I’ve been reading Mackenzie’s blog, Design Darling, for about a year now. I just love her style and her mantra is “navy or nothing” and I can definitely get with that. She started this series of 101 goals in 1001 days. She is currently on her second list, which is really cool!
This is what I came up with, and I hope that you will enjoy following along!
Start Date: January 5, 2014
Finish Date: October 20, 2016
- Come up with 101 things
- Read all of the Jane Austen books
- Go antiquing
- Blog everyday for a month
- Read Buzzfeed’s list of 65 Books you have to read in your 20s
- Invest in a 3 cookbooks
- Invest in 5 coffee table books
- Organize addresses for friends and family into an Address Book
- Be able to run 5 miles without stopping
- Pace my dad for Western States (goal is June 2014)
- Invest in a nice designer bag (Kate Spade Small Leslie)
- Learn to bake cookies well
- Make Business cards
- Read Atlas Shrugged
- Send out 50 handwritten notes
- To that end, get nice, personalized stationery
- Invest in 1 pair of brown boots
- Take a floral design class
- Take a cooking class
- Find the perfect LBD
- Visit Boston
- Get to a weight I’m comfortable with
- Invest in Hunter Rainboots
- Visit 4 new states
- Learn the rules of Football, Basketball & Baseball
- Treat my parents to a weekend away
- Apply to a graduate program
- Learn Photoshop and Illustrator
- Learn how to use my DSLR
- Eat Gluten Free for a week
- Eat Vegetarian for a month
- Go skinny dipping
- Go on a Road Trip
- Watch all of the seasons of Gilmore Girls again
- Send my mom flowers just because
- See 5 classic movies
- Make my bed everyday for a month
- Host a dinner party
- Learn HTML
- Donate to the Kappa Delta Foundation
- Donate to the St. Mary’s Fund
- Take a unique workout class
- Watch 10 TED Talks, and write about them on the Blog
- Cook 10 meals for my family
- Visit a Flea Market, and buy something!
- Buy a car
- Spend a day with my Dad, doing whatever he wants
- Spend a day with my sister, doing whatever she wants
- Get a blow-out just because
- Drink 8 glasses of water everyday for a week
- Watch all of the James Bond movies
- Do a juice cleanse
- Learn another language, not necessarily fluently
- Become fluent in French
- Buy coffee for the person behind me in line
- Do a scavenger hunt with my friends to explore our city
- Go to 3 concerts
- Leave my phone at home for a day
- Attend a weekend long music festival
- Go to a double feature
- Buy a classic black blazer
- Own and stock a full bar cart
- Have a picnic
- Take a ballroom dancing class
- Find a skincare regime I can stick with
- Plant a garden
- Go computer/phone/iPad free for a week
- Watch all of the Academy Award Best Picture nominees
- Go 2 months without shopping
- Read for 30 minutes before bed for one month
- Give five “just because” gifts
- Visit 5 new restaurants and blog about them
- Tip a server 100%
- Purchase a Barbour Beadnell jacket
- Make a T-Shirt Quilt of my Kappa Delta shirts
- Go one month without Dutch Bros, Starbucks, etc.
- Buy a Christmas tree for my apartment
- Sort out some ornaments from my parents’ stash
- Go to Canada
- Become more knowledgeable about US Politics
- Read the newspaper (or NYT.com) every day for one month
- Read Emily Post’s etiquette
- Visit 5 photobooths in Portland
- Organize my closet and keep it that way for 1 month
- Go to a movie by myself
- Write 10 Yelp Reviews
- Join the local SHRM chapter in Portland
- Go to the driving range once a week for 3 months
- Go sailing again
- Purchase a plant and keep it alive for at least 6 months
- Stick to my budget for 6 months
- Go one month without drinking soda
- Visit the wonderful world of Harry Potter with the girls from Study Abroad
- Make macaroons
- Attend a movie in the park
- Send a postcard on every trip I take
- Start a weekly signature blog post
- Master curling my hair
- Post an outfit photo on my blog
- Take a surfing lesson
- Put $10 into savings for every goal
the striped life 