I realize in life that there are a plethora of things I want to do and accomplish. Sometimes I’ll throw out a completely random desire of mine and forget it as soon as I say it. I suppose that is part of the problem of not writing things down. It seems when you write things down you are more accountable to it, more likely to accomplish it. All that being said, I have decided to make a list of 101 things I desire to accomplish or achieve in 1001 days. The numbers are apparently completely arbitrary and I actually got the idea from Melissa Jill, an awesome wedding photographer based in Arizona. I am giving myself the freedom to change/add things as time progresses because as I grow and change… my desires in life grow and change. Additionally, these items are not numbered in any level of importance.
As it stands, here it is, my 101 in 1001
Start date: May 1, 2010
End date: January 26, 2013 (click here for the handy date calculator I used to figure the end date out)
- Go horseback riding
- Shoot my first wedding
- Take one portrait everyday (in any given month)
- Travel to Japan
- Read 5 books to help my business & do reviews of each on my blog
- Attend a Gray Photography workshop
- Make a new friend
- Graduate from school
- Pay off my credit card and car loan
- Move out of my parent’s house
- Interview a photographer I admire and put it on my blog
- See a play on Broadway
- Blog everyday for a month
- Get engaged and married
- Volunteer in another country for a cause I really care about
- Purchase a Mac
- Buy a canvas print of my work
- Make 3 new photography friends
- Start posting wedding tips for brides
- Become a photographer full-time
- Have my photographs published in a magazine
- Buy a 50mm 1.4 lens (Completed July 6, 2010)
- Book a wedding every weekend of any given month
- Drive cross country (Completed June 3, 2010)
- Travel to Australia
- Buy a house
- Pay off my student loans, live debt free
- Create & give postcards to the vendors I work with featuring a photo of their work for use in their marketing
- Stand under a waterfall
- Watch the sunset on a beach in Hawaii
- Learn how to drive a stick
- Learn how to speak Japanese
- Go skydiving
- Acquire albums/proof books of my work to show to clients
- Visit the Statue of Liberty
- Set up/orchestrate a fashion shoot
- Volunteer at a homeless shelter
- Purchase a new car… with cash!
- Have a conversation with someone in Spanish
- Take a European vacation… Spain, Italy, France, and England
- Write/send someone a letter in the mail
- Do a family portrait session
- Visit my best friend in Birmingham
- Get another tattoo
- Have my portrait taken by Ross Oscar Knight (Completed May 24, 2010)
- Go scuba diving
- Re-do my website (Completed August 21, 2010)
- Shoot a wedding in another country
- Buy a new camera body
- Do a vintage inspired shoot
- Complete a book
- Cook dinner for my beau… anything he wants
- Learn how to make sushi
- Attend a cooking class
- Move to Cali
- Bake a cake from scratch
- Have a picnic in the park (Completed July 16, 2010)
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I feel the list and my life will work in a symbiotic relationship. The list will influence my life and my life will influence the list. I am not entirely motivated by the list but I am aware that it now exists. I’m willing to take it one day at a time and see where God leads me. Ready, set, go…
~Saadia Me*Chel
