101 in 1001

I got this idea from my friend Emily. She and her husband started theirs a few months ago and I really liked it. It took us awhile to actually come up with 101 specific goals. I like it because it is a long term plan with a clever ending date and not just saying ‘I’ll finish in a year or so’. Having it official makes me want to start all the goals right now, which is good I guess but some of these were designed to not be able to finish until the end. It does feel good to have all the ‘someday’ activities officially set in writing. It will be interesting to see if we can truly accomplish all this; what am I saying, of course we will (think positive right?). I think it will be more interesting to see what our lives will be like when we have finished this list and getting reading to start another one, especially since one of the goals is to start a family. So now you know what we will be up to for the next while. We’ll keep you updated on our progress!



August 20, 2011 - May 10, 2014

Spiritual
1. Read The Standard Works one time through (2.5 pages a day)
2. Read through Preach my Gospel
3. Do at least ten family file names from start to finish in the Temple (0/10)
4. Pray together every night/morning without missing one day for a month straight
5. Help bring three people to the Gospel (0/3)
6. Hold FHE together for two months
7. Each personally read the standard works
8. Charlotte memorizes D&C seminary scriptures (0/25)
9. Visit a new temple every year (0/3)
10. Nick memorizes all the seminary scriptures (0/100)
11. Memorize ‘The Proclamation to the Family’


Family
12. Move
13. Get rid of both student loans
14. By a couch
15. Teach Bailey to ‘Reach for the stars’
16. Start a retirement fund
17. Get a piano
18. Decide on three girl and three boy names we both agree on
19. Start a family
20. Build a backup savings of 3, 6, 9, then 12 months

Nick
21. Prepare Charlotte a four course dinner
22. Read four books every year (0/11)
23. Invest in penny stocks
24. Learn basic Spanish
25. Go to the dentist
26. Get two more suits
27. Go golfing
28. Teach Charlotte to change a tire
29. Lose 25 pounds (0/25)

Charlotte
30. Be able to do the splits
31. Create and stick to a cleaning schedule for at least three months
32. Private
33. Sew an apron
34. Sew a skirt
35. Do a special something for Nick every week
36. Learn at least 200 basic Latin words
37. Run a marathon
38. Run a ½ marathon
39. Finnish editing pictures of landscape
40. Blog every day for six weeks
41. Make stockings
42. Run a 5k
43. Run a 10k
44. Make my own cleaning produces
45. Make my own napkins
46. Make homemade paper towels
47. Make sandwich bags
48. Read at least 50 books (0/50)

Health
49. Go without sweets for six weeks
50. Complete P90X 90 day challenge
51. Make all our own bread
52. Plant an herb Garden
53. Make our own pastas
54. Start a garden
55. Meal plan for one month and sick to it
56. Try 25 new cheeses (0/25)
57. Floss everyday for a month
58. Nick doesn’t have soft drinks for as long as possible (at least two consecutive months)
59. Make our own legumes

Dates
60. Try at least ten new restaurants for both of us (0/10)
61. Do Halloween activity (pumpkin patch, orchard, forest, etc every year) (0/2)
62. Get a couples massage
63. Go to a concert
64. Visit a zoo
65. Go Putt-Putting
66. Go to the Temple and each draw a picture of it
67. Watch meteor shower
68. Color entire giant coloring book
69. Stay at a bed and breakfast
70. See a musical together
71. Go on road trip-take lots of fun pictures
72. Build a sand castle together
73. Go on Oreo date
74. Visit a museum
75. Go to three sporting events
76. Go horseback riding
77. Host a fancy dinner party
78. Go to a fair/carnival/or circus
79. Take pictures in photo booth
80. Have a Twilight marathon

Service
81. Plant a tree
82. Donate 100,000 grains of rice (Freerice.com) (0/100,000)
83. Pay for the person behind us at least two times (0/2)
84. Give blood
85. Volunteer with special Olympics every year (0/3)

Miscellaneous
86. Add six new Disney movies to our collection (0/6)
87. Make 72 hour kits
88. Make picture book of us doing our 101 things (as applicable)
89. Send out Christmas cards each year (0/2)
90. Don’t dine out for one month
91. Finnish making our wedding album
92. Start a real food storage
93. Start a dollar jar
94. Write new 101 in 1001 list
95. Write a letter to ourselves (including testimonies) that we open in 1001 days
96. Celebrate 185 random national days (http://www.louderbacks.com/home/dict/days.html) (0/185)
97. Start a memory Jar
98. Combine our Facebook pages
99. Get world map framed and start learning all the countries
100. Visit another continent
101. Visit Ohio