100 Things To Do This Year - List 1

It is 3am and I'm feeling yucky.  Blocked sinuses, gunky breathing, coughing, watery eyes.  You know the drill.  YUCK.

Since I can't sleep and I feel horrible, I thought I'd do a check in on an exercise I did early in the year from the Amazing Biz + Life Academy's workbooks and planner for 2013.



The idea was to create a list of 100 things you'd like to do this year.  They could be anything from tiny to-do's to dreams come true.  You just had to list 100.

I got stuck at about 26 I think.  I had to sit there a while and work through the block, and them BOOM! Riding a camel popped into my head.  Naturally!  And I was off and running again!  I went above and beyond 100 things.  Some of those I will filter off into a "Bucket List" if they involve more time or money than I can spare at present.  But the exercise went so well that I had to divide my list into 'sectors' to keep my head straight.  I came out with 5 lists to work on in the areas of:

• Me! 
• Kids!
• Home!
• Creativity!
• Money!

I'm going to share the ME! list now.  I'm just curious to see what I've achieved so far.  I need a morale boost (hopefully) or a kick in the pants - possibly both!

1. Climb Central Park Tower in the Step Up For MS Challenge
2. Raise $250! (I raised $1,145!!!)
3. Journal regularly
4. Complete Certificate III Ed Suport
5. Get a Pap Smear (WHOOHOO! Living the dream!)
6. Convert old home movies to DVD
7. Sort and store old digital photos
8. Go to King's Park and spend the day alone exploring
9. Try yoga (Love it!)
10. Visit my friend Coralie of Rainbow Farm Photography
11. Learn to crochet
12. Get a massage
13. Try at least one 'ugly' food
14. Scrapbook the kid's keepsakes
15. Visit Nana (I want to do this again before the end of the year!)
16. Tell my Nana I love her
17. Tell my whole family I love them
18. Send more birthday cards
19. Email long distance friends at least twice each over the year
20. Write a real hand written letter to someone!
21. Create a 'creative space' for myself
22. Try Zumba
23. Send updated photographs of the children to family members who'd love to see them
24. Buy a corset!
25. Try belly dancing LOVE LOVE LOVE!
26. Get my old hard drive retrieved
27. Learn more Dutch
28. Ride a camel
29. Re-string and play around with my dusty old neglected guitar
30. Drink more tea
31. Get myself a bicycle
32. Build a deeper relationship with someone who matters <3
33. Write my baby's birth stories
34. See the ophthalmologist
35. Become an organ donor
36. Put some chalk in my bag and write some love notes to the world and random strangers
37. Pay a total stranger a compliment
38. Dye my hair a crazy colour 
39. Try video calling someone I haven't seen in a long long time
40. Write a bucket list
41. Spend a day being crafty
42. Expand my musical library
43. Watch a few more movies
44. Go to the cinema alone for a girly flick
45. Read at least 12 books (Tally is at 1 so far!)
46. Create something fun like an origami toy and give to a child on a train or bus
47. Buy myself new pillows
48. Get my sunglasses fixed
49. Spend a day at the zoo alone
50. Journal my romances
51. Do some drawing I'm trying!
52. Use my reader
53. Learn to be calmer when the kids drive me mad! LOL
54. Do a self defence course
55. Write my children's book
56. Watch "HOUSE" in full
57. Learn to sing
58. Sing in public - get over a fear
59. Apply for LifeLine Telephone Counselling Start training in July!
60. Get my tooth fixed
61. Care for my skin more
62. Buy jeans
63. Run 5kms
64. Find a way to earn extra money
65. Go to lunch with friends more
66. Go out for coffee on my own and people watch
67. Get dressed up, go for drinks, dancing and laughing with friends - its been too long
68. Get a manicure and pedicure
69. Get photos taken
70. Create a dream board
71. Make my last wishes known
72. Get myself a jewellery box that fits everything!
73. Get my birthday and address books updated
74. Exercise my gonads - be more assertive
75. Start a public blog TA-DA!
76. Scrapbook my wedding album
77. Store my keepsakes properly
78. Develop my intuition
79. Listen to more podcasts
80. Bake more So far so good
81. Make more long distance phone calls
82. Make life simpler with routines
83. Create a reading nook
84. Have an organised and 'traditional' christmas
85. Send a 'just because' gift to someone
86. Volunteer at the school Started out with playgroup and now working on a literacy program
87. Horse riding lessons
88. Declutter my house!
89. Study something I love for fun
90. Try "green smoothies"
91. Give up Coke - again...
92. Try applique
93. Buy myself a red dress
94. Get some awesome boots
95. Walk more
96. Eat meals and take coffee breaks outdoors
97. Sit in the sun and think
98. Go on a trip somewhere alone to somewhere new
99. Go swimming
100. Learn to do the splits

14 out of 100... Not bad... But I can do better!  I have a second 100 list for me in progress.

Watch this space...  :-)  I'll cross off more things soon.  And I'll share my other 'lists' as well.