101 in 1001 Days

Start: Jan 5th 2014   End: Oct 2nd 2017

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Completed - Strikethrough

SPIRITUAL/GIVING

1. Pray daily for a month
2. Read the daily Bible readings in a different month
3. Don't complain about anything for a week
4. Donate 500000 grains of rice on freerice.com

Things to Learn

1. Get DELF A2 certification French
2. Get Six Sigma green belt certified
3. Get my driver's license and drive
4. Complete an online Photography Class
5. Study web designing/web site creation/blog design
6. Learn new words - Reach "Sesquipedalianist" level on vocabulary.com (~5000 new words)
7. Learn to use GIMP
8. Learn Front End Development
9. Learn speed reading & check my reading speed (235wpm!!)
10. Take a course on lynda.com Completed a photography course
11. Learn lean manufacturing---poka yoke/ something related to my line of work
12. Learn to use the manual setting on our camera
13. Learn macro photography
14. Learn the Kannada alphabet
15. Update resume & LinkedIn every 6 mths
16. Complete a course on Coursera

FINANCIAL

1. Save funds to pay off mortgage
2. Invest in another property
3. Develop an alternative source of income

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

1. Walk 5K in 45 Minutes
2. Run a 5K
3. Complete a 30 miles in 30 days challenge Feb'2015
4. Run 1001 kms
5. Lose belly fat
6. Apply 100 face masks for acne/blemishes
7. Oil massage my head 100 times - 2
8. Hold a plank for 1 min
9. Do 5 ab challenge series
10. Drink 1.5l of water/day for 1 month
11. Get up at 6 am weekdays for 1 month
12. Go to bed by 11 pm on weekdays for 2 week straight
13. Have a spa day every month
14. Take a bubble bath atleast once a week any 2 months
15. Keep my (hands & toes) nails looking nice (trimmed and painted) for one whole summer

HOME 

1. Bake 5 different cakes
2. Bake 5 kinds of cookies
3. Bake 5 bread recipes
4. Make 5 different salads
5. Try 30 new recipes  I
6. Learn to cook xxxxx
7. Try 5 new vegetables (Brussel sprouts)
8. Cook a different breakfast everyday for a week
9. Go to bed with a spotless kitchen every night for a week instead of leaving dishes for the morning
10. Follow FlyLady for at least a week
11. Cook something from 15 different countries
12. Develop a menu for different occasions
13. Organize recipes I've tried into a file/cloud
14. Build a Home ‘Media Server’ to backup data (photos, music, movies)

PERSONAL

1. Take a Family Portrait
2. Read 101 New Books  IIII
3. Read 5 novels in French
4. Take 51 macro photographs
5. xxxx
6. Enter a photo in a photo contest/sell online
7. Make a Family Trip Photo Album
8. Draw 51 zentangles
9. Find 5 uses for my Sharpie pens and create them
10. Make a list of 51 positive things about myself
11. Build a capsule wardrobe
12. Learn to apply makeup
13. Learn three new ways to style my hair.
14. Find a signature scent
15. Learn to eat with chopsticks

Travel/Outdoors

1. Make a travel map
2. Visit Disneyland
3. Go hiking
4. Las Vegas
5. Go on a cruise
6. Lake Tahoe
7. Grand Canyon
8. Crater Lake
9. New York
10. Niagara Falls
11. Paris
12. London
13. Go camping
14. Go apple/cherry picking in an orchard
15. See a concert/game
16. Ride a segway
17. Go skiing/ice skating
18. Go to a pub
19. Visit 15 states in the US - California, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Nevada
20. Take a day trip to a state park and have a picnic

FUN

1. Watch the Oscar best Picture movies since the year I was born (1987)
2. Watch the Bond movies since the year I was born (1987)
3. Complete watching 10 top TV series
4. Watch 10 documentaries
5. Learn 5 things about each 50 states of US
6. Watch 5 French movies
7. Listen to the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
8. Make a playlist of my favorite songs on the cloud
9. Map out cuisines I've tried
10. Blog/Make a list of the must see/do things in every state
11. Plan/Blog about places I want to see and to dos in each
12. Listen to a 33 new artists  II
13. Create a 30 Day Photo Challenge for Instagram
14. Comment 50 times on blogs I follow  I