Apart from the four tasks I wrote last night, I completed the entire list today. I put my entire life on hold and just tackled this list all day. Thirteen hours after I began, and about ten hours of work, I had my list. And I have it here, to post for you guys.
I'll be blogging about my progress through the list. This'll replace the progress report (but completing 30 30-day trials is in there, so I'll be writing about that too).
If I give up, I will be honest about it. I won't just let it fade.
Here is the list.
Completed Tasks:
86. Donate 20,000 grains of rice on www.freerice.com (20,000 / 20,000) COMPLETED July 8, 2009.
6. Sort out your Magic card collection. COMPLETED July 24, 2009.
Incomplete Tasks
Magic
- Compete in a Grand Prix, a Regionals, and a PTQ.
- Attend Nationals (qualified or not)
- Earn money playing Magic.
- Complete 10 drafts on Magic Online, only paying for the first one. (Go Infinite)
- Defeat: David Dang, Justin Cheung, Desmond Ng, Jacky Zhang and Michael in a fair match of Magic. (2/5)
- Teach 10 new players to play Magic to a reasonable level (Can consistently win at least one match at FNM) (0/10)
Gaming
8. Finish Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn on Hard.
- Finish IWBTG on Very Hard.
- Finish: Spyro 4, Spyro 5, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy. (0/6) (Finish being “Finish the main plotline” not necessarily everything.)
- Finish FF1 and FF2 with the worst party possible. (0/2)
- Complete an entire LP.
- Finish a roguelike.
- Play a full game of Risk. Offline. With other people.
- Create the Top 100 Greatest Gaming Achievements list.
- Finish creating the Ultimate Roguelike Challenge.
- Do a live video speedrun of IWBTG: 12 hours on Medium mode.
- Write a game walkthrough.
- Learn to play backgammon, and get halfway decent at it. (Able to hold your own online)
- Get 5,000 Gamer Points on XBOX Live. Get an Xbox 360 first. (0/5,000)
- Get Wii Fit, and use it.
Health
- Eat only raw food for 3 days.
- Become a vegetarian permanently.
- Be able to touch your toes while standing up.
- Achieve your ideal weight (as recorded on the World Health Organisation website) for my height.
- Try 20 different fruits (2/20)
- Complete the 100 Pushups program.
- Complete the 200 Sit-ups program.
- Complete the Couch to 5k challenge.
- Try yoga and pilates. (0/2)
- Go vegan for a month.
Growth
- Get a girlfriend.
- Get your P’s.
- Adapt to Uberman polyphasic sleep.
- Move out of home.
- Give blood.
- Advance beyond the newbie level in a martial art.
- Complete 30 30-day trials (7/30)
- Do the 40-hour Famine, and get some sponsors.
- Learn to cook 10 staple dishes. (Staple means you could easily eat it once a week for a year and not get sick of it or sick from it) (0/10)
- Design your own blogging website from scratch.
- Take a professional IQ test.
- Get certified in First Aid.
- Do a time log.
- Complete a 5-minute video, 10-minute podcast, 30-minute live chat, 60-minute Twitter conference and 60-minute Facebook conference on your blog. (Last 3 when I get a good amount of traffic) (0/5)
- Get Site Build It! and build the new blog with it.
- Perform 3 days of volunteer work, for 3 different charities. (0/3)
- Write ‘Discovering Your Passion’ on your personal development blog. It must be at least 2,000 words.
- Go overseas.
- Gain your passport
- Visit Uluru. (Also known as Ayers Rock)
- Join Toastmasters.
- Have a lucid dream.
- Get a job.
- Reach 500 blog posts (90/500) (This will be updated by 10’s)
- Inspire 10 people to complete 30-day trials successfully. (1/10)
- Read or listen to 10 books specifically related to personal development. (0/10)
- Do 50 things that at least one person tells me I won’t or can’t do. (4/50)
- Participate in the World’s Greatest Shave.
- Go rockclimbing. Successfully reach the top of a wall.
- Complete 20 guest posts for other people’s blogs. (0/20)
- Get 20 people to write guest posts for you. (1/20)
- Concede 10 arguments, not because you’ve lost, but because you don't want to argue. (0/10)
- Get 5,000 unique visitors to your blog. (300 / 5,000) (This will be updated in 100’s)
- Earn $1000 in one month on your blog. (Best so far: 0/1000)
- Turn 10 small-talk conversations into deep and meaningful ones. (0/10)
- Get a Certificate in Business Management.
Entertainment
- Read the Lord of the Rings series (including the Silmarillion) (0/4)
- Watch the following movies: All the Star Wars movies, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather. (0/8)
- Read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever and the Second Chronicles (0/6)
- Do a 1000-piece jigsaw.
- Watch the Matrix trilogy. (0/3)
- Finish a Colossal crossword.
- Finish a Sudoku on the highest difficulty.
- Find at least an hour’s worth of music on YouTube that’s positive and inspirational. Turn it into a playlist.
- Do a real, physical maze.
- Read 12 books from Time’s Top 100 list. (2/12)
- Watch 10 movies in cinemas. (0/10)
- Watch 12 films from Time’s Top 100 list. (3/12)
- Finish a Terry Pratchett novel. You’ve never got into it, but it’s supposed to be good.
- Read Stephen King’s
- Ask 5 people what their favourite book and film is, then read and watch them. (0/5)
- See the following films you should see but haven’t: Taxi Driver, Fight Club, Clerks, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Scarface, The Shining, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, 2001: A Space Odyssey. (0/10)
- Read all of Raymond E. Feist’s books.
- Write 10 short stories. (1 novella = 3 short stories) (0/10)
Miscellaneous
- Go skydiving.
