The Mission: 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 my part). Start date: 1 January 2009 End date: 29 September 2011 Key Completed In progress Not yet started

The List

1. Write the list

Creativity and Cupcakes and Mace

2. Earn $2000 from blogging (339/2000)
3. Design a new blog header
4. Complete Project 365 [failed] Complete no less than 15 photography projects (2/15)
5. Learn to use Photoshop
6. Create and sell 10 pieces of jewellery
7. Sell 1000 items from Cupcakes and Mace (1000/1000)
8. Have 200 subscribers to cupcakesandmace.com (200/200)/span>
9. Complete all 31 tasks in the ProBlogger 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge (4/31)
10. Set up sales and accounting system for Cupcakes and Mace
11. Set up the office so it’s usable

Responsibility

12. Be on time to work (not 5 minutes late) 300 times
13. Take lunch to work 4 times a week for a month (4/4)
14. Subscribe to Idealog or another appropriate creative/entrepreneurial/business focussed publication
15. Quit my current customer service role
16. Put a battery in the smoke alarm
17. Back up photos, music, and business information regularly

Purchase stuff

18. Get a new lounge suite
19. Get a big petticoat
20. Own the Matrix on DVD
21. Get new glasses
22. Get a copy of Wreck This Journal
23. Get another external hard drive
24. Invest in a digital SLR camera and tripod

Create a me I love

25. Go to the dentist
26. Decide on and get a tattoo designed
27. Get the tattoo
28. Stretch ears to 8mm
29. Change my hairstyle
30. Document and implement a personal style
31. Use a swiss ball as a chair at work
32. Eat no sweets (deserts, cakes, cookies, lollies etc) for a week
33. Find a fruit and vege juice I like and buy it with my groceries every week
34. Get engaged or get single
35. Get flexible enough to touch my toes
36. Do a cartwheel

Try new things

37. Make ambrosia
38. Make a trifle
39. Post a secret to PostSecret
40. Read 50 books (8/50) Panic; The Lovely Bones; The Lost Symbol; Wicked; The Life of Pi; American Psycho; Fight Club; The Northern Lights
41. Watch 150 of the top 250 IMDb movies (88/150)
42. Watch 150 of the next 250 IMDB movies (55/100)
43. Visit a sex shop
44. Kiss a girl
45. Send a love note (even if it’s anonymous)
46. Listen to songs by 101 artists I’ve never listened to before (59/101) Sonic Altar; Babylon Bombs; Them Crooked Vultures; Tesla; Fire House; S.O.T.U; Warrant; Stryper; Saint Demon; Pink Cream 69; Lauren Harris; Fucking Lazy; Santogold; Prabhu Deva; Sonic Youth; Katharine McPhee; Demi Lovato; Pixie Lott; N.E.D.; Grizzly Bear; Parry Gripp; The Feathered Friends; Tegan and Sara; Jealous Itch; FloRider; Winger; Ke$ha; Electric Six; David Byrne; Late of the Pier; A Static Lullaby; Silverstein; Mayday Parade; Four Year Strong; The Cab; Breathe Carolina; The Sequence; Alesana; We The Kings; A Smile From The Trenches; The [New] Shining; Watcha; Sea Of Treachery; Out Of Your Mouth; Mushmellow; Otep; Sick Puppies; Rivethead; One-Way Mirror; Rotation; Blowsight; La Roux; John Murphy; Semi Precious Weapons; Kate Nash; Florence and the Machine; Y&T; Jesse Rivest and the Recent Developments; Richard Cheese

Clean up the clutter

47. Declutter – Regift, donate, or bin 101 things (50/101)
48. Name, tag and arrange all of my photos on my computer and my Flickr account
49. Throw out any socks or underwear that are past their use-by date
50. Try 50 new recipes (12/50) Courgette and mushroom loaf; Damper; Mediterranean tuna rice bake; Teriyaki fish; Lemon spritz cookies; Carrot and mushroom loaf; Breadmaker frittata; Ambrosia; Aioli; Prawn cocktails; Orange semolina cake; Crock pot vegetable soup

Go places

51. Learn conversational German
52. Book tickets to Germany
53. Visit the South Island of New Zealand
54. Get my restricted licence

Extra fun

55. Send 101 postcards, letters or packages (not including purchased jewellery) (16/101)
56. Watch every episode of Gilmore Girls
57. Find Neil a crazy long straw
58. Learn a dance
59. Write a new 101 in 1001