101 List – Last Day

Today, Saturday 7 January 2023, marks the last day of my 101 Things in 1001 Days, AKA, 101 List. As mentioned in previously I abandoned the 101 List because of a variety of reasons, the pandemic, illness, change of job, etc… I am trying very hard not to focus on the negative, but to concerntrate on what I did achieve, which is not a lot but I thought I would share and finish the journey.

I have put the list below. I have marked in BOLD – Completed, Italics – Still in Progress or Progress made.

Self-Improvement/Well-Being

1.Throw-out/Donate/Sell everything I have not used/worn/need – this is always in progress.

  1. Re-decorate My Bedroom – Completed 14 June 2020
  2. Meditate once a day – Completed I always makesure I do this.
  3. Learn a new meditation technique – Completed Mindfulness Meditation and Walking Meditation. I now know three techniques including Breathing Meditation.
  4. Break a bad habit – Completed – I don’t want to share what it was but I have done it.
  5. Sort out the loft – Completed October 2020
  6. Organise and update personal preparedness every 6 to 12 months – (which should work out to 5 times during this challenge) Completed 5/5
  7. Go to the Dentist – March 2022
  8. Go to the Opticians – Completed March 2021 (I have a nice pair of glasses now)
  9. Have a professional facial or massage

Health and Fitness

I have completed nothing under this section, this will be moving over to my new list for 2023, with a few changes.

  1. Lose Weight – (I need to work out exactly how much for healthy/ideal weight)
  2. Drop 4 Dress Sizes – its all about losing the inches
  3. Close Exercise Ring on Apple Watch everyday for a month
  4. Go running at least once early in the morning – Before 7 am
  5. Run 2.5k
  6. Run 5k
  7. Improve Core Strength – Plank, Sit-ups etc… – I will update this on the Health and Fitness Posts
  8. Tone Arms – This means completing arm exercises
  9. Complete Yoga 30 day challenge
  10. Buy and fit into a pair of size 14 (UK) jeans

Food and Cooking

  1. Start eating breakfast again – since I have been ill, I have not been able to eat breakfast and I miss it. – I don’t eat breakfast everyday but I do a few times a week.
  2. Make my own hummus
  3. Make Dolewhips – loved these in Disney World
  4. Have a picnic – Summer 2022
  5. Make a confectionary/cake house
  6. Make pancakes for breakfast one morning
  7. Try 5 new recipes – 1) Lancashire Hot Pot 2) Meatballs (Italian) 3) Chow Mein (Chinese) 4) Gyros (Greece) 5) Bombay Potato’s (Indian)
  8. Try to make foods from 5 different countries (English, Mexican and Italian are not included as I do these all the time) 5/5 – This was interesting. I experimented with Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Thai and French dishes.

Books and Reading

  1. Read 101 (new) books – these are books I have not read before – 101/101 – If you go to my Reading Corner, I have a list on Goodreads of all the books.
  2. Complete a Reading Challenge – Going to do the Ultimate Book challenge from the Day Zero Website – Starting 1 May 2020 – I have not checked this so I am going to presume I have not completed this
  3. Read an Agatha Christie novel
  4. Read all the books on my to read shelf – as it looks from the end of April 2020 (I will post a list) – nope still got them to read.
  5. Find 15 (new) authors – authors I have never read before – 15/15 – so many new authors discovered.

Writing and Blogging

  1. Complete NaNoWriMo again
  2. Complete a Blog Challenge – on all blogs – LuluBy Place & Reading Corner AtoZ April Challenge 2021 2/4
  3. Enter a writing competition
  4. Have something I have written published – September 2020 (Landscaping News)
  5. Write 10 short stories – each one in a different genre
  6. Finish my fantasy book project – working title (Mark of a King)
  7. Blog at least once a week on all Blog Sites – well this didn’t happen