- Bring in doughnuts for your entire class or work colleagues (whichever applicable) one day.
- Complete a piece of homework the day I get it, and hand it in the next day.
- Edit a Wikipedia article to include useful information.
- Find 10 geocaches. (4/10)
- Create a treasure hunt for someone / some group.
- Learn to “click” your fingers.
- Learn to eat with chopsticks.
- Go scuba diving.
- Purge my entire room of crap I no longer need.
- Learn some basic dancing.
- Learn to fence.
- Build a computer for yourself. Buy the components.
- Learn to cook 10 staple dishes. (Staple means you could easily eat it once a week for a year and not get sick of it or sick from it) (0/10)
- Learn to type with all 10 fingers.
- Climb a mountain. (Any hill over 610 metres.)
- Buy a really good chair as my desk chair.
Added Tasks:
101. Complete the Unholy War on Hard difficulty (both sides) (0/2)
And there you have it. 101 tasks. 1001 days. One epic personal growth challenge. Game on.
Explanations:
1. In Magic: The Gathering (a card game I play) a Grand Prix is a huge (hundreds or even thousands of players) tournament open to everyone, a Regionals is a tournament to qualify you for Nationals, and a PTQ is a Pro Tour Qualifier. The winner of the PTQ is qualified for the Pro Tour: 3 of these tournaments are run each year featuring the game's best. All of them are at a level higher than my level right now, hence why they are on my list.
5. The 5 names are professional Magic players who appear at the tournament I go to. They are almost never beaten save by each other.
9. IWBTG is I Wanna Be The Guy, an insanely hard platformer. Even on it's easiest difficulty setting, most people never defeat it.
12. An LP is a Let's Play, a run-through of a game by video or screenshot. I intend to do mine on IWBTG, in video.
13. A roguelike is a genre known for insane difficulty, turn-based strategy, and permadeath: your save is erased if you die. Very difficult to finish.
44. A time log is a log of everything you do in a day. It helps improve productivity and focus.
46. Site Build It! is a program designed to help you make an income-generating website.
48. Discovering Your Passion is a mega-post I want to write: once I know how to discover your passion, that is!
52. Toastmasters International is a public speaking organisation that builds character, confidence and skills in public speaking.
89. A geocache is an item like a notebook, enclosed in a container at a specific GPS co-ordinate, as specified on the geocaching website.
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Hate to burst your bubble but you don't actually have 101 tasks here. :) You have included "Participate in the World’s Greatest Shave." twice (59. and 99.). Same with "Learn to cook 10 staple dishes." (40. and 99.).
ReplyDeleteNow you can remedy this by dividing "70. Do a 1000-piece jigsaw. Watch the Matrix trilogy. (0/3)" into two separate tasks. (Unless for some weird reason you really meant to bundle these into one task...) But even doing so you will end up with only 100 tasks, so you need to invent one more. :)
Now the idea itself is ingenious. It seems like a great tool to instill a clear direction to ones life. In fact I'm sufficiently intrigued by it as to investigate this further and perhaps build a list of my own.
I did make the list properly. The bungling happened when I attempted to categorise it. Thanks for pointing out the errors though. Don't worry: it's been fixed. The list now has 101 seperate tasks, properly categorised.
ReplyDeleteAfter thinking more about this system, I have identified some aspects of it that, at least to me, reduce it's usefulness.
ReplyDeleteThe main problem that I see, is that the list is too static. You have to create the whole list at one time and then stick with it for nearly three years. Now three years is a long time and it's very likely that you will come up with additional goals along the way. How will you handle them? If you follow the rules of this system, you can't add them to the list. But then if you want to track your progress on those new goals you have to create a separate list for them. Similar problems also surface when you consider that you will most likely, during the course of 1001 days, change your mind on completing some of the original 101 goals. In this case if you simple choose not to complete a goal that you think is not worth completing, you will in effect also be choosing not to complete the list as a whole.
What are your thoughts on these two issues?
Wow, that's very well thought out Pekka. Once I read your comment, I thought about it for a while before deciding how to reply. Firstly, I've chosen many of my goals as long-term ones, or ones I've wanted to do for years. So it's unlikely that I'll just stop wanting to do one.
ReplyDeleteIn the event that I do, I may follow the system that some other 101 in 1001'ers have followed, the rule being that you can remove a task if you add a task of equivalent or greater difficulty. Hopefully I won't have to do that, but like you said, 2.8 years is a long time, especially considering how much I've changed in the last 6 months alone.
As always, I appreciate your comments. They are very insightful.
Replacing removed goals with new ones seems like a reasonable solution, so that does solve my second concern. However, you did not address the first scenario. That is, what will you do when you identify new goals that you want to complete? If you have ideas on this, I'd be interested to hearing them.
ReplyDeleteNow about you changing much in the past 6 months. This is actually one of the most interesting aspects of your blog and the one that gives you an edge over others. It is inspiring to observe how you constantly keep making progress. This is also evident in your writing, which has improved quite a lot since you started.
ps. You can add one to your number 56.
Awesome: But I think I'll wait until it's actually successfully completed. I've inspired a couple of people to do trials so far: both have failed (although one is trying again). If you succeed in going the full 30 days, I'd be interested if you write a guest post about your experience with it, too.
ReplyDeleteAs for new goals, the list isn't the be all and end all: if I have another goal (like me graduating TAFE faster than normal) I can simply do it without adding it to the list. If it's a major goal that would render my list undoable, that could be a concern, but considering the time I have to do my list, it's unlikely.
And thanks for the comment about my writing: I like to think I've gotten better.