For those of you who haven’t heard of the “101 Things in 1001 Days” challenge, it is a self-challenge to complete realistic tasks in life within a set period of time. I really like this idea; I see it as a chance to grow and as something to strive for. Just the process of making the list was rewarding for me as I can look at all my aspirations as I see them at this moment. As well, I think it will be really rewarding when I reach the 1001st day to reflect on what I have achieved. I would love to make one of these every 1001 days just so I can compare how my goals change.

Reading these lists, I think it reveals a lot about the character of a person – more than any other questionnaire.

I don’t really expect to complete all 101 items by the 1001st day, but I hope to complete as many as I can. I would be stoked with 50% but know I can do more than that!

I will try to update it as often as possible.

Not Complete

In Progress

Completed

Start Date: March 4th, 2009
End Date: November 30th, 2011


Completed: 30/101 – 30%

#	Description	Status
	Business
1	Shoot a destination wedding in 2009
2	Shoot 2 destination weddings in 2010
3	Shoot 10 weddings in a year
4	Shoot 15 weddings in a year
5	Shoot 20 weddings in a year
6	Shoot 25 weddings in a year
7	Create a business targeted to other photographers
8	Have my work published in a magazine
9	Teach a class or host a workshop on photography
10	Be a vendor at a bridal show
11	Blog every week for 6 months
12	Have a great space to meet clients in
13	Win a photo contest
14	Shoot a wedding on another continent
15	Resist buying any major photo gear in 2009 (I have more then enough)
16	Organize a TTD shootout with a model and other photographers
17	Create a series of lightroom or photoshop actions for photographers
18	Improve workflow for album design
19	Create a video feature of me shooting a wedding to post on my website
20	Buy a new laptop
21	Make backing up automatic
22	Make a photobooth
23	Make a unique album design (cover to cover)
24	Decorate my office with my work
25	Shoot a TTD in a cenote
26	Keep my current website design for a year
27	Make/Sell an instructional DVD or Book
28	Mentor a new photographer
29	Run a contest (prize is a wedding package)
30	Get a BlackBerry or iPhone
31	Have 100 visitors/day on my website for a month
32	Have site hit Digg’s homepage
33	Buy a wedding dress with the intent to find someone to wear it and trash it
34	Write an article featured on another website
35	Be on the first page on Google for “Toronto wedding photographer”
	Personal
36	Weight Loss Goal #1 190lbs
37	Weight Loss Goal #2 180lbs (where I was last year)
38	Weight Loss Goal #3 175lbs (believe it or not the lightest I could be without losing muscle)
39	For one month, wake up before 8:30am every day
40	Never wake up past 10am for 3 months
41	Work out 3 times per week for 3 months
42	Learn to ski backwards really well
43	Fall in love
44	Attend a wedding as a guest
45	Sell my Jeep and get a smaller car
46	Join a rec sport team (volleyball or baseball)
47	Purge all the things I haven’t used in the last two years
48	Purge all the things I haven’t used in the last year
49	Find a place that I can really call my own
50	Have a good birthday
51	Get a tattoo
52	Swim once a week for 6 months
53	Dress up and go somewhere fancy with someone important
54	Run 5k
55	Sell $500 worth of stuff I don’t need anymore
56	Run 3km/day, 5 days/week, for 4 weeks
57	Host a BBQ at the cottage
58	Get some pictures of myself
59	Bike once a week for 6 months
60	Bury someone in the sand and get buried in the sand
	Adventures
61	Go to the Toronto Zoo
62	Go on a multi-day kayak trip
63	Go camping
64	Go on 5 roadtrips
65	Go to Niagra Falls
66	See a drive-in movie
67	Kayak to the park and back from my cottage
68	Kayak to the marina and back from my cottage
69	Leave cottage at 8am and bike as far as I can get until noon then go back
70	Get lost somewhere
	Activities
71	Learn how to Surf
72	Skydive
73	Scuba Dive again
74	Go whitewater rafting
75	Go ice skating
76	Go fishing
77	Go water skiing again (I used to every weekend)
78	Bungie Jump
79	Go paintballing
80	Build a sandcastle
	Travel
81	Go to Hawaii
82	Travel to Australia or New Zealand
83	Chose a destination internationally at random and travel there
84	Go somewhere international with a girlfriend (I guess this could be 2 goals )
85	Travel to Bali Indonesia again
86	Go to Alaska
87	Go to a country I know nothing about
88	Travel by train
89	Travel somewhere internationally with only carry-on luggage
90	Fly first class
	Photography (not weddings)
91	Photograph Morain Lake in Banff AB again (sunrise)
92	Take an amazing picture of a lion, leopard, or jaguar (zoo is fine)
93	Photograph 5 different sunsets
94	Photograph 5 different sunrises
95	Sell a landscape or fine art print
96	Sell enough work from a trip to pay for the trip
97	Win a contest
98	Try photographing a baby
99	Take a trip downtown to scout locations
100	Update photojon.com once a month for a year
101	Start a new list