Start Date: 01 July 2018
End Date: 28 March 2021
Planning
- Make a full transfer plan, including volunteering, campus tours, and standardised tests
- Make a rough timeline of observance implementation (with intermediary steps)
- Make a rough overall educational plan, including necessary “extras” (volunteering, research, etc.)
- Make a detailed schedule for each term
- Summer 2018
- Fall 2018
- Spring 2019
- Summer 2019
- Fall 2019
- Winter 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2020
- Winter 2021
- Spring 2021
- Make a rough financial plan
Educational
- Earn and maintain a 3.75 GPA by the end of Fall 2019
- Current GPA: 3.5
- Transfer to UCSC or Stanford (unlikely) for Fall 2020
- Earn and maintain a 3.8 GPA by the end of Winter 2021
- Get a minimum 520 MCAT
- Somehow manage to do all this while observing all holidays
Health/Fitness
- Lose 40 pounds by April 2019
- Sub-goal 1: Lose 15 pounds by the end of summer 2018
- Increase fruit and veg intake to recommended daily amounts by January 2019
- Sub-goal 1: eat 1 serving of fruit/veg a day for a month
- Increase water intake to recommended daily amounts by January 2019
- Sub-goal 1: drink 16 oz water/day for a month (tea doesn’t count)
- Get to ~15% body fat
- Get in 15k steps per day (excluding shabbat/holidays)
- Sub-goal 1: get in 5000 steps/day for a month
- Get 7+ hours of sleep every night
- Sub-goal 1: Be in bed, with the light off, without tech between 2200 and 0600 every night for a month
- Meditate 5 min/day for a month
- Get full learning disability assesment
- Strength train 3 times a week for a year
- Sub-goal 1: pick a strength training routine
- Run 3 times a week for a year
- Sub-goal 1: plan a ~5k running route
Observance
- Settle on level of kashrut observance by January 2020
- Sub-goal 1: don’t eat meat and dairy in the same meal for a month
- Settle on level of shabbat observance by January 2020
- Sub-goal 1: have shabbat dinner ever week for a month
- Private
- Private
- Sub-goal 1: [goal] for one month
- Learn Hebrew
- Sub-goal 1: get through Hebrew primer
- Sub-goal 2: study Hebrew 30 min/day for a month
- Keep up with the Torah cycle in 5779
- Kept open for future planning
- Kept open for future planning
- Kept open for future planning
- Kept open for future planning
Cooking
- Reduce eating out to once per week
- Sub-goal 1: make dinner at home once a week for a month
- Come up with challah recipe modification to replace sugar with honey
- Find a way to recreate Tía Josefina’s Mexican food
- Mexican rice
- Pinto beans
- Enchiladas
- Chicken tamales
- Sweet corn tamales
- Bimuelos
- Flour tortillas
- More to be added as I think of them
- Bake cupcakes/muffins once a month
- June: triple chocolate experiment
- Chocolate orange
- Mint chocolate
- Strawberry/Raspberry chocoalte
- June: triple chocolate experiment
- Experiment with school lunch options
- Get a dehydrator and come up with dehydrated meals for travel/camping
- Find the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe
- Get my stand mixer fixed
- Make ice cream from scratch
- Finally figure out the perfect sugar/tea bag/steeping ratio for sweet tea
- Get a glass dispenser for sweet tea
Appearance/Fashion/Clothing
- Dye my hair rainbow for Pride month at least once
- Find someone who can handle dying my hair without destroying it
- Transition school wardrobe away from t-shirts and jeans
- Possible exceptions for lab days
- Start process for getting teeth fixed
- Figure out and follow through with a skincare routine
- Private
Hobbies
- Finish brush lettering book
- Finish Spencerian penmanship series
- Paint 5 watercolours I actually like
- Knit a sweater
- Sub-goal 1: unravel the sweater from 5+ years ago that almost certainly doesn’t fit anymore
- Start and finish Project 365
- Start and finish a Project Life book
- Read 100 books in one year
- Read all the books I own, but haven’t read
- Write a novel
- Reach 100 generations on Sim family
- Reach 10 generations on a Sim family
Administrative
- Renew my passport
- Replace my ID
- Get my driver’s license
- Apply for a GPA renewal
- Catch up on correspondance
Household
- Make a chore schedule
- Keep to chore schedule
- Keep to chore schedule for 1 month
- Finish refinishing bookcase
- Buy bookshelves/cube organisers for craft area
- Get rid of DVDs/videos/books that haven’t been unpacked in two years
- Earthquake-ready bookshelves
- Refinish entryway drawers
- Order and put up more patio umbrellas
- Clean up paint spill on patio
- Organise pantry
- Put together earthquake kit
- Get spare tire and jack for car
- Put together emergency kit for car
- Organise clothes
- Finally put up artwork
Adventures
- Hike the PCT
- Visit China
- Visit Japan
- Go to every Disney park in Asia
- Hike to the top of Mount Whitney
History/Current Events
- Get an Ancestry DNA test done
- Get a 23 and Me test done
- Put together a family tree
- Read the newspaper at least weekly during the school term
- Read the newspaper daily during summer
Planning/Journaling
- Keep up with bullet journal
- Post to bullet journal Instagram at least once a month
- Find a weekly layout that works for me
- Decide whether or not to keep up daily layouts
- Attempt and decide whether or not to keep the following journals
- Networking log
- Non-fiction reading notes
- Personal journal
- Torah study notes
- 101 in 1001 notes
Purchases
- Break down and buy a new laptop
- Decide what phone to get when the current one dies
- Get a tablet for school
- Decide whether or not to also get a convertible
- Decide whether or not to break down and get a DSLR
Final Five
- Take a photo every time a goal is accomplished (if possible)
- Update list at least once a month
- Post for each item completion
- Put photos and summaries/print outs into 101 in 1001 scrapbook/Project Life book
- Put completed scrapbook into time capsule until end of another 1001 days
Last One
- Make a new 101 in 1001 list