The Brighton Jotter

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101 Things in 1001 Days

Start 8th June 2026. Finish 6th March 2029

Review dates: 17/9/2026, 26/12/2026, 5/4/2027, 14/7/2027, 22/10/2027, 31/1/2028, 9/5/2028, 17/8/2028, 25/11/2028 and I will finish on 6/3/2029

My Previous 101 Lists: 101 Things in 1001 Days Round 1

  1. Icon for blog site
  2. Update the Travel Pages on my blog
  3. Book List Pages for my Blog
  4. NaBloPoMo
  5. Read 5 Books by Australian Indigenous authors
  6. Read Book Award Winners – 5 books from each of the lists I’m working through (35 books)
  7. Read 20 Books for Read Around the World Challenge
  8. Free Write 100 times https://writers.com/what-is-free-writing
  9. Ten Lists of Things I don’t want to forget https://theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/2200-lists-later
  10. Have a system for keeping notes up to date
  11. Transfer notes from five of my paper journals to Obsidian
  12. Sort through notes imported from ROAM
  13. Sort through notes imported from Evernote
  14. Sort through notes imported from old blog
  15. Try keeping a book journal https://rubysstudio.substack.com/p/on-the-benefits-of-book-journaling?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
  16. Make a new list
  17. Do 1 Unassisted chin-up
  18. Achieve a running grade age result of 65% in 5K, 10K and HM (current best is 63.78% in 10K) https://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/mldrroad25.html
  19. Work through the chapters of Built to Move. Test and work to improve each benchmark Retest every 6 months after first test.
  20. Complete a Marathon
  21. APSOC Cross Country Season
  22. Do 4 new to me races
  23. Run 2000 km in a year
  24. Clean out and organise study
  25. Clean out and organise the hall cupboard
  26. Add photos to our holiday gallery
  27. Clean out the box in our wardrobe and put in a full-length mirror
  28. Decorate Spare Room
  29. Put up E and K’s Wedding Photos
  30. Complete 1 idea from each chapter of the Permaculture Handbook
  31. Find an artwork I love for our house
  32. Fix our automatic computer backup
  33. Save seeds and grow veggies from saved seeds
  34. Wardrobe cleanout every change of season
  35. Pantry Cleanout every six months
  36. Put up tiles
  37. Memorise 50 verses of scripture
  38. Go on a retreat
  39. List 1001 Things to be grateful for
  40. Read through the Bible
  41. Learn 10 Christmas Carols
  42. Develop my skills in playing piano by ear – complete my piano course
  43. Master 5 new rhythm patterns and 5 fills
  44. Send Snail mail (x20)
  45. Make one phone call and send 4 texts every month, just to catch up with friends or family
  46. Family birthday dinners
  47. Sibling catchups (x10)
  48. Update in case of death folder
  49. Invite people for meals (x20)
  50. Be the Gift Do things from the Be the Gift Calendar (x40)
  51. Join a citizen science project
  52. Donate blood
  53. Pick up Rubbish (x4)
  54. See the Fairy Penguins in St Kilda
  55. Neighbourhood talks, shows or other activities (x5)
  56. Spot and photograph 50 local birds
  57. Read books about Melbourne (x5)
  58. Hometown Tourist (x2)
  59. Melbourne museum or gallery visits (x5)
  60. Melbourne restaurants
  61. Local hiking
  62. Regional destination restaurants
  63. Germany
  64. Millford/Routeburn
  65. Morocco
  66. Travel for one more of G’s major marathons (other than Berlin)
  67. Family trip
  68. Victorian National Parks
  69. Make 20 black out poems https://www.craftaliciousme.com/how-i-create-my-black-out-poetry/
  70. Do some craft (x2)
  71. Photo or video a day for a month
  72. 100 Project with my good camera (create 100 images I’m especially proud of)
  73. Changing seasons photo project
  74. Print kids high school books
  75. Print kids baby books
  76. Print kids trip books
  77. Print H’s primary school book
  78. Print other trip books (x2)
  79. Print year books (x2)
  80. Buy nothing new challenge
  81. Get to level 50 in Italian and 60 in French and 30 in Spanish (starting at 7, 18 and 14 respectively) on Duolingo
  82. Learn how to say my list of basic travel phrases in the language of each non-English speaking country we travel to.
  83. Movie marathon
  84. Time track for a week (x5)
  85. Ride my bike 40 times
  86. Games Night (x4)
  87. Go to 10 live performances (could be as simple as live music at the pub)
  88. 10 Solo Screen-free days (TV watching with G allowed but no personal screen)
  89. Swim 20 times in open water
  90. Inspired by Engie’s goal to spend more time outside, I’m going to try to average two hours per day but I’ll just track loosely for a year (https://ngradstudent.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026-goals.html)
  91. See a platypus in the wild
  92. Do ten TAON Prompts (from the book or Substack)
  93. Navigate a new town for the day without using my phone (paper maps OK)
  94. Make Christmas pudding with mum
  95. Make Christmas cake with mum
  96. Bake 20 sweet treats
  97. Gardening (x40)
  98. Make 50 new recipes
  99. Bottling (x10)
  100. Transfer my APS negatives to digital
  101. Online French Course