There are many blogs devoted to achieving a set list of goals in an allotted period of time. I tried the “101 in 1001 days” thing, but found I had far too many goals to write down- and a lot of mine were far more long term. I was inspired by a man by the name of John Goddard who as a teenager sat down and wrote a list of 127 life goals- goals that would be considered by the average person to be unachievable- and proceeded to complete 109 of them (so far!). I have written my own list of goals. There are 142 currently, but I’ll add more as they come to me. These goals are perhaps not as incredible as those of John Goddard, but if I achieve all the things in this list in my lifetime, I will have lived with no regrets and great satisfaction. These are in no order. Once achieved, they will be in bold.
1. Have a child
2. Save someone’s life
3. Write a novel and publish it
4. Study quantum physics
5. Achieve and maintain peak physical fitness
6. Write a piece about my recurring dream in order to understand it, and publish it.
7. Witness death
8. Run a marathon
9. Have photos in an exhibition
10. Complete my photo album/folio
11. Perform in a musical group
12. Witness new life
13. Learn how to make my own clothes
14. Create a good public art piece- eg. Some form of street art
15. Give blood
16. Skydive
17. Learn French
18. Own my own home
19. Visit Indonesia and become fluent
20. Watch the sunrise from a mountain
21. Be part of a drama group- and perform
22. Go to the Louvre
23. Learn to play the piano- well
24. Compile my family tree as far back as possible
25. Model in a publication
26. Read works of Nietzsche
27. Travel into space
28. Ride in a Gondola in Venice
29. Do volunteer work in a 3rd world country
30. Have some research published
31. Backpack through Europe
32. Ride a pushbike in Paris
33. Do a PhD
34. Buy and sell antiques
35. Adopt a child
36. Go on a photographic trip
37. Learn the art of true meditation
38. Take photography class- to learn how to properly use my SLR(s)
39. Own a lomo LC-A+
40. Finish a degree
41. Learn to play the bass guitar, well
42. Leave a note for a stranger on a train
43. Read Tolstoy’s War and Peace
44. Go to an opera
45. Go to a ballet
46. Be able to do 100 pushups on my toes
47. Learn how to use, and build, my own darkroom
48. Actively protest about something I am passionate about
49. Take voice lessons to get back to my previous ability, or exceed it
50. Give a valued possession away to someone who needs it more
51. Get an article published in a special interest magazine
52. Take a life drawing class
53. Sell my huge pile of vintage dresses/clothing
54. Send anonymous photos and letters to people
55. Get over the anger I hold onto over ill-treatment in a relationship
56. Become 100% sure about my atheist beliefs
57. Read the bible
58. Get to know my cousins, who are isolated from our family after a feud
59. Allow myself to come last without the feeling of failure
60. Get that tattoo
61. Start handwriting to “penpals” I have never met
62. Give something precious to me, to someone else
63. Read numerous works of Shakespeare, sonnets included
64. Walk the Kokoda trail
65. Go on a holiday with less than a day’s notice
66. Identify and list 100 simple pleasures- a la “amelie”
67. Teach a class
68. Compile all my recipes into a book so I stop eating so much toast
69. Build my own camera
70. Put change in someone’s parking meter
71. Do a 5-day fast
72. Create a small book of poetry/drawings and sell it in makeshift copies at a bookstore on Brunswick street.
73. Learn how to put water in my car, change a tyre and fill the tyres with air
74. Establish my style so it truly reflects who I am
75. Go trekking in Nepal
76. Have a pain-free neck and shoulder
77. Make a snow angel
78. Ride the London Eye
79. Write a song and record it
80. Identify and list 100 things that make me truly happy
81. Get fitted for a bra by a professional
82. Play Pachelbel’s Canon in D on the piano
83. Sponsor a child
84. Reduce my personal possessions (not including furniture and homegoods, car or house) to 100 items.
85. Find and buy the first edition of one of my favourite children’s books
86. Visit Ayer’s rock
87. Visit The Eiffel tower
88. Visit the leaning tower of pisa
89. See the ceiling of the Sistine chapel
90. Learn to ride a motorbike
91. Visit the Colosseum
92. Visit the Taj Mahal
93. Study philosophy and establish my own views on existence
94. Visit the Pyramids of Giza
95. Successfully complete a 365 project (photo a day for a year)
96. Learn how to play chess well
97. Get a colonic irrigation
98. Have a snowball fight
99. Do a wine tour
100. Pay off my HECS debt
101. Visit Jim Morrison’s grave
102. Create a saltwater aquarium
103. Know how to solve a rubix cube
104. See an underwater shipwreck
105. Work at one of the top hospitals in the world
106. Commit to one person for life
107. Learn to love myself
108. Go to the Moulin Rouge
109. Get my teeth professionally whitened
110. Achieve a grade 4 physiotherapy position
111. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
112. Go to a fashion show in Paris
113. Go to Antarctica
114. Appear in a short film
115. Eat raw food for a month
116. Publish a coffee table book of photography
117. Get a letter to the editor published
118. Perform at an open mic night
119. Teach someone to walk after brain injury
120. Change an aspect of physiotherapy practise through research
121. Escape death
122. Make amends with my ex boyfriend, to allow him to let go of guilt
123. Compete in a triathlon
124. Have lomohome of the day
125. Grow my own vegetable garden
126. Read the koran
127. Go to Falls festival
128. Go to Carling Weekend
129. Do NaNoWriMo
130. Produce at least one good roll with Polaroid film, 120 and 110 cartridges, and 120 film.
131. Sit down with, and chat with, a homeless person
132. Have a whirlwind romance with a total stranger
133. Go skinny dipping
134. Go backpacking around Europe alone
135. Get a telescope
136. Ride in a hot air balloon
137. Learn salsa
138. Read the top 100 novels of all time
139. Create something with the hundreds of drawn-on metcards I have collected
140. Tell my family what they mean to me, in particular my mother.
141. Visit every country in the world
142. See Bob Dylan
