101 in 1001

Hello, everyone! It’s been far too long, and I honestly did not realize how much I missed this until I sat down to write this post. I took a much-needed break over the holiday season (including to celebrate my 21st birthday, which I promise I’ll get to!), and spent some time to do some long-term planning, both for myself and for the blog.

I’m graduating from college in December, so I figured it was time- not necessarily to have a hard-and-fast plan for the next five or ten years, but at least to have some sort of guide that I can look back at and use to measure my progress in all areas of life. Enter, Mackenzie Horan to save the day!

Mackenzie has long been one of my favorite bloggers to follow, and I have always been fascinated by her “101 in 1001” lists. She creates a list of 101 things she wants to accomplish in the next 1001 days, which is just under three years. The items are a mix of tasks to accomplish in a day, long-term life goals, and bucket list items- perfect for me to track that progress in all areas I was mentioning before! Her post about tips for writing your own list was the catalyst I needed to really think about my goals, in all the categories listed below.

 

I will be keeping track of these both here on the blog and in these cute bullet journal-style lists I hand-wrote out, and I can’t wait to get started! Without further ado, my 101 in 1001 list:

Begin: January 19th, 2019

End: October 17th, 2021

School/Professional

1. Graduate with honors
2. Get a piece of fiction published
3. Enter 10 writing competitions
4. Submit my work 25 times
5. Get an internship
6. Post once a week on the blog for three months (2/15)
7. Go to two professor’s office hours a semester (1/4)
8. Take one paper a semester to office hours (1/2)
9. Update LinkedIn 15 times
10. Apply to graduate school
11. Apply for five scholarships
12. Apply to three publishing internships
13. Participate in a mock interview
14. Give “Thank You” notes to my favorite professors at the end of each semester
15. Take the GRE

Health

16. Take vitamins every day for three months
17. Work out every day for at least one week
18. Be able to run three miles without stopping
19. Reach water goal in ounces every day for two weeks
20. Go three weeks without eating out
21. Run a 10k
22. Try personal training
23. Try five new workout classes
24. Go to the gym three times a week for a month (0/5)
25. Eat the ketogenic diet without cheating for a month
26. Visit the doctor at least once a year
27. Go on five new-to-me hikes
28. Go to “goat yoga”
29. Go to yoga twice a week for a month

Personal Development

30. Read at least 50 books (3/50) – My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry- Fredrik Backman, Attachments– Rainbow Rowell, Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen)
31. Read five classics (1/5)- Pride and Prejudice– Jane Austen
32. Unplug completely for 24 hours
33. Spend less time on phone (under 2.5 hours a day per week)
34. Upgrade to a new phone
35. Write a review for Glass Mountain Literary Magazine
36. Meditate 5,000 minutes
37. Do two easy self-care things a week for a month
38. Try 25 new recipes (3/25)- Banana pudding, bacon chicken rice casserole, Mexican lasagna
39. Do “More Love Letters”
40. Go a week without social media
41. Try 10 new ways of doing my hair
42. Learn how to do barrel curls
43. Visit three museums
44. Get two massages
45. Have a day where I do at least ten Random Acts of Kindness
46. Complete the Marie Kondo challenge
47. Write 20 letters
48. Go to the Texas Book Festival
49. Detail or get car detailed
50. Visit five new parks

Just for Fun

51. Take a sailing lesson
52. Go to the Texas state fair
53. Try at least 20 new restaurants (4/20)- Grotto, Present Company, St. Arnold’s Brewery,
54. Go to a music festival
55. Finish Buffy and Angel (This is embarrassing but I have been trying to finish these two TV shows since HIGH SCHOOL. It’s time.)
56. Go to Rooftop Cinema Club
57. Skydive
58. Dye my hair (the bottom) a fun color
59. Take a surfing lesson
60. Leave notes about what a book means to me in five books at a bookstore
61. Attend a ballet
62. Play in the rain
63. Watch 10 documentaries (2/10)- Amy, Somm
64. Take a calligraphy class or finish a calligraphy how-to book
65. Take a printing/paper making class

Finances

66. Get a part time job
67. Do three freelance writing pieces
68. Try “I Secret Shop”
69. Donate to church
70. Save $400 for Christmas
71. Spend only what’s in budget app for one month
72. Open a savings account
73. Spend under $100 on eating out for three different months (not summer or at home)
74. Go two months without shopping (buying anything unnecessary)

Relationship

75. Get engaged
76. Take Taylor to the Art Car Museum
77. Celebrate our five year anniversary
78. Go on a date to Goliad
79. Take a cooking class together
80. Take photos together

Family and Friends

81. Give care packages to 10 friends (4/10)- Banana pudding
82. Host a dinner party (a la Reese Witherspoon, my inspiration)
83. Host a brunch party
84. Send flowers to my mom for no reason out of the blue
85. Treat a friend to a nice dinner
86. Go on a road trip with friends (New Orleans)
87. Take grandma out to lunch, just us
88. Play tennis with dad

Travel

89. Go back to the East Coast
90. Go to Europe
91. Take eight weekend trips (1/8)- New Orleans
92. Study abroad
93. Set foot in a new state– Indiana for AFLV Central through the Panhellenic Council
94. Go to Texas Tulips
95. Visit Kemah Boardwalk
96. See five Houston murals
97. Go to a flower festival

Holidays

98. Send out Christmas cards
99. Visit a Christmas tree farm
100. Host a favorite things holiday party (Joanna Gaines)
101. Make a wreath