Have y’all heard about these 101 in 1001 list? I had not until I was reading my friend, Danielle Hayden’s blog one day and she posted hers. Like her, I love list. If you ever come to my home, look in my purse or look through my trash (that would be weird) you would find list. Oodles and oodles of them. I’m even guilty of adding things I just did so I can cross them off. I like the feeling it gives me. Is that weird? Nah. Other people do that. Right?  

This whole 101 in 1001 originated from the Day Zero Project. The project was created to motivate people to accomplish items on their bucket list in 1001 days increments instead of the daunting “make sure you accomplish the things you want to before you die” bucket list or the dreaded new years resolution list that are forgot about after January when the “new” wears off of a new year.

 

I was so excited to start my list. I really feel like I have been in a transition phase where I have become more motivated to focus on certain things in my life and let go of other things not in line with my goals. Obviously, a list is the best way to do this. I have included things that I think will make me happy and enrich my life. My hope is that some of these things become habits through this process. Some of this crap is personal. Stepping out of my box already, I’m happy to be sharing this with you all. I hope you enjoy and possibly even start your own.

 

Start Date: December 6, 2014

End Date: September 2, 2017

{I will mark through items as I complete them}

 

Marriage

1. Pray together every night for a month
2. 5 creative dates either at home or out
3. Get professional pictures taken
4. Greet Austin with a XO every night for a week
5. Make a list with Austin of things we want to accomplish together for other and in our marriage

 

Things to do

6. Send 10 birthday cards ||
7. Get my hunter’s safety license (then go hunting)
8. Have a garage sale after we move things out of storage. De-clutter our life
9. Read or listen to 10 new books |||
10. Go to Dads not just at Christmas
11. Babysit someone’s kids so they can have date night
12. Make curtains
13. Send a gift to a person or business in a town we worked after we leave
14. Pay for the person behind me in a drive through (3 times)
15. Pay for a young or elderly couples meal
16. Make 5 bags with necessities for the homeless and give them out
17. Go on a road trip with an in-law.
18. Wear make-up 3 times in a week (4 different times)
19. Host my girlfriends at our home
20. Refurbish an old piece of furniture by myself
21. Spend a weekend unplugged
22. Clean my truck once a week for a month
23. Face time or Skype friends or family (10 different times)
24. Invite 1 (or more) of Austin’s co-workers (who is away from family) for a home-cooked meal (3 different times)
25. Send out Christmas cards
26. Take a cooking class
27. Volunteer to spend time with cancer patients (specifically children)
28. Go camping
29. Build something out of wood
30. Pick an area of our home or life to organize each month for 6 months
31. Write a business plan
32. Create a dream board for each room in our home
33. Make “a year in photos” book
34. Leave 101 Operationbeautiful.com notes
35. Answer “50 questions that will free your mind”
36. Start a traveling gift box with either family or friends or both
37. Host a family dinner for both Austin’s family and mine
38. Try 30 new recipes
39. Complete 5 Pinterest projects
40. Start a scrapbook for Austin and I
41. Use the blog as a travel journal or create a handwritten one.
42. Visit my dad’s side of the family more than just Christmas
43. Go to the flipping dentist
44. Create and keep up a recipe book
45. Organize e-mail and keep it that way for 2 months

 

Things to Buy/Own

46. A home (no big deal. Ha!)
47. 1 pair of boots that will wear well and are comfortable (not cowboy boots)
48. New lens for my camera
49. A heifer or interest in one
50. Fitbit
51. Laser hair removal

 

Things to Learn

52. How to Can (pickles)
53. Relearn to sew
54. Photoshop – define my exact style and create a more streamlined system
55. Find a perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe
56. To drive a standard confidently

 

Health

57. Drink only water or naturally flavored water for a straight month
58. Make a list of 365 reasons to get fit
59. Loose 25 pounds. Then set new goal.
60. Write a letter to myself to read after loosing each mini goal weight. (6 letters)
61. Try crossfit
62. Make a list of 25 things I love about myself and post it where I can remember
63. Plan workouts before I start working out everyday for a month
64. Be myself around my family

 

Faith

65. Bible study with Austin 3 x week for 2 months
66. Go to a Church in a new town
67. Finish 5 series of my choice from Elevation church (Mood swingers, Stretch Marks, Meant To Be, Full. Filled., Hope of Glory)
68. Pray for my husband everyday for a month.
69. Start a prayer journal

 

Finance

70. Pay off my truck
71. Rework and cut down our monthly budget every month for 3 straight months
72. Build our emergency savings from 3 months to 6 months
73. Donate $2,000 to a church or organization of our choice
74. Buy life insurance

 

The Kayla Ross

75. Write 5 non time sensitive post, for when things get busy or we are traveling
76. Post twice a week for 2 months straight
77. Post 5 times in one week x 2
78. Have a guest blogger
79. Purchase and learn video editing software
80. Create 5 videos for YouTube. One. Two. Three. Four. Five.
81. Monthly vlog (2 different months). One.
82. Professional redesign
83. Finish all the static pages
84. Have 100 subscribers
85. Organize a swap for pipeline wives
86. Complete a day in the life
87. Organize and back up all my documents and photos
88. Create and use a blogging calendar
89. Get a font made of my handwriting
90. Complete 1 of my dream shoot.  Shelbi
91. Make the farm a website & finish horse website. Connect the two
92. Post 10 blogs I don’t want to. Because it’s personal and I’m uncomfortable.

 

Travel

93. Visit 2 farms I’ve never been to before. KY
94. 3 new states
95. Go on a vacation (even if it’s just a long weekend)
96. Visit somewhere new in Oklahoma. Tish
97. Go to one of the major livestock shows either to work or take someone who has never been
98. Get my passport
99. Visit a friend from college
100. Go to a local event in a town we are working in 1/5. PA Rodeo

 

101. Make another 101 in 1001 list

 

 

If you have a list let me know below. I would love to see what you’re accomplishing on your quest to living the best life you can.

 

Kayla