Art/Crafts/Photography

  1. Finish Sleeping Beauty’s Tower – (this has been on every list for the past 10 years or more.) – It is nearly finished.
  2. Take a photo everyday for the 1001 days – This got boring so I gave up.
  3. Create a portfolio of card designs
  4. Create a portfolio of art work
  5. Create a portfolio of Miniature Creations
  6. Up-cycle Craft Cupboard – Completed 30/06/2020
  7. Complete a self-portrait
  8. Keep a Bullet Journal starting May 2020 and Finishing December 2022
  9. Create a window scene for my bedroom so an occasion/awareness day
  10. Complete the Playing Card Challenge – 13/52
  11. Make a Cushion
  12. Make over Bedroom Chair – Summer 2021
  13. Send 5 Surprise Craft Gifts
  14. Use/Sell all the Craft Items I currently Own
  15. Buy a Cricut Joy – Completed April 2021
  16. Do “something” for parents 40th Anniversary in 2022 – Completed July 2022
  17. Go to a Zoo or Safari Park – Twycross Zoo – 29/08/2020 & September 2022
  18. Complete a Sketchbook
  19. Make an Art Doll

Finances and Chariety

Nothing in this one has been properly completed, apart from the pension. It is something I am going to work on during 2023.

  1. Be completely Debt Free at the end of 1001 days
  2. Have a decent emergency fund
  3. Have 3 no spend months during the 1001 days 1/3 – March 2021
  4. Organise my pension plans – November 2021
  5. Set up a monthly direct debit for a chariety
  6. Host/Participate in a Charity Event – might be participating in the Three Peak Challenge

Career/Business

  1. Complete 3 Course for Continuous Professional Development
  2. Join a Guild (there are a few crafting guilds, I need to look into)
  3. Set up Two Etsy Shops – Set up has been completed, selling on one and not on the other.
  4. Finish my degree
  5. Learn a new skill that will help with either business or career

Spiritual

  1. Read the Bible over a year (again)
  2. Complete a list of Personal and Family Study Activites – Completed
  3. Start a new bible study notebook – started April 2020
  4. Update Study Bible with I-pad notes every month
  5. Send Year Text Boxes out – 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023
  6. Saved – never added a thing

Movies and TV

  1. Make a list of 101 Movies I have not watched and watch them all – Starting 01 May 2020 – 33/101
  2. Finish 101 Favourite Movie List – Completed October 2020
  3. Review all things watched – In Progress and not up to date
  4. Come up with a new name (title) for – Luluby’s Screentime/Entertainment Place (as I don’t like it) – Completed 09/05/2020 new name: LIFE IN THE LANTERN
  5. Watch 10 past shows I have never seen but apparently should (there will be a list) 3/10 – 1. Gavin & Stacey 2. The Office (US)
  6. Find a new sitcom to enjoy – Completed – New Girl

Just for Fun/Random

  1. Learn to make 5 Different Cocktails Completed – 1) A Manhattan 2) French Martini 3) Long Island Ice Tea 4) Tom Colins 5) Pina Colada
  2. Buy a Cocktail Shaker – Completed – March 2021 (my daughter brought me one)
  3. Buy a Stranger a Drink (Kindness Board/Pay It Forward)
  4. Learn how to Juggle 3 balls
  5. Learn a card trick
  6. Learn a new card game
  7. Give myself a drag queen makeover
  1. Complete a Walking Challenge
  2. Have a Disney Day
  3. Saved
  4. Saved
  5. Buy a Stranger a Book – NEW ADDED MAY 2020
  6. Have my own pet (added November 2020) – Completed December 2020 (unexpectedly acquired a Gerbil who I have named Disney)
  7. Write a 101 List of a 101 Things I have Achieved so far in my lifetime. ADDED April 2021
  8. Create My Ultimate Bucket List. ADDED April 2021
  9. Saved for 2022
  10. Saved for 2022
  11. Saved for 2022
  12. Create a new 101 Things List

Out of 101 Things:

31/101 – Completed

6/101 – were left blank

24/101 – Items still in progress

40/101 – Not completed

To be honest that was not as hopeless as I thought it was going to be. I expected to have only completed about 10 items.

Tomorrow I will be posting my 50 Things Before 50 List.

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