Start: Jan 5th 2014 End: Oct 2nd 2017
Started - Bold
Completed - Strikethrough
SPIRITUAL/GIVING
- Pray daily for a month
- Read the daily Bible readings in a different month
- Don't complain about anything for a week
- Donate 500000 grains of rice on freerice.com
Things to Learn
- Get DELF A2 certification French
Get Six Sigma green belt certified- Get my driver's license and drive
- Complete an online Photography Class
- Study web designing/web site creation/blog design
- Learn new words - Reach "Sesquipedalianist" level on vocabulary.com (~5000 new words)
- Learn to use GIMP
- Learn Front End Development
- Learn speed reading & check my reading speed (235wpm!!)
- T
ake a course on lynda.comCompleted a photography course - Learn lean manufacturing---poka yoke/ something related to my line of work
- Learn to use the manual setting on our camera
- Learn macro photography
- Learn the Kannada alphabet
- Update resume & LinkedIn every 6 mths
- Complete a course on Coursera
FINANCIAL
- Save funds to pay off mortgage
Invest in another property- Develop an alternative source of income
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
- Walk 5K in 45 Minutes
- Run a 5K
Complete a 30 miles in 30 days challengeFeb'2015- Run 1001 kms
- Lose belly fat
- Apply 100 face masks for acne/blemishes
- Oil massage my head 100 times - 2
- Hold a plank for 1 min
- Do 5 ab challenge series
- Drink 1.5l of water/day for 1 month
- Get up at 6 am weekdays for 1 month
- Go to bed by 11 pm on weekdays for 2 week straight
- Have a spa day every month
- Take a bubble bath atleast once a week any 2 months
- Keep my (hands & toes) nails looking nice (trimmed and painted) for one whole summer
HOME
- Bake 5 different cakes
- Bake 5 kinds of cookies
- Bake 5 bread recipes
Make 5 different salads- Try 30 new recipes I
- Learn to cook xxxxx
- Try 5 new vegetables (Brussel sprouts)
- Cook a different breakfast everyday for a week
- Go to bed with a spotless kitchen every night for a week instead of leaving dishes for the morning
- Follow FlyLady for at least a week
- Cook something from 15 different countries
- Develop a menu for different occasions
- Organize recipes I've tried into a file/cloud
- Build a Home ‘Media Server’ to backup data (photos, music, movies)
PERSONAL
- Take a Family Portrait
- Read 101 New Books
IIII - Read 5 novels in French
- Take 51 macro photographs
- xxxx
- Enter a photo in a photo contest/sell online
- Make a Family Trip Photo Album
- Draw 51 zentangles
- Find 5 uses for my Sharpie pens and create them
- Make a list of 51 positive things about myself
- Build a capsule wardrobe
- Learn to apply makeup
- Learn three new ways to style my hair.
- Find a signature scent
- Learn to eat with chopsticks
Travel/Outdoors
- Make a travel map
- Visit Disneyland
- Go hiking
- Las Vegas
- Go on a cruise
- Lake Tahoe
- Grand Canyon
Crater Lake- New York
- Niagara Falls
- Paris
- London
- Go camping
- Go apple/cherry picking in an orchard
- See a concert/game
- Ride a segway
- Go skiing/ice skating
- Go to a pub
- Visit 15 states in the US - California, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Nevada
- Take a day trip to a state park and have a picnic
FUN
- Watch the Oscar best Picture movies since the year I was born (1987)
- Watch the Bond movies since the year I was born (1987)
- Complete watching 10 top TV series
- Watch 10 documentaries
- Learn 5 things about each 50 states of US
- Watch 5 French movies
- Listen to the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
- Make a playlist of my favorite songs on the cloud
- Map out cuisines I've tried
- Blog/Make a list of the must see/do things in every state
- Plan/Blog about places I want to see and to dos in each
- Listen to a 33 new artists II
- Create a 30 Day Photo Challenge for Instagram
- Comment 50 times on blogs I follow I