101 in 1001 days

This blog entry is thanks to Melissa Jill, a wedding photographer in Phoenix, Az.  I've recently become in ahhh of her work, personality, and her love for the industry!  She has started a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days!  While she doesn't complete everything on the list it gives her a great thing to strive for.

I've decided that I should have a goal too!  Some things personal, professional, fun, serious and just all of the above! Did you know that people who create goals in a list make 9 times more money than those who don't?  They also accomplish 9 times more.  Hey, that 9 times sounds pretty good to me!  I've got lots to get done in this house!

1. Go on a picnic with my husband and kids
2. Scrapbook once a month for 6 months. (I'd like more!)
3. Climb a 14,000 ft mountain
4. Have 3-4 photo shoots a month in 2011
5. Get a photo published in a magazine
6. Make a romantic dinner for my husband
7. Book 5 weddings in 2011
8. Go on 5 geocaching hunts in 2011
9. Finish landscaping my out door studio in my backyard
10. Join a book club.
11. Read the Harry Potter series, I can't remember which book I'm on!
12. Buy my own reflector
13. Get hardwood floors on the main floor and in the master bedroom
14. Landscape the yard
15. Have a BBQ on our newly finished deck!
16. Invite a neighbor over for dinner
17. Buy someone else groceries
18. Take flowers to a friend/neighbor
19. Build a plan for Through My Eyes Foundation
20. Execute plan for Through My Eyes Foundation
21. Bring up a new Website, Blog, and Client Proof page
22. Take my family to South Dakota to see the "Great Mountain"
23. Get my bassoon out from under the stairs, dust it off and start playing again.  It has been 5 years :(
24. Take a trip to Washington D.C.
25. Go apple picking
26. Decide on an album company that I love!
27. Go to a movie with the girls
28. Travel to New York
29. See a broadway show  :) This just  makes me giggle!
30. Attend WPPI again.
31. Complete puzzels.  (completed  1.8.2011)
32. Have a game night with friends.
33. Get the baby clothes on some kind of website for sale!  (maybe the blog too!)
34. Go through the baby clothes in line above
35. Set up a craft area in our basement
36. Get up on a Saturday morning before everyone else to sip coffee outside and watch the sunrise
37. Get up early to watch a sunrise someplace super cool with hubby!
38. Put dvd's together for seniors and brides
39.  Have someone design dvd labels for portraits and brides
40. Revamp bridal collections
41. Go to a comedy club
42. Go to a Jazz club
43. See the Plaza lights come on Thanksgiving
44. Watch my oldest son get his black belt
45. Start piano lessons for our 2nd son
46. Go sledding with the kids
47. Take the kids on a nature hike somewhere that's not Kansas
48. Visit an art museum
49. Design an album for brides.
50. Learn about studio lighting--I'm a natural light photographer, and studio lights scare me!
51. Buy an iPad
52. Send Christmas cards to my clients
53. Adopt a family for Christmas
54. Help my mom to redecorate one room
55. Paint my half bath
56. Install cabinets in our daughters closet for toys.
57. Go to the luminary walk with my hubby
58. Play in piles of leaves with the kids
59. Purchase a video camera
60. Purchase equipment to do an indoor wedding
61. Hold a "make-up" session
62. Read 3 books about photography and write a review on the blog
63. Go white water rafting
64. Take the Amtrak train somewhere
65. Visit my college room mate in Chicago, but not in the winter!
66. Get Kirk Vocain to visit our local PUG (Photographers User Group)
67. Purchase a 50mm lens.
68. Purchase a Graphics Tablet
69. I've always wanted some prescription sun glasses--get them!  New glasses too! Completed (1.22.11)
70. Have a SPA day (maybe with a friend)
71. Encourage my hubby to take the MENSA test. ( I know he would pass!)
72. See cherry trees in the spring
73. Visit a light house in New England
74. Go in a hot air balloon
75. Spend a whole day in my p.j.'s playing the Wii with my kids
76. Put together a video of out Colorado family reunion trip from 2009 and give it to each of the family members. Then blog about it.
77. Shovel someone else's driveway
78. Design my studio space in put it into action
79. Have a dinner party with the girls
80. Get a good Bible study book about family and parenting
81. Finish sewing the p.j's for Sterling, that I started for Ethan 2 years ago!
82. Dye my hair, I've only done this once...it was drastic and I hated it
83. Go berry picking
84. Take a cake decorating class
85. Get into--Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation--tried once and didn't make it
86. Read my stack of growing magazines, so they can get out of the house!
87. Watch a friends kids while she gets a pedi, that I paid for!
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While every goal may not get met, and it might end up on the next list of 101 things to do.  I am now more encouraged to accomplish these goals and actually finish something for my self, others, my family, and my business.  I encourage you all to come up with your own list, even if you're not a list kind of person!  You'll be amazed how much you'll get done!  Let God guide me through this list and watch his work be done.  Extra spaces are for the changes the occur in my life.  Check back for updates on my list.