1. Do this challenge first - Buy yourself a notebook. Use this as your journal to document your challenges. Take pictures of completed challenges where possible and add them to it. Use this notebook to collect all the things you need to write down. Use the notebook for all the lists you have to create during challenges. -
5 November 2011
2. Get the family together consistently on a monthly basis for dinners. 30 April 2012
3. Compliment the waiter at a restaurant by writing on the serviette.28 July 2012
4. Do a body detox. 7 - 14th January 2012
5. Write in my journal on a regular basis.
23 October 2012
6. Have a picnic. 26 February 2012
7. Host a fancy dress party.Planned for execution on 31st December 2012
8. Spend one day taking pictures of everything I find beautiful.9 November 2012
9. Take a batch of muffins or cookies to a management meeting. 15 October 2012
10. Start a collection.24 August 2012
11. Learn to say hello, goodbye and thank you in 10 different languages.20 December 2012
12. Write a bucket list.24 October 2012
13. Help someone do something they thought they couldn't.2 October 2012
14. Write down 7 separate places from my life that I hope to take my children to see.
5 May 2012
15. Don't log into facebook for a week.27 April 2012
16. Write down 100 things that I’m grateful for in my life.2nd October 2012
17. Find a favourite poem/verse and memorise is.12 December 2012
18. Look through my old recipe books, choose one book and try cooking every recipe in it! November 30 2012
19. Replay one of my favourite video games and clock it.14 September 2012
20. Book a table at a great restaurant, go with a friend for a desert meal and only order off the desert menu.10 April 2012
21. Host a New Years Eve Dinner party. Planned for execution on 31st December 2012
22. Scrapbook the honeymoon.11 July 2012
23. Watch the sunrise.
24. Go for a family walk on the beach at sunset. 23 November 2012
25. Learn 3 clean jokes.23 September 2012
26. Download 1 album a week from iTunes, add to iPad/iPod and learn about the artist during the week. Failure :(
27. Plant a herb and vege garden.9 December 2012
28. Go to hot water beach.
29. Learn to crochet. Although not on my 52 goals in 52 weeks this will be a priority next year.
30. Make a loaf of bread from scratch.3 October 2012
31. Plant potted colour in large pots. Failure :(
32. Send 10 personal letters this year.....by snail mail.1 Decemeber 2012
33. Sew a simple stuffed toy and give it away.
34. Go to a Sunday market and look at all the colours, people, stalls, food, gifts and smell and listen.22 April 2012
35. Go out of your way to do something kind for a stranger.13 November 2012
36. Write a letter to myself to read in ten years time.3 July 2012
37. Have a long, relaxing bath with bubble bath and bath oil. Read till my fingers wrinkle. Then go straight to bed. Do this as soon as bubba is down for the night. 29 January 2012
38. Send a surprise I-think-you’re-fabulous handwritten note to someone. 6 December 2012
39. Go fruit picking.20 October 2012
40. Write letters to 5 people who have influenced my life for the better and post them.23 August 2012
41. Make home-made jam or relish or preserve fruit and give the first one away. 24 November 2012
42. Make a list of my 52 favourite quotes and make a deck of cards book with them.
2 January 2012
43. Cut flowers, weeds, tree branches whatever is there and arrange them in a vase creatively. Thank the flowers etc as you cut them. Out loud. August 23 2012
44. Explore Auckland City. 23 June 2012
45. Find and visit parks around Auckland. 27 November 2012
46. Answer the "50 questions that will free your mind". 6 December 201147. Take the ferry to Waiheke. Failure :(
48. Do a day trip to Hamilton Gardens again. 30 January 2012
49. Take a friend out for lunch and pay for everything.
10 July 2012
50. Don't complain about anything for a week.16.9.2012
51. Get another tattoo.3 July 2012
52. Write all my worst memories on paper. Bury them. 4th July 2012
53. Make a Gingerbread House. 23 December 2012
54. Collect all my family and friends birthdays, put them into my calendar and send them all birthday cards by post. Completed 5 December 201255. Buy someone a bottle of bubble bath and a rubber ducky – this has got to be given to an adult!
1 May 2012
56. Create my Dream House file.9 July 2012
57. Make friendship bracelets.
20 November 2012
58. Upload my favourite photos to Picasa so I never lose them. 10 January 2012
59. Try a new recipe each week. 1 December 2012
60. Lose 10 Kgs. Failure :(
61. Learn 3 new songs on the guitar.17 August 2012
62. Make dog biscuits for Jake. 2 January 2012
63. Be a good friend and take over a batch of homemade cookies or a cake.
9.9.2012
64. List 30 achievements I have managed in my life so far. 4 December 2012
65. Do something with my ‘Mind, body, spirit’ series - both the magazines and the materials. Started but def not finished...yet
66. Find out a friend's fave cake flavour and bake it for them.9.9.2012
67. Learn to knit.July some time? I need a refresher course, I know that much!
68. Make black board speech bubbles. 9 April 2012
69. Read 20 new books. And a few old and dear ones.1 December 201270. Buy more colourful clothes - not just black!24 August 2012
71. Put a love note in Mr. Man's lunch box.7 June 2011
72. Make a list of 25 things I like about myself and put it on my mirror.5 July 2012
73. Create an inter-changable scrapbook frame and use it!3 October 2012
74. If someone could describe you in 10 words what would you want those words to be? Write them down and read them every day this week. See if you really are living up to those words.5 July 2012
75. Wear a skirt or dress for an entire week.
76. Find a favourite piece of poetry – frame it, hang it. 13 April 2012
77. Go on an op-shopping adventure with a friend.Planned for January
78. Wear my jewellery instead of keeping it stuffed away in a box.21 October 2012
79. Complete the journal pages from ‘Grace is Overrated’30 November 2012
80. Plan an amazing first birthday for Little Miss - and do it!1 September 2012
81. Make a gift for a friend, just because.3 October 2012
82. Make a reusable Advent Calendar. 17 November 2012
83. Make at least 5 things on my 'recipes' pinterest board or delete the whole board. 4 November 2012
84. Make a quote canvas. 21 October 2012
85. Sew at least 5 things.14 December 2012
86. Go to Photography club with Lynn.14th February 2012
87. Create an ‘I love’ page, frame it and keep it on my bedside table. 10 July 2012
88. Make a paper fortune teller.13 April 2012
89. Refashion an old shirt.
90. Use the crafting supplies I have before I buy more.3 October 2012
91. Make letter magnets. 29 July 2012
92. Have a romantic candle lit dinner for two.
93. Make a crayon and heat piece of art.4 November 2012
94. Make a tyre see-saw.
95. Do the 30 day drawing challenge. 4 May 2012
97. Throw a baby shower for a special someone. 14th January 2012
98. Plant a tree. 9th June 201299. Do the life circle writing tasks.28 May 2012
100. Read over my notebook and blog and feel fantastic about everything I have achieved.
I May not have finished every single thing but I'm pretty happy with all of the AMAZING things I have achieved. I'm happy to leave the few outstanding with the hopes to complete them as extras next year? You never know what could happen. Here are all the things I blogged about for the 101 Challenge.
101. Start my next list. 24 October 2012
