Beginning June 1st 2011 my mission is to complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days. My tasks must be specific with a clear result and a realistically stretch me. I’m choosing 1001 days because I saw this idea on someone else’s blog and I liked it. The idea of having several seasons and more then the generic year for results is cool and I’m thinking way outside my box. The number of days also reminded me that life is journey of self-discovery, one that I must stay committed to with a sense of adventure and playfulness. And finally if I put it out here and tell you I’m accountable for completing my tasks. So here are my tasks ready, set, go!

Myself
Take a class for fun
Be a perch for a hawk, falcon or eagle
See a taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Ellen and Work it.
Sing Karaoke
See a tiger and polar bear in the wild but not together
Ride the trains, the orient express, the coast starlight, and the empire builder
Take art course.
Learn to scuba dive
Take a Spanish emersion course then go to Spain for 2 weeks to practice
Get tested for allergies
Learn to surf and go surfing with my brother
Go on a zip line
Stop biting nails for 1 month
Buy a suit
Go to a café and read a book
Learn to play Texas Hold Um
Keep fresh flowers in the house for 1 month
Don’t watch or read news for 1 month
See whales up-close and personal in the sea
Buy a push up bra and wear it showing cleavage
Learn to shoot skeet

My Family
Take my niece to a play
Have a spa day with my sister
Do a cancer walk/run in honor of a friend
Make a DVD of my family home videos
Send care packages to my sisters
Take my nephews to Disneyland                                                                                                                                            
Make an appreciation card for each family member
Create a time line of my father’s family history

My Fun
Have a girl’s night at my place
Host Vernal Equinox dinner
Have game night once a month for 3 months
Go to 3 museums in different states and 3 different countries
Experience a play in a city I’ve never seen a play in
Experience an opera and ballet dressed to the nines
Sit on a tropical beach with someone I love and watch a sunrise and sunset
Have dinner on a rooftop patio
Learn how to do smoky eye make up and wear it

My Humanity
Perform random act of kindness once a day for 1 month
Pay it forward to someone I don’t know
Help out someone in need anonymously
Stop using plastic bottles and bags for 2 months
Send a gift to a soldier overseas
For 1 month ask, say and use the name of everyone that serves me
Volunteer 25 hours within 4 months
Watch the children of a friend so they can go have fun

My Health & Fitness
Take a dance class
Do the Marchia Longa Lopet xc ski in Italy and the Vasa Lopet in Sweden
Take a yoga class
Drink 8 glasses of water a day for 2 weeks
Get a massage once a month for 4 months
Go to bed by 10pm for 2 weeks
Everyday for 1 month do core/abs exercises
Go to Xfit 3 days a week for 2 months and create adaptive Xfit video
One month without coffee
Go one month without refined sugar
Floss everyday for a month
Train for and ride in a century bike event

My Sanity
Learn how to use my IPod. Rename/Organize music all on my IPod
Go without my cell phone for an entire week
Digitize all my VHS tapes
Clean and organize my athletic career filing cabinet
Clean out work and personal email
Write and speak out loud 5 gratitude’s and 5 I AM’s before bed for 2 months
My Personal and Professional Development
Learn sign language
Write a book
Write a rap and record it
Create and tape six-television show about disability awareness
Read 101 books keep a list
Present at a conference
Create a seminar about how not to let stress stress us out
Develop a teaching progression for sit down cross-country skiing with video
Take a Final Cut Pro class
Take a screen writing class
Create a business plan
Create a consulting business as a LLC or Corporation
Write for 30 minutes a day for 6 consecutive months

My Finances
Get out of debt
Learn how to use Excel and track my spending for 3 months
Be paid for writing 4 magazine articles
Save 8 months of expenses
Use coupons for 3 months
Stick with a budget for 6 consecutive months

My Travels
Visit 5 states I have never been in the USA
Travel and explore Thailand
Stay at a bed and breakfast
Go to any part in Europe and stay for 2 weeks
Take a road trip without knowing the destination
Go to Norway in the summer
Go on a cruse with my sisters

My Leap of Faith
Try 25 new restaurants
Take golf lessons (and not mini-golf!)
Learn and practice Buddhism for 1 month
Try one new recipe a month for six months, consecutively
Go whitewater rafting
Go on a silent retreat
Go Abraham cruise
Go to a 3D movie

My Ending
Celebrate the list with a nice dinner out (whether list is completed or not!)
Donate $25 to a charity/cause for every item not completed on the list
Have a new list of 101 things by the time this list expires

Blessings to All, Candace
  

Copyright 2011 Candace Cable