Because I want to be a better person
- Read 50 books (3/50)
- Start a book journal and write date, title, author, and one-sentence review of each book I read
- Learn Welsh at a beginning level
- Take a cake decorating class
- Complete at least two rough draft chapters of my novel (0/2)
- Try a new recipe once a week (5/143)
- Design and create a web page
- Complete the cross-stitch I'm working on
- Learn how to change the oil in my car
- Learn how to change a tire by myself
- Learn to knit something more complicated than long rectangular scarves
- Learn to drive a manual transmission vehicle
- Make 10 recipes including an ingredient I’ve never used before (0/10)
- Give up gossip for a week, 4 times (0/4)
Because I want to be a healthier person
- Exercise at least once a week for 40 weeks (0/40)
- Exercise at least twice a week for 40 weeks (0/40)
- Exercise at least three times a week for 40 weeks (0/40)
- Drink enough water at work that I have to refill my water bottle 4 times daily
- Eat something with oats in it every day for thirty days (0/30)
- Give up sugar for one month
Because I want to be a better mother
- Breastfeed until Molly is 1 year old
- Keep Molly away from the TV and computer 98% of the time
- Read Molly a book every evening
- Learn some baby sign language and teach it to Molly
- Take 3 new pictures of Molly every week (5/143)
- Do not swear or curse in front of Molly
- Make homemade baby food for Molly
Do not feed Molly solid food until she is 6 months old- Write a letter to Molly every year on her birthday (0/3)
- Create and send invitations for Molly's baptism
- Take Molly for a walk around the neighborhood at least once a week, weather permitting (5/143)
- Do not let Molly watch TV until she is 2 years old
- Do a new activity or play a new game with Molly every week (5/143)
Because I want to be a better wife
- Counter every negative thought about Mark with a positive thought
- Tell Mark I love him every day
- Go on a date once a month
- Call Mark every evening when I leave the office
- Every day, write down one thing I love about my husband
- Do something romantic for my husband at least once a week (3/143)
- Once a month, do something Mark wants me to do that I don't want to (i.e. see a movie I'm not interested in, go out when I'd rather stay in) without complaint (2/33)
- Stay "internet-slacking" free at work for a week four times (1/4)
- Get a promotion at work, or move to a different company
- Have 100 internet-free days at work (0/100)
- Spend at least one hour per workday either doing productive work or (if no assignments) learning something to improve my work
- Each time I go grocery shopping, replace one regular item in my grocery cart with an organic item
- Do not buy anything containing high fructose corn syrup
- Buy nothing containing partially hydrogenated oils
- Eat dinner at the table instead of in front of the TV
- Call my aunt once a month (0/33)
- Send my grandmother a letter or postcard twice a month (2/66)
- Send Christmas cards every year (0/3)
- Make it to work by 7:00 (so I can leave by 4:00) three times a week for 10 weeks (0/10)
Because I want to have my financial situation in order
- Save enough money to take Mark and Molly on a vacation to England in September 2010
- Save a "maternity fund" to cover six weeks of expenses for my next maternity leave
- Create our wills
- Stick to a budget
- Start a mutual fund for Molly and make a monthly contribution (0/33)
- Go for one week without spending money except on one trip each to the grocery store and gas station, 4 times (0/4)
- Have 200 no-spend days (2/200)
- Have 20 below-budget weeks (0/20)
- Hold a monthly financial/budget meeting with Mark (0/33)
- Stick to my list whilst grocery shopping, without purchasing any impulse items, 10 times (0/10)
- Pass up something I don't need but was going to buy just because it was on sale or I had a coupon, 10 times (0/10)
Because I want to be organized
- File all papers that need to be filed
- Establish a better system for filing papers and keeping them from piling up
- Clean out and reorganize kitchen cabinets
- Organize and purge my book of printed-out recipes
- Organize the books on the bookshelves and get rid of unwanted books
- Vacuum once a week (2/143)
- Wash the sheets once a month (1/33)
Because I want to be a better Christian
- Read at least one chapter of the Bible a week (0/143)
- Pray at least once a day
- Attend church at least 3 times per month (3/99)
- Say prayers before meals
- Get more involved in my church
- Give up something every year for Lent (0/3)
- Buy an Advent calendar and start a tradition of reading a scripture each night of Advent
- Follow a Lenten Devotional every night of Lent
- Buy a book of five-minute devotionals and do them
Because I want to do something fun for myself and my family
- Complete Canada/New England cruise scrapbook
- Visit a Rennaisance Festival every year (0/3)
- Find a Scottish Highland Games and visit it
- Plan a trip longer than a weekend to visit my brother in Atlanta
- Try 5 new restaurants (1/5)
- Attend a play or show three times (0/3)
- Make a new fabulous restaurant- or bakery-worthy dessert 15 times (1/15)
- Wear a skirt once a week for a month (0/4)
- Put my hair up or back once a week for a month (0/4)
- Plant a container garden of vegetables and herbs and keep it healthy
- Visit St. Augustine on a weekend day, 3 times (0/3)
- Go on a hike
- Visit 3 new museums (0/3)
- Have a picnic
- Plan a trip to England for September 2010
- Get myself a locket and put Molly's picture in it
Because I want to leave a good impact on the world
- Buy and use reusable fabric grocery bags
- Complete organ donor registration
- Put together a shoebox every Christmas for Operation Christmas Child (0/3)
Because I want to hold myself accountable for completing these tasks
- Give $5 to church for every uncompleted thing at the end of the 1001 days
- Create a new 101 list after 1001 days
- Create a blog and document my progress at least once weekly
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