. Meal plan for two weeks
Travel
28. Go skiing
29. Apply for the Amazing Race
30. Go to Europe
31. Visit a friend that lives out of state
32. Visit 5 new cities
33. Go whale watching with my mom
34. Visit a national park
35. Visit 5 new states
Kansas City
36. Go to a KU/Sporting Kansas City away game (not one that I’m working)
37. Attend a Chiefs game
38. Go on the Boulevard Brewery tour
39. Go to the World War I museum in Kansas City
40. Attend First Fridays in downtown KC
Entertainment
41. Attend SXSW or Austin City Limits
42. Attend the Olympics/a World Cup
43. Go to a piano bar
44. Watch the entire Quantico series with my mom
45. Take a trapeze class
46. Go ziplining
47. Go to five concerts
48. Go kayaking
49. Visit five museums
50. Reread the Harry Potter series
51. Go sailing
52. See a Broadway play or musical
53. Go to another USWNT game
54. Go ice skating
55. Go to a trivia night
56. Go to a church service of a different denomination
Work/School
57. Photograph a concert
58. Learn how to use external flash/lighting
59. Get a full-time job
60. Graduate college
61. Get a 4.0 GPA
62. Finish all Codecademy courses
63. Join the KU Alumni Association
64. Get up to a certain amount in my savings account
65. Learn how to rotoscope on After Effects
67. Design my own portfolio website
Exercise/Fitness
68. Actually train for my third half marathon in April 2019
69. Learn how to swim as a workout
70. Run 100 miles in 100 days
71. Take vitamins every day for a month
72. Take a self defense class
73. Do an obstacle course run
74. Work out in the morning before class or work for two weeks
75. Get belay certified – again
76. Stretch every morning/night for two weeks
77. Be able to do the splits
78. Complete a 30 day plank challenge
Just for fun
79. Donate blood
80. Take care of a plant until it blooms
81. Journal every night for two weeks
82. Purchase a monogrammed signet ring
83. Practice my trumpet again for a week
84. Sell old clothing on Poshmark
85. Hang a gallery wall
86. Purchase a nice piece of art
87. Learn to paint a room
88. Get 50 service hours in a year
89. Host a murder mystery party
90. Handwrite a letter to someone
91. Teach Riley (one of my dogs) how to stay with food on her nose
92. Buy a lottery ticket
93. Get a facial
94. Convert all family videos to DVD
95. Learn to sew from a pattern
96. Donate $1 for each failed task on this list
97. Master all Spanish courses on Duolingo
98. Wash my face with raw honey for a week
99. Find an organization to volunteer at regularly
100. Make my own earrings
101. Complete a 1000-piece puzzle (with one eaten by the dog…)