The Challenge: 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 your part).
Items in blue are completed; green items are a work in progress.
1. Learn to play 20 useful
songs (hymns, carols, children's songs) on the piano.
2. Go apple picking.
3. Make play dough with Calvin.
4. Cook an entire holiday
meal.
5. Organize the garage.
6. Grow a salad.
7. Sew a quilt.
8. Replace all gold light
fixtures in our home.
9. Make a wreath and hang it
up.
10. Chop our own Christmas
tree.
11. Read every Ensign cover
to cover by the end of the month for a year.
12. Cook spaghetti squash.
13. Make a menu plan and
stick to it for a month.
14. Read a book in Braille.
15. Go star gazing.
16. Make (and print!) a
family photo book.
17. Attend a football game.
18. Go to a concert.
19. Paint the guest bedroom.
20. Learn to make crock pot
desserts.
21. Go camping with Calvin.
22. Make a pumpkin pie
completely from scratch.
23. Make homemade caramels.
24. Make a busy book.
25. Sew Christmas puppets.
26. Fill my empty frames and
hang them.
27. Find a better way to
organize all our important paperwork.
28. Make something to
decorate my walls.
29. Go on a picnic
30. Make a toy with Calvin.
31. Find/make a nativity set.
32. Decorate Calvin's light
switch plate.
33. Run a race 10k or longer.
34. Read the whole Book of
Mormon with Calvin.
35. Make and send 20 homemade
cards.
36. Have a family photo taken
and hang it up.
37. Find/make a good
bookshelf for Calvin's books.
38. Plant, grow, and use at
least 3 herbs.
39. Put together 72 hour
emergency kits for our family.
40. Figure out how to make
use of our back patio,
41. Have all clean clothes
put away before bed for a month straight.
42. Sew a cover for the foof
chair.
43. Learn to index for
FamilySearch.
44. Teach Calvin to bake and
share the goodies.
45. Hang a ceiling fan in
Calvin's room.
46. Sew curtains for the
whole house.
47. Make Christmas stockings.
48. Find a new dentist for
Devin and me.
49. Read 5 classic novels.
50. Find good nachos near us.
51. Read the entire Bible
cover to cover.
52. Blog at least twice a
month for a year.
53. Prepare a whole chicken.
54. Get a new computer desk.
55. Brush both dogs at least
once a week for the whole summer.
56. Do temple work for at
least 5 ancestors.
57. Take a real family
vacation.
58. Do something special to
celebrate Devin.
59. Decorate a big boy room
for Calvin.
60. Back up our computers.
61. Update/replace Devin's
and my dressers.
62. Make apple butter.
63. Find an exercise video I
like and use it.
64. Visit Helen, GA.
65. Hold a 10 minute
conversation in German.
66. Give up a guilty
pleasure.
67. Take Calvin to the
Georgia Aquarium.
68. Paint sugar cookies with
Calvin.
69. Write 5 letters to
give/open in the future.
70. Decorate a fun cake.
71. Go a full weekend without
being bossy even once.
72. Frame a Calvin and Hobbes
comic strip.
73. Go to a baseball game.
74. Leave a 100% tip.
75. Update the background on
my blog.
76. Compile a photo album.
77. Visit Kings Mountain
National Military Park.
78. Decorate for a holiday
other than Christmas.
79. Take Calvin to the zoo.
80. Can a food.
81. Get a new camera.
82. Journal every day for a
month.
83. Throw a party.
84. Try 5 new
fruits/vegetables.
85. Leave a surprise on at
least 3 doorsteps.
86. Visit Andersonville, GA.
87. Decorate the bonus room.
88. Learn to make pastries.
89. Create and share a
Mormon.org profile.
90. Give 5 home sewn gifts.
91. Consolidate our bank
accounts.
92. Figure out a good
calendar system for our family.
93. Shop at a consignment
store.
94. Make homemade applesauce.
95. Buy a pair of jeans I
love.
96. Play in the rain.
97. Deep clean our carpets.
98. Replace Devin's car.
99. Sing in a choir.
100. Plan a
big end of residency celebration.
101. Have a collection of 200 children's books.